I found a three-in-one cartridge of Dragon Quest I-III in Maine while I was visiting Ranger, another former 1UP acquaintance. I picked it up. It's in English and everything.
Fire Emblem Engage was great, I loved it. It's my favorite game of the year other than Tears of the Kingdom and *maybe* SMRPG and Baldur's Gate 3. Also liked Advance Wars a lot. I actually first played a game like that on NES called Desert Commander. It was made by Kemco, as we didn't get Nintendo Wars localized.
They all are prone to drift. PS5, Xbox, and the joycons. The Switch Pro Controller works great, though.
I have a Switch Pro Controller. I've had it for four years and it still works perfectly, not the least hint of drift.
The main character of DQM: The Dark Prince, Psaro, is actually the villain of DQ4.
I loved SMRPG Remake. It's short, but it's still fun. There's some added post-game content, but it isn't heavy duty.
This is the Slik Stik. It was the original arcade stick.
How about a box of Pac-Man cereal and Namco Museum Volume 4? Merry Christmas.
I actually liked South Park. I enjoyed it more than I did Dragon Age: Inquisition.
I generally stay away from third party peripherals other than the occasional arcade stick. They simply aren't as good as the first party stuff. In the early 80s, I did like Suncom's Slik Stik and Epyx's 500XJ sticks as alternatives to the Atari joystick. But since then, I've generally stuck to first-party controllers.
I got a big lesson in sticking with first party accessories when I had two Mad Catz PS1 memory cards die after 2 years, one of which died halfway through my first playthrough of FF9. So I stuck with Sony cards after that, and when I got a Gamecube, it was nothing but Nintendo-branded cards.
The one third party accessory I can think of that I really liked is the Action Replay Plus cartridge for the Sega Saturn, which has cheat codes, memory storage, and regional bypass, which means you can play Saturn games from anywhere in the world just by plugging in a cartridge and entering a couple of codes rather than having to mutilate the console. I pretty much use this to play my PAL copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Cage Match:
Winter Heat was an interesting game, but going with Elden Ring on this one. What's next, are you going to pit Quest 64 against Final Fantasy VII? Plumbers Don't Wear Ties versus Alan Wake II?
