Yeah I can do it now, but it took a while. I still press the wrong buttons for things every now and then. I'm not good with games where you use every single button on the controller. And I still haven't figured out things like how to surf on your shield or attach things to it. And how Zonai batteries work.
When I was a kid I used to watch Ultraman and Godzilla movies a lot. After the Saturday morning cartoons were over, one local station would usually show a giant monster movie like that. Later as a teenager, my younger brothers would watch a lot of Power Rangers. At first my reaction to that was like, "Ugh, how stupid." But then I remembered all the Godzilla and Ultraman shows I watched as a kid and realized they weren't that much different than Power Rangers. And of course, I'm a huge fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and that has a lot of those kinds of movies as well. Especially Gamera.
I miss those pinball collections. Pinball FX kind of ruined those, especially now that they are on a subscription service. And I loved how many games Taito Legends 1 and 2 had on them!
I dunno, there's a lot of things that took me a while to get used to. LIke attaching things to arrows. First you gotta hold down a button to aim, then press and hold another button on the other JoyCon, then on the opposite JoyCon you gotta use the stick to cycle through what you want to attach. And then you have to tilt your head, stick out your tongue, and stand on one foot. OK I made that last one up, but you get the idea. And I sitll haven't figured out stuff like how to surf on your shield or attach things to it.
Yeah Nintendo likes to brag about how popular Game & Watch was back then, but I don't remember seeing them until AFTER the NES came out. And then the only ones I saw were Super Mario Bros., a Mario Bros. one, Donkey Kong, and I saw a Zelda one at a store but it was too expensive. The Game & Watch Galleries on the Game Boy and GBA are really good, though. You should try them if you have a chance.
I know I've said this before, but the Activision Anthology on PS2 rivals the PS1 Namco Museums as far as quality and presentation goes.
My cousins had an Intellivision when we were little. My cousin and I would play Frog Bog for what seemed like hours. Not sure why that entertained us so much back then. There's a Intellivision collection on the PS2 that's pretty good, too.
I hate to defend Nintendo on this, but at least with amiibo you get a really cool figure to go with all that DLC crap. My only big complaint is that they make them hard to get sometimes!
I scanned the Twilight Princess Link Wolf amiibo into Tears of the Kingdom and got a TON of meat. So that was pretty useful. I'm horrible at combat in that game, so I make Link eat a lot of food. He should have a big belly by now. I know he runs around a lot, but that boy should be as big as a house by the time he saves Zelda.
I have them all, too, but I probably won't be digging them out again any time soon.
I think movie tie-in games got a reputation for being so bad that companies just stopped making them. Plus the licenses for those properties were probably getting so expensive that it wasn't worth the cost anymore. For a while you only saw movie tie-ins in mobile games, but now you don't even see that anymore.
I wanted to get Park Beyond because Namco made it and one of the things you can get are Pac-Man themed roller coasters and gift shops and decorations and costumed characters! I wanted to make my own Pac-Man theme park! But unfortunately the game is only on X/S and PS5, two consoles I don't have. I know you gotta make the transition to a new console at some point, but I don't see why a park builder couldn't have been on PS4 or Switch as well.
When you scan an amiibo into Tears of the Kingdom, you can get a random bunch of items that can be useful. If you scan a Zelda specific amiibo, you'll also get a treasure chest that might contain something exclusive, like a pattern for your hanglider.
