I remember the first TJ&E being shown at Genesis kiosks at Walmart when I was a kid. It was a weird game. I'd played dungeon crawlers before (specifically, a game called Gemstone Warriors on Atari XE), but didn't make the connection to this one.
One Genesis game I wish they'd revive is this little platforming/RPG gem called Alisia Dragoon.
So your GOTY isn't Fallout 76? What's next, Kirby: Star Allies?
Smash has great visuals and the game remains pretty consistent on speed.
FFXII was great. I'll probably triple dip on it when it hits Switch next year.
My main in Smash Ultimate is Cloud.
What's your gamer tag? Maybe we can do Smash online.
Big rigs sure don't seem to do well in video games. The Angry Video Gane Nerd reviewed an incredibly bad PC game called Big Rigs. That game was too unfinished at release to even be a beta.
I really enjoyed 2018 in gaming. A lot of my favorite franchises got sequels, and my GOTY is a toss-up between Valkyria Chronicles 4 and Dragon Quest XI. My GOTY for past games is Donkey Kong on Switch, the first time my favorite arcade game of all time got a home release in its original glory.
FFXII is an amazing game. I bought it new on PS2 and took a day off of work for it when it came out, I bought it again on PS4. And what the heck, I'll probably triple dip on it when it comes out on the Switch (I plan to get all the Final Fantasy titles on Switch anyway.)
I also got Okami HD on Switch. I had the original on PS2 the year it came out (which was the same year FFXII and Twilight Princess came out, 2006 was a great year).
Celeste was a surprise hit. I was also one of many, many guys on forums noting that I got Celeste because my SO is named Celeste, LOL.
Congrats on the platinum! The only platinum I've ever gotten was for Final Fantasy VII on PS4. I wanted to get a platinum in Valkyria Chronicles but that game is hard to platinum. I haven't actually played DQXI yet even though I really want to. I picked up Valkyria Chronicles 4 instead.
Vanguard was one of my favorite old-school games. My best friend rented the 2600 version years ago (before we started playing NES games). When my dad got my mom an Atari 130XE, my uncle sent me boxes of pirated computer games on floppy disk. Vanguard was one of them. The 8-bit version of Vanguard was great, and it was almost better than the arcade version. Vanguard was the first scrolling shooter I saw where you could fire in multiple directions, and it was also the first game I ever saw that had a continue feature.
Time Soldiers was at a grocery store we shopped at when I was a kid. My friend claimed he read somewhere that one of the stages was in Disneyland where you fought Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and other Disney characters. Of course, that was nowhere near true. I also remember seing P.O.W. a few times.
Athena came about at a time when I was super into Greek mythology as much as I was into Hyrule. She looked a bit like another NES goddess, Palutena (which was actually a Japanese misromanization of Pallas Athena.) That game is super-hard on both the NES and in the arcades, though.
Atari just released a compilation on the Switch, with all the games from all three Flashback Classics on one cartridge.
There was one game on this collection I remember playing when I was a kid, it was called Final Legacy.
