PixlBit

Nintendo Land was so cool. We played it tons.  I'd love a new one on the Switch.

As a kid, I never thought those Chuck E. Cheese robots were that scary.  Although MANY years later when one of my little brothers had his birthday there, the back of one of the robot's heads fell off!  We all laughed, but it did freak out some kids.  Five Nights at Freddy's really ruined the Chuck E. Cheese robots, now they don't even have them anymore.  A co-worker told me that now they just have a big screen TV instead of the robot stage.  You know that Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, also started Chuck E. Cheese.

I think Taito's most popular racing series is probably Chase H.Q.  They should make a Taito character kart racer!

Remember when Deer Hunter games were really popular in the 90's?  You know who really liked to play those in my family?  My grandmother, actually!  They had a few of them on her computer and she loved playing them!  She got the high score on all of them, too!  She always wished they would make a game where you just take photos of the animals, though.

I am so glad that I got LEGO Dimensions because I got to review a bunch of the smaller sets after that.  Here are links to the ones you mentioned in particular:

The Goonies

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2017/06/02/lego-dimensions-the-goonies-level-pack/

Mission Impossible

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2016/11/16/lego-dimensions-mission-impossible-level-pack/

Fantastic Beasts

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2017/01/13/lego-dimensions-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-story-pack-fun-pack/

Ghostbusters

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2016/02/19/lego-dimensions-ghostbusters-level-pack/

I REALLY like the LEGO Midway pack.  Definitely worth getting!

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2016/04/01/lego-dimensions-midway-arcade-level-pack/

Yeah Karnov will be in Smash when Waluigi is in Smash.  Actually I don't care about Waluigi, but it seems the internet sure likes him.  But if Karnov makes it in Smash, you know what that means?  KARNOV AMIIBO!

The last game Karnov was in was actually Heavy Burger, a fun twin stick shooter that was also a mash up of classic Data East arcade titles.  I reviewed it a couple of years ago:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2018/11/19/heavy-burger-switch-pc/

David Crane, creator of Pitfall, also made the Atari Activision Tennis game.

I bet people who played Diddy Kong Racing on the N64 a lot later were confused as to why Conker would be in that game.  They took him out of the DS version.

Here's another mascot that was more popular in Europe, since his game as well as James Pond were on popular European computers at the time, like the Amiga.  I always wanted to play the Chuck Rock games, but never got around to it.  Did you know at one point they were going to make a Chuck Rock kart racer?

Yeah there were a lot of caveman games back then, huh?  Speaking of forgotten mascots from Data East, remember Joe & Mac?  They were caveman ninjas in two main games, a third game that was like Bubble Bobble called Joe & Mac Returns, and a spinoff game called Congo's Caper.  And like Karnov, they also showed up in other games like TumblePop.

CORE also made a SEGA CD mascot platformer that I always wanted to play called Wonder Dog. 

I reviewed LEGO Batman 3 a long time ago.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2014/12/19/2nd-opinion-lego-batman-3-beyond-gotham-wii-u-3ds-ps3-ps4-vita-360-xbox-one-pc/

I also reviewed LEGO Batman 2:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2012/06/30/lego-batman-2-dc-super-heroes-360-ps3-wii-pc-3ds-ds-vita/

And the LEGO Dimensions Batman Story Pack:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2017/03/17/lego-dimensions-the-lego-batman-movie-story-pack/

And since I'm already posting a lot of links, here's LEGO DC Super Villians

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2018/11/23/lego-dc-super-villains-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc/