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I knew the TG-16 had Galaga 88, but I didn't know it had all those Gradius games except for Gradius 2.  I knew it had that.

I'd love to play some of these games to the end, too, but when that's not possible, at least we have YouTube.  We used to not even have that!

The 3DS Paper Mario game was Sticker Star and it's the worst Paper Mario game out there.  I'd say it's also one of Nintendo's worst games period, right on up there with Donkey Kong Barrel Blast and Star Fox Zero.

From what I could tell in arcades, it seemed that Galaga was almost just as popular as Pac-Man was.

Yeah the TG-16 was known for its shooters.

Watching playthoughs is about the only way I can see the end of some of these shooters.

It would be neat if Dragon Slayer 6 was like Dragon Slayer 4. :)

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is one of the GameCube's best RPGs, and probably the best Mario RPG in all the series.  It's a shame the recent Paper Mario games sucked, but at least Origami King is a LITTLE better.

After 2003, things didn't change much for me, but that was pretty good since 2003 was when things started to improve for me.  I went back to E3 in 2004, played games like Katamari Damacy, and joined a new little Web site you might've heard of called 1up.com.

They dedicated a whole episode of High Score to RPGs, and they talked about Ultima a lot.  I think my friend and I rented the NES game and got confused, so aside from seeing lots of boxes of Ultima games in PC game store like Babbages back in the day, that's about as much knowledge of Ultima as I have.  I remember Ultima Online came out when I first started college and that seemed like a big deal.

They also didn't mention Ralph Baer at all.