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I didn't have a 2600 because we had an Apple computer that played much better games.  I did play the 2600 a lot at friends and neighbors' houses, though.  But a few years later, I did get a 5200 for Christmas and it was a total surprise because I didn't even ask for one!  That was really my first home video game console if you don't count the Apple and the Pong clone my dad installed on the back of our TV that he built.  I know people say the 5200 is horrible, but I have good memories of mine because I was a kid and I was just happy to get it.  In fact, I didn't get a NES right away because I was perfectly happy playing Pengo on the 5200.

So have you heard that they are making Atari themed hotels?  And the first one is opening this year in Arizona!  Are you going to it?  When they build the one that they said was going to be in Austin, TX, I'm totally making a trip down there to stay in it!

Fantasia is one of my favorite Disney movies.  Sorcerer Mickey is one of my top five favorite Disney characters, right on up there with Chip N Dale, Scrooge McDuck, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Wreck-It Ralph.

This was a HUGE deal back then.  Pre-rendered graphics like Donkey Kong Country?  WOW!  An RPG set in the Mario universe...and it's made by Square?  WHOA!  Keep in mind that other than Mario Kart, there were not too many Mario spin off games back then.

I played this game to death back in the day.  Although I like other Mario RPGs better, like Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the first Mario RPG was still an excellent game and one of the SNES' best.

My brother Jeff loved to watch me play this game.  He called it "Mario PG."  He couldn't read yet, so I had to read the text for him.  If I forgot to read a text box, he'd yell out, "TELL IT!"  My throat got pretty tired after playing that game!

I played a lot of the LucasFilm Games point and click adventures as a kid.  My favorite was Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.  Back before The Walking Dead, TellTale used to make some pretty good modern point and click adventures, too.

This is a very special game to me because this is one of the SNES games that little brother Jeff and I would play together when he was young.  Even though Jeff is grown now and plays more mature games, he still gets nostalgic about Kirby Super Star and still plays it from time to time.

I have mixed feeling about Breath of the Wild.  I don't feel like it's a true Zelda game, just another type of game cleverly disguised to be a Zelda game.  I also miss real dungeons and weapons that don't break when you sneeze on them.  With that said, I did spend 65 hours on it and beat it, so I must've liked it somewhat.  I think my favorite part was cooking, and then making Link eat the food in one bite!  And Urbosa was neat, too. :)

I rented this one and really liked it.  But I didn't buy it because I was a poor college student at the time.  But later on I did get to review Pokemon Puzzle League for The Dallas Morning News!

Too bad Super Mario Kart isn't on your SNES list, as that is one of my top five favorite games.  I know it's hard to go back to now, but I enjoyed it so much in high school and college, and then when I played it again on the SNES Mini, I still liked it!  When I first saw it, I knew it would be a hit.  It singlehandedly created a sub-genre of games.  I even liked the small, flat tracks, as they felt more like real go-kart tracks.  I've enjoyed the other Mario Kart games, too, but the first one is special to me.  OK I had to gush about the game since you aren't going to. :)

I really wanted The Orange Box when it first came out so I could play Portal, but I didn't want to pay full price for just one small game and I wasn't interested in the others.  But later when I saw The Orange Box for 20 bucks, I picked it up then.  If I would've played Portal back in the year it came out, I would've given it my GOTY that year instead of Super Mario Galaxy.

I'd rather play games, not make them.

I've always been fascinated by Xevious for some reason.  Not sure why.  I know i've told you the story on how I used a bunch of dot matrix printer paper to make a Xevious map so I could play 'pretend' Xevious as a kid.  In Japan, Xevious even has a large backstory with novels and everything!

Too bad you don't have Xevious 3D/G+.  It had all the Xevious games up to that point, including Xevious Arrangement, which hasn't had another home port since.  The only Xevious game I haven't played is Solavou.  It's a 3-D arcade game that uses the same engine as StarBlade.