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That's too bad, as the LEGO Movie was great.  Looks like I'm going to have to make my own movie award show.

I liked Big Hero 6, but it was just one big long 2 hour Saturday morning cartoon.  I guess it didn't have much competition.  How to Train Your Dragon 2 was pretty good, though.

I don't think NIntendo has gone off the deep end.  They're just trying a strategy that has worked well for other companies.  It's not like they do this all the time.  And if you've played any of those free-to-play tablet games, you know they're way worse about that sort of thing.  At least you don't see pop up ads in Pokemon Shuffle.  I don't like being nickeled and dimed like that either, but I just won't pay for the extra stuff.  Luckily we'll be getting a physical cartridge version of a similar game in May called Puzzle and Dragon Z, and it'll have a special Mario themed game on the same cartridge, too!

Metroid Prime is pretty darn awesome.

I really liked Mad Maestro and Taiko Drum Master.  Later this week I'll have a PlayStation themed blog up as well!

I didn't watch the Oscars.  I have bad taste in movies, so most of the movies I like don't even get awards.  And since I'm lazy, tell me which movies won the best animated film, and best animated short.  And someone told me that some old Japanese animator got some kind of recognition.  Was it Miyazaki? 

Yeah the ice is pretty bad where i'm in near Dallas.  But I sitll had to go to work today.  Yuck.  Not looking forward to tomorrow either.

Yeah I know how you feel.  In college and shortly after, I had tons of friends to hang out with, and now I really only have one or two.  And I'm lucky if I get to see them once every couple of months.  It's a bit discouraging at times.  I wish people would make more of an effort to keep in touch, but they don't.

It's sleeting and icy here, but I still have to get up and go to work.  I hate winter.

Never heard of either of those games.

I'm not really a big Castlevania fan, but I do have a favorite game in the series.  And it never even came to the US (well, the Game Boy one did).  It's Kid Dracula.  It's a silly spinoff and is very cartoony and is kind of like the Parodius of the Castlevania series.  I wish Konami would revive Kid Dracula, but Konami hasn't done anything interesting lately.  I haven't really been pleased with them since they killed off Hudson Soft anyway.

HAL Labs has always been one of my favorite game developers.  Even before Kirby!  Before they made Kirby, one of their most popular game series was Adventures of Lolo, and I loved those on the NES.  Lolo was kind of their mascot back then.  I don't think HAL has ever made a bad game.  Well, Day Dreamin' Davey was awful.  And surprisingly, I wasn't big on EarthBound.  But otherwise, HAL is awesome!

Back when I was a kid and the NES was king, Nintendo hosted a "Nintendo World Championships."  You know those gold cartridges that sell for lots of money now that had bits of Mario, Rad Racer, and Tetris on them?  That was from that event.  Anyway, I went to the one in Dallas, and it was like a mini-E3 in that there were kiosks where game companies were showing off upcoming games.  It was very cool and really impacted me and my decision to write game reviews later.  Anyway, one of the companies there was HAL and they were showing off Lolo 2, which was about to come out.  The folks running the HAL booth were two Japanese guys who worked for the company: one could speak English, and one couldn't.  I hung out with them both days I was there and we all had fun and played jokes and they even bought ice cream for me!  Wouldn't it be cool if one of them were a young Sakurai or Iwata?  I guess we'll never know.

Anyway, after looking at that list you linked to, I might've played one of HAL's first games!  Our first computer was an Apple ][+, and it had many Pac-Man clones.  One of my favorites was Tax Man, and it looks like HAL made that game, too!  Wow!

Anyway, I'm glad HAL is still around.  I'll celebrate their birthday by playing lots of Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.

If Sony would make and release Loco Roco 3, I'd instantly buy a PS4 or Vita.