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I enjoy reading BaD Blogs. Unfortunately I'm doing good to get a BaM or a BaY sometimes.

Of the games I know of that are coming out, my most wanted are Shin Megami Tensei V and Bravely Default II for Switch.  I also didn't know about the Capcom games until now. I'd love to have a Capcom collection for Switch. I'm also looking forward to Ys 9 and Trails of Cold Steel IV on Switch. And hoping Bayonetta 3 makes it out this year.

Yeah, there is the usual sea and eventually air travel in the game. One of the achievements is to map out every square inch of the game world.

I had Vesperia on 360, then I got the Switch version and finished that. One of my favorite RPGs.

About this time every year, at least until 2020 happened, there was a ren faire that was held about 30 miles east of Phoenix. COVID-19 screwed it up last year, and judging by the state's numbers it doesn't look too good for 2021. When I lived in Oklahoma they did a medieval fair the first weekend of every April that was originally sponsored by the University of Oklahoma but is now sponsored by the Society for Creative Anachronism. I love swords and armor, and have ever since the first Zelda, Ultima, and Dragon Quest games came out.

Dragon Quest XI S is so, so good. 

Thought about getting Space Invaders Forever, but it doesn't include the original game, so that's a bit off-putting. There is a much larger Space Invaders collection being printed on cartridge from one of those limited-run companies, but it's a bit pricey. So to paraphrase the focus tester from "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", I want a comprehensive deluxe Space Invaders collection that somehow won't break the bank. I'm sure somebody will get right on that.

I actually kind of want Mario Kart Live, and I say that as somebody who didn't ever really get into Labo. 

I have Sakura Wars on PS4, and I actually just started Octopath Traveler. I'm working through Prim's story.

If Nintendo were to decide to buy another developer, K-T is probably the first one I would suggest, and I think they would be a legit good acquisition for Nintendo. They've been working with Nintendo well beyond making Musou games based on Nintendo franchises. They did a lot of work on Fire Emblem: Three Houses, for example, including working with Nintendo on the 3-D engine for it, and Team Ninja developed Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3. It would also give Nintendo the Ninja Gaiden and Atelier franchises, the latter of which is now pretty big on Nintendo systems, as well as having Gust as another Nintendo RPG studio alongside Monolithsoft.

Our Heathkit TV was 27 inches, which was pretty big for a TV back in 1981. That was when 12 inch TVs were still pretty pricey and a lot of people still had black-and-white. The TV plus its wooden housing probably weighed at least 200 pounds. So it was a pretty big piece of furniture. It didn't have a remote control. You had to walk up to the TV and push a button on it to change the channel. In Arizona, Channel 3 was an actual TV channel, so you hooked video games up to Channel 4 instead. 

My first big-screen TV was a 36 inch Toshiba TV I got when I was right out of high school. 36 inches was pretty close to the biggest tube TV ever made. If you wanted something bigger than that, you had to get a projection TV. That thing was an absolute monster to move, not only because it also weighed over 200 pounds, but because it was very wide and bulky.  I kept it until HDTVs came out, then I splurged on one of Sony's earliest HDTVs in 2007 thanks to a zero interest financing deal from Best Buy. It was 720p/1080i and had a 25 inch screen, and was by far the most expensive TV I ever bought. My new 65 inch TV cost less than a third of what it did. 

I know CRT TVs are supposed to be better for retro-gaming, but I'm not that dedicated. I like having a large TV that I don't have to have three people to move.

Happy new year. Right now I'm working my way through The Outer Worlds on Switch. Better port than people gave it credit for, though it's possible that Obsidian patched it pretty good. I also finally picked up Octopath Traveler at Target.