I rented and played Metroid on the NES, but I really didn't get into the series until Super Metroid on the SNES.
It's amazing how little things in games impressed us back then. Like being able to go to the left in Metroid. I remember when I first played Ms. Pac-Man and was blown away by the fruit moving around the maze. Not a big deal now, but back then as a kid, it felt SO INNOVATIVE!
I never played Boom Blox.
I kind of wish that we got Captain Rainbow in the US, but I guess I can understand why we didn't. Interesting thing about the game company Skip is that they've gone under different names in the past, and some of those games made it to the US. One is a PSOne mini-game collection called Incredible Crisis, and another one is a PS2 game about kissing people called Chulip. One thing most Skip games have in common (including these ones and the first Chibi Robo), is that they all have a dog named Tao.
One of the characters in Castle Shikigami 3 is Time Gal, who had her own laserdisc game back in the day.
I've played all the Cooking Mama and other Mama games. The weirdest one on the Wii was Babysitting Mama. Ever heard of that one? I hear in April there is a new Cooking Mama game coming out on the 3DS where you make desserts, and it's called Cooking Mama: Sweet Treats. I hope I can review it.
I liked the de Blob games, but I stopped playing them because they got pretty buggy in the end.
I'm hoping to see LEGO Batman with my brother on Monday. Then I'll need to review the LEGO Batman Story Pack and Knight Rider Fun Packs for LEGO Dimensions that I just got!
I still feel like LEGO Marvel Avengers was made by Traveller's Tales B-Team, as I think LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was much better. Speaking of LEGO, I just got the LEGO Batman Movie Story Pack and Knight Rider Fun Pack for LEGO Dimensions to review!
I just got review copies of the LEGO Batman Movie Story Pack and Knight Rider Fun Pack for LEGO Dimensions. Yay!
I loved the original DuckTales on NES, and I love the remake, too. It's basically my childhood in video game form. Having most of the original voice cast really made the game. I hope the new DuckTales cartoon is good.
Also, R.I.P. to Alan Young, the original voice of Scrooge McDuck. I would imagine DuckTales Remastered was one of his last roles.
I would love it if WayForward did a Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers Remastered.
Oh Save Mary's on one of these collections. It's still the prototype and I couldn't figure it out, but it's on there.
I got the Centipede trophy for getting a high score, but another Centipede trophy requires you to shoot all the mushrooms in a stage, so I won't be doing that one.
Although on Dig Dug on Xbox Live, there was an achievement for digging up all the dirt in a level, and I did that one. Dig Dug was one of the few Xbox 360 games I got all the achievements for.
Well this was when the Internet was in its infancy, and finding release dates and ratings and other info on games was harder to look up. So I often called or went in to that store to find out information for the first couple of years of reviewing games for the newspaper. One employee at EB Games in particular was very helpful to me. Of course, my friends always teased me and said I had a crush on her, but I'll plead the fifth on that one. But regardless, she was very helpful.
Whew, well at least you played Pac-Man.
Well these collections had about 9 arcade games each, and the rest were 2600 titles.
Yeah I don't think many games on the 2600 have held up well. Except Activision's 2600 games. Many of those are still fun. My favorite is Pressure Cooker.
