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1997 was the year I got a PlayStation.  I really couldn't afford one as I was just a poor college student, but it was one of the best gaming purchases I ever made.  After that, I was reviewing PlayStation games for the newspaper left and right.  The N64 just didn't have enough games!  The orignal PlayStation is probably one of my top favorite game consoles, but my favorite is still the SNES.

1997 was also the first year I went to E3 and it blew me away.  I think the most memorable game for me that year was probaby Klonoa on the PSX.

Oh sure, just give her lots of energy! (I can be pretty silly sometimes, huh?)

You'd better or else Blaze from Streets of Rage will come over to your house and throw you across the room and eat all the turkeys on the floor!

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is my top favorite TV show of all time.  Did you watch the new ones on Netflix?

The PowerPuff Girls was actually Craig McKracken's baby, but Tartakovsky worked on it, too.  Those were really good cartoons.

1996 was a big year for video games.  We got Super Mario RPG at the first half of the year, and the second half was the release of the N64 and Super Mario 64.  1996 was also the year I started writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News, one of my most proudest accomplishments.

I know I've said this before, but FF9 is what FF7 and 8 should've been, at least I think so.  But I also say that when Square released FF9, they said, "Ok FF fans, we're going to be taking the franchise in bold, new directions in the future, so here's one last classic styled game for all you old farts who fear change."  Hard to believe that was 20 years ago!  I still remember playing it early at a friend's house who imported it!  Even though I like FF6 more, FF9 is definitely one of my top favorite FF games, and RPGs in general.

That one sounds cool.  If you ever find it and get it, you'll have to write about it.

When you first mentioned Farm Together last week, I watched a trailer of it and it looks pretty cool.  But I'm already up to my ears in Animal Crossing (both Switch and mobile), so I don't need another game like that to get addicted to (it's why I won't touch Minecraft either).  Is Farm Together only on Xbox?

When I first got FF9, I played it about halfway through.  Then some personal stuff came up and I restarted it again about a year later and finally finished it.  The second time I started it, my brother Jeff was with me and he played the card game on FF9 when I was done playing for the day.  He loved card games!

Everything could use more moogles.

Wow if you just ignored all the Yakuza stuff, you wouldn't even have to get Clubhouse Games, huh?  That's kind of what I did with the arcade games in the Yakuza game I played.  Here's the story of the Yakuza game as experienced by me.  "Once upon a time, a Yakuza Man decided to stop being a Yakuza Man and just played arcade games all the time.  He lived in the arcade and married the arcade lady who worked there and they lived happily ever after.  The End."  Sounds like a good story to me!