PixlBit

You know, a lot of it depends on luck, too.  And it's not always about what you know, but who you know.  That's why college is pretty useless nowadays.  Sometimes I get people asking me things like, "If you've been writing game reviews for so long, why aren't you more successful at it?"  Which royally pisses me off when people ask that, by the way.  But sometimes things just don't work out the way you want them to.  But I still write game reviews, if anything just to keep my foot in the door.  And I'm not the kind of person to give up on something and quit, even if I should.

I hear Switches are hard to find now.  Drill Land is also on Steam.

I'd watch a soap opera if Dig Dug was in it.

Shoot, nowadays I'm usually in bed by 9!  I'm getting old I guess.

All the modes are really fun.  The Indiana Jones one with Dig Dug is one of my favorites.

Oh it's so much fun!  I love it.  Do you have a Switch?  There is a demo of Drill Land on the eShop.

So yeah, 1998 was a big year because of Zelda: Orcarina of Time.  But it was also a turning point for me at The Dallas Morning News.  At E3 1998, Nintendo was showing off a new game and the catch slogan for it was "Catch 'em if you can!" but it later got changed to "Gotta Catch 'Em All!"  Yup, Pokemon was released in the US that year.  At E3 I saw how they were going to market it in the US and I knew it would be big.  So when I got home I told my editor I wanted to cover everything Pokemon when it came out.  He was like, "Yeah sure, whatever."  But he kept his word and for a couple of years after that, I was writng all sorts of Pokemon articles and game reviews when it first got super popular.  I like to say that Pokemon helped pay my way through college!  I was certainly writing a whole lot more articles for the newspaper after that.

I remember seeing this game in every arcade I went to for a while, so it must've been pretty popular.  I wasn't into Donkey Kong style games as much so I never really got into this one.  There was just another game with mazes, ghosts, and dots that held my attention more.

The games I remember playing on my friend's C64 were Ghostbusters, Ikari Warriors, Marble Madness, and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

You know what's funny is that I remember playing Ghostbusters at a friend's house on his C64, too!

Did you know that the Ghostbusters game you're referring to was made by David Crane, the same guy who made Pitfall and A Boy and His Blob?  I've met David Crane in person twice!  Once at E3 and once at the National Videogame Museum.  Unfortunately, Ghostbusters isn't one of David Crane's better games.