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I'm looking forward to it.  It looks fun and colorful and I'm interesting in seeing what they do with it.

Aside from some new characters and stages, it's pretty much the same as the first game.  Really the only reason why I got it was because Phoenix Wright was in it.

I can't wait for the Midway Arcade Classics LEGO Dimensions set.  I think it comes out March 15.

For some reason, I didn't really like the Mario Puzzle & Dragons game.  It just felt too fiddly and was actually kind of hard.  I just didn't 'gel' with it, you know? 

I think my favorite Mario spinoff game is probably the Mario Kart titles.  I also really liked Yoshi's Island if you count that, and I loved Mario Paint back in the day, too.

Yeah, February can be kind of a bummer month.  Nothing seems to go right for me this month.  Hopefully March will be better.

That Nintendo Direct didn't really say much of anything besides announcing Pokemon Sun/Moon and putting your Red/Blue/Yellow Pokemon in the Pokemon Bank.  I would've liked to have seen some info on Pokken, Pokemon GO, or a US release date for the detective Pikachu game.

I first heard about Pokemon when I first started college and read an article in NIntendo Power about recent games that had just come out in Japan.  They talked abuot a game called Pocket Monsters where you can trade and battle monsters via link cable.  I didn't give it much thought after that, but soon after I did start writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News, and I thought I'd try going to E3.  Well, that first year I went to E3, Nintendo announced Pokemon in the US!  It was still fairly early and some of the Pokemon names changed and Ash was called Casey in the cartoon clips I saw.  And my Pokemon press kit didn't have the catchphrase "Gotta Catch 'Em All," but instead said "Catch "Em if You Can."  But I saw how heavily Pokemon was going to be marketed in the US, and I knew it would be a big hit.  When I got home from E3, I told my editor at the newspaper that I wanted to cover everything Pokemon when it came out.  He was like, "Yeah, sure, whatever."  But he kept his promise and when Pokemon came out, i was reviewing all the games and covering all the events and helping other writers with their Pokemon articles, too.  And this was back when i was getting paid to write, so I was making a bit more money.  I like to say that Pokemon helped pay my way through college.  I enjoyed playing the new games with my brothers, and they enjoyed going to some of the Pokemon events with me.  And that's really most of my memories about Gen 1 Pokemon.

I was a little too old to get into the TMNT toys and action figures, and I only watched the cartoon because I knew someone who worked on it and I liked seeing his name in the credits.  My main experience with the Turtles is the video games!  I loved the first arcade game and I don't want to tell you how many quarteers I probably put in that thing.  I didin't like the first NES game, but my little brother Jeff and I played Turtles in Time on the SNES all the time back then.  He was very young, like only 4 years old, so if I accidentally got the pizza in that game, he'd start crying!  We still joke about that to this day, "Moooommm!  Cary got the pizza!  Waaahhh!" 

I didin't get a PS3 until a few years after its release, and then I only got it because it was only 50 dollars more than a regular Blu-Ray player.  But by then there were some games I wanted to play and review on it.  It kind of reminded me of the SNES and Genesis.  The Genesis had a better start, but the SNES had a better finish.  Well, I felt the Xbox 360 had a better start, but the PS3 had a better finish.  I still use my PS3, but my 360 is packed away.  But that's OK, my 360 lasted me for more than 8 good years and it still works, technically.

I didn't know there was a Vita disc copy of Child of Light.  That was a very good game.

I have the first one but never beat it.  It had a lot of good things going for it, but like most modern RPGs, I felt it got too long and meandering and I don't have as much patience for that any more.