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2001 started out all right, but a few months in and I had a few disagreements with family and moved out a bit abruptly, which caused some bumpiness for a little while.  Then my editor left the Lifestyles section at the newspaper and they decided they'd fire all the free-lance game reviewers (me included), and hire one guy who just was lucky to have graduated a year before me and could work there right away.  And then 9/11 happened.  So yeah, a sucky year for me.

The GameCube came out that year so I played a lot of Luigi's Mansion, Super Monkey Ball, and Super Smash Bros. Melee.  

One story about being let go from the newspaper.  While I was writing for the newspaper, I got to know the team that made Pac-Man World and Pac-Man World 2 pretty well.  Pac-Man World 2 was set to release right about the time I got laid off from the newspaper.  I had to tell the team to not send me a review copy of it because I wouldn't be able to write an article for it.  But they sent me one anyway and the whole team signed the front of the box.  That's a memory that'll stick with me always (well that and Ulala).

I've never heard of Double Dungeons.  Looks like one of those first person dungeon games, which I can't stand.  I wonder if they named it Double Dungeons to capitalize on the popularity of Double Dragon?

One interesting fact about Dungeon Explorer that I forgot to mention in my blog is that it was made by Atlus!

I thought Sonic Adventure was pretty good for the time.  It was like playing a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon and they got the feel of being on vacation right.  Unfortunately, the game hasn't aged well.  But it was cool back then.  But then, I'm not the biggest Sonic fan and I like games that a lot of Sonic fans hate, like Sonic Spinball and Sonic 3-D Blast, so what do I know?

I got a Dreamcast for Christmas in 1999, right after I had graduated college.  It was kind of a surprise because I didn't ask for one, but I'm glad I got it.

I had a friend in high school who was a big SEGA fan and I played the SEGA CD a few times at his house.  Years later I know I played Popful Mail.  But it was after I graduated college and I don't remember how I played it.  I know I was at a friend's house, but that's all I can remember.

Yeah Dragon Slayer has so many spinoffs!

The Lunar games were more of a SEGA CD thing, weren't they?

Yeah I'll have the next blog up probably this Saturday.  Five blogs altogether stretched out through August.

2000 was a good year, but a lot of things happened so it was also kind of a blur.  But I already told you all that so you know... :)

Yeah there are some CD games on the TG-16 Mini as well.

The only other thing I know about Far East of Eden is that one of the main characters is playable in Saturn Bomberman, along with Bonk, Master Higgins, and Milon from Milon's Secret Castle.

Did you know Legacy of the Wizard has ties to the Dragon Slayer series, too?

I'll probably post the next one this Saturday.  I've already got the next two blogs written.