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Wacky Races is one of my favorite HB cartoons.  I had the Dreamcast game.  I had a problem with the other racers, though.  They would all bunch up together so you were either in first or last place.  And the rubber-banding AI made sure you were always last.  I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who used cheat codes to unlock all the other racers.  It was funny when you would win as Dick Dastardly.  The announcer would say, "Dick Dastardly...won?!?"

I never even heard of the Wii game.  Guess it's probably good that I didn't.  But yeah, I loved the cartoon as a kid.  I think it's neat how they made two spinoffs.  Wacky Races was poking fun of movies like The Great Race, while The Perils of Penelope Pitstop was making fun of The Perils of Pauline and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (Stop the Pidgeon) was making fun of Those Amazing Young Men in Their Flying Machines.

Wacky Races was surprisingly popular in Japan.  They even had a Wacky Races game on the NES.  It was a 2-D platformer starring Muttley and the other racers were the bosses.  That game made it to the US NES as well.  I wish I had it.

One year at an anime convention I got to meet Don Messick.  He did a lot of voices for Hanna Barbera classics.  He was the voice of Scooby and Scrappy, Papa Smurf, Boo-Boo, and many more.  One of his last voices was Hampton Pig from Tiny Toons.  He was also the voice of Muttley (as well as many other Wacky Racers).  When I asked him to do Muttley's laugh, he said he could do it much better when he used to smoke!  I'm glad I got to meet Don Messick before he passed away.

My favorite Wacky Racer is Prof. Pat Pending in his Convert-A-Car (#3).  Also voice by Don Messick.  Who is your favorite racer?

Anyway, I told you I'd have a lot to say about Wacky Races.  I could say much more, but I'll leave it at that.

PS: Mario Kart owes everything to Wacky Races.

I don't really play scary games, so I don't have anything to share really.  But as a kid, I loved to play the games in the Adventures of Lolo series on the NES.  There were these enemies that were like Medusa statues, and if you passed one without anything between you to block them, the statues would turn you to stone.  But they made a sound as they shot a ray at you that was loud and all of a sudden and went "SHOOOM!"  It would always make me jump!  I hated the stages that had the Medusa statues in them!

With fighting games I always mash buttons and hope for the best.

You don't SOUND overweight.  I mean, I weigh 200 pounds and I'm fairly thin.

I never had a Game Gear.  Still don't.

I'm certainly not normal.  I took a personality test that said I was too weird for my own good, and many people on the Internet have said I'm insane.

Now go play Shantae!

Many years ago I would go to an arcade called Nickel Mania.  It was an arcade with a bunch of old machines and everything only cost a nickel.  And a few were even set to Free Play.  Only downside is many of the machines were unmaintained.  But they had a couple of Japanese arcade machines from Taito there.  One was called Power Shovel, where you operated a construction vehicle and it was hard.  The other was one of their popular series of train simulators called Densha de Go!  I couldn't figure out how to play it, though, because of the language barrier and there were so many levers and things.

I would instantly buy a Vita or PS4 if Loco Roco 3 came out on it.

Nightmare in Dream Land was a good remake, I just wanted a new Kirby game at the time.  And thanks.

I don't even have a Vita.  Still a bit pricey right now.

I don't really have any favorite Kirby transformations in Smash, but right after I post this comment, I'm going to put up a Kirby related blog that you can read if you like!