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I never saw it in the arcade, either, only on Atari. I was amazed that they made a 2600 version of it though.

Outrun was probably my favorite racing game of the 80s. Sega can do racing games with the best if them. My favorite little animation was hitting something but not hard enough to roll your car and watching the girl scream at the driver and probably calling him an asshole for almost getting her killed.

I played a lot of Sega's 16-bit stuff because it's so readily available and because my Genesis-owning cohorts had Sega's games. Kinda debating on the Genesis Classic just because of one game - Alisia Dragoon, which I played at a Walmart kiosk when I was a kid and I haven't seen it re-released until now. If they could get Lunar and Lunar 2 on that thing I'd plunk down the money for a pre-order now.

Me too, goldangit.

Yep, I got the Game Boy the year it launched, complete with pack-in Tetris as well as Super Mario Land. I actually tried a few matches with a friend using the Link Cable. That said, I was more excited about playing Super Mario, Kid Icarus, and Zelda on the go.

My first encounter with Tetris was the arcade game by Atari, whose home version ended up being scuttled by the lawsuit between Nintendo and Tengen. It had a similar track called to Korobeiniki called "Troika" as well as the tracks "Loginska", "Bradinsky", and "Kalinka." There are videos of the canned Tengen NES version, and they're almost perfect conversions of the Atari version.

I read somewhere that Type-B is an original composition by Hip Tanaka in imitation of traditional Russian folk music.

I do have Puyo Puyo Tetris for the Switch, which has its own rendition of Korobeiniki in it, and I have played the occasional round of Tetris 99, which plays the same song.

I also had another idea for Cage Match. Why don't we debate the consoles themselves? The games, the graphics, the sound, controllers, and what have you. NES vs. Master System. SNES vs. Genesis vs. TG-16.  N64 vs. PS1 vs. Saturn. 3DO vs. Jaguar vs CD-i (snicker). 2600 vs Intellivision vs Colecovision vs Odyssey2 vs Astrocade. I've been playing a lot of 4th, 5th, and 6th gen re-releases lately that came from multiple systems and it really got me thinking. We could have some good discussions, and I'm sure we're all mature enough here to not degenerate into "KONSOL WARZ" mode.  I think this discussion would be especially fun concerning 4G (16-bit) and 5G (32/64-bit) consoles, now that all three of the big 16-bit consoles are going to have miniature versions. Don't forget the handhelds. That one might not be as one-sided as you'd think.

I'll probably preorder the FFVII collectors' edition. I already have Fire Emblem on pre-order.

I didn't know it was getting a cartridge release. Oh, well. I'm probably getting the 3-D remake of Trials of Mana unless it turns out to be horrible (and from what I've heard, it's great). 

I don't know about all the vicissitudes of getting an E3 pass. I have a friend who runs a gaming site who's never gotten an E3 pass. I wish it were open to the public the way the Tokyo Game Show is myself. 

For me, Nintendo, Square Enix, and Namco all had a lot of stuff. The new Zeldas are exciting for me, as are FFVII Remake and FFVIII Remastered, and I'm actually digging the DQ Heroes in Smash more than I am Banjo-Kazooie. A lot of them are re-releases, but I'll pick them up. I ended up losing a lot of games when I left Maryland anyway. The Switch is becoming a bigger RPG machine than the SNES and PS1 ever were at this rate. Also looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 and Tales of Arise. I really want the Trials of Mana remake as well.

I loved TP. I can dig that kind of vibe.