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You went out in this nasty weather today?  It must be nicer where you're at.  If not, please be careful!

I've met some famous people at E3 and other conventions, but have very few autographs.  I met David Crane, creator of Pitfall, Evil Kinevil, Gary Coleman (before they passed away), some wrestler lady that I have no idea who she is, Charles Martinet (voice of Mario), and another voice actor Cathy Wesluck.

That would be cool to meet Inafune.  I'd also like to meet Go Shiina.

I really like the arcade Final Fight, but when they brought it to the SNES, it didn't quite work because they still made it play like an arcade game.  SEGA was smart with Streets of Rage 2 as they made it more console-friendly because it didn't have any arcade tie-ins.  I'm surprised Capcom didn't sue, though, because many things were so similar!

I never had a Genesis as a kid, so I missed out on this one back then, only playing it on the Genesis collections on future consoles much later.  It's definitely one of the best games on the Genesis.  Even though it's a Final Fight rip-off, it does a better job of briniging the arcade experience home.  Fantastic music, too, of course, as it was done by one of my favorite game music composers.  I always picked Blaze, too, for some reason.

I never did get into the Worms games.  Which is odd since many of the old ones resemble Lemmings, and I loved those.

It's weird seeing a Tecmo game on here, they rarely venture from their DOA/Ninja Gaiden titles.  Only Wii Tecmo games I have are the two Super Swing Golf games, based on the online golf game Pangya.

I enjoyed reading many of his blogs about bad Wii games.  Some of them I even played myself!  And some I had never heard of!

I've played all the Metroid games except Hunters.  I enjoyed watching people play the NES game more than actually playing it myself.  I only played the Game Boy one for a few minutes, but it felt too much like the first game.  Super Metroid was the first Metroid game I beat.  My little brother was almost in tears when the baby Metroid died, but I've told that story lots of times on my blog.  Fusion was a bit linear but Zero Mission was a bit better.  I love the Metroid Prime games but I never beat 2 because it was too darn hard.  Other M was very disappointing.  Hope they don't do that again.  Even the pinball game was great because it was a pinball game first and a Metroid game second.

Hooray for Shovel Knight.  It might not be a sequel, but this year we're getting a similar game (same music composer, ex-WayForward staff) called Adventures of Pip.

My friends who were into fighting games back then were always talking about Rival Schools.  For some reaosn, I always associate that series with the Dreamcast.  Was it on that console, too?

After being disappointed with the dark turn of Jak 2, I didn't mess with any future Jak & Daxter games.