I've played every Ape Escape game I can get my hands on. I love that series and it needs a comeback.
I've never heard of Detective Waffles! Sounds interesting. But can it beat Phoenix Wright?
Believe it or not, I've never played that SpongeBob game either. I know it's popular, but I've actually not a big fan of SpongeBob.
My old Russian Blue cat Chekov loved to be with me when I'd play NES games as a kid. He'd either swat at the screen or sit in my lap trying to hit the buttons on the controllers!
Yeah the Bubble Bobble timeline is REALLY confusing! Rainbow Islands has the subtitle "The Story of Bubble Bobble 2" but there is a Bubble Bobble 2 on the NES! There's also a Bubble Bobble 3 and Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble 3, too! It's nuts!
Bubby and Bobby in Rainbow Islands are the human forms of Bub and Bob from Bubble Bobble. While I do like the cutness and simplicity of the game, I'm kind of with you, I don't really like Rainbow Islands that much. I do like that in later levels, you go to islands that make reference to Arkanoid and Darius. If you want to play a really good game with Bubby and Bobby, try Parasol Stars. It's like Bubble Bobble with technique!
I played a demo of this on a demo disc and didn't like it, so I skipped out on it. I think the only good thing this game had going for it was Phil Hartman R.I.P.
Qwark really is a funny, likeable character, though.
There's many forms of Mahjong. The two main ones you see in games are a matching game and one that's kind of like Poker. I can understand the matching one, but not the other. I wrote about it last year, but the Switch has a game called Clubhouse Games: 50 Worldwide Classics that has both Mahjong games on it. I like the matching one on it, but at least it explains the rules on the other one.
I never saw this in arcades, but I certainly do remember it on the Taito collection. I'm a sucker for cute Breakout style games.
But what IS Klonoa? Nobody knows. He's an Animaniac.
What's Tail Concerto? WHAT'S TAIL CONCERTO?!? Well, OK, it was a pretty obscure game. Anyway, Tail Concerto was a PSOne game that came out at the tail end of 1999, right about the time I was about to graduate from college. It was made by Bandai and published by Atlus, and it's one of the first games I ordered online! It's a 3-D platformer starring a cartoon police dog named Waffle. Waffle lives in a world of floating islands populated by cat and dog people. Waffle's job is to stop a group of cat pirates and their kitten gang by piloting a walking mech that blows bubbles. He traps the kittens in the bubbles and captures them with the mech's floppy arms. It kind of plays like Mega Man Legends in a way. The game has a Miyazaki style story with animated cut scenes. It's a very charming game and I recommend you look it up and watch some videos about it, too, maybe. Believe it or not, Tail Concerto actually got a sequel on the DS that's even more obscure. It was called Solatorobo and while it was still a good game, it wasn't near as charming as Tail Concerto.
The way things are going, I don't think any of us will be able to retire.
I saw this when it first came out on the PlayStation and kind of wanted to play it, but I never did. Still was burnt out on mascot platformers even though Klonoa renewed my faith in the concept by then. Speaking of which, someone told me the music in Punky Skunk sounds like Klonoa's music. Klonoa kind of looks like a skunk, too. He's the fourth lost Animaniac. :)
For some reason I wanted to play Ys 9 on the PS4. I'm glad I did because you get items if you have save data from Ys 8, which I also have on PS4.
My favorite character in Ys 9 is Raging Bull because she has pink hair and is really strong.
