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Wow you could rent 2600 games?  I don't think the local rental places around here rented anything except NES and SNES games.  Much later, when we got a Blockbuster Video, I started to see more games to rent, like for the GBA, PSOne, GameCube, etc.  But by then I wasn't renting games much anymore.

Yeah I think most of the disks my dad brought home with games for our Apple 2 were probably pirated.  But I was just a dumb kid and didn't think to question where they came from. I was just like, "Oh boy, more games!"

Yeah when I was a kid, I was interested in Greek Mythology, too.  So I wanted to try Kid Icarus on the NES.  And I hated it.  Years later I took a Greek Mythology class in college and now I don't like Greek Mythology either!

Love those tough ladies. :)

Best way to play Metal Slug games is on a home collection where you can have unlimited continues.

Athena sounds like my kind of woman, huh?  Ha ha!  Why do you say that? :)

Congrats on beating that DQ game!  I think the only DQ game that held my interest all the way through was Rocket Slime.

I wanted to get Final Fantasy Explorers, but never got around to it.  Can't play 'em all, you know?  I hear it's like the Final Fantasy answer to Monster Hunter.

Thanks!  Yeah if you can ever get your hands on a NEO GEO Pocket Color, there are a lot of good games on that.  For a very short while, I liked the NEG GEO Pocket Color more than I did the Game Boy!

I'll probably wait until Netflix for Mortal Engines, but part of the premise reminds me of one of my top five favorite games of all time: Final Fantasy 6.  In that game, there is a castle in the middle of the desert.  It looks just like an ordinary castle, but at one point it turns into a giant machine that can dig through the sand and move to different areas.  That blew my mind when I first saw it in the game.  Man that game was good!

I've seen three movies so far this winter: The Grinch, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and the Spider Man cartoon.  And I also did Ralph Breaks VR.  I'll talk about them when I do my winter movie blog, which probably won't be until February when all the winter movies I want to see are out.

Yeah Prehistoric Isle alway stuck out in my mind for some reason.

Yeah I played tons of Ikari Warriors with friends as a kid, too.  But the NES version isn't very good.  

My Game of the Year blog will go up sometime in January.  My GOTY may be a bit of a surprise, though.  Not what you might expect.  Care to take a guess?

The 5200 was technically my first gaming console.  Sure I played the 2600 and others at friends' and families' houses, but the 5200 was the first one I owned.  I got it for Crhistmas one year and I didn't even ask for it, so it was a total surprise.  Before then I played games on our Apple 2+ computer, which I was OK with since the games were better on that than the 2600 anyway.  The 5200 staved my desire to own a NES for about a year, as I was perfectly happy playing games like Pengo on it during the crash and games were cheap on it.