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My friend had Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy on the NES and I'd go over to his house and we'd play them.  We'd take turns playing the game and the other person would look at the included maps and beastiaries to help out.  They were fun, but I didn't feel like I needed to own them myself.  I was perfectly happy just playing them at my friend's house.  I really didn't get into RPGs myself until the 16-bit ones came along.

Arkanoid was one of the first games I got for my NES.  I thought the included paddle controller was cool and it was one of the few games I could get my dad to play.  My favorite is Arkanoid DS because it has awesome music.

My brother Jeff and I loved playing Rampage when he was little.  Did you ever see the movie?

The first R.B.I. Baseball game was actually a Namco made baseball game in Japan called Family Stadium.  It spawned into a super popular series over there, so much so they just abbreviated it to Famista.  The series still goes on to this day!

I would try to get a 7800 because I think you can play 2600 games on it, too.

I would hope kids today would be past all that stuff, but they're probably not.  Kids is kids.

Never heard of that TV show but my friend and I rented the NES Wizards and Warriors a few times.  We beat it once.

I remember that Toon RPG, I've just never been able to get into that pen and paper stuff.

My brother Jeff LOVED Spy Hunter when he was little.  He'd sit there and play it on one of my collections for hours.  And he was like, five!

I really like SkyKid a lot.  Only place I ever saw the arcade version was at the front entrance at the Wal Mart near my house when I was little.  I would've played it more, but they also had a Super Pac-Man machine there so, you know.  Very catchy music.

I wrote a blog about Arcade Paradise a while back that you might remember.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2023/05/12/the-games-of-arcade-paradise/

Like I said in my podcast, after I was into Tranformers for a couple of years, I actually stopped watching cartoons for a short while because I was sick of them all being crappy 30 minute commercials for toys.  It wouldn't be until DuckTales came out that I started really watching cartoons again.

When I hit middle school, it wasn't 'cool' to watch cartoons, so I had to watch them in secret and not talk about them at school.  I would've gotten made fun of if people knew that I liked Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers and such.  I wish I wasn't so self conscious back then.  Nowadays I don't care what people think of what I like.

I think my first Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons game I played was one on the GBA.  Mineral Town subtitle or something.  I like those games, but I have a hard time staying interested in them as much as I do Animal Crossing.

Well I paid a little more for my Genesis Mini 2 than I wanted to, but it wasn't THAT bad.  I meainly got it to play Crusader of Centy (keep in mind this was before it was on the Switch), and this was a much cheaper way to do it than the actual cartridge.

Only place I've seen that one here is Round 1.  I wouldn't have even known it existed otherwise!

I just want another 2-D Zelda.

When I was a kid, I was really fascinated by Xevious for some reason.  It was HUGE in Japan, and one of the first games to use pre-rendered graphics on the sprites.  I was always intrigued by the land you fly over.  It looks like a golf course to me.  When I was a kid, I got a sheet of my dad's dot matrix printer paper, spread it out, and drew a Xevious map on one side and a Zaxxon map on the other and used my toy spaceships to play pretend Xevious and Zaxxon on them.  I got in a little bit of trouble for using up so much paper, though. :)

Gyruss and Time Pilot are awesome.  Two of my favorite early Konami games.  Gyruss was like a cross between Galaga and Tempest, and the creator of that game would go on to Capcom and make a game you might've heard of called Street Fighter 2.

Gain Ground is surprisingly good.  It's like they took Ikari Warriors and made it a puzzle action single screen Bubble Bobble game.

It's funny that you posted this because I'm actually playing Crusader of Centy right now!  I'm playing it for a blog project I'm working on that'll post later this summer.  Yeah it's definitely a Zelda clone.  The graphics are so similar that I wonder why Nintendo didn't sue!  Definitely the type of game I enjoy, though.  Aside from Nintendo's online service, there is another way you can play it.  It's on the SEGA Genesis Mini 2.