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I had high hopes for Xenosaha. Xenogears was my second favorite game of 1998 after Ocarina of Time. It was my favorite PS1 game that didn't have the word "Final" in the title. Xenosaga was quite a slog, and I play a lot of games that others would consider to be a slog. I dropped it by the wayside when I got a GameCube and started playing WInd Waker and Skies of Arcadia Legends. I did feel kind of bad when it fizzled out, but Xenoblade more than made up for it. I actually loved it more than Xenogears.

And I wish my copy of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance hadn't been stolen....

I definitely want to see Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD come to Switch. It would make the Switch that much closer to having a comprehensive Zelda collection. At that point, you'd just be missing the handheld Zeldas after Link's Awakening. And I personally wouldn't mind the Oracle games, Minish Cap, or A Link Between Worlds getting the LA HD treatment. Not sure how they would do the DS games since they made them so dependent on the touch screen.

I actually never played Xenoblade Chroncies X, so that would be a new experience on the Switch.

I found the game I was thinking of. It was Tooth Invaders, for the C64.

The main FFVI World of Balance theme, Terra, is one of the best overworld themes I've ever heard in a game. One track I like that doesn't get a lot of love is The Floating Continent, which is one of the final precursors before things go to hell at the halftime mark.

Nowadays you can get it on Steam. But I'm really digging Ys 9 right now.

I rented the SNES version of Ys 3 a long, long time ago. Before that I was a fan of Faxanadu. But for a long time, the only place I saw Falcom games was on sites like RPGamer, though I know they did Brandish on SNES and Popful Mail on Sega CD.  Ys VI and The Legend of Heroes on PSP really seemed to kick-start Falcom in the US in the mid 00s. 

I did watch that video last year, on my blog on Falcom's Dragon Slayer/Legend of Heroes games.

Sounds like a simple version of Super Mario Sunshine.

Most US developers were doing games like this with blue-screened live actors (Area 51, Revolution-X).

I never played much in the way of educational games unless you count The Oregon Trail as one. The Oregon Trail was a strangely addictive game. I did have an edutainment game on the TI-99/4A called Beginning Grammar which went over the parts of speech. In Oklahoma, there is a science museum called the Omniplex. They had a bunch of educational video games that looked like they ran off of Apple IIs. One of them was a tooth brushing game where the evil plaques were represented by scary Russian music, namely the Volga Boatmen's Song (the theme that plays when Soda Popinski is introduced). Gotta love the Cold War.

I usually manage to come up with one or two BaD posts. Which may or may not be bad posts.