PixlBit

Good to hear from you again.  My brother Jeff loved that DQ Builders game.

Yes Garfield and Friends is one of my top favorite Saturday Morning cartoons.  Maybe in my top five.  Maybe my number one favorite.  I dunno.  I can watch all the seasons of it on my Roku TV, so that's cool.  Better than the new movie that just came out, although I didn't think it was as bad as everyone says it is.

I liked the TMNT arcade game more than the cartoon.  But after playing the game and meeting the creators at a convention, I did watch the cartoon after that.

I never liked The Littles as a kid, but I have more respect for it now.  It's one of those cartoons that has held up better than others.  I think they even re-released it in the late 90s and early 2000s.  

I knew about that stuff with David Seville and the Chipmunks, but I didn't feel like getting into it in the podcast.  Not one of my better podcasts to be sure, but at least I got something out there.

One time in Elementary School as a kid, they had "dress up as your favorite cartoon character day,' but it wasn't Halloween.  Two guy classmates and three girl classmates wanted to dress up as Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.  They asked me if I wanted to join them and dress up as Simon.  I can't remember if I did or not, though.  It was a long time ago!

Yeah those video game cartoons back then were awful, but we watched them anyway to get our fix, since that kind of stuff was hard to come by back then.  Kids today don't know how good they have it!

Again, Cap'n Crunch was just too sweet for me.  I've never had a sweet tooth, even as a kid.  I think I like the Cap'n Crunch character more than the cereal.  He was created by Jay Ward Studios, who also did Rocky and Bullwinkle and George of the Jungle.

I reviewed a Wizardry game way back on the PS3.  Wasn't really for me.  I knew about the series, though, since I had an Apple II computer.  But I was just a little kid so that game was too much for me.  

Here's the review of that PS3 Wizardry game:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2011/06/18/game-review-wizardry-labyrinth-of-lost-souls-ps3/

Bleah!  Smacks are too sweet for me!

Speed Racer, alongside Star Blazers and Voltron, are some of the first anime cartoons I watched.

The arcade version of Final Fight has aged pretty well I think.  And 1943 is one of my top favorite shooters, even to this day.

Here's my review of Little Kitty, Big City, by the way:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2024/05/31/little-kitty-big-city-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc/

Here it is:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2024/05/31/little-kitty-big-city-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc/

There's an episode of Bluey where they go to a hardward store.  it's called Hammerbarn.  So a few months ago, they did a promotion with an actual hardware store chain in Austrailia.  Over there they have a version of our Home Depots and Lowe's called "Bunnings.'  So for one month, they changed those stores to be Hammerbarns!  You could meet Bluey and Bingo, do kids workshop activities, and buy exclusive products based on the show!  I work at a major hardware store and I wish they'd do that here!

This was definitely the era of the Wii and 360.  Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are great.  If it weren't for my nostalgia for Mario 64, I'd say those are the best Mario 3D platformers.  I didn't like Twilight Princess much on the Wii, but the HD version of Wii U is so much better.  But you know what's better than both of those?  Okami on PS2.  Really liked the 360 as well.  Ended up being one of my favorite consoles due to the variety of games on it.  Shame the Xbox consoles after that didn't have that.  Only reason why I got the Orange Box was for Portal.  What a great game, though.

I got Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on Switch as well.  Still as good as I remember it.  

The best part about F-Zero X was the random track generator, perfect to even out two player games.  But you have to unlock it.  Luckily there is a secret code you can enter to get it, because it's way too hard to unlock normally!

My review of Little Kitty, Big City will be up next week.