PixlBit

I'm surprised they haven't made more arcade cabinet based doo dads like fridge magnets.  I think there would be a market for that.

Hey, this is just a cookie with a big bite out of it.:)

My friend would take all my Pac-Man beer.  He's way too much into beers.  He even has an app on his phone to keep track of what beers he drinks.

Rainbow colors?  Feeding?  Thanks for the air, can't live without it.  Not sure where your lungs have been, though.

I just had to give you a hard time on some of your answers, that's all. :)

I'm more of a LEGO Batman kind of guy.

Yeah sometimes I have stupid reasons for liking characters.  For instance, I decided She Hulk was my favorite Marvel character because Phoenix Wright was in her ending to Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

1. Well you got two of those right.

2. I never liked the Vectorman games.  If I'm going to play a run and gun shooter like that, I'd pick Earthworm Jim.

3. What makes you think I like Vega?

4. Ding!

5. Scorpion and Sub Zero aren't even green!  Although if you mix their colors yellow and bllue...

6. There must be a lot of SNK fans where I live because as a kid, I saw NEO GEO arcade machines everywhere!  So I had a lot of exposure to that stuff.  Definitely one of the harder questions, though.

7. Ivy scares me.  And who the heck is Xina?!?  I don't even think that's a character.  Although since you can make your own characters in that game, I guess you could name one Xina.

8. Nope, but I do like Chocobos.

9. I don't mind the leafy spinach in salads, but canned spinach is nasty.

10. Pretty close.

And thanks for the mints.  Are you trying to tell me I have bad breath?  It must be really bad breath if you can smell it over the Internet.  I don't really like mints, though.  If I need a breath saver or gum, I'll pick cinnamon flavor, like Big Red. 

Thanks for reading and commenting!  --Cary

It's interesting that you say that since you can play Xevious on Star Fox Assault.  You can also collect Special Flags in the main game, also from Xevious.

Here are some things I know about Xevious:

Yeah the storyline in Xevious is ridiculous.  In Japan they made a whole book series about it back then. 

The sprites in Xevious are prerendered, like Donkey Kong Country. 

There have been a ton of Xevious games and sequels.  Like Super Xevious, Xevious Arrangement (awesome music on that one), Xevious 3-D/G+, Solvalou (a 3-D arcade shooter using StarBlade's engine), etc.

There are a lot of Xevious cameos in other Namco games, too.  It's a hidden bonus game in Star Fox Assault.  Susumu Hori pilots the Solvalou to help out his dad in Dig Dug Digging Strike.  There is a Xevious skin you can use in the DS puzzle game Trion Cube.  The square indestructable enemies from Xevious appear in many Tales games as foes.  There are lots of others, but those are some of my favorites.

Here's a funny story about Xevious and my childhood.  I was fascinated with Xevious when it first came out as it was one of the first vertically scrolling shooters that didn't use a static space background.  One weekend I got sheets of my dad's dot matrix printer paper (you know, the kind that was connected and you tore it off with the preforated edges).  Anyway, I spread out the printer paper from the front door all the way to the back door and fireplace and tried to draw a map of the Xevious backdrop on it!  I think on the other side of the paper I tried to do that with Zaxxon.  Then I would play 'pretend' Xevious with one of my toy spaceships.  I got in a little bit of trouble for wasting so much of my dad's printer paper, though!

Anyone else besides me think that it looks like you're flying over a golf couse in Xevious?  Anyone else think the US Atari Xevious arcade cabinet looked really cool?  --Cary