I had a Gamecube and GB Player, but they got stolen. :( I'd really like to play Mother 3 on my TV.
I never played Wizardry on NES. Instead I played its rival series, Ultima, specificaly Ultima: Exodus which was a NES port of the third game.
Hard to believe this game is 12 years old. Seems like an eternity ago while also somehow seeming like it was yesterday. Does that sound weird?
Graphics aren't the be-all and end-all they used to be, either. We've reached a point where artistry counts for as much as engineering, and a lot of games, even on PC, don't really stress an integrated graphics chip, let alone a high-end graphics card. Switch is my primary gaming system these days.
I thought about building a gaming PC. Then I thought that most of the games I might play on it were games I could play on PS4 or even Switch anyway, only without a lot of stuff that won't be coming to PC. And again, as far as everything else I need a computer for, my Mac blows away every Windows PC I've ever owned, and my Mac isn't even the latest model.
Looks like the Loot Crate fad fizzled out.
I switched over to Mac last year. I don't care if I never see Windows again, LOL. I prefer gaming on consoles anyway, so I don't care that tne Mac doesn't support a lot of games.
I don't care for touch screen gaming in general. Gotta have an actual controller or at least a physical keyboard.
https://www.bookitprogram.com/
It still exists. But yeah, I remember getting my personal pan pizzas from Book-It.
Unfortunately, I didn't get as many as a lot of my classmates did, for the reason that I was reading adult books by that time which were more than 200 pages in length and had a lot more text per page than books for ten year olds. My mom told me my teacher had told her during a parent-teacher conference that I wasn't reading as many books as they thought I should be reading. My mom brought in the books I was reading at the time, which happened to be Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker "trilogy" (which had four books by then). My reading was never questioned again, LOL. My teacher actually started crediting me one book for every 150 pages I read.
The NES version of TMNT Arcade had a coupon for a free Personal Pan pizza on the back cover of the instruction manual. The expiration date was December 31, 1991, and given that the game was released in 1989, that's a long time to honor a coupon. I wonder if PepsiCo was kicking themselves the way Krusty the Clown was when his Krusty the Clown Olympics promo turned super expensive by the Eastern bloc boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (which was a parody of the financial beating McDonald's took in real life in 1984 for running their Olympic promo.)
I bought the Capcom bundle because it was on sale. Honestly, though, I found Capcom's beat-em-ups to be really stiff and clunky compared to Konami's and Sega's beat-em-ups, so I skipped those on SNES. I did like the D&D games, which were among their last arcade beat-em-ups. George Kamitami, the guy who founded Vanillaware and made games like Odin Sphere and Dragon's Crown, got his start on those. I definitely remember Final Fight and Captain Commando though.
The Contra Anniversary Collection on the Switch, PS4, and X1 also has the Japanese and European versions of every Contra game up through Hard Corps.
