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Ooo...Taiko no Tatsujin AND Mr. Driller 2!

I've got the Mario Movie Happy Meal toys of Toad, Luigi, Bowser, and that blue star guy.  There's speculation as to who that could be, because it looks like a character from Mario Galaxy, but they haven't shown Galaxy characters in movie trailers yet, like Rosalina.  It's also odd they have the toys now and the movie doesn't come out until April. I'll probably write an article about the Mario Movie Happy Meal toys later on at GamerDad.

By the way, I got a press release about some DLC for Power Washer Simulator.  Seems you can wash Croft Manor now.  So if you want to spray Lara Croft and her house, now you can.

Popeye wasn't run in our newspaper comics section either, but years later I got a hardcover Popeye comics collection at Half Price Books.  That's also where I got my Little Nemo in Slumberland collections.  

I remember seeing this in a couple of arcades back then.  Shame it didn't take off like Street Fighter 2 did.  I didn't really play it until it got to the home collections, though.  I think it's cool Mike Haggar is in it.

Lasagna and spaghetti are both really good!  I think you'll like Until the Last Plane.

Only thing I can say about Halo is that when my little brothers used to play those games a lot, I would watch them sometimes and any vehicle I'd see, I'd call it a 'tractor.'  Then I'd say, "Go get in the tractor and drive it around!"  And they'd say, "Cary, that's not a tractor."

Also, one time Mountain Dew made a special Halo flavor, so since I knew my brothers liked it so much, i got them a six pack of it.  But the youngest one was probably too young to drink it, because after he did, his eyes got real dilated and he said, "I can't stop talking fast! I can't stop talking fast!"  So I said, "Caleb, why don't you run around the couch a few times."  Which he did.

Everyone's so worried about offending people these days.  I guess I'm just not sensitive enough.

Toys for Bob made some decend kids games back in the day.  And of course they're best known for Skylanders.

By the way, I just recorded another podcast!  This one's about Pokemon!  I hope to edit and post it by next week!

As far as Garfield games go, one I would like to give a second chance to is Garfield: Caught in the Act.  It was only on SEGA Genesis, so I never played it much, but I sure wanted to.  When I did play it through emulation, it wasn't quite as good as I hoped, but it wasn't THAT bad either.  It was also made during the peak of 16-bit 2-D sprite art and animation, and I even read somewhere that Jim Davis himself did the illustrations for the graphics.  I wouldn't mind a re-release or maybe even a remake with some gameplay tweaks and quality of life features.

As far as a Heathcliff game goes, I'd like to see a game based on the cartoon.  More specifically, the Catilac Cats portion of the show.  It's the part where these three junkyard cats would travel in their transforming car/boat/plane and have all sorts of adventures.  That was my favorite part of the Heathcliff cartoon!

Great to hear from you!  It's been a rough decade so far, hasn't it?  Hope you get a chance to stick around and listen to my podcasts and read my blogs and reviews!

I think the whole thing about Advance Wars being delayed is kind of dumb.  I mean, there's wars going on all the time in real life, and there are war video games coming out all the time, too.  I guess I'm just not sensitive enough to those things.