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Xevious has a really interesting history.  I'd tell you about it, but we'd be here all night.

SiniStar scared the crap out of me as a little kid.

There was a Spy Hunter machine at the Pizza Inn near my house back in the day.  They had other arcade games, but Spy Hunter was THE game to play!  Many years later, when my brother Jeff was very young, he played Spy Hunter on one of my arcade game collections and LOVED it.  He would just sit there playing it for hours laughing manically.  Did you know that at one point, plans were made to make a Spy Hunter movie?

I loved Marble Madness.  So much so that I got it for my NES, and I rarely did that.

Gauntlet was definitely a big game, but I didn't get to play it right away because it was uusally covered by the bigger kids.  Same goes with Punch Out and Space Harrier.

I loved arcades as a kid.  When I was little, one time I was watching TV with my dad, and the news was on, and they were showing people building these big yellow box things.  At first I thought they were soda vending machines, because they were about the same size, had a coin slot, and a lighted marquee. A few months later, my mom and I were at the checkout lane at a Kroger grocery store, and I saw the same machine.  I asked my mom if I could go look at it, and she said sure.  When she came by to look as well, she gave me a quarter to put in it.  Oh if she had only known what that would've triggerd.  Turns out that big yellow box was a Pac-Man machine, and that was my first time to play it!  All the way home from the grocery store, I was constantly talking about that game.  As you can guess, it left a lasting impression on me.

It was my mom's sister, my aunt, who took me to my first arcade when I was a kid.  Before then, I had only seen a couple of arcade machines in grocery stores and roller rinks.  But I had never been into a whole room of arcade machines!  I still remember the name of that first arcade I went to: Electric Castle.

I just love arcades.  I can't explain why, there's just something about them.

I may not have an April Fools blog this year, but I am working on a blog I plan to post a couple of days after.

You should definitely play Double Dragon Neon sometimes  It's a hilarious game.

Yup and on April 14th they'll have BRAND NEW episodes of MST3K on Netflix!

I love arcades. Happy Birthday.  Have a power pellet!

Well when I would watch my brothers play Halo games, I would always call the vehicles they drove around in 'tractors' for some reason.  Mainly I did it to annoy them.  I told KnightDriver this earlier so hopefully he'll remember and get the reference in context. :)

When I was a kid I watched a lot of 'old' anime like Star Blazers, Astro Boy, Dragon Ball (not Z) and Voltron.  Did you know that back in the late 80's and early 90's, Nick Jr. showed a lot of kiddy anime from the 70's and 80's?  

Nowadays it's hard for me to get into anime.  Not sure why.  I do like some anime like Dragon Ball and Astro Boy, and some Studio Ghibli stuff, but that's about it.

Ride those tractors!

Chrono Trigger is probably the best time travel video game.  I've been thinking a lot about Chrono Trigger lately because I'm working on reviewing the new Switch game I am Setsuna, which has a world map and battle system VERY similar to Chrono's.

Another Zelda game that uses time travel is Oracle of Seasons.  Also, there are a couple of dungeons in Skyward Sword that use time travel in a very unique way.

Better than Ys?  Thats some pretty big shoes to fill especially since Ys Sever is one of my favorite PSP games and my most favorite Ys games in general.