Yeah Mario 3 was when I first heard the word "Tanooki" but I had no idea what it meant. It really wasn't until Tom Nook and Pom Poko before I started making the connections.
On special occaisions, we'd hook up the Apple ][+ to the Heathkit TV so we could play games in COLOR!
I've played most of those games on your ist, but not in the time period they were released. During that time, I was playing games like, "Being Born," and "Pooping in my Diaper."
The first video game I probably played was Pong, but at the time I didn't realize it was a video game. My dad built our first TV from a Heathkit parts catalog, and he instealled a Pong clone in it, so channel 3 was always set to Pong. I didn't think it was a video game, just something you could do when there wasn't anything else on TV.
The first time I realized I was playing a video game was when I first played Pac-Man. But by then the 70s were over.
One game from the 70s I really did enjoy as a little kid was Atari's Fire Truck. But that probaby had more to do with how little kids just like fire trucks!
They're a lot alike, except the Rifftrax game is a lot buggier.
The golf game is pretty good. One of the best handheld golf games I've played.
I'd stay away from the DS Card Fighters game. It has a game breaking bug that keeps you from progressing.
Yeah I just can't get into the Marvel TV shows. Heck, I put She Hulk on my top five list, and I probably won't even watch the show. Well, maybe the first episode. But it'll have to be really good for me to keep watching.
Streets of Rage 2 is great. One of the few Genesis games that truly impressed me. 1 and 3 are also good, but not as good as 2. I also really like 4.
The Gunvolt games are fun, but lack the charm of Mega Man. I played a demo of Mighty Gunvolt, but I never got around to buying it.
The Great Ace Attorney is too long, but it IS two games in one!
I always imagined a MST3K game like a 3-D platformer where you could play as either Joel, Mike, Jonah, and I guess the new lady for the new season that I haven't figured out how to watch yet. The bots would have shops or give you special skills when you ran across them. The levels would be based on bad movies that they are stuck in, and they'd make comments every once in a while as you play. Kind of like Gex 2, although that would probably get annoying.
This is probably as close as I'll get to an article about NGPC games.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2021/04/02/neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-1-switch/
My favorite NGPC games are SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash and Gals Fighters.
Monster Boy is really good, but it got a little too hard for me around the lava and haunted house areas.
Star Allies is good, but Forgotten Land is much better.
