PixlBit

Yeah when I started playing Mansion of Hidden Souls, 7th Guest was the first thing I thought of.  My dad really liked the Myst games.

I think I could've had the opportunity to review the Night Trap re-release/remake/whatever it was.  But I passed on it.  Not my cup of tea and I probably had too many other things on my plate at the time.

Yeah I'd love the chance to really play Popful Mail all the way through.  It's one of the few Falcom games I haven't played yet (or much of), and I do have an interest in it.

When Lunar 1 and 2 were advertised back then, it was one of the few SEGA CD games I was interested in because that's around the time I was really into Square's 16-bit RPGs.  But I was just a teen with a limited income so I couldn't afford to get all the games and consoles I wanted.

Another thing I liked doing back then was going to outdoor flea markets and many tables would sell new PSOne games super cheap.  Like getting an unopened copy of Ridge Racer Type 4 for 3 bucks.  That's one of the reasons why my PlayStation library is so big!  After a while they stopped selling video games at these flea markets and trade days, so I stopped going.

I kind of miss the mom and pop brick and mortar retro game stores.  There was one in a local mall for the longest time called FX.  And back in college I would go to GameFellas, which is a store that one of the folks who helped start PixlBit worked at.  I might've met him and not even known it then!  When I would visit family in Alabama, I would go visit a store called Player Two.  And when I was in high school, there was another retro game store in Alabama that was about the size of a walk in closet.  It didn't have a name and might've been a bit sketchy, but you couldn't beat those prices!  I got a lot of games there.

I hope it has instructions on how to play!

Unless the Switch puts it on their Genesis online collection someday.

When I got the Genesis Mini 2, games like Crusader of Centy wasn't even on the Switch yet, so it seemed like a better deal at the time.  But then, I still don't have the Online Plus account for my Switch, so I wouldn't be able to do Genesis games anyway.

New Pokemon Snap was my GOTY when it was released.  I think it's cool that HAL Laboratory made the first game and Namco made the second one.  They do make reference to characters in the first game in the second one if you play it long enough.

Aw yeah!  You played Arkanoid DS?  Isn't it great?  A lot of people hate it, but I really liked it.  And that music!  What do you think of the music?

I think I'm the only person in the world who likes Mario 2 more than Mario 3.

I remember Vindicators and Xybots in the arcade.  Even though Xybots isn't my cup of tea, it's really not that bad of a game.

Mega Man 2 is one of the best games on the NES.  Even though my favorite is MM3, I can understand why someone might like 2 more.  My favorite Mega Man games are MM3, MM2, MM8, MMX, and MMX4.

I think Crusader of Centy is the best game in this batch.  But wait'll you see the crazy stuff that's in Part 2 next week!

So if you have to choose between Zelda 1 and 2, I'd pick Zelda 1.  To this day that's still one of my favorite Zeldas, and the second one is way too hard and one of the few Zelda games I never finished on my own.

I really like the Ys games.  Purists may not like it, but I enjoyed playing the first one on my DS.  Such great music in those games, too.

For shooters, I know you know that I like 1943.  I also really like Fantasy Zone but it's way too hard.  I also really enjoy Darius.  Another one of my top favorite shooters.  The first stage music "Captain NEO" is one of my top favorite video game tunes ever.

Mega Man came out in 1987...

That's what they do!  I just bought some Mario Oreos that I mgiht write about later.