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My game of the 2010s was easily Breath of the Wild. I poured so much time into that game. The return of huge overworlds instead of the skimpy overworlds that plagued the series since Ocarina of Time (Twilight Princess had a decent enough overworld, though it still suffered the same issues of being linear and a bit empty as the othe rgames), a complete 180 from Skyward Sword. 

Other games I especially enjoyed from the decade: Ni no Kuni, Dragon Quest XI S, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fallout: New Vegas (I enjoyed 4, but New Vegas was basically like the CRPG Fallouts in then-modern form), Persona 5, Bayonetta 1 and 2, the Trails of Cold Steel series,  the Xenoblade games, and the Tales and Yakuza games. Ni no Kuni actually rekindled my interest in gaming. By the time the 7th generation came to a close, I was pretty burned out. 

There are a lot of games that I thought were made by Atari that were in fact Japanese imports, thanks to Atari's licensing. I thought Pac-Man was an Atari franchise thanks to the 2600 and 8-bit games. The arcade version of Dig-Dug is actually a part of this DLC, with Atari's logo appearing in place of Namco's logo on the title animation. Other games I thought were Atari franchises but aren't included Kangaroo (which was Sunsoft) and Vanguard (which was SNK). Atari had a habit of putting its name on the games it licensed from other companies but not actually mentioning the original owners in the game. The labels Pac-Man cartridges for the 2600 and 8-bit, for instance, had an asterisk notation noting that the games were licensed from Namco-America. Atari also got the rights to some of Nintendo's IP on the 5200 and 8-bit systems, but Nintendo didn't let Atari get away with taking credit for the IP, as all Atari-published versions clearly state "By Nintendo" in the games themselves and on the packaging. 

Namco actually got its start in video games after Nolan Bushnell realized that Atari Japan was not a legal business. He had started it unawarae of Japanese business regulations and was eventually forced to sell the company, and since Namco was already helping distribute his games, that was the natural buyer.

Tales of Symphonia is my favorite Gamecube RPG. It was really the herald of proper RPGs returning to Nintendo systems. The Gamecube version also runs at 60FPS, which no other version does. All subsequent versions of the game were based off of the inferior PS2 version and can only do 30FPS. Even modders haven't been able to get the modern versions to run in 60 FPS. 

I just saw a an ad for the American Red Cross featuring Pac-Man, offering a free pair of Pac-Man socks if you donate blood.

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.