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I had an Apple ][+ as a kid.  Well it wasn't mine, but I used it to play games.  Sure they weren't arcade perfect, but they were certainly better than the Atari 2600.  So while people were complaining about that version of Pac-Man, I was playing a much closer rendition with Tax-Man.  Other arcade hits I played on that Apple were Zaxxon, Frogger, and Choplifter.  Well, Choplifter started out as a PC game, but you know what I mean.  Other Apple favorites of mine were Lode Runner, Spare Change, and Aquatron.  A few years later I got an Atari 5200 and then a NES, but playing games in the arcade was still my favorite.

Considering Bases Loaded got bunches of sequels on the NES and SNES, I still say that was Jaleco's most prolific game.  All Clarise from City Connection got was a playable spot in a Parodius-like shooter.  But I do know about the new company being called City Connection.  I get press releases from them.  You ever notice that Clarice and Ordyne's Miyuki-chan look a lot alike?

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OK so Dynasty Warriors games featuring other characters in spinoff games are pretty popular.  You've got two Zelda ones, a Dragon Quest one, and a Fire Emblem one.  And isn't there a Persona one, too?  Well, anyway, with Kirby being more popular than ever now, I think it's time he got one of those.  You could call it Kirby Star Warriors!  

The next idea is one that was orignally an idea for a comic book hero that I had.  I've only told this idea to my little brothers, and they all said it was dumb.  But maybe it could translate into a video game.  So here's the deal.   You are a super hero but your only power is that you can touch anything and turn it into a super hero, except yourself.  So if you needed to save a cat stuck in a tree, you'd just touch the tree and turn it into Super Tree and it would save the cat.  But with great power comes great, well, you know.  So you don't want to touch everything so that you don't fill the world with Super Toilets and stuff like that.

Hey now, you do have to steer sometimes and press buttons to use items like red shells!

Actually you could say that about all video games, "I love pressing buttons!"

See I told you in my review that those ring races in Bee Simulator were annoying.

Most of my Marvel knowledge comes from the LEGO games, Marvel vs. Capcom, and the movies I've seen.

I like to get achievements and tropies, but I won't go out of my way to get them if they are too hard or not fun or if I don't have time for them.  

The only games I got all the achievements for on the 360 are the Banjo-Kazooie re-releases and Dig Dug.  On the PS4, I've gotten quite a few platinum trophies on games I've reviewed that were easy to get.  But the only game I purposely got the platinum trophy for was the Klonoa Fantasy Reverie Series collection.  I really like those games!

I've never played this one, but the game looks so derpy!  So does the box art!

Well the reason why I got 10 and Jeff got 5 is because I could think of 10 music games I liked, but Jeff could only think of 5.  So that's all.  

Hopefully we'll get to record our next podcast soon.  It's about racing games!

Yeah too bad you can't just wail on the drums like Animal all the time.  They should have a freestyle drum solo mode!  Actually you can wail all you want in Wii Music, that 'game' let you do that.

Have you actually seen someone play a real Taiko drum at festivals and such?  They may seem like they're wailing on it, too, but there's actually a structure and pattern to the whole thing.

And especially those NEO GEO arcade cabinets.  There must've been a really good SNK distributor in the Dallas area because I saw those things everywhere I went!

I first knew this game as Final Fantasy Extreme, as Square US was considering bringing FFV out to the US under that name for players who wanted a more difficult challenge.  But they decided to send over FF6 instead, a good choice for me.

I first played FFV on that PlayStation collection.  I lost interest after changing a job class, only to not have any good armor for the class I changed to, and then would be forced to grind even more for money to pay for the armor I would need.  Plus this was when I was in college and was drifting away from RPGs anyway.  Maybe if FFV had come out when I was in high school, I would've liked it more.

So I'll just stick with my favorite FF games: FF6, FF9, and FF4.  Have you played any of those?