I actually choose to buy physical games when they are available. My most recent purchases were Super Mario 3D All-Stars and the Switch version of The Outer Worlds. I guess Microsoft is going to try and indirectly prop up Gamestop, at least for now.
Dragon Quest VI, which was the last mainline DQ to be unreleased in the US at the time it came out. Catherine. Yakuza 4. My wife and I took the kids to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Was mostly gnashing my teeth at Reggie Fils-Aime and his stubborness about not releasing Xenoblade Chronicles in the US.
Stage Select:
1. Big Boo's Haunt in Super Mario 64. That's still the first thing I think of when I think of haunted houses in video games.
2. Owzer's House in Final Fantasy VI. You have ghosts, paintings randomly attacking you, and a boss battle against a painting of an Esper possessed by a demon, complete with a slow-motion morphing effect that was pretty cool in 1994.
3. Old Kasuto Village in Zelda II is a deserted town haunted by invisible fireball-tossing ghosts which looked pretty creepy on the NES. Not a bad piece of storytelling by gameplay for a NES game.
Cage Match:
Left 4 Dead 2 is the winner by default here as it's the only one of these two games I've actually played.
He's out there, I see him on Facebook. School is back in session and he has classes to teach.
2009 I got a PS3 so I could play Valkyria Chronicles and Demon's Souls. I also got Punch-Out!! on Wii, which is one of my favorite games on that system, and Dragon Quest V on DS, which was one of my favorite DS games and one of my favorite DQ games. These were highlights in what was otherwise a sucky year.
I've been seeing ads for this game on Facebook. They're offering physical versions for Switch and PS4.
I never had Kinect, in part because I had abandoned the 360 for the PS3 in 2009. Plus the Wii gave me my fill of motion controls, and even Nintendo had mostly moved on from motion controls after Skyward Sword. Pandora's Tower used them, but neither Xenoblade Chronicles nor The Last Story used them at all. Neither did Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for that matter.
I remember seeing the minigame in the demo mode, whuch would run until the player missed and got killed. Reminded me a bit of the opening cinematic in Ninja Gaiden where Joe Hayabusa gets killed.
In 2007 Futurama made quite a revival. My wife and I both loved that. In fact, we were on vacation and watched the series finale together a few years later.
I took a few classes at The University of Oklahoma that year. Gamingwise, I started out with Rogue Galaxy on PS2. Then I finally found a Wii. I got Mario Galaxy and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for that. Good system, but it had a bit of a lull mid-life. It ended with a heck of a bang with Xenoblade Chronicles though. It was around the time of the Wii that I joined 1UP as well. That was 13 years ago.
I got a 360 for Virtua Fighter 5 Online. That was actually a leap of faith. I was notoriously anti-Microsoft, especially after Windows Vista, which was a buggy disaster of a OS. The 360, as it ended up, ultimately only ended up reinforcing my bias against Microsoft a year later, but I did enjoy playing fighting games and even Halo 3 for awhile. Plus, Microsoft was buying up a bunch of Japanese RPGs (grrr).
When Minish Cap came out, I had just gotten a DS, and there was a huge rush of good games on the PS2 and the GameCube. Nintendo didn't promote Minish Cap much, so I skipped over it. The first time I played it was on the Wii U. It would be nice if Nintendo brought it over to the Switch.
