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Yeah LEGO City Undercover is one of the better LEGO games, surprisingly.  Other ones I liked a lot were LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO Dimensions.

I never played this one, but I read a lot about it in the LucasFilm Games newsletter that I used to get.  It was an actual print newsletter that came in the mail every couple of months, and that newsletter is also how I discovered Sam & Max.

Stage Select:

1. Don't go to college, just learn a trade or something that would be more marketable.

2. Comfort TV shows include cartoons from The Disney Afternoon like DuckTales, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, etc.  Also Mystery Science Theater 3000.

3. I have no idea.  I'm so weird that I think I'd have to be animated.

4. I can't think of any words that should come back.  But I can think of a lot that should go away.

5. I sure do like lasagna, but it's a pain to make homeade.

6. Considering that corn is in pretty much anything we eat, I guess it plays a lot in my life.  

7. I guess anything can be a gift.  Even gift certificates.  Some of the best gifts aren't ones you wrap, though.  Like your time.

8. I guess if you use the PC heavily to play games and such, then you should spend a lot of money on it. If not, then maybe not so much.

Cage Match:

That's a tough one.  Both games are really hard and I'm bad at them.  Prime 2 is one of the few Metroid games I've never been able to beat.  But since the version of Street Fighter 2 you're talking about doesn't have Cammy in it, I guess Metroid Prime 2 wins.

By the way, in your last show, you said Reiko from Ridge Racer and Reiko from Rumble Roses were related.  They're not, they just have same first name.  However, Reiko Nagase from Ridge Racer has a sister named Kei Nagase, and she's in the Ace Combat games!

It's a very good collection.  Only problem is not a ton of gameplay variety, but overall this is what game collections should strive for.

I'm skipping out on Sparks of Hope.  I played the first Mario + Rabbids game and didn't like it much.

I wish I had that jigsaw puzzle.  My dad loves jigsaw puzzles and I like to get him ones with pictures that would make him think of me.

What kind of game is Fishing World?  Is it realistic or cartoony?

Thanks for listening.  We just recorded an episode on our favorite 2-D platformers, so that should be up soon!

I'd love to get into the Dragon Quest games more, but when you say stuff like, "90 hours in," yeah, no thank you.  Games don't need to be that long.

I reviewed the first Medievil game on the PSOne back in the day.  It was all right.  Kind of reminded me of Ghosts N Goblins.  But Capcom did it better with the Maximo series on the PS2. Good games to play around Halloween, though.

Yup, Y2K, I was definitely writing for the newspaper then.  I was at the top of my game around that time.

Stage Select:

I don't really play that many scary video games, so I don't have much to put here.  Levels that take place inside a living thing can be kind of gross and scary, what with all the eyeballs and tissue and such.  

Sometimes a game can successfully make a level unsettling by using less, like not having any music or little of it.  The best example I can think of that would be when you first enter Magus' castle in Chrono Trigger.

When I was a kid, SiniStar scared the crap out of me in arcades.  I would purposely avoid it.  Also, one weird thing that always scared me was the medusa statues in Adventures of Lolo.  They would always take me by surprise when you accidentally passed them and they'd make that SHOOM! sound when they'd turn you to stone!

Cage Match:

Rumble Roses wins simply because I've never played Rule of Rose.  Plus you'd think a wrestling game would win in a cage match.  I wasn't very good at Rumble Roses when I played it.  I'm not really into wrestling games, although some of the characters in this one seemed kind of cool.  One time at E3 a long time ago, Konami had a booth set up with a wrestling ring with ladies dressed up as Rumble Roses characters.  I talked with couple of them while I was waiting for a press meeting.  They were really nice.  And that's all I have to say about Rumble Roses.

Hey I know you said once before that it's hard to listen to my podcast because it's not on iTunes.  I haven't gotten there yet, but I would like to encourage you to listen to my latest one because it's about RPGs and I know you like to talk about those.  All you have to do is simply click on this link and it should take you right to the podcast, so that shouldn't be too hard, right?  Thanks.

https://anchor.fm/pizza-pixel-podcast/episodes/Episode-12---Our-Favorite-RPGs-e1oq240