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I think maybe if you pop a whole bunch of enemies all at once you get a piece of cake. I know I got something like that for doing it by accident.

I've only played the Age of Empires DS games, Age of Kings and Mythology. I loved them and want to play the PC games. Age of Empires Online was a thing a few years ago. I wanted to get into that one.

I've already knocked of $20 of Wolfenstein with a trade-in earlier in the month. I'm picking it up as soon I wake up later this morning.

The way this Taito Legends 2 collection is set up, they put the instructions right in your face as you're about to boot up the game. If I hadn't read about the blue and red doors, I would've been lost like in the first game on Taito Legends 1. 

The days of video tape cassetts. I remember it well.

That Cleopatra Fortune music reminds me of the excellent Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix which I wish I had the soundtrack for.

Elevator Action Returns had to inspire the Exit series. I wish EAR was on handhelds. . . oh, the first Elevator Action game is on Taito Legends Power-Up for PSP. I have to go find that.

Infinite continues is the only way I can play the Darius games. Otherwise I'd scream with frustration.

I thought I recognized something in Chack 'n Pop.

Darn, and I thought there was something similar between Cleopatra's Fortune and Puchi Charat.

Everything about those Darius games is great. Lots of fish designs in the enemy ships. For the benefit of all here's that Captain Neo track.

I played Metal Black today but it didn't make it into my favorites. I found the environments a little to narrow for maneuverability.

Don Doko Don was very nice to look at. I'm on the fence about putting it in my favorites. It played very well though.

I really like Dungeon Magic, but like other brawlers, it eventually infuriated me as I couldn't keep from getting attacked from both sides at once. It's on my favorites anyway.

Elevator Action Returns (or EA II) is really fun. I have to go back to the first one now that I know the objectives. I think I missed out on a good game there.

Read your review. I liked another game like it a little better called Puchi Carat in TL2. You use a paddle like Breakout instead of a launcher like in Bust-A-Move; you also fight your opponent just like in Super Puzzle Fighter; and it has wacky characters you can choose from that do animations as you play just like in SPF.

Yea, Super Puzzle Fighter is the best.

A lot of the games on Taito L2 had really good elements like a great art style or interesting gameplay, but I only put eight of them on my favorites list in the menu system: Arabian Magic, Cleopatra's Fortune, Darius Gaiden, Dungeon Magic, Elevator Action II (or Returns), G-Darius, Lunar Rescue, and Puchi Carat.

It seems several of the games have different titles for the US like Elevator Action Returns is Elevator Action II and Puzzle Bobble 2 is Bust-A-Move. There are probably more too like the Cameltry/On the Ball you mentioned.

Comix Zone is kinda hard. Not being able to continue after being killed is really annoying.

That's what I was thinking when I was putting in the images to this blog. It's easy to rip through a lot of games on these collections of old arcade games. Most of them are pretty short. I'm saving just a few to write more about and replay. Ones that really interest me a lot.