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I remember seeing SimCity EVERYWHERE in computer game stores back in the day.  I even remember the weird box art that looked like a steampunk Game Boy or whatever.  I never played it on the PC, but my friend had it and he'd print out his city and bring the papers to school to show me what it looked like, and I thought that was pretty cool.

I didn't actually play the game proper until I rented it on the SNES.  I didn't think I'd like it, but it was surprisingly addictive.  I never bought it, though.  Many years later, when the Virtual Console first came out on the Wii, Sim City on SNES was one of the first games out for it.  I remembered how fun it was, and I wanted to try out a Virtual Console game anyway so I bought it.  When I showed it to my brother Jeff, he LOVED it.  So much so that immediately after playing it, he downloaded the latest Sim City game on his computer, which I think was Sim City 3000 at the time.

My brother talked a lot about an arcade, so there must be one, unless he was getting it mixed up with another game in the series.  I liked the one that had an arcade lady in a tacky outfit who helps you unlock Fantasy Zone.

Some of my brothers really like the Yakuza games.  Over Thanksgiving, one of them was telling me about the new one he was playing and that it had a lot of Dragon Quest references in it.  I just like all the SEGA arcade games.  That's all I'd do if I played Yakuza.

Well even though I don't like Sunshine as much, it's still a GREAT game.  Like I said, I especially like the vacation theme.  If you made a list of video games that really make you feel like you're on vacation, Sunshine would be right up there along side Go Vacation, Road Trip, and the first Sonic Adventure.

Yeah it was a very big deal.  One of the most influential games of all time, I think.

Man, 2019 felt like it was just last year. :)  My GOTY was the Switch remake of Link's Awakening, my number one favorite Zelda game.  But there were a lot of other good games that year, too, like Kingdom Hearts 3 and Luigi's Mansion 3.

I just wrote a blog about Super Mario 3-D All-Stars, and how good Super Mario Galaxy is, so I recommend you please go read that while it's fresh!

I got Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair last Christmas.  It's a lot better than what I thought it would be, but it got to the point where collecting enough coins to unlock new levels got too hard.

Never been a big fan of Crash.  Only game I like from him is Crash Team Racing.

Definitely Animal Crossing.  New Horizons is going to be my GOTY, no surprise there.

I wish I had time to play more RPGs like the new Dragon Quest.  Classic RPGs like FF6 are definitely comfort food for me, though.  Octopath Traveler was good, but got too grindy after you found all the characters.

Streets of Rage 4 is great.  It'll win a big award when I do my GOTY blog.  Smash games are great, too, but I'm not very good at them.

Other games I consider comfort food include Kirby and classic arcade titles.

Yeah the reason why I brought the Mario Kart game over to my dad's house is that their entire house is hardwood floors, and even then I didn't have enough space to make super elaborate tracks.  I don't see how they can market this thing in Japan, because don't they usually have smaller houses than what we do?  At any rate, I'll be writing about it closer to Christmas at GamerDad.com, so be sure to check that out then!

I got to play Mario Kart Live Home Circuit and Taiko no Tatsujin with my brothers.  One of them also brought over their PS5.  Man that thing is huge.

Have you ever played a Smash game before?