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I'm glad you got a winter job!  Are you still going to do the snowshoe races?

I'm also glad you finished The Maw.  I don't think you'll be missing anything by moving on form it, but it sure was a cute game, wasn't it?  I wish more game makers besides Nintendo would still make games like that.  We don't get that many anymore.  Kind of makes me a little sad.

I just bought the Portal pack that goes with LEGO Dimensions, but I don't have the full game yet.  But the Portal stuff was the real reason why I wanted to play it, so at least I have it ready. 

Right now I'm working on finishing my Skylanders Superchargers review, which will post late next week.  I'm also playing a lot of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.  It's not as good as regular Animal Crossing, so i can't recommended it to you unless you REALLY like AC as much as I do.  Later this month I'll be looking forward to playing Chibi Robo: Zip Lash and Yoshi's Woolly World, among other things.

Hope you have a great weekend!  --Cary

I never played any of the home console versions of this, but I did play it in the arcade quite a few times.  I did like the really bad Engrish and when you died your guy would say, "I...can't...moooooove!"  It was entertaining, but there were certainly much better beat 'em ups out there.

Oh yeah!  I remember those characters now!  I really liked them, so you're good at knowing what I like.  Since fighting games aren't my favorite genre, I don't always remember the characters in them, and I don't try to remember them either.  Not a priority.  There's another Guilty Gear character that I remember that I thought was cool.  She had pink hair and a sword and sometimes had a metal arm thing.  But she was tough looking and had pink hair, so I thought that was cool.

Things started to pick up for me in 2003.  2001 and 2002 were pretty rough on me, but by 2003 I got a job at a place I really liked.  Well, I really liked the job duties, I just didn't like some of the other people who worked there.  Which is strange because I worked at a church.  But I still liked what I did, too bad I was only able to work there three and a half years.  The job I got after that I'm still working in, but I'm really starting to hate it.  I forsee me quitting in the next six months or so.

Another good thing about 2003 is that is when I started writing for GamerDad.com!  It was a much different site back then, but it was nice to be reviewing games semi-professionally again.

I was still playing the heck out of  GC Animal Crossing in 2003.  That's one of the reasons why it's on my top five favorite games of all time list.  I know that 2003 is when the first WarioWare game came out on the GBA, and that was my Game of the Year in 2003.  There were a lot of other games I enjoyed around that time, but I can't remember if they came out in 2002 or 2003, and I'm too lazy to look right now.  --Cary

Xenodrifter sounds interesting.  If i didn't have enough to play already, I'd consider downloading it.

Shantae games are great.  You should try Shantae and the Pirate's Curse if you can.  It's much better than Risky's Revenge.  I can't wait for Half-Genie Hero!

I forgot if I reviewed Guilty Gear Xrd. I had to go back and look.  I did review it.  My brain is going. I don't really have a favorite character so you can pick one out for me.

I bet you're not ugly in real life.  I bet I'm uglier than you! :)

Link vs. Nyamco and the Mewkies, that's hilarious.

I would love a Zelda Maker or Metroid Maker (or Kirby Maker), but I think the first two would be too complicated.

Well the PR agency that normally sends me the LEGO games isn't handling LEGO Dimensions, so I may not get to review it after all.  They sent my request to WBIE, though, so we'll see what happens.

I did pick up one of the playsets today, though.  I figured the Portal set would be hard to find, so I reserved it and picked it up today.  It was the last one they had!  I may get the Simpsons and Back to the Future playsets, and later the Ghostbusters one, but that may be it (maybe the Dr.Who one for a friend).  But it just depends how much I like the main game.  If I don't get to review it, I'll just use my birthday Best Buy gift cards to get it.

One question for you.  How much content is in one of the level packs?  Is it just one short LEGO stage or is there more to it than that? 

Capcom and Zen teamed up to make a Street Fighter table.  I want them to do that again and make Mega Man pinball!

Pinball FX2 is pretty good, but the best pinball simulators came from the Pro Pinball series (Timeshock, Big Race USA, Fantastic Journey).

I watched Hotel Transylvania on Netflix.  It was all right, but not worth going to see it in a theater.  I'll probably do the same with the sequel, just wait until it hits Netflix.