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Sonic Mania is pretty neat.  I don't like how it saves your progress, though.  I know the first few Sonic games wouldn't save your progress at all, and while I like returning to classic game sensibilities, not being able to save when you want to should always be a thing of the past.  I just don't like having to start over from Act 1 of a world if I have to stop and go do something else.  I'm not a kid on summer vacation anymore, I'm an adult who sometimes has to stop and do things like, say, go to work. That'll just slow down my progress in the game and I may not be able to play it as much as I want. 

I loved the second boss in the new Chemical Plant Zone, though.  It just blew my mind!

One neat thing about Breath of the Wild is that you can play it in short bursts.  But one bad thing about it (asides from that it's stupid hard sometimes), is that it's not really a Zelda game.  I still liked it a lot, though.  Especially cooking.  I liked how Link cooked and how he ate everyting in one bite!  I made him eat lots of stuff.  It's a wonder why he wasn't as big as a house by the time I got around to saving Zelda.

My brother played FFX.  He knows very well the kinds of games I like and don't like, and he said I wouldn't like it, so I never tried it.  I learned later that there is a character in FFX who uses plush toys of FF characters as weapons, which sounds cool as heck.  That would be something I would do if I were in a FF game.  But my brother said I still wouldn't like that character, so poop.

Nothing about FFXII has lured me in to want to play it, so I don't know much about it.  Maybe you can convince me otherwise, but it'll be a challenge.  Only thing I know about that game is there is a character who has bunny ears!  If I were in charge of making that game, that character would also have a carrot sword and the Dragoon "Jump" command for that character would change to "Hop."  Probably a good thing I'm not working for Square-Enix, huh?

Speaking of which, I have a private meeting with Square-Enix next week at PAX West.  I can't wait for that!  Next year, Square-Enix is releasing a big boy console version of the Dissidia games, and a 3-D remake of Secret of Mana!  They're trying hard to win me back!

Hey you put my name in your blog!  I still miss 1up.com from time to time.

It always surprises me when game companies, especially Namco, release an arcade game that looks like it could've been done several years prior.  Good examples include Japan only arcade games like Toy Pop and Wonder Momo, as well as newer games like Mr. Driller.  I guess Tank Force is like that, too.

I learned some BASIC programming on the Apple computer as a kid.  That's how I learned that I hate programming.

I imagine Tank Force was made around the same time as Sky Shark.

Oh yeah, I had that one.  I was never very good at it since I wasn't good at Donkey Kong style games back then.  We had a lot of games on the Apple PC.  My dad would just come home with stacks of disks of games.  I wonder now if they were all pirated copies.  I would've condoned him for it back then, but I was only in kindergarten so I didn't know any better.  But then, he did have a friend who worked for Apple, so maybe they weren't pirated after all.  That guy sold us that computer in the first place.  One of my earliest memories is sitting on that guy's lap when I was little and playing Pac-Man on the computer we were about to buy.  I remember he was wearing an Apple t shirt with the old rainbow apple logo.  I think my favorite Apple games we had were Spare Change and Aquatron.

The only tech figure I have is the original Trigger Happy that came with one of the Skylanders games I reviewed.  The makers of the game must like Trigger Happy, since they use him in the Toys for Bob logo.

You know, this will be the first year in like, six years that there's not a new Skylanders game.  It'll be weird for me to not have a Skylanders game to review.

To clarify, all three Splatterhouses are on the Splatterhouse 3-D remake on the Xbox 360.  The Switch Namco Museum just has the first one.

I never had an Atari 2600.  My first game console was the 5200, although I played the 2600 a lot at neighbors and friends' houses.  I never had to deal with the crappy 2600 version of Pac-Man because I was playing several good versions of it on our Apple ][+ computer!

Yeah I'm a little baffled on how Splatterhouse got on here either.