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I thought Alex had a very monkey-like appearancd and read up on the game. He looks like a monkey because he was originally supposed to be Son Goku. The game started out as a Dragon Ball game, but Sega lost the license. King Janken likely started out as Emperor Pilaf.

I read somewhere that the NES's side scrolling capabilities were something of a technological feat at the time and were one of Nintendo's closely guarded industrial secrets. Other machines had varying degrees of difficulty in handling side scrolling graphics compared to the smooth way Mario did it. Nintendo even took Atari to court one time for copying some of Nintendo's side scrolling code. Maybe that's why this game was a vertical scrolling game, since that was more inherent to computers at the time. 

Pac-Man ironically contributed to the crash as much as E.T. did. At 7 million plus copies sold, Pac-Man would have been a blockbuster success back in the day... if Atari hadn't overmanufactured Pac-Man cartridges to the point where there were more copies of Pac-Man in existence than there were 2600s in homes. A lot of those ended up getting a New Mexico burial, too.  Nor did Mystique's "Swedish Erotica" games, which included Custer's Revenge, help the reputation of video games any. Oklahoma City actually banned Custer's Revenge from being sold within city limits.

A lot of Nintendo's practices on the NES were them being very protective of what they considered to be a still-fragile market. The whole "no more than five games per publisher per year" thing. Even Super Mario Bros 2 was a product of Nintendo of America feeling that the brutally hard "Lost Levels" would give Mario games a reputation for being punishing and unfair that they didn't want. Interesting trivia: By now we all know that SMB 2 started out as Doki Doki Panic, but not many people know that Doki Doki Panic in turn started out as... a Mario game. 

Anyway, my best friend at the time had an Atari 2600 Jr, those skinny black-and-silver 2600s that Atari made late in the system's life-cycle, and he had E.T. That game sucked. However, I had the 8-bit Atari E.T. game which was a little closer to the movie, where you started out as Elliott trying to find pieces for E.T.'s "phone," then had to get to the landing site as E.T. When you completed the Elliott part of the game, you got this scratchy digitized voice saying "E.T. PHONE HOME."

Reese's Pieces got promoted because Mars refused to allow product placement of M&Ms in the movie. Hershey was much more willing to play ball. 

It'd be great if Nintendo would give the same treatment to Advance Wars that they did to Fire Emblem on the Switch. Three Houses is amazing.

Victor Ireland, the Working Designs guy, claims that licensing for Lunar is rather messy. Gungho should be the overall owner of the series, but there were a lot of fingers in that pie. Also, Eternal Blue is criminally under-recognized. It has seem no release since the PS1. 

There is supposed to be a physical edition coming from Limited Run or one of those other companies that makes physical cartridges for previously digital only games.

If only somebody could sort out the licensing behind Lunar and Lunar 2. I would love to have those games on Switch.

Loved Valkyria Chronicles 4. I got the Memoirs from Battle collectors' edition, and it was my 2018 GOTY.

I buy a lot of collectible Japanese RPGs where I can Sometimes I miss one. I wish I'd picked up the Definitive Works version of Xenoblade Chronicles, though it's apparently still available at Target by mail-order and at least one store in San Diego for now, but I was lucky enough to find the Fire Emblem Seasons of Warfare edition. I still have my Lunar and Lunar 2 boxes. As far as my arcade machine, I buy everything that was released legitimately, like Donkey Kong and Kangaroo. I was really excited when Donkey Kong came out on the Switch, as it is my all-time favorite arcade game. A lot of games will never be re-released. The founder of Exidy, an early 80s American arcade game maker of such games as Mouse Trap, Venture, and Targ, actually gave his blessing to people who wanted to run his company's games in emulation as long as they don't try to use them commercially. The machine I made was a kit that came from Adafruit Industries, a small company in New York. 

Stage Select:

For Tifa in Final Fantasy VII Remake, a nu... (checks notes), oh, wait, I lost that. I'd like to build new maps for a Zelda game, either Breath of the Wild or A Link to the Past. And I'd like to be able to design my own overworld as well as dungeons, since I've always considered the overworld to be just as important in a Zelda game as the dungeons.

Cage Match:

Let me preface this by saying that Dig-Dug is deservedly known as a classic. However, Mr. Do!, which was released just a few months later, improves on it in almost every way, from the graphics, animation, and sound. The gameplay is especially a big step up. It's faster-paced, you get a bouncing energy ball instead of a bicycle pump, there are multiple ways to win each stage, and if you know what you're doing you can rack up really big scores. The game really rewards you for getting good. Mr. Do! got screwed by the network. Its sequels weren't as good, and Mr. Do! itself came out not on the NES, but the SNES, at whcih time it was 14 years old and people weren't really into single-screen arcade classics. I hope it makes a comeback on the Switch as an Arcade Archives title. It's one of the games I installed on my homemade arcade machine.

And you can send my thousand dollar payment through either PayPal, Zelle, or my OnlyFans page. Julian, I am open to any counter-offers. 

On Ultima Online's opening day, Garriott was in-game as his Lord British character.giving a speech by text chat... and someone killed him. They forgot to turn the invincibility flag on for him and someone got him before they realized their mistake.

One of the biggest self imposed challenges  for Ultima fans is how to kill Lord British, who is supposed to be invincible. Garriott was irritated at first but eventually rolled with it figuriing that since he couldn't stop it, he might as well make fun of it. In one game, you can kill Lord British by dropping a plaque on him, which mirrored a real life incident where he had to go to the hospital after a sign at the Origin office fell and gave him a concussion. 

Garriott used to open Britannia Manor, his house in Austin, as a haunted house at Halloween. That was years ago, but I wish I could have gone. He apparently went all out.

Hawkins even spoke in a video which talked about how EA Sports went downhill after EA got the exclusive NFL license for Madden.