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Another Konami series is called Parodius, which is a silly spin off of the Gradius series.  Anyway, one of the Parodius games has stages making reference to other Konami games.  There is a DDR stage, a Goemon stage, a Twinbee level, and even a Tokimeki Memorial level (that's a Japan only dating game).  Anyway, the 'speed' stage in that particular Parodius game is based on Lethal Enforcers!  You even have to avoid recticules with guns in the foreground that shoot you from time to time!

On an unrelated note, I ate so much food at this Italian restaurant I went to tonight.  I had chicken cordon bleu, a plate of pasta, a salad, and a bowl of breadsticks.  My belly looks like I swallowed a basketball! I'm stuffed!

When I was younger and had my SNES for about a year, that Christmas I got two games for it: Super Mario Kart and Soul Blazer.  I was initially disappointed at first that Soul Blazer wasn't more like ActRaiser, especially in the music department.  But I quickly grew to enjoy Soul Blazer for what it was.  They don't make games like that much anymore.  I wish I could've played the other games in the trilogy.  But by the time that Illusion of Gaia came out, I was a poor college student and couldn't afford to buy very many games.  And us US gamers never got Terranigma, which is a bummer.

I liked my SNES Classic Edition so much I named it my Game of the Year in 2017!

I got Yoshi's Crafted World, too.  It's so adorable.  I think I still like Yoshi's Woolly World better, but Crafted World is still a lot of fun.

I love Super Princess Peach!  I wish it got more recognition than it did.  It was made by TOSE, who also did the Starfy games.  TOSE also programmed a BUNCH of other games behind the scenes.  You should check out a list of everything they've done.  It's pretty amazing.

As a Ridge Racer fan, I was kind of curious about Unbounded, but I heard it's not anything like the regular Ridge Racer games, just the name is the same.

Check out the reviews on my newest blog if you can.  I reviewed the LEGO Movie 2 game and it's actually different than most LEGO titles!

Yeah it'll power you up with sugar!  Most cereals anymore just aren't very good for you.

Everyone seems to really like Solaris.  Sounds like someone is sitting on a gold mine.

I would love it if Activision would just port the Activision Anthology to modern consoles.  Especially since the last ones it was on were the PS2 and PSP (the GBA had a version, too).  It's such a good collection.

I'm pretty sure Iwata did all the classic arcade games that HAL released on NES, since he used those games to convince Nintendo to let HAL work for them.  So yeah, he did Millipede, Joust, and Defender 2.  I still like Joust better than Balloon Fight, though.  Sorry Iwata.

I got a press release for the EDF game but I probably won't review it.  Too many other games to play right now.

The Konami collections look neat.  Wish they had physical releases.  And why no Gyruss?  I'll have to see if I have a PR contact for Konami so I can try to review it.

Right now I'm playing Yoshi's Crafted World.  It's very fun, but I think I liked Yoshi's Woolly World a little more.