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Tactics Ogre releases 11/11.

Definitely looking at Valkyrie Elysium. My only misgiving is that it's a full action RPG game. Einherjar are AI controlled.  Still interested and will likely pick it up. We haven't gotten a new VP game in forever. 

The original game is getting ported to the PlayStation family at the end of this month, so I'm definitely down for that. It does conflict with The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero, sadly.

Probably means Count Chocula is on shelves, too.

Stage Select:

Final Fantasy VII's Gold Saucer had some fun little minigames. I spent a fair amount of time on the Chocobo racing chasing the Quadra Magic and Knights of the Round Materia by cheat - I mean, using legitimate racing assist methods. There was "G-Bike", which was based on Cloud riding a motorcycle with his giant-ass sword. There was "Snow Game," aka the snowboarding game. The lameness of the name was kind of funny in itself, but the game itself was probably second to 1080 Snowboarding as the best snowboarding game on 5th gen consoles. And then there was "Mog House..."

The Battleship minigame in Wind Waker. You know, the one with the guy who wears all the cutout signs and says "spliiiiish" and "Ka-BOOM!" in response to misses or hits. Honestly, Zelda on its own could fill this list.

The Mario Bros mini-game included with Super Mario Bros 3 and the Super Mario Advance games, which helped that game be well known long after a lot of other early arcade games were forgotten. It was fun to take a break from the main game with my cousin. These days, though, the original arcade game is available on Switch, so that's what I play, as Mario Bros is still near the top of my list of favorite arcade games. But hey, Super Mario Bros 3 was so awesone, it had a full arcade game as a minigame.

Cage Match: 

Dr. Robotnik and his chicken sidekick from the DiC cartoon show up ready to rumble, but Dr. Mario slips him a pill which turns out to be Versed, which is a powerful sedative. Dr. Robotnik goes down for the count. Dr. Mario wins, although he is now described as a person of interest in a DEA investigation.

They basically own the movie rights to the James Bond IP. Eon Productions was founded by Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and is managed by his daughter Barbara. 

I'm guessing that Konami decided to priotitize the four-player arcade version. Still kind of a shame given all the extra bosses (like Bebop and Rocksteady, and Slash) and levels that got added to the SNES version. I also would have kind of liked it if the NES Arcade Game and Manhattan Project had gotten online play. The NES game had extra content added to it as well, to lengthen the game and make up for the NES's inability to match the arcade's graphical fidelity.

Hyperstone Heist, I've noticed, is a lot stiffer than the SNES game as well. The action is nowhere near as smooth.

Owing in part to its poor performance in Japan, I don't think the Genesis was a big priority for Konami. 

One of the few complaints I had about Cowabunga Collection was the fact that Hyperstone Heist features online play, but the SNES Turtles in Time does not.  The arcade version does, of course, but the SNES version had a lot of stuff in it the arcade didn't.

Stage Select:

"Donden," which is the "super boss" battle theme from Breath of Fire III. There are boss themes, and then there are "super boss" themes.

Cage match:

Given a choice between a giant insect hunt and battling for dominion of a war-torn China, I'll go for the bug hunt.

This game will always be atop my list of favorite games. So good. It's everything I'd hoped RPGs would be in 5th generation. It was because of this game that I did something I hadn't done since the Atari era: I bought a non-Nintendo system.

Ironically, this game is now on a Nintendo system. Also ironically, you can get it on cartridge in Europe and Asia, in a double pack with FF8. Sony fequently made fun of Nintendo's choice to go with cartridges in its ads for Final Fantasy VII, since that's what cost Nintendo the single most important third party game of the generation.

That's when my huge collection of coin-op classics comes in handy.

I read somewhere that the most frequently landed-on Monopoly property is Illinois Avenue, which is the highest value Red property. The oranges together are the most frequently landed on group.