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I hope this game gets a Switch re-release. It's one of Nintendo's few Wii U games left that haven't.

Trails in the Sky Second and Third Chapters almost didn't make it over here. Jessica Chavez, the Xseed translator who finished Second Chapter after Andrew Dice of Carpe Fulgur had to bow out due to needing to take care of his mental health, claimed that Second Chapter had more text in it than War and Peace.

My first experience was Faxanadu, and I was impressed with the RPG elements it had in common with some of the games I'd been playing. Legacy of the Wizard was featured in a Nintendo Power issue on RPGs along with Ultima III. That's actually the first time I saw the term "role-playing game," although I had played some RPGs on Atari XE and had a familiarity with them. I just didn't know what the genre was called at the time. Falcom games were known for their great music, and that tradition continues today. Yuzo Kushiro was the composer of Legacy of the Wizard (but not Faxanadu). 

They are very old-school RPGs, but it's nice to see franchises besides Dragon Quest embrace turn-based combat. The Legend of Heroes games do largely continue on in these ways, as they are turn-based RPGs. I'm enjoying Trails of Cold Steel, but Trails in the Sky is a good place to start.

I had this idea kind of knocking around in my head since people don't talk a lot about Falcom games. BaD seemed like the perfect time to do it. And yeah, I guess this is my all-inclusive BaD post. So y'all got a freebie with my 1943 post. 

Ys Origin got a remaster for the Switch. I actually found physical copies of it at the Best Buy on Camelback and picked one up. It was $30.

My first exposure to the series was with Faxanadu. I read about Legacy of the Wizard after Ultima 3 got me into the genre. They also did Brandish, a late SNES title. I'd see stuff about Falcom games on sites like RPGamer, but the first actual game of theirs I saw on shelves after a long time was Ys VI for PS2. 

I'm getting Ys IX, but I'm getting it on Switch since that is my primary system these days.

Xbox should just have made it simple and bought the Bubsy franchise as a mascot. 

I got the gold Zelda 3DS thsf came with ALBW loaded on it. I also liked Pokémon X/Y, Bravely Default, the Dragon Quest games, and 7th Dragon III.

All the same, I'm glad Nintendo finally put it all together with the Switch.

Reminds me of an old arcade game called Circus, which was also on the 2600. Instead of the trampoline you had two clowns alternating on a seesaw to pop balloons.

Atari lost money on Pac-Man despite it being such a blockbuster in part because they ordered too many cartridges. A lot of them went into the New Mexico landfill along with E.T. I read somewhere that Atari ordered more Pac-Man cartridges than there were 2600s in American homes, anticipating an explosion in 2600 sales that never materialized.