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The music isn't quite as cool as in Arkanoid DS (but it's not bad either), and it's a neat modern take on the classic game.

It's been a long time since I've played Arkanoid DS, but I seem to remember the main mode having a map where you can choose your path in a pyramid setup, similar to how other Taito games work.  Glad you think the music is cool, though.  Hope you keep playing to hear more of it!

Guess what?  I know you like sales, so I wanted to let you know that Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is free on PS4 and Xbox until May 10.  There's a link to how it works on my Facebook page.

And speaking of sales, today on PS4 I got a bunch of games on sale!  The PS4 Taiko game was only 15 bucks, and Capcom Beat Em Up Bundle and the Konami Collections were ten bucks each, so I got them all!  Five games for under 60 bucks isn't bad!  I'll be writing about those collections in my blogs in the coming weeks!

I'm not very good at Contra games so I don't have much to say.  I think I prefer the SNES Contra, but I can see why people would like this one, especially Genesis fans.

You know I don't ever think I've played a Worms game.

Aw, you got Arkanoid DS?  You'll have to let us know what you think. I certainly enjoyed it.  I love the music in that game so much that I imported the soundtrack.  Even the menu music is good!

I'm a bit partial to the SNES Mini, but that's just becasue I prefer most SNES games over Genesis.  I will agree that the Genesis Mini does have a better presentation, and they gave some real big reasons to own it (like Mega Man: The Wily Wars).  But the SNES Mini has two of my top five favorite games of all time on it (FF6 and Super Mario Kart). so yeah.

Have you ever tried Space Invaders Extreme?  Might want to check that out after Arkanoid DS.

So Missile Command: Recharged is a mobile only game, so don't go checking it out on Xbox because you won't find it.  It is a nice little mobile game, though.

I sitll can't recommend Gigantosaurus, though.  Maybe try Super Lucky's Tale on Xbox.  i reviewed the Switch version of that.

Oh man, Bubble Bobble is brutal.  So if you do manage to beat it, you get a bad ending and are told to beat it at a harder difficulty with a code.  If you beat the game at the harder difficulty, you'll get a better ending, but you are told that to get the best ending, you must beat the game on hard mode with TWO players!  

And thanks for reading!  By the way, Missile Command: Recharged is free to play, so if you have a mobile device, might as well!

Oh but they have adapted Tamagotchi for mobile devices!  I even wrote about it:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2018/05/04/my-tamagotchi-forever-ios-google-play/

The Pac-Man Tamagotchi is even more simplistic than the regular one, so I'm not sure if it would hold kids' interest for very long.

On the Xbox 360, Dig Dug was one of the few games I got all the achievements for.  Digging all the dirt was tough.  I have a Dig Dug arcade machine in my garage.  Did you know that Dig Dug is Mr. Driller's dad?