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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.

Since I was born in the mid 70s and was pretty young for the latter half of it, my 70s gaming was just stuff that carried over into the 80s.  My cousins had the Mattel football game, I saw plenty of foosball tables in the back of 80s arcades, and my dad built a bootleg Pong machine in the back of our first TV that he built from a Heathkit catalog.  And that's the short end of my 70s gaming.

Can't wait until you get to the 80s and 90s months!  In my opinion, the 80s had the best arcade games, and the 90s had the best home console games (what with the SNES and PlayStation).

I don't want to see the Mario movie in 3D.  But then, that's because I can't see 3D, being blind in one eye and all.

Do be sure to tell that someone you know at work about my podcast and picture blog about my trip to Super Nintendo World!

I don't know if they could get much better than the Activision Anthology on PS2.  They should just port that.

I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean about "gaming phrases."  Are you talking about gaming terms or quotes in games?  I try to avoid using too many gaming terms unless I'm around a bunch of other hardcore gamers.  My audience for my reviews isn't always gamers in the know, so if I do use a term I don't think they'd know, I try to explain it.  A good example is the term "Metroidvania."  I don't really like that word, but it's so easy to use when describing those types of games.  So if I use it in a review, I try to describe what that means, too.  

As far as gaming quotes go, my brother Jeff and I still quote lines from Mega Man 8 to this day.  We love the bad voice acting in that one.  There's a Ratchet and Clank game where you control Captain Qwark in 2-D platform levels and one time you ride a zip line and he says, "Wheeee!"  For some reason that tickled us as well so we quote that every now and then.

When my brother Jeff was a little kid, he loved to play the arcade classic game Circus Charlie.  One of the things you do in that game is ride a horse, but it's such a badly drawn and animated horse it looks like a cross between a pinata and My Little Pony.  You can also control the speed of the horse so one time when Jeff was making the horse go fast, I said it was a "Turbo Horse" and for some reason that cracked five year old Jeff up so much he was laughing on the floor.  So to this day, every horse you can name in a video game is called Turbo Horse by us.  Yes, even in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link's horse is named Turbo Horse.

Since you all are enjoying Street Fighter 6, I thought I'd share my two cents.  I probably won't get the game anytime soon because I'm awful at fighting games.  If the price ever goes down maybe I'll get it.  My favorite SF character, Cammy, I'm not a big fan of her new outfit.  I think they just gave her a new outfit so they can sell her old one as DLC and make lots of money.  But I don't really care since I won't be getting the game.  Cammy could be wearing her PJs for all I care.  I think my favorite new character is Marisa.  Not sure why.  I like her red hair and she looks like she just ate a can of spinach.

I'd like to see Neo Mr. Do! on Arcade Archives.  Or I know!  How about a Mr. Do! collection?

We should both feel lucky we got to go there, since many won't have that opportunity.  If you want an audio version of my Super Nintendo Land experience, plus a review of the Mario movie, be sure to check out my latest episode of my podcast.  There's a link to it in my newest blog here.

My cousins had the Mattel Football game back in the day.

Atari 50 is great.  I've met David Crane in person twice.  Once at E3 and another time at the grand opening of the National Video Game Museum (which I helped set up).

It's great to see expos like this still going.  I know video game expos like E3 and PAX are supposedly dying, and I hate that because nothing will replace the social interaction fun that these kinds of things provide.

I've only seen Puzzle de Pon on a couple of NEO GEO arcade cabinets, but I've seen Bust-A-Move everywhere!  Even on its own dedicated cabinets.

One Arcade Archive I'm really glad they did was Libble Rabble, since it was done by the same guy who created Pac-Man.