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There are tons of Fire Emblem amiibo.  I can't remember them all.  But I have them. :)

"Only" five dollars.  That's pretty expensive to me.  Although if I were a little kid right now, I'd be TOTALLY into those Mario Kart Hot Wheels toys.  They look SO COOL!  They even have a Rainbow Road track!

At Target I saw a bunch of toys based on the Mario movie.  My favorite was the plumbing van that folds out into a Polly Pocket style playset.  I didn't get it, though, because it was 20 bucks.  Now if it were a Pac-Man, Kirby, Animal Crossing, or Mega Man toy, yeah I would've spent that much.  But not for Mario.  If they made a Hot Wheels Mario Plumbling Van, I MIGHT get that, since I work in the plumbing section of a major hardware store.

Wow you're planning on going pretty soon then.  I decided for the end of April because I had to give my work time to approve my vacation request, and maybe most of the Spring Break crowd will have already come and gone by then.  I really shouldn't go, as it'll be an expensive trip.  But if I wait two years from now when the one in Orlando opens, who knows what my life will be like then?  A lot of uncertainties.  Plus I haven't been anywhere since 2019.  One of those 'you only live once' kinds of things.

And the eye candy models aren't even that great.  It's like bad DeviantArt.  Maybe if they were pictures of Cammy, Leona Heidern, Ulala, or Reiko Nagase things would be different.  Ha ha, just joking!

Hey Donkey Kong is a hard game!  One of the reasons why I didn't like Donkey Kong as much as a kid is because I had a hard time wrapping my head around it.  I loved mazes in activity books so Pac-Man seemed like a more natural transition for me.

Even though Pac-Man is the first arcade game I ever played, Donkey Kong had to have been the second or third one.  The first time I saw an arcade machine was at the front entrance at Kroger past the checkout lanes.  There were three of them: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders.  I don't remember if I played them all the first time I went, but I know I did the second time.

I'm planning a trip to Super Nintendo World in LA at the end of April, actually.

I missed the Stage Select where you talked about games we'd like to revisit again for the first time.  I would've replied to that earlier, but I let time get away from me.  So I want to do that now if you don't mind.  Some I would love to play again for the first time include Klonoa (I forgot how much I loved those games when I played the recent collection.  And that ending...wow).  Chrono Trigger, Katamari Damacy, Okami, Link's Awakening, and Rocket Slime.

As for this stage select, it's hard for me to think of bad games with good ideas.  I think Sonic games have good ideas in them, but there are few games in that series I like.  I guess Yuji Naka has a lot of games like that, such as Balan Wonderworld.  I guess we won't be seeing any games from him for a long time, if ever.  Another fairly recent game that has a sequel that just came out is Octopath Traveller.  I liked the ideas of that game, both visually and gameplay-wise, but it was just too grindy.  So I won't be getting the sequel.

Even though we have totally different views on some things, I think it would be fun to be on the podcast with you all sometime, too.  I have NO idea what we'd talk about, and you'd have to be patient with me as I do my podcasts very old fashioned and dated.  But maybe that can be something we can think about for later.  Your podcast is interesting because of your different views of games than what I have.

I mostly just played Sodoku on the Brain Age games on the DS and 3DS.  They're ok, but I'm not a big fan of math so I didn't get into them much after that.

I'm glad I got to review this.  Kind of sad I didn't get to review the first one.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2022/08/15/capcom-arcade-2nd-stadium-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc/

I reviewed Shredder's Revenge.  Excellent game.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2022/07/08/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shredders-revenge-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc/

Never had an Xbox One.  Too few games on it I wanted to play, and even then, a bunch of those games eventually made it to Switch!

I got the PS4 on a Black Friday sale, too.  Around 2016 I think.  And it's still the most current PlayStation console I use even today!  I don't feel the need to get a PS5 anytime soon.  I think the PS4 runs way better than my PS3 did.  I try to get most of my games on the PS4 instead of the Switch, unless it's only available on the Switch or if it's something I'd rather play on the go.