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I don't remember if I reviewed the first game at The Dallas Morning News, but I know I reviewed the second one there.  That was when I was at the top of my game at the newspaper.

Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel are VERY good games.  And when I replayed them on Xbox LIVE, I discovered that they aged very well.  Much better than DK64, which hadn't aged as well when I replayed it again on the Wii U Virtual Console.  

I don't know if I like Mario 64 better than B-K or not.  I think I like them both about the same.  I'm also probably the only person who liked Nuts & Bolts.  I'll probably even download the B-K characters in Smash, which will be the first time I get DLC for a Smash game.

I THINK my friend rented this one, but I don't remember much about it.  Guess we didn't play it very much.  I remember reading in Nintendo Power that it was based on a book.  They didn't specify if it was a manga or not, but I did go to a bookstore and try to find it.  But this was back when bookstores wouldn't have even heard of manga, so no luck there.  But it was fun to learn about that tidbit of info.

Speaking of which, I also enjoyed learning more about Little Nemo when Capcom released Little Nemo: The Dream Master on NES (very good game, by the way, still have it).  Anyway, in Nintendo Power, they also said it was based on a comic strip from the early 1900's, and so I tried to look for books of it at the bookstore as well.  I didn't, but I did do some research and learned a lot about Little Nemo and Winsor McKay, who was doing animation before Disney was in diapers.  Years later I did find collections of Little Nemo comics at a half price book store and I continue to try and learn more about that stuff to this day.  Who says video games aren't educational?

When I first got my 360, it was fun to compare achievements with friends and try to compete to get the most.  But now I just get achievements or trophies if they're fun to get.  

After I beat FF7, I thought to myelf, "Well that was neat because it was so different, but I have no desire to play that again."  That's a total opposite from when I beat FF6, because right after that I started it up again, and FF6 became one of my top five favorite games of all time.

But after playing the FF8 demo that came with Brave Fencer Musashi (a great game), I discovered that the differences I didn't like in FF7 are what they focused on in FF8.  So when it came time for the game to come out, I didn't get it.  That was the first time I wasn't interested in a FF game anymore.  It felt so weird to me back then.

Of course that changed with FF9, which I loved.  FF9 is what FF7 and 8 should've been.

OK since I don't know anything else about FF8, you have to pick a character from that game that you think I would like. :)

I reviewed Starlink when it came out:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2018/12/07/starlink-battle-for-atlas-switch-ps4-xbox-one/

Like I said, I'll have a 3DS tribute blog written sometime in August.  The 3DS lasted a pretty long time.  Some of my favorite games include Animal Crossing: New Leaf and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.  Also loved the StreetPass stuff.

I reviewed Starlink on the Switch.  The StarFox stuff was pretty neat.  It's a decent game.  I hear it didn't do well, though.

In some ways, I liked the DS a little better than the 3DS.  I may explain more when I write my 3DS tribute blog. 

The Phoenix Wright series is my favorite on the DS.

I loved the GBA.  But then, my favorite console is the SNES so that's probably why.  Some aspects of the GBA I like even better than the DS and 3DS line.  

I'm glad you mentioned Astro Boy: Omega Factor.  For some reason, that game really stuck out to me.

There are Taiko games you can download on the PS4 and Switch, but they don't have a physical version in the US.  And the downloadable Taiko games are the same price as a physical copy, so I'm not going to get them until they go on sale.