I'd say the DKC games getting yanked from Wii's VC probably did have something to do with legal issues between Nintendo and Rare/MS, and the two parties came to some sort of agreement so that Nintendo could post them on the Wii U VC.
Klonoa was the only PS1 platformer I gave a damn about. I rather liked it. Otherwise, the N64 was my go-to system for the genre in the late 90s.
Bleh. I hate the F2P (aka Pay To Win) model. It's completely destroyed whatever little interest I had in Android and iOS as gaming platforms. The game is artificially gimped in order to prod you into paying for getting around the gimped parts, essentially asking you to pay NOT to play the game. I can not play the game just fine by not downloading it to begin with.
Lots of seafood. Crab cakes and other crabmeat dishes are especially popular here.
Yeah, I love Rudy's. They had them in Oklahoma, but not in Maryland. :(
I tried this a couple of times at store kiosks. Looked interesting, but I think the concept wasn't quite ready for prime time. Since then, I've become a fan of the Yakuza series. It isn't quite like Shenmue (more emphasis on adventuring/fighting and it has an almost RPG-like structure to it), but I think it fits the bill. I'd like to see the Yakuza team try a reboot of Shenmue.
I have friends in Boston (and Maine, of course), and I've been to New York City three times now. As far as the West Coast goes, I've traveled the entire length of I-5 from the Mexican border in San Diego to the Canadian border in Washington. At some point I would like to move to California, it's an amazing place.
Yeah, it's cold. Not quite as cold or snowy as New England, but it's still cold for someone used to 60-70 degrees this time of year. :)
Hey, now, in our defense, it's still a much shorter drive from MD to Maine than it is to Florida (even to Jacksonville at the FL-GA border), and Baltimore is a part of BosWash, after all. And while it isn't near as snowy here as it is in New England, it's still never been above freezing since I got here. :)
Besides, our perceptions of "west" have changed, too. When the Constitution was ratified, the "western frontier" referred to the Pittsburgh area, after all. They weren't even thinking about places like TX, AZ, or CA back then. :)
It's a new experience for me, living out here. I've visited the Northeast quite a few times over the years, but it's still a lot different than what I'm used to from places like Oklahoma, Arizona, or California. Sure is pretty though.
