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That's awesome. I'd love to have a DK ornament for my tree this year.

I'll have to look into the Dig-Dug cabinet. It's cool you have a full-size Dig-Dug machine. Someday I want a full-sized DK machine, LOL. Since this company and Johnny Turbo's Arcade are bringing out Data East games, I'm hoping that Atomic Runner Chelnov is in the works for a Switch release.

Solaris was really good for a 2600 game.It was the last 2600 game my childhood best friend got before he got a NES. It was a better Star Raiders sequel than the official Star Raiders II from Atari (which started out as a tie-in to The Last Starfighter). Smart of Doug Neubauer to hang on to the rights to the game, but I wish we'd get it on one of the regular consoles.

When I was a kid, I always wanted the Coleco tabletop arcade games even though they were primitive even by the standards of the early 80s. Every once in awhile a friend from school would bring one (usually Pac-Man or Frogger) and we'd all crowd around and play it. These mini-arcades look cool enough, and I've seen them at Target, Walmart, and at Toys R Us before it went belly-up. Unfortunately, I doubt they'll ever have the games I'd really want - Nintendo's arcade games - in mini-arcade form. In particular, I'd love to have a minaturized Donkey Kong machine with the marquee and bezel graphics and all that. I'm just glad that Hamster finally brought DK and Mario Bros out on the Switch so I can play them there.  I also liked the design of the old Dig-Dug arcade cabinets made by Atari, did they have those there?

I have the Atari Flashback Classics on PS4, but I kind of want them for Switch since I've already got so many classic arcade games on Switch. Cool that volume 3 has 5200 games. Still no Solaris though. Guess they couldn't get Doug Neubauer on board. :(

Cheetos and M&Ms when I was a kid, but when I was a teenager, those PB Crisps snacks that Planters made. They were like 3-D Nutter Butters.

I never was dedicated enough to get a CRT for retro-gaming. I know a lot of people don't like how pixelated older games seem to be on HDTVs, but I never noticed as huge a difference as others. I guess I also have memories of my first big-screen TV, which was a 36 inch Toshiba CRT. Moving that TV was a three-man operation. Ugh. Even in pawn shops CRTs are getting tough to find anymore.

Between Arcade Archives, Johnny Turbo, and Namco Museum, however, I have turned my Switch into quite an old-school arcade, albeit one that can also play games like Breath of the Wild and Doom, LOL.

I went to Disneyland when I was 5. I can't remember much about it.

For some reason I thought you went to the actual Disneyland, LOL. I know there was a Universal Studios game on the Gamecube. You basically did janitorial duties to unlock stuff.

Punch-Out, Xenoblade, and The Last Story. Skyward Sword with optional motion controls.

I tried Fortnite a few times. The only way I've ever made it into the top 20 is by hiding out and doing nothing until the radiation storm kills me, LOL. I guess it's not bad, but it's definitely overhyped in my book.

Hospital food is definitely overpriced. When my dad was in the Maricopa County Hospital in Phoenix I always went out and bought food for the family. The hospital also played Brahms's "Lullaby" over the PA system every time a baby was born.

I wondered how Labo worked. It's not my cup of tea, but it's a pretty novel concept. Reminds me of peripherals I used to see in the 80s.

I have it on 3DS and have played it. It's good, but nothing quite tops the arcade original for me.

I guess DK Arcade was well-enough hidden as an Easter egg in DK64 that it didn't raise any red flags at Ikegami. I also wonder why they only made DK Original Version available for such a short time on 3DS. Moot point now, the actual arcade game is on the Switch.

The Mario vs DK games do the same thing. They haven't made any of them for consoles yet, but I imagine that will change with the Switch. Still, despite all the objective improvements the later games made, nothing quite beats the original.

I was fortunate enough to have access to an 8-bit Atari computer (the 130XE), which had the same chipset as the 5200 but had a lot more RAM and used conventional Atari joysticks. The Atari 8-bit version of DK was the closest you could get to the arcade at the time.