PixlBit

This.

I disagree. Let Microsoft talk, if they're going to pull this crap, so they can keep hanging themselves. For consumers, forewarned is forearmed. :)

I enjoyed the SNES. I still have mine, gotten in 1994, and it still works, with about 13 games. I do have the emulator on my computer, but I really don't like emulated games nearly as much as the originals. Emulated games on PC never look, sound, or play as good as the originals. The only stuff I have on emulator are fan-translated games like SD3, Tales of Phantasia, and Romancing SaGa 3, as well as Earthbound, and I will no longer need that ROM once Earthbound hits the Wii U VC this fall.

I love used game stores. My favorites are Vintage Stock, Game X-Change, and a local store in Lawton, Oklahoma called Game King which I visit every time I work in Lawton. My primary passion in game collecting is 5th-generation games (PS1, N64, Saturn). The PS1 is a bottomless treasure trove of RPGs,  the Saturn has some of my favorite rare games,  and the N64 also has some unusual titles.

I tried to go to A-Kon. I love anime conventions, and I'd have liked to have met Cathy Weseluck (the voice of Shampoo from Ranma 1/2 and C-Ko from all of the Project A-Ko movies except the first one). Unfortunately, I had a blinding migraine headache the past weekend and was not up to doing the two-hour drive to Dallas. :(

MNSG didn't have a battery-backed RAM save chip in it. Like all of Konami's N64 games, you had to use a Controller Pak to save.

Loved Lunar 1 and 2, and Alundra was great too. On the Saturn, I understand they were trying to bring English versions of the hugely popular Sakura Taisen games, and it's a pity Bernie Stolar's Sega of America shot them down on that. I love the Sakura Taisen series. Sakura Wars on PS2 is one of my favorite games ever, and I would have loved to have seen the earlier games in English.

I bought the digital version of KOF XIII when it was on sale. I was one of the liucky recipients of those $10 PSN vouchers Sony was giving away earlier this year. I like it, but I'm more of a Mortal Kombat/Arc System Works kind of guy when it comes to 2-D fighting.

I liked Other M, but it is a flawed game. However, I've enjoyed it more than Metroid Prime 2 and 3. I have always wanted a 3-D third-person Metroid done in the style of 3-D Mario or 3-D Zelda.

I might have to download the SNES game from the Virtual Console while I have the chance to do so.

The PS2 Goemon was interesting-looking. Thematically, however, it was a more somber departure from the slapstick antics of the earlier Goemon games. Sony's objection to a US release of the game had to do with the fact that it was a launch-window title for the PS2 in Japan and wasn't graphically up to par with the PS2 games that were coming out by 2004-2005. Goemon PS2 was called the last straw in WD's closure by Victor Ireland in his December 2005 announcement, after Sony had refused to allow WD to sell Growlanser 2 and 3 separately instead of a single collection. Still, I would have liked to have given Goemon PS2 a try, and WD was the perfect company to localize Goemon games.

I've seen the Goemon anime on shelves, but sadly, I never saw it. At some point I might track down Goemon's Great Adventure. It was very well-regarded.

I hear you. I have a huge pile of shame. Lately, I've been on a Konami kick, because I skipped most of Konami's stuff the first time around, and I bought Suikoden II, III, and V. MNSG is a great game. I haven't played Goemon's Great Adventure, but I've heard good things about it and it looks nice.