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Well -I- haven't forgotten about those IPs!  Nintendo may have, but not me!

I always preferred Joust over Balloon Fight, so I'd rather have a 3-D version of Joust.  Just thought it was more imaginative and controlled better.  Sorry Iwata!  I actually heard a long time ago they were planning a Joust 3-D game but it got canned.

I rented StarTropics once and didnt like it.  I just didn't think it was that good.

My brother Jeff LOVED Excitebike when he first played it as a kid.  The game certainly got a bit more love on the Wii and 3DS.

I talked about Pilotwings in my most recent podcast because my dad loved it.  I liked the Pilotwings stage in Smash.

I loved the Game & Watch Gallery series!  It seemed to kind of die off once WarioWare hit the scene.  Did you know TOSE made those G&W Gallery games?  They also made the Starfy games.  Now THAT'S a forgotten Nintendo IP!

I'm working on reviewing a game right now called Biomotor Unitron that made me think of Custom Robo.

I love the Chibi Robo games!  I didn't think Zip Lash was THAT bad, but it certainly was the weakest of the series.  I doubt the Chibi Robo games will come back anytime soon, especially since the company who made them, Skip, has seemingly quietly gone out of business.

Mario vs. Donkey Kong is actually a sequel to the Donkey Kong game on Game Boy, which to this day is one of the best arcade updates ever.  I liked the Mini Mario games because I also like Lemmings.  I'm surprised we haven't seen a Switch version yet.

If you want to play another Donkey Konga game, just play Taiko Drum Master or any of its sequels.  They're pretty much the same games.  Donkey Konga was even made by Namco.  I think Nintendo just wanted a piece of the pie from Taiko's popularity, and commissioned Namco to make one for them.

Sounds like a pretty neat store!

I'm not really a headbanging expert, but here's a song from Arkanoid DS that I think fits the bill.  It's called "Dash."  The music in Arkanoid DS doesn't have any right to be as good as it is, especially for a BreakOut clone.

As far as the cage match goes, I never played Unlimited SaGa so Okage wins for me by default.  I got that game on sale back in the day, but lost interest in it after a while.  It did have a neat Nightmare Before Christmas style if I remember correctly.

I never was a big Punch Out fan, so I never got the Wii game.  I kind of feel bad about that, though, because my brother Jeff LOVED Punch Out so he never got to play the Wii one since I never got it.  I'm surprised they never ported that to the Switch like they have nearly everything else.

You can either get a add on that plugs into the bottom of a regular Wii remote, or get the whole Wii Motion Plus remote that came out later.

For some reason, I don't remember this one either.  Graphics and music seem nice, though.  Of course if the music was done by Taito's in house band Zuntata, then of course it would be good.  I think the only shooter that really stood out to me on Taito Legends 2 must've been Metal Black.  I can't wait until you get to that one!

I think I reviewed LEGO Lord of the Rings, but I didn't review LEGO The Hobbit.  I'm not a big fan of Lord of the Rings anyway.

Just make sure you have the Wii Motion Plus add on to your remote or the updated Wii Motion Plus controller as Wii Sports Resort makes use of the one-to-one motion controls.

When I played this game on the Legends disc, I was annoyed with how many characters could attack you at once.  It was crazy.  So yeah, not one of the better beat 'em ups out there.  I do remember seeing this game at quite a few arcades back in the day, though.

4Kids must've also done one of the Ape Escape games, because the two main characters in that sounded like Ash and Misty!