The Zelda character who scared me the most was either the shopkeeper in Link's Awakening or the "LEAVE YOUR LIFE OR MONEY" dude. Even Ganon be like, "hasn't he suffered enough already?"
I rented Left 4 Dead once when it was new. Hard to believe it was so long ago.
Most of what I know about WarioWare comes from Smash. But y no Waluigi?
Stage Select:
Daniella from Haunting Ground. She is a psycho obsessed with capturing Fiona, the main character so she can remove Fiona's uterus.
When I played Doom 2, the sound of the Arch-Viles was always scary, given that they can attack you at any time when you're within their line of sight and they can see you from a long ways away.
Right now, I'm playing Metroid Dread. The EMMI androids are pretty creepy. They stalk you through certain areas of the map, and they can't be hurt by ordinary means. When they capture you, you have an extremely narrow window to escape from them before they drill into Samus's throat. The game flat out tells you that you have very little chance of getting the timing exactly right, so it encourages you to avoid them. It's a deeply satisfying feeling when you obtain the means to destroy them.
Cage Match:
Dead Space 2, seeing that it has been thrown into a hopeless situation against the almighty Resident Evil 4, decides that it does not want to meet the same fate as Quest 64 did when it faced off against Final Fantasy VII. Remembering an episode of F is for Family, when the match starts, Dead Space 2 simply lies on the mat, curls up into a ball, and starts singing "Hot Cross Buns." Resident Evil 4, disgusted, gives Dead Space 2 a kick and is crowned the winner.
I wish I'd known about this when I still lived in Baltimore. York is about 90 minutes north. I always loved Nintendo arcade machines.
There is actually a Tilt arcade in a mall near me in Phoenix, though. The lower level is all the typical redemption stuff and racing games, the top level has old-school arcade games.
The Atari Flashback collection on Switch has over 100 games. No Solaris, though, since Doug Neubauer was smart and made sure he actually owned the rights when he made it. SNK's collection is pretty robust. A lot of Taito games are showing up as Arcade Archives titles, but other than Elevator Action and Legend of Kage, I've never heard of most of them. One of them is a pirate-themed re-skin of Jungle King.
I remember a lot of Space Invader clones. Atari's version on 2600 was weird. Texas Instruments came out with its own version that Taito could probably have won a copyright infringement suit against. Gorf was a mishmash of Space Invaders, Galaxian, and Phoenix.
Fun fact: the company that distributed Phoenix in the US was based in... Phoenix.
My favorite memory of the N64 was Super Mario 64. It was like nothing else I played abd today is still one of my favorite Mario games. My other favorites were Mario Kart, Zelda, Star Fox, and Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon.
As much of a classic as Space Invaders is, it should be a regular feature on consoles. Galaga and Centipede are readily available. But for whatever reason, Taito generally makes it hard to find versions of Space Invaders that aren't on mobile phones, and I don't like touch screen controls in games. Thanks to Futurama, I will always associate Space Invaders with "Tom Sawyer," by Rush. And vice versa. This was the first time I played Lunar Rescue, but I did play a clone of it made by Brøderbund back in the day.
A Taito arcade collection would be great. Other than Space Invaders, my favorite Taito classics were Zookeeper (which I thought was a Mario game when I first saw it), Space Dungeon, Jungle Ki...Hunt, Elevator Action, and Arkanoid.
I remember playing the Operation Darkness demo. I owned a 360 but not a PS3 at the time, so I was curious to see if it was an adequate substitute for Valkyria Chronicles, which went on to be my favorite game of that entire generation. It wasn't.
The 360 was my only Xbox console. The E74 error got it, and at that time Microsoft was still in deep denial about the E74, so they wanted $150 to fix it. So I was kind of done with Xbox. I switched over to PS3 and got Valkyria Chronicles. The one 360 game I would still want to play is Tales of Vesperia, and I can get that on any of the three systems now.
Lunar Lander is on the Switch Atari collection, which is a compilation of all three volumes.
I downloaded the Space Invadera Infinite Collection (which is pricey for what you get.) I've been playing a lot of Space Invaders. I also played some Lunar Rescue. i never played the arcade version until now. I did play a computer clone of it made by Brøderbund back in the 80s.
I wish they'd do a full Taito collection with games like Space Dungeon, Zookeeper, and Jungle Ki... err, Hunt. It's mindbliwing that It's so hard to find a playable version of Space Invaders that isn't on a touch screen mobile device. It was only the most successful video game of the 1970s, after all.
