I visited Ensemble Studios when they just had a small office in Dallas. They were working on a game that you might've heard of called Age of Empires. Back when I visited, they hadn't even found a publisher yet, but they told me they were thinking of Microsoft...
While Nintendo Power was clearly propoganda, I still have a lot of respect for that magazine as it did a lot of video game journalism 'firsts' and was one of the inspirations for me to major in Magazine Journalism in college to do that one day. Didn't work out that way later, but that's life.
I like going to see movies in theaters, too. If anything, just to get out of the house. But it has to be a movie I REALLY want to see.
When I was in college in Austin, I got to see the MST3K movie when it came out at Dobie Mall on campus. That was a great example of seeing a movie in a crowd. Totally different than watching it on TV.
Some of my favorite video game intros include:
Klonoa (PSOne)
Namco X Capcom (Japan PS2)
FF6 (SNES)
Adventures of Lolo 2 (NES)
A version of this is coming to the Switch, I think.
Can you guess my favorite Street Fighter character?
I'm not a big fan of DBZ, but the original Dragon Ball is one of my most favorite animes ever. My favorite characters are Puar and the turtle. I met the lady who does the voice of Young Trunks and Puar once. She also does the voice of Spike the dragon from the My Little Pony cartoon.
I should try and play this sometime. I remember the old Maniac Mansion game, but I didn't get into it as much as I did LucasFilm's next point and click adventure: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. I wish they'd remake that one!
Also, did you know that at one point, there was a live aciton sitcom VERY loosely based on Maniac Mansion? It was called Maniac Mansion (duh), and it was AWFUL!
If I were a main character in a video game, what kind of game do you think it would be?
I've had the opportunity to review this on several platforms, but it just didn't seem that interesting to me.
I just can't seem to get into most anime, so you'll have to pick a favorite character for me.
You know who COULD defeat One Punch Man? Kirby!
