If you would like a recommendation of something to watch on Netflix, I would like to suggest The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I really like it and wrote a little bit about it in my most recent blog.
When I was a kid and we'd visit family in Alabama, one of my cousins had an Intellivision and she and I would play Frog Bog together for what seemed like hours! I guess we were easily amused as kids. I do remember it being a lot of fun, though. For that reason, I prefer the Intellivision version over the Atari one, which i only played recently on the last Flashbacks collection.
Mario Kart Tour is all right. Controls are OK unless you want to do any precision driving, then they're awful. I like how the score and star system works, but not later on in the game when you have to have a bunch to unlock new cups. And that's where the precision driving comes in. All the tracks are from old Mario Kart games except the New York one. That's the only new track. I'm all for using old tracks, but it's hard to stay interested in a game when there is only one new one. I guess if you've never played a Mario Kart game before and want a casual racing experience, this is a good game. But if you've played all the other Mario Kart games like I have, this one won't do it for you. I plan to review this game at GamerDad in a couple of weeks.
Hey by the way, I know you like to watch Netflix so I wanted to share with you a series I've been enjoying on Netflix lately. It's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. It's so freaking good! Jim Henson was a huge part of my childhood so this feels like something I would've watched back then. So if you like Jim Henson stuff, I highly recommend it.
I don't even think I've ever used a news feed.
I've never played Oil's Well, but I've heard of the name.
I never played Anteater in the arcade, but I did play Anteater when I had MAME on my computer in college. I felt sorry for that anteater.
I purposely deleted MAME from my computer when I was in college because I was afraid I wouldn't study with all those arcade games at my fingertips. I haven't done emulators since then either!
You know, even though Nintendo and everyone else says that Game & Watch was super popular back in the day, I don't remember seeing them at all in the early 80s. The first time I saw Game & Watches were AFTER the NES came out. And then I only remember seeing like, four of them. I remember a Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., Zelda, and a Mickey Mouse one. And that's it. I just don't think stores in my area carried them back in the early part of the 80s. Really the ones I remember more were the Coleco mini arcade cabinets (I had the Pac-Man one), and the Tiger Electronics LCD games.
But yeah, the Game & Watch Gallery titles they did later are REALLY good. I wish they still made them. It's neat that TOSE made them for Nintendo, they're a neat company that has done a lot of games in the background. Look them up. One thing I don't like about WarioWare is that after the first WarioWare game was made, they kind of stopped making the Game & Watch Galleries, as WarioWare is just Game & Watch on crack.
Yeah I never played that game either until on Taito Legends. I imagine it was just a by-product of the popularity of Space Invaders.
To this day, 1943 is one of my all time favorite shooters.
Yeah the controls were not as good on the NES version, but otherwise it was a pretty good port. Did you know Rare programmed the NES version? It's just a testament to how much I liked Marble Madness if I had the NES version.
I reviewed both Koronipa games on the Wii. Hudson made those games, may they rest in peace.
I had an Apple II PC as well as a kid back then! It was our first home computer and my first 'game console' as well.
I LOVED Marble Madness! I even had the NES version.
I also liked Gauntlet, but I didn't play it as much in arcades because usually the bigger kids hogged it.
