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As a kid I didn't play Elevator Action much because I wasn't very good at it, and I tended to spend what few quarters I had in the arcade on games I was good at.  More bang for your buck, you know? It wasn't a bad game, just harder for Little Cary to grasp.

I did, however, really like Elevator Action Returns.  It's on one of the Taito collections.  If it's one the collection you've got, I hope you get to play it!  It's awesome!

Have you ever heard of the latest game in the series?  It's called Elevator Action: Death Parade and it's an arcade light gun game similar to Time Crisis.  But you get extra buttons to open and close an elevator door, and buttons to choose floors.  What's cool is that when the doors close, it's an actual physical pair of elevator doors that block the screen!  It surprised me at first when it happened!  You can even use the elevator doors as shields, too!  I played it once at Round 1 arcade. 

The name of your character in the orginal game is Secret Agent Otto.  He actually appears as a helper character in Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders, along with other Taito stars like Bub & Bob and even Time Gal!

I've never played the Arkham games, but I watched my brother Jeff and his friends play one of them for a bit.  I knew who some of the characters were because of my frequent watching of Batman: the Animated Series when I was a teen in the 90s.

I've played and reviewed most of the Travellers Tales LEGO games out there.  The only ones I didn't review were some of the first ones, like the first Star Wars and Indiana Jones games.  I also didn't review LEGO The Hobbit, but I didn't play it either.  Nor did I play the second half of the LEGO Harry Potter games (they split them into two initially).  But as the years progressed, I've grown my relationship better with the LEGO games publisher, so I get to review pretty much every LEGO game now.

Aside from the occasional game to review, I play Animal Crossing pretty regularly.  I'm also trying to beat Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity so I can move onto something else.  Right now I'm on Chapter 7, so I'm almost done.  I play the game on 'easy' so hopefully it won't get ridiculously hard at the end.  I want to finish the game because I just got Ys 9 in the mail and I want to play that next.  It's really the first big 2021 game I've been looking forward to.

And speaking of Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors, and Divine Beasts.  Since Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a prequel to BotW, one of the neat things you can do in it is actually PILOT the Divine Beasts sometimes.  It's just in there for fan service, but it's still fun to trample over thousands of tiny soldiers on the ground while driving a giant mechanical elephant or camel.  Hopefully in Breath of the Wild 2, you'll be able to combine all four Divine Beasts into one giant robot: Voltron style!  Look for that in Breath of the Wild 2: Go! Go! Triforce Rangers! :)

Since I didn't have a Genesis as a kid, I never played this one either.  And even if I did have one, i might've not played it anyway.  I remember hearing it was pretty bad, and by then I was SO tired of me-too Sonic wannabes.  Plus I was also already getting tired of all the 'save the enviornment' cartoons and games in the 90's.  These kinds of games really made me lose my faith in 2-D platformers for a while (which is another reason why I was more into RPGs back then), and because of that, it's also one of the reasons why I don't like Sonic that much.  Aside from dabbling in stuff like Super Metroid and Yoshi's Island, I didn't really regain faith in mascot 2-D platformers until Klonoa on PSOne came along.  Oh man, now Klonoa would make an excellent topic for a forgotten game mascot!

I know Blitz is supposed to be arcadey and a lot of poeple like it, but I just can't get into football video games.  I've tried, too, with stuff like Tecmo Bowl and NES Play Action Football.

There are so many games on that Taito Legends collection, and it's been so long since I played it, that I forgot about this one.

I never played this one.  There were a lot of mascot platformers I skipped out on back then.  If they were not available to rent at my local rental place, I usually didn't play them.  And the ones I did rent, I wasn't very impressed with.  I think the only one I rented that stuck out in my mind was Plok, but that was only because the music was good.  I do remember Titus using that fox in their logo for a while.  Titus the game company is out of business, so we won't be seeing that fox anymore either.

I never played the Zool games.  They came out at a time I was more into RPGs and was tired of all the me-too Sonic inspired mascot platformers.

There's a rumor that Ninjabread Man, considered by many to be one of the worst Wii games ever made, actually started out as a 3-D Zool title!

When I was a little kid and went to Chuck E. Cheese one time, I was playing the Mario Bros. arcade game and I felt another player trying to put a quarter in to play with me.  They were having some trouble and bumped into me and so I was like, "what the heck" and looked over and it was the Chuck E. Cheese costume mascot trying to play the game with me!

Many years later when I was a lot older, we had relatives visit and we took my much younger cousin to Chuck E. Cheese.  This time the costumed mascot tried to sit on me while we were eating.  It was all in fun, though, and we all laughed at it.

Once my brothers were old enough to enjoy Chuck E. Cheese for their birthdays, the costumed mascot was looking pretty ragged by then.  One of the eyebrows on it was even torn off, and he had no tail!

As a kid, I always thought the Chuck E. Cheese pizza was nasty.  I would only eat one slice and then go run off to play arcade games.  So years later when my brothers would go there for their birthdays, they had a italian sub sandwich you could order and I would always get that.  And I'm not picky about pizza either, so you know it must've been bad!  I hear the pizza's better now, but I don't have anyone in my life with young kids right now, so I won't be going there anytime soon to find out!