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Happy birthday!  Have a power pellet!

(I wouldn't mind if Samus gave me a cake)

Last time they did Pac-Man, this time it's Ms. Pac-Man.  But they got some of the sound effects wrong.  

I've played through most of the main KH games.  In the sequels, they either make the Gummi Ship stuff optional or delete it all together.  The storyline in those games is garbage, but it is fun to tromp around Disney worlds.

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Sky Shark was a pretty generic shooter from Taito.  If you want to see some of their more interesting shooters, I recommend looking up Darius, Gun Frontier, and Metal Black.

1943 is one of my favorite shooters even to this day.

I didn't really get into the X-Men arcade game, but I sure did like the TMNT and Simpsons ones!

Gravity Falls is fantastic.  One of the best cartoons since Animaniacs and DuckTales.

I beat the new Zelda game.  If I can do it, I know you can! The final boss is pretty darn cool.

Thanks for reading!  I may not do an April Fools blog this year, but I'll definitely have a blog up a couple of days after.

I hope you get to play that Pong game soon  After they made that Pong game, Atari made a Break-Out update on the PSOne as well, and it was very similar to the Pong update.  It was also pretty creative.  It's a special game to me, too, because it was the first game my brother Jeff finished when he was little.  I was proud of him.

Yeah the Xevious history is crazy.  It has a super long story that even got novels in Japan.  The graphics of the spaceships in the first game are actually pre-rendered, so it was the first arcade game that did that.  I always thought it looked like you were flying over a golf course, though.

Remember how dot matrix printer paper was attached to each page back in the day?  Well when I was a kid, I took a big long roll of my dad's printer paper, spread it out from the front door to the back door, and drew a Xevious map on one side and a Zaxxon map on the other side.  Then I got out my toy spaceships and played pretend Xevious and Zaxxon with them.  That is, until my dad got home and I got in trouble for doing that (but not too much trouble, I think deep down he thought that was cool, too, even if I did waste paper).

There are actually two 3-D Xevious games.  One is called Solavou and it's a 3-D from the cockpit view kind of game and I think uses the same engine as StarBlade.  It plays the same, too.  The other one was called Xevious 3-D/G+.  It had 3-D graphics, but it was still a 2-D shooter like the original.  And it was ported to the PlayStation, unlike Solvalou (that's the name of the Xevious spaceship, by the way).

I had Marble Madness on the NES as a kid, and back then, I thought it was pretty good.  But then, I was a kid and you know how kids can be pretty happy with crap sometimes.  But I could never get the hang of trackballs so I ended up doing better on the NES version.  It was actually pretty close to the arcade game, all things considered.  Interesting fact: the NES version of Marble Madness was developed by Rare.