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Erdrick! I just came across the screen in Final Fantasy where a headstone says, "Here lies Link" and queried reddit about it. Apparently in the cartrige version of FF the headstone says, "Here lies Erdrick" refering to a series I'm unfamiliar with. Someone else said that "Link" was in the Famicon version and they changed it to Erdrick for the US release. Now it's back to Link in the Pixel Remaster version I'm playing now. I'll have to look up this "Erdick trilogy" though. 

 Oh, I get it now. Erdick is your Dragon Quest's character's predecessor. 

The variety and creativity of the game blew me away when I played it on GameCube. I ended up selling my copy once I knew there would be a remake 'cause it was worth some money. I, of course, regret it now. 

I'm not being too strict about the dates. I'm largely following IGN's top 100 NES games and Duck Tales was number 10 on that list. Chip N Dale might be there somewhere and if so I'll play it when I get farther down the list. 

Interesting about Final Fantasy. My other goal, which I'm also not being too strict about, is to play games in their original format on their original systems. So I may pick up FF again as a cart anyway. 

I know I must've tried it once, but maybe I'll try it again. 

I guess DQ is only on the Japanese version of Switch. Is that right? 

I heard about Toriyama on reddit a few days after it happened. My friend and I just watched all the original Dragon Ball movies this week. 

Oh cool. I'll prob preorder Paper Mario TYD in April then. Thanks. 

I loved the original Marble Madness cabinet but console versions haven't been that great. I need that roller ball controller, which is, I guess, like a mouse, really. I should play it on PC. 

Oh. Well I want to play it but the Japanese darn it. 

I'm preordering it as soon as the date is announced!

I'm discovering that a lot of NES games of the time are kind of obscure in their aims and often give no clues, which is hard for me these days to sit with. I'm so used to games with clear objectives now. But, I'm slowly getting into it here and there. 

I was thinking I could use Google Lens on my phone to translate the dialog as I go in Ys 1. I may try that. Gameplay would be slow but at least I could play some of it. I like the idea that it was meant to be a little more forgiving than most RPGs of the time. 

Kids would love it, I think. I played as everyone (you had to for an achievement) but mostly as Bingo. Not sure why, I just chose her first.

I've seen a little bit of the show. Funny thing, I work with a guy one day a week who is on the asperger's spectrum. He knows all the daytime tv shows, game shows, kids shows and cartoons but can't stand Bluey for some reason. I teased him about it a couple times but didn't dwell on it. I'm not mean. We get so much Bluey media circulating in the library, it's hard not to mention it.