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Since I watched a lot of the Batman animated series from the 90s, I know a lot more about Batman characters than I do other comic book characters.  So I actually know who most of the characters are in Birds of Prey, i think.  I'll probably just wait until that Birds of Prey movie comes out on video or something.  I dunno, unless you can think of a good reason why I should go see it now.

That Black Canary lady is pretty.  The comic book character always looked kinda cool.  Only other thing I know about that character is that I think she can yell really loud or something.

I saw the Sonic movie this past week.  It was pretty bad.  But I really liked one of the post credit scenes.  Made me really happy.  If you know how I am, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Well, while I thought Power Rangers was dumb as a teen, I didn't vocalize my opinions on it because I knew that I watched stuff just like it (Godzilla and Ultraman) when I was younger.

I rented this game once, just because my younger brothers loved the Power Rangers so much back then.  For me, it was OK I guess.  Since I was a teen when the show was first big, I thought it was dumb, but I also watched it with my brothers and didn't complain about it either.  Mainly because when I was little, I watched stuff like Godzilla and Ultraman, which is basically the same thing as Power Rangers.

Well it was a Sound Warehouse before it was a Blockbuster Music.  Both stores sold music CDs and other electronics.  I mostly rented games from the mom and pop rental place in town called PayLess Video.

Gauntlet was super popular in the arcades where I was at, but I didn't get to play it a lot at first because the bigger kids would hog it.  But if there was an extra slot, the bigger kids would invite me to play and they were really cool and helped me out as we played and stuff.

I never saw TwinBee in an arcade, but I do have a TwinBee Collection I imported on the PSP.  The last game they made for TwinBee's 10th anniversary was really good.  But you don't pilot bees in that game series.  Instead you pilot cartoony robots with giant gloves and they're piloted by human characters, a boy, a girl, and a baby!  There was even a TwinBee anime cartoon at one point in Japan.

1943 is still one of my top favorite shooters of all time.  I just got done reviewing a collection of shooters from Psikyo on the Switch, you'd really like it.

Did you know there was a version of Shadowgate on the NES?

I never rented Mickey Mania nor did I own it.  But I played it a lot.  How?  Well, back in the day, my friend and I would go to the Blockbuster Music near my house, and they had a lot of video game demo stations.  Remember those?  One of them had Mickey Mania and I played it a lot there.  I liked the first level where it was first black and white and gradually changed to color as you progressed.

I don't think I could make a list of arcade games in the 80's that I liked, because there are just so many of them!  The early 80s was definitely the 'golden age' of arcade games.  I'd say the 'silver age' was when Street Fighter 2 came out.

I can only make a list of my top five favorite games of all time, and they are Pac-Man, Final Fantasy 6, Animal Crossing on GameCube, Super Mario Kart, and the PSOne Namco Museums.

My favorite 2600 game is Pressure Cooker, but it was made by the same folks who did Stampede.

I was always fascinated by Xevious as a kid.  One time as a kid I got a big roll of dot matrix printer paper and spread it out from the front door to the back.  Then I drew some Xevious backgrounds on one side (and Zaxxon scenes on the other), and got out my toy spaceships and played pretend Xevious on the printer paper.  I got in a little bit of trouble for using up so much paper, though!  Did you ever think you were flying over a golf course in Xevious?

I freaking love Time Pilot.  Sinistar scared me as a kid.  And Marble Madess is one of my favorite Atari arcade games.  I liked it so much I got the NES version.

Mega Man games have better graphics and sound than Mario games, I think.

While I think it's a TINY bit overrated, DKC is still a great game.  The platforming is good, but the graphics and especially the SOUND just blew me away.  It still amazes me that the water music is coming from a SNES!

I got DKC for Christmas that year and the next summer I spent most of the time in Alabama visiting my mom and little brother Jeff, who lived out of state at the time.  Jeff was only like, one year old, and could barely talk.  He only knew a few words, like Da Da, Ma Ma, No, Cookie, etc.  But when I came over and showed him DKC for the first time, he just sat there staring at it for the longest time.  Then when mom came in the room, he looked at her, pointed at the TV, and started babbling 90 miles an hour!  Even though he couldn't talk much, we could tell he was telling us all about the game!  By the end of the summer, he learned how to say "Donkey Kong" so he could tell me that he wanted to play it.  That ended up being one of his first words!

I gave Kid Icarus: Uprising a fair shake, but I just didn't like it.  Controls tlat out sucked.  Sorry, Sakurai.

Of course, I never liked the original Kid Icarus on the NES for the same reason.  Controls were just awful.  Way too floaty.