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Moldy Oldies: Kangaroo


Posted on 07/18/2020 at 12:17 PM | Filed Under Blogs

The home versions were easier because there was no gorilla and fewer monkeys on screen at one time due to graphics and memory constraints. The monkeys would start throwing two fruits at a time if you stayed in one stage trying to get more valuable fruits, so Sunsoft actually did a really good job on game design by scaling the risk and reward. 

Moldy Oldies: Kangaroo


Posted on 07/18/2020 at 12:10 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I had this on the Atari XE and it was one of my favorite games on there, mostly because my favorite arcade game was (and still is) DK. The Atari XE had a lot of great arcade ports on it, most of which were basically the 5200 ports since the 5200 was basically a console version of the Atari 8-bit computers. The Donkey Kong port was the best port until the Arcade Archives version on the Switch. My 2600 owning friend played Kangaroo on my Atari and liked it so much he got the 2600 version.

Electrifying - Super Mario Strikers


Posted on 07/18/2020 at 12:04 PM | Filed Under Blogs

When I got my Wii I considered getting Mario Strikers Charged. That one was more sci-fi and futuristic. 

1998 Library Additions


Posted on 07/18/2020 at 07:59 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I got into Pokémon Red when my sister got it for me for my birthday. I have one of the gold plated Pokémon Cards Burger King was offering somewhere. My then two year old nephew and I would watch the anime show when I babysat. I also remember reading the esrly previews in Nintendo Power, when it was still simply called Pocket Monsters and was just another curiosity from Japan where who knew if Nintendo would release it over here. 

Nintendo friend code


Posted on 07/16/2020 at 06:52 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Sent you a request. My NNID is Super King.

Episode 180: Failure to Launch


Posted on 07/16/2020 at 06:40 PM | Filed Under Feature

Soulcalibur sure looked good, and a local pool hall had it in the arcade so I could see how much better the DC version looked. A few RPGs closer to launch might have swayed me more, but I also followed the Saturn drama pretty closely and thought the DC was a long shot even without the looming specter of the PS2. Ironically, Skies of Arcadia Legends was the second Gamecube game I ever bought. 

Nintendo friend code


Posted on 07/16/2020 at 06:36 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I tasted one (don't judge.) It is god-awful. 

Welcome to Drill Land!


Posted on 07/16/2020 at 06:04 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Never played these games, but I remember when the first one came out on PS1. At the time I was all wrapped up in Lunar: Silver Star Story. I do think it's funny how they came up with this whole storyline about Dig-Dug and Kissy getting married, having kids, cheating, and divorcing. Kind of like an arcade soap opera. It'd be like Nintendo having a story about Mario and Luigi fighting because Mario was mad about Luigi making moves on Peach.

1998 Library Additions


Posted on 07/16/2020 at 05:59 PM | Filed Under Blogs

1998 was when I got my first full time job at Wendy's, and I bought a PlayStation with my first check. My first game on it was Final Fantasy VII, then I bought Resident Evil and Tekken 3. I bought so many games that year. Besides Ocarina of Time, my favorites were Xenogears, Resident Evil 2, and Parasite Eve. 

I also remember taking the girl I was dating at the time to see Rush Hour. 

He Slimed Me - Ghostbusters (C64)


Posted on 07/14/2020 at 11:21 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I liked a lot of other complicated games on my Atari. Alternate Reality was a RPG that had realistic lighting, weather, and character health but they only finished two parts out of seven total before the company went belly up. Temple of Apshai was one of the oldest RPGs out there, but you needed the documentation to really understand it, since all the descriptions of what was going on were in the book, kind of like the DM of a tabletop RPG. But these games helped foster my interest in NES RPGs like Ultima: Exodus, Dragon Quest, and Faxanadu. 

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