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I will say that even though the past few years were rough, everything has worked out for the most part.  Even though COVID is still around, it's not near as bad as it was in 2020.  My mom is cured of her breast cancer and hopefully it'll never come back.  The family problems we had a year before are all worked out for the better.  And even though I had to move from a house that I lived in for more than 20 years and really didn't want to move, where I moved to was probably the best possible situation.  So yeah, everything worked out.  But during those times at those moments, it was pretty rough.  I hope I can have at least a drama-free year or two coming up.

Steambot Chronicles was such a cool game!  It didn't get any sequel, but there were a couple of spin off games on the PSP.  One just focused on the battling parts of the main game.  And the other was a board game adaptation of Blokus, but all the characters you could play as and challenge were from Steambot Chronicles!  Weird!

So as you may or may not know, I'm a huge Pac-Man fan.  I always have been, ever since I was a little kid.  I was a child of the 80s, so Pac-Man back then was like today's Pokemon.  Anyway,  every kids' dream was to own a full size arcade machine, but that would never happen.  But in my case, it did!  One day when I was in third grade or so, my dad and I were at our church.  Someone just donated a couple of arcade machines, but the church didn't want them so they said, "If you have a truck, you can take them."  Well we were there and we had a truck, and one of the machines was Pac-Man so we took that home and I was the happiest kid in the world.  I still have that Pac-Man machine to this day.  It used to be in the garage where I used to live, but I had to put it in storage since now I live in a small third floor apartment.  I hope I can keep that arcade machine as long as I can! 

We had a lot of fun with Nintendo Land back in the day.  Although the Luigi Mansion and Mario Chase games were basically just variations on Pac-Man Vs.

I think the short length is one of Luigi's Mansion's strengths.  It makes it very replayable.  I wish that when Nintendo announced the remaster of Luigi's Mansion 2 on Switch, they would've included the first game, too.  Made it a collection.  Then you could play ALL the Luigi's Mansion games on Switch!  Well, except the arcade game.  Have you ever played that one?  I bet it wouldn't be too hard to put the arcade game on Switch either, since it just uses assets from Dark Moon.

You got some GREAT deals on those GameCube games.  I hear that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is insanely expensive.  The Mario baseball game was actually made by Namco since they're famous for their Famista games.  And Kirby Air Ride is highly underrated.  I personally think it's better than Double Dash.

One good thing about Tears of the Kingdom is that it has actual dungeons this time.  They were a lot of fun.

I didn't really like the Shark! Shark! remake that much.  Your fish moved too slow.  However, after that I reviewed a remake of another Intellivision classic: Astrosmash, and I liked that one a lot more.  The review hasn't posted yet, but it will later.

Well in 2020 I was playing a lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.  That game came out at just the right time, what with the pandemic and all.  So far this new decade has just sucked.  First the pandemic, then the next year my mom's breast cancer scare, then after that some family problems, and this year I had to move!  I hope next year is better!  I'm tired of this.

I need to request a review copy of that Headbangers game.

I'm a big fan of Astro Boy.  Very influential cartoon.  Capcom denies that Astro Boy inspired Mega Man, but I call BS on that one.  The 2003 version was very good.  They used the animation frame speed of a theatrical release cartoon, not a Saturday morning one, so that's why it looked so good.  Also, Astro Boy: Omega Factor is one of the best GBA action games out there.

I liked NES Remix.  I wish they'd revisit that again.  Maybe SNES Remix?  Other games I really liked in 2014 were Child of Light, Kirby Triple Deluxe, Shovel Knight, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS.

I never liked the Splatterhouse games.  Not because they were too gory, but because the gameplay was too clunky.  The one on the Famicom was the best one.

I think it's funny that in the 3D Splatterhouse game on 360, the Terror Mask was voiced by Jim Cummings.  I can hear a tinge of Darkwing Duck in that voice!