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I've been playing the Castlevania, Contra, and Mana collections on Switch, all of them for games I missed out on, namely Castlevania: Bloodlines, Contra: Hard Corps, and Trials of Mana. Trials of Mana has been right up there with Mother 3 and Sakura Wars as my most wished-for localization. It's better than Secret of Mana in every way, starting with combat which is faster paced and actually remembers that it's an action RPG, along with six playable characters. Contra: Hard Corps is one of the funnest Contras I've played although it's a little over-animated to the point where it's hard to see enemies sometimes. Bloodlines is a great Castlevania experience. 

I still see various types of "Cruis'n" machines at pizza places and grocery stores every once in awhile. There was a new Cruis'n arcade game that came out a couple years ago, 

My first game of this type was The Great American Cross-Country Road Race, which was made by Activision in 1984 or so. 

The stage 1 music is "Humoresque," by Antonin Dvorak. The game also plays the opening bars of Foster's "Oh! Susanna" after you complete stage 4. Kangaroo, a pre-NES platformer by Sunsoft, also played that ditty when you made it ot the top of a level.

I never saw it in the arcade, either, only on Atari. I was amazed that they made a 2600 version of it though.

Outrun was probably my favorite racing game of the 80s. Sega can do racing games with the best if them. My favorite little animation was hitting something but not hard enough to roll your car and watching the girl scream at the driver and probably calling him an asshole for almost getting her killed.

I played a lot of Sega's 16-bit stuff because it's so readily available and because my Genesis-owning cohorts had Sega's games. Kinda debating on the Genesis Classic just because of one game - Alisia Dragoon, which I played at a Walmart kiosk when I was a kid and I haven't seen it re-released until now. If they could get Lunar and Lunar 2 on that thing I'd plunk down the money for a pre-order now.

Me too, goldangit.

Yep, I got the Game Boy the year it launched, complete with pack-in Tetris as well as Super Mario Land. I actually tried a few matches with a friend using the Link Cable. That said, I was more excited about playing Super Mario, Kid Icarus, and Zelda on the go.

My first encounter with Tetris was the arcade game by Atari, whose home version ended up being scuttled by the lawsuit between Nintendo and Tengen. It had a similar track called to Korobeiniki called "Troika" as well as the tracks "Loginska", "Bradinsky", and "Kalinka." There are videos of the canned Tengen NES version, and they're almost perfect conversions of the Atari version.

I read somewhere that Type-B is an original composition by Hip Tanaka in imitation of traditional Russian folk music.

I do have Puyo Puyo Tetris for the Switch, which has its own rendition of Korobeiniki in it, and I have played the occasional round of Tetris 99, which plays the same song.

I also had another idea for Cage Match. Why don't we debate the consoles themselves? The games, the graphics, the sound, controllers, and what have you. NES vs. Master System. SNES vs. Genesis vs. TG-16.  N64 vs. PS1 vs. Saturn. 3DO vs. Jaguar vs CD-i (snicker). 2600 vs Intellivision vs Colecovision vs Odyssey2 vs Astrocade. I've been playing a lot of 4th, 5th, and 6th gen re-releases lately that came from multiple systems and it really got me thinking. We could have some good discussions, and I'm sure we're all mature enough here to not degenerate into "KONSOL WARZ" mode.  I think this discussion would be especially fun concerning 4G (16-bit) and 5G (32/64-bit) consoles, now that all three of the big 16-bit consoles are going to have miniature versions. Don't forget the handhelds. That one might not be as one-sided as you'd think.

I'll probably preorder the FFVII collectors' edition. I already have Fire Emblem on pre-order.