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.
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/
