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I missed out on the Intellivision myself. The only Intellivision games I played were the handful of Intellivision games that were converted to the 2600, like Astrosmash. You can tell those games because they're shaped like Intellivision cartridges with attachments to make them fit into a 2600 cart slot. Astrosmash was interesting, but Intellivision's offerings as a whole weren't very appealing. I was used to playing on the Atari 130XE anyway.

I don't think HD remakes of the PS1 games are coming, sadly. It would cost Square too much money to overhaul them into HD and not enough ROI. It's easier to do that kind of conversion of PS2 games to HD.

I had to write two giant papers this past week so I didn't get any gaming in. To celebrate, I've spent the past three days doing nothing but gaming (FFX HD and a couple of 3DS games.)

I remember playing this game back in the 80s. I think there was some real-life hostage crisis in the Middle East at the time it came out. Can't remember, my poor old memory is a bit fuzzy.

Not sure what it would be about the English version of Tomba! 2 that would cause problems. I wonder if it came down to some kind of licensing issue.

I'm enjoying the FFX/X2 collection. FFX was the first PS2 game I bought and it was the game I bought a PS2 for. I really enjoyed it, but I actually like FFXII a lot better. I hope that one gets its own HD remake, and I'd rather have a FFXII HD on PS4 rather than PS3.

Pretty flowers. They don't have anything like that in my parts.

I had the 5200 Jungle Hunt at home, and I played the original Jungle King complete with the Tarzan scream in the arcade.

My most-wanted GBA games:

1. Metroid Zero Mission

2. The Minish Cap

3. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

4. Sword of Mana

5. Golden Sun (which is among the games announced for the VC now)

6. Final Fantasy V (best version of that game available in the US)

7. Tales of Phantasia

8. Sword of Mana

Another game I hope Nintendo will seriously consider is Mother 3, the sequel to Earthbound (Mother 2). There's an excellent fan-translation out there, but it would be really awesome if Nintendo were to use that fan-translation, pay the folks behind it a small sum of money, and release it in English. Since it's Nintendo and Nintendo is notoriously protective of its IP, it isn't likely. But then, Nintendo has surprised me before.

I'm glad to see GBA games coming either way. While I think the 3DS would have been a better fit for them, I'll gladly play them on my Wii U.  I think at some point they probably will show up on 3DS, but Nintendo is trying to shore up the Wii U somewhat so I see why they're doing it. I hope Metroid Zero Mission and Tales of Phantasia show up on the Wii U or 3DS VC at some point. The games they've announced so far are great.

If I were working for Sega, I'd be doing everything I could to get a new Valkyria Chronicles made. Kickstarter, returning bottles, you name it.