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I certainly have respect for Defender, one of Eugene Jarvis' first games.  But as a kid, I didn't play it much in the arcade because the controls were too complicated for Little Kid Cary.  I liked watching the bigger kids play it sometimes, though.  I liked it when your ship exploded because it was all colorful on the screen.  Yeah I was easliy amused.

I do remember playing Defender on the 2600 like in your screenshot, though.  That one was simplified since it was on a home console with limited controls, but I liked it better as a kid because of that.  I remember being pretty good at it, too, when I'd play it over at neighbors and family's houses.

This year, Hallmark has a Christmas ornament shaped like a minature Defender arcade cabinet.  It makes Defender arcade sounds when you push a button, too.  It came out in July and yes I have it.

Yeah I remember one reviewer complaining that Dead Rising wasn't scary, just silly.  But my brother Jeff and I agree that we don't think the early Dead Rising games were even meant to be scary.  

I kind of liked how Dr. Mario World tried to do something a little different, though.  I'd already played the same game multiple times, so it was nice to have a little change.

Well I'm glad it's not a RTS or tower defense because I don't like those kinds of games.  :)  I'm glad it's a silly dodgeball title. :)

I enjoyed watching my brother Jeff play the first couple of Dead Rising games.  I liked that you could put Servebot heads on the zombies and yourself.

Yeah I can't believe I stil play the Animal Crossing game.  Pretty good game for a freebie, and I haven't spent one red cent on it.  I think it's interesting that Miitomo was just a scaled down version of Tomodatchi Life, and that's the first thing Nintendo went with in their first dive into the mobile world.

I wasn't into the Sierra point and click adventures, but I was into the LucasFilm Games ones for a while.  These include games like Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (my favorite), and Sam & Max Hit the Road.

Since the Internet wasn't around yet, I got my clues in three ways.  1. Back then, games came with all sorts of cool material, some would even give you hints.  In the Zak McKracken game, you were a writer for a fake news tabloid, so the game came with a mock tabloid newspaper where the articles had clues written in them to give you hints.  2. I also subscribed to a LucasFilm Games newsletter that I would get every couple of months or so.  It was a print newsletter I got in the mail, and sometimes it would give hints on games.  That newsletter is also where I discovered Sam & Max comics.  3.  You could order print strategy guides from LucasFilm Games, and I think I did that with a couple of them.

I do like some mobile games.  They're easy to review anyway.  I sitll play the mobile Animal Crossing game because I'm a freak I guess.  But i don't play mobile games on my phone, I play 'em on my iPad!

Oh man, I love Pengo!  Is that new Pengo game going to get a physical version or is it just on the eShop?  If it was eShop only, I'd be tempted to get a Japan account just for that.  The original Pengo was one of the main reasons why I didn't get a NES right away.  I was perfectly happy playing Pengo on my 5200! 

I do wish SEGA would pay more attention to Pengo, though.  Back on the Dreamcast, there was a Japan only game called Sega Gaga where you made your own video game company.  When working in the warehouse pushing boxes, they play the "Popcorn" theme in the background, which was also played in some of the original arcade machines of Pengo!

So yeah, I really like Pengo.  It was one of the few games to tear me away from Pac-Man in the arcade, alongside gems like Dig Dug, Frogger, and BurgerTime.

Thanks for reading!  I sitll play the Animal Crossing mobile game, and I dabbled in Miitomo for a while, but I quickly lost interest in Super Mario Run and Dr. Mario World.  Never downloaded the Fire Emblem or other RPG Nintendo put on mobile.

I'm a child of the 80s and love 80s stuff, but I've never watched Stranger Things.  I'm curious about it, though.