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I got Mario Party when I was in college.  Luckily it came out when my roommate and his girlfriend were still around, so we got to play it a lot together.  A video board game was certainly new at the time, and this was before Mario spinoff games were really big either. 

I think it's interesting that most Mario Party games were made by Hudson Soft.  I think it's because they had a lot of multiplayer experience with games like Bomberman, and also they made a popular video board game series in Japan that I just talked about briefly in my newest blog!  I think before Konami destroyed Hudson, Nintendo hired out most of their employees, so that's good.

I didn't get too many of the Mario Party games after that because they're all prety much the same.  Only other ones I got were one on the GameCube because it was being sold at a charity auction for cheap.  And I got one of the Wii U ones because it came with an amiibo and you know how I like my amiibo figures!  But that's it.  I don't even have the one on the Switch.

All right, now we need a plot. Who am I rescuing?

Well the SNES is my number one favorite console of all time, so I'm a bit biased. :)

Well if you didn't have a SNES, I guess you weren't THAT lucky as a kid. :)

Through most of my childhood, I was an only child.  It wasn't until my parents divorced and married other people and had kids around when I graduated high school that I had little brothers.  Shortly after they were old enough to play games, I was reviewing games for the newspaper, so they definitely benefitted from that!

Yeah even though Saturday Supercade and the Pac-Man cartoon were awful, we 80's kids watched them anyway because we didn't have YouTube or the Internet to get our gaming fix.  And we liked it!  Now get off my lawn!

For some reason I don't remember much of the second season.  I kind of remember the DK Jr. cartoons, but not much of Space Ace or Kangaroo.  One thing I do remember is that they would alternate one weekend having a Q*bert cartoon, and one weekend having a Pitfall cartoon.  I loved the Q*bert cartoon, but I didn't have a 2600 back then and never got into Pitfall as a kid because of that, so I was always mad on the weekends they had a Pitfall cartoon.  Years later I gained more respect for Pitfall, but as a little kid it just didn't grab me.

One of the early ideas for the Q*bert game was for him to shoot out boogers from his nose to attack enemies.  That's why one of the original names for it was Snots and Boogers.  So I think that's why Q*bert in the cartoon shot out 'slippy-doos' from his nose.  It's sad that I remember that.

Did you know that Rhonda and Quickclaw appear in one of the later 3-D Pitfall games, too?  It was one that was on the PS2 and GameCube, and later ported to the Wii under a different subtitle.  I thought it was actually a pretty good game, too, with neat dual analog controls like Ape Escape.

I have it still, but it's somewhere in storage.  Plus it's a VHS tape, so even if I had it, I'd have to figure out how to get it to work on a computer, and you know that would take some doing.

They should make a game where I visit a bunch of video game worlds.  What kind of game do you think that would be?

Yeah sometimes I like to call Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers the "Jim Cummings Show."

You had both a NES and a SEGA Master System?  You were a lucky kid.  Every kid I knew back then only had one or the other, and most had NES.

They are making an amiibo of the DQ hero in Smash.

I think I had Rayman 2 on Dreamcast.  It was good, but I lost interest in it as well, for some reason.

One year at E3, when Ubisoft was first showing off Rayman 2, they had a stage show with a talking Rayman on a green screen, and he was talking to us live.  He actually called me up on stage to interact with him for a bit, so I looked like I was in the game with him.  They gave me a video tape of me on stage with him, and when I brought it home and showed it to my little brothers, it blew their little minds that I appeared to be in a game with Rayman.  Now if only I could get into Space Channel 5... :)