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The thing I remember about Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid was that it came on TV after the weekday afternoon cartoons were over.  Around 5 o'clock or so.  So it was kind of an in-betweener from the cartoons and the evening news.  And that was usually about the time I'd start on my homework if I had any.

Have you watched any movies lately?  I just watched Soul and the new Wonder Woman movies over the holidays and would love to hear your opinions on them if you watched them.

Good luck on your goals.  I've been sticking with my 'exercise more' goal for the past two years, working out nearly everyday.  And now I've gained about 20 pounts of muscle!

Are you going to play any of the other Shantae games?

I really liked Picross 3D on the 3DS.  It really helped me understand the rules of Picross better and it's one of the few games I got so addicted to that I let my batteries run out while playing!

The clay animation style of Kirby and the Rainbow Curse was so cool.  You know what we need?  A new ClayFighter game!

They have yearly bowling games, too?  How different can a bowling game be from year to year?

Yeah if you really want to get a high score, you gotta read those rules so you know where to hit the ball.  That was the neat thing about the Pro Pinball series is they explained the rules of the tables very well.  Which is pretty amazing considering how complicated Big Race USA was!  For some reason, I don't think the Pinball FX games explains the rules quite as well.

I never was into G.I. Joe as a kid, but I can understand why you would want a G.I. Joe train set if you really liked G.I. Joe.  Heck, if they had a train set based on something I liked as a kid, I would want it, too!  Like a Transformers train set or a Pac-Man train set!  I'd be all over that as a kid!

I've always liked video pinball, even though I'm not very good at them.  Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by the Atari 2600 pinball game for some reason!

You're already read my blog about Mario 3-D All Stars, so you know that after I played Mario Galaxy on it, I forgot just how GOOD it really is!  My favorite 3-D Mario game is still Mario 64 on pure nostalgia and impact, but Galaxy 1 & 2 are probably my second favorite 3-D Mario games.  I like them even more than Odyssey!

Oh man, a version of Mario Kart Live using slot cars sounds like fun!  You could still put little cameras on the cars, but you wouldn't have to worry as much about floor space and surfaces.  I actually have a regular Mario Kart slot car set that I got a few years ago.

When I was a kid, I used to love slot cars.  Not the big hobby shop ones, but the ones you could build the tracks in your house and everything.  When I was little one of the things I wanted for my birthday one year was a Dukes of Hazzard slot car set.  It had a ramp where the cars could jump over, just like on the TV show.  Well how many times do you think those cars landed right back into the slots after the ramp?  Never.  I was so disappointed!

Thanks for reading!  You know, I don't know why developer think they have to make their games so hard.  I don't read about too many people complaing about a game if it's too easy, as long as it's fun.  

Yeah I don't know if it's because they're established tables, but the Williams ones on Pinball FX3 seem to have better pinball physics to me, too.  

Even though they're made up tables, I think the best pinball simulation games came from the Pro Pinball series.  They were video pinball games that came out in the late 90's, and they were awesome.  Some included TimeShock, Big Race USA, and Fantastic Journey.  My favorite was Big Race USA.

One cool thing about the Pro Pinball tables is it felt like you owned a real pinball machine and could adjust things like the slope of the table and how well-maintained it was.  You could play it like it was right out of the box, well-maintained, or un-maintained.  If you played it un-maintained, there would be dust on the table that would affect how your ball rolled, and some of the lights would be burnt out!