Those are some REALLY good platformers on your list. Some of the best out there. Especially stuff like Klonoa and Yoshi's Island! And Kirby and Mega Man and...
I liked A Boy and His Blob as a kid. And yes David Crane did design it. I met David Crane twice in real life. Once at E3 and another time at the opening of the National Videogame Museum.
I've played Magic Sword in many an arcade, but I never heard of Arabian Magic until the Taito collection.
Yeah that's why I only got the cheapest of the LEGO Animal Crossing sets. 13 and 10 bucks each. And even then, I asked for the 13 dollar one for Christmas so I didn't pay for that one.
I loved playing Magic Sword in the arcade with my friend back in the day. Good mindless fun.
I remember playing Arabian Magic on the Taito collection and remembering how surprisingly good it was. Neat character designs. Same goes with Dungeon Magic.
The only reason why I didn't watch the Dragon Warrior and Samurai Pizza Cats anime cartoons is because they came on at WEIRD times in my area. As a teenager and college student, I wasn't about to get up at 4 in the morning for those.
I dunno, I didn't like The Boy and the Heron. The first half of the movie was too slow, and the second half made no sense.
When I first played it, I was like, "Man these Chrono Trigger characters sure do look like Dragon Ball." But then I learned soon after who the character designer was and it made sense.
Ha, I remember those anime interpretations of the Bible. Stuff like Flying House, Superbook, etc.
And here's my review of Piczle Cross: Rune Factory:
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2025/03/10/piczle-cross-rune-factory-switch-pc/
I remember watching Aeon Flux when I was in high school and college. Is that really an anime, though? I mean, it's anime-like, but I didn't think it was an anime. But maybe it is. Really the only thing I remember about it is that it was weird. Later they made a live action movie about it and that was also weird.
I remember watching that Cowboy Do-Wop show on Toonami. I didn't watch it for long, though. Didn't really appeal to me.
Legend of Kage is way too hard. I like how high you can jump, though.
I remember seeing Gladiator in an arcade when I was young and being amazed on how big the characters were.
My favorite character to play as in Dungeon Magic was Cisty. She had a weird name, but she had green hair so...
