Compared to almost every Atari-era arcade conversion, the NES version of Elevator Action is a masterpiece. Even on the NES, Elevator Action is one of the better conversions, especially when even Donkey Kong had over 25 percent of the game cut out on the NES.
Yars' Revenge was my second favorite 2600 game of all time. The shape of Qotile was one of the more memorable video game icons of the time. I kind of want to play the Reimagined Yars' Revenge.
I have Atari Flashback Classics on Switch, which combines all three volumes on one cartridge. The best Atari collection I saw was the PS2 collection, which had all kinds of scanned documentation and memorabilia, plus it had more games. Atari sold off Battlezone and a few of its other IPs in the late 2000s to stay solvent.
One game that seems to always be missing from Atari collections is my favorite Atari 2600 game, Solaris. The guy that wrote it, Doug Neubauer (who created Star Raiders as well), managed to keep control of the rights to the game, so Atari never actually owned Solaris. That game was deep enough and pretty enough to be a NES game rather than a 2600 game.
I played the Atari 2600 version of Stargate, which has more straightforward controls but requires the second controller to be plugged in to activate hyperspace/smart bombs. Defender was one of the rare cases where I enjoyed the home games more than the arcade because the arcade controls were too convoluted. I had the Atari 8-bit version of the first game, and then I also have both games on Midway Arcade Treasures for Gamecube. I really wish Warner Media would release a Midway/Atari Games collection for Switch. We have Atari, Capcom, Konami, Taito, Nichibutsu, Sega, SNK, and even Nintendo arcade games on Switch, it's kind of odd that Midway is completely absent and that Warner has no interest in reissuing its old arcade games.
I generally celebrate St. Patrick's Day with one of those green minty milkshakes Mickey D's sells, although I'd rather have a grasshopper (a shake made withmint chocolate chip, creme de cacao, and creme de menthe.) I didn't think to wear my emerald ring yesterday.
I may pick up DKC Tropical Freeze for Switch in the near future. Looks great.
"Snow day"? What is a "snow day"? Is that one of those weird new-age holidays you see every once in awhile so that you can look at the snow on the mountains? And what's this stuff about "daylight savings time" I hear about every few months? I've asked all my friends here about it and they're just as confused as I am.
There are some series I don't follow with every game despite the fact that I enjoy them when I do. And Mario Kart and Smash are not annualized franchises. They make one of these per generation, typically market them as a platform rather than as individual games, and in the case of Smash, the only handheld Smash they ever made was Smash 4 3DS. I got my Gamecube more with Wind Waker in mind than Melee, and I wasn't sure how big Smash 4 would be given the rather weak-selling platforms it was on. With Mario Kart, I never was interested in the 2D Mario Karts (Super Mario Kart and Super Ciruit), Double Dash got back-burnered for Zelda and Tales of Symphonia, and with MK Wii, I hesitated because of the motion controls. Most of what I know about those games comes from playing Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 8.
I usually play every other Smash game. I played Smash 64, but not Melee; Brawl, but now WiiU/3DS, and I have Ultimate.
It's like that with Mario Kart. I've played every third one of those starting with Mario Kart 64.
Seeing Penguin Wars honestly makes me wish we could get Pengo on modern consoles. That game hasn't been seen in the US since it had a Game Gear version in the early 90s.
I'll play Tetris once in awhile. I mostly played the Game Boy game because it came with my Game Boy. Right now, my go-to Tetris version is Puyo Puyo Tetris.
