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Some arcade ports on the 2600 were pretty bad, though.  Like Burgertime.  And of course Pac-Man.

I feel like I played it somewhere, but maybe I just imagined it.  They all kind of play the same.

Final Fantasy 6 is one of my top five favorite games of all time, and it has a lot of little details in it that you might miss if you blink.  I love how each character has his or her own theme song, and even remixes of the same song depending on the mood.  Even the last part of Dancing Mad, the final boss theme, is just a remix of Kefka's orignal song.

Sometimes in FF6, you can change out your party members, and depending on who you might have in your party, some characters may say different things which might add insight to the story you might've not known otherwise.  My favorite is when you trick the gambler Setzer with a one sided coin.  There is an earlier cutscene where Edgar and Sabin use a coin to decide who will be the king, and if Edgar and Sabin are in your party when you trick Setzer, Edgar flips the coin and Sabin says something like, "Brother, that coin!  It couldn't be..."

One final thing in FF6.  In the snowy mining town of Narshe, some of the townsfolk claim they've seen a Yeti.  That Yeti is Umaro of course, but you can spot him, too, peeking out of holes in the walls in caves, long before he can join your party!

In other games, character standing animations are also fun details.  Some of my favorites are in Mega Man X.  Normally he just blinks his eyes when standing still, but if he's low on energy, the light on his helmet flashes red, and he'll breathe heavier.  And if you are on Chill Penguin's stage, you can even see frost smoke come from his mouth like how you can see your breath when it's cold.  Never though robots had to breathe, but this is a video game so oh well.

One last standing animation I like is in Donkey Kong Country 2.  One of the stage themes is a giant beehive, and you can stick to the walls if honey is on them.  While sticking to the wall, sometimes Dixie Kong will put her finger on the honey and then lick it.

OK sorry for being so long.  By the way, I just posted a new podcast that I hope you all can listen to.  It's about Transformers, so I think you'll like it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/07zOFGLATchbGTpZBXuOO8

I liked how they did augmented reality on the 3DS with those AR cards.

One of my cousins had a 7800 for a while so I had already played that before this collection.  But I'm happy we got 7800 games on here.  I'm also really happy we got some Jaguar games on here, since I never really played that one.  

I don't remember seeing Crossbow on the Atari 50 collection.  The arcade version was made by Exidy, so I doubt it's on here.  I hated the arcade version of Crossbow because those screams in the game freaked me out.

Some of the 2600 arcade ports were actually pretty decent.  Moon Patrol on 2600 is surprisingly good.  As is Asteroids and Centipede and Defender.

Gee Bee is a Breakout style game from Namco that was released in 1979.  It kind of combines elements of pinball with Breakout.  It was followed up by Bomb Bee and Cutie Q, two similar titles.  These games were some of the first ones that Toru Iwatani worked on before he created Pac-Man.  You can even tell some inspiration for Pac-Man might've come from Cutie Q.  In Japan, you can play Cutie Q on Namco Museum vol. 2, but they replaced it with Super Pac-Man (thankfully) for the US release.  I think you can play some of these on the Xbox 360 Namco Museum game and I know you can play Cutie Q on the Wii Namco Musuem Remix.

I'm glad VR hasn't fully taken off yet also because I can't do most of that either.

You don't have to be sorry!  I'm just glad they can do both.  There was a time that I was worried the 3D fad would take over in movies, but it really didn't.

Activison games were light years above anything else on the 2600.  To be honest, there wasn't much non-Activision 2600 games that impressed me that much.