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Dreamcast had some cool games like SoulCalibur. I never got one, though. I got FF8 on PS1 instead of a Dreamcast and got a PS2 a couple of years later. I do have Skies of Arcadia Legends on Gamecube. 

There actually was a Dragonriders of Pern game made on early 80s computer systems. It was made by Epyx. It was a diplomacy/resource management game, though it did have some arcade shooter sequences where you were mounted on a dragon and fighting Thread.  That one and the Dreamcast game are the only Pern games I know of. 

I mean, all Tom needs is a bunch of neck and back tattoos and he's basically Kazuma Kiryu. He even wears a shirt similar to the one that Kaz wears in Yakuza 3 when he's on Okinawa. 

In Animal Crossing: NH, Tom Nook comes off as a G-rated mob boss/loan shark. Dude constantly keeps you in debt. They should have kept Resetti in the game as Tom Nook's debt collector.  There's even a dude on the island who fences stolen/counterfeit artwork. 

I have, in the past, referred to Ys 8 as Gilligan's Island: The RPG. The princess is pretty much Ginger, and Sahad is the Skipper. 

Ultima I (or at least the 1987 remake) had the same sequence in it. In Ultima 2, you could visit all  planets in the solar system, but only Planet X had anything of importance on it. Neptune was a grassy plain with a computer camp in it. 

That's probably not going to happen. I looked up Konami's market cap. It is worth $20bn USD, which is larger than any Japanese game company other than Nintendo and almost as big as EA or Take-Two (and EA, as of this writing is about to get bought out by the Saudis and a consortium of venture capitalists including Kushner). 

Boulder Dash has been a nearly lifelong favorite of mine, since i first played it on the A8.

Alleyway was the first Game Boy game I bought. I got mine at Christmas, along with the pack-in Tetris game and Super Mario Land.

I love Gaplus. I have it on Switch. 

Saturn emulation was notoriously difficult in the past, but it is much better now, though I still had to work on it a bit to get it running well on EmuDeck.

I prefer original hardware where possible, but the Astrocade and its games are a bit hard to find in the wild. I've also got this set up for the Atari 8-bit (though I still have my Atari 400 mini, which does emulation a lot better than EmuDeck does), the PC-Engine CD, and the Saturn - mostly for English language versions of games like Far East of Eden and the Saturn Sakura Wars games and Shining Force III Scenarios 2 and 3.

Thanks for this tribute. Rest in peace, Michael.