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He has kind of a Mario look now that you mention it!

A great choice! Man, when that computer whistle thingy brings the melody in on the Tallon IV overworld song...it's so good. And the soundtrack did a great job of incorporating older melodies but making them its own, something Dread from last year struggled with. The song for Magmoor Caverns regularly pops into my head to this day.

Card Fighters Clash is the NeoGeo Pocket Color game I always hear about. I guess I should give it a look now that it's so accessible!

Dang, that is some good music! Both of those games are on Taito Legends 2, so I'll be getting to them at some point.

I have not played Metal Black but it's on Taito Legends 2, which I'll be getting into starting next week!

I wouldn't mind pre-made, handcrafted puzzles like this but not so much when under a time crunch as random blocks continue to fall.

I guess I've always been more of a Gradius guy

My kids played that Ben 10 game. It was a basic but competent brawler. It's weird how it seems, well, weird to have licensed games on consoles these days. Seems like they're all on phones now and that's not a bad thing lol. But it's nice there are some good ones still.

Ghostwire looks really good. I've been curious about that since it first got announced. I had not heard of Project EVE though. I wondered at first if it was an EVE Online spin off but clearly not. Looks cool! Definitely getting some Bayonetta vibes.

I think there was a whole cottage industry of Qix-like porn games but Gals Panic is the one I always hear about. Qix was kind of the perfect game for nice pictures that needed low computing power.