The Sora amiibo has the Mickey shaped keychain, too.
I think Nintendo is slowly getting out of the 'toys to life' amiibo figures as well. I kind of doubt we'll see many more of them in the future.
Here's some interesting facts you might not know about Mappy. You know how we have slang terms for police officers like 'cops' and whatnot? Well they do in Japan, too. One of their slang terms for police is "mappo," and that's how they got the name Mappy!
Here's something I learned fairly recently. While Namco is best known for their arcade games, they've also dabbled in other amusements like robotics. There's the Chuck E. Cheese style PicPac Robot Band and the toy dinosaur "Wagyan" for instance. Both of those robots even appeared in games later on. But did you know that Nyamco and Mappy did NOT first appear in the arcade game? They were first robots!
In Japan in the 80s, a popular competition was to program robots to go through a maze. Namco first entered the foray with a robot cat named Nyamco. The next year they made a Mappy robot with a needle on its tail so it could pop balloons in the mazes, too. That's why in the bonus stages in Mappy, he pops balloons there as well. After the arcade Mappy was released, Namco made some smaller toy robots of them as well to sell to the public.
Another reason why college is a waste of time.
I have a lot of the mini consoles. Famicom, NES, SNES, Genesis 1 and 2, and TG16. The Atari 400 didn't have any games on it that jumped out at me, so I probably won't get it. Same reason why I didn't get the C64 Mini. Since the Atari 5200 is kind of the same as the Atari 800 computers, if they made a mini of that I might look into it since the 5200 was the first video game console I owned. I wonder if they'd ever make an Apple ][ Mini since that was the first gaming PC I had as a kid.
I liked your barnyard background. I was thinking you should have a barnyard animal puppet like a pig or a cow to talk to you, but that would probably be too silly!
I reviewed that Nick Kart racer game way back when:
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2020/11/11/nickelodeon-kart-racers-2-grand-prix-ps4-switch-xbox-one/
Final Fight is great in the arcade, but when it got ported to the SNES, it lost something in the translation (like two player support). So even though I think Final Fight is a better game in the arcade, I really appreciate that Streets of Rage made the concept work better on a home console. I really wish I would've played Final Fight 2 and 3 back in the day, though. Also, MIghty Final Fight on the NES is surprisingly good.
A lot of people say that Mega Man X is hard, but I think it's one of the easiest in the series. Start off with Chill Penguin.
It just kills me that everything I worked hard to learn in college is now moot.
River City Ransom is awesome, but my favorite Kunio-kun game on the NES is Super Dodge Ball.
Mega Man 3 is probably my favorite of the classic NES ones. Start with Top Man's stage, he's the easiest.
The cutscenes in Ninja Gaiden were pretty revolutionary back then because before then, not many games told the story between levels. It was all done in the instructions. But man alive is that game hard!
One of my unpopular opinions is that I like Mario 2 more than 3. 3 is still great, but for some reason, I just always enjoyed 2 more.
I've heard about those Frog Detective games before. I would love to review them.
Yeah I don't expect people to read ALL the way through my blogs like this, so I keep the ones I think are most important right on top. That's a technique I laerned in college majoring in Journalism. Of course now online 'journalists' pad their stories so you can scroll through all the ads before you get to the useful information. That was called 'burying the lead' back when I was in college, and was a big no-no. I guess not now.
