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I think these games were more popular in Europe, too.  Never played them, myself.

Never played Last of Us.  I hated how Jak & Daxter went from a charming game to a unnecessary dark and gritty sequel for no apparent reason.

I freaking love this game.  Rented the NES version all the time as a kid, and my brother Jeff and I played it on a PSOne collection when he was little.

I was at a discount store the other day and they had packages of old comic books you could buy.  But they were all X-Men and Fantastic Four stuff that didn't interest me.  Except according to the covers, apparently She Hulk was part of the Fantastic Four for a while I guess.  

Remember when music videos were super popular in the 80's?  I remember when we first got cable and I'd see all these commercials where people were saying "I want my MTV!"  I had no idea what MTV was when I was a little kid and saw those commercials.  I thought it was just a special kind of TV.

In the Japanese version of his game, Karnov is actually a bad guy.  Kind of like Wario before Wario even existed.

Karnov is probably forgotten because his company, Data East, is out of business.  He did show up in a lot of games, though!

When I was a kid, I had a Russian Blue cat and I wanted to give him a Russian name.  But I was just a little kid and didn't know any Russian names.  My dad suggested Chekov, after the guy from Star Trek, so we went with that.  I'm not even a big Star Trek fan either.  But If I got another Russian Blue cat, I know what I would name it: Karnov!

I never got into NBA Jam but boy it sure was popular in the arcade!  Everyone was crowded around it.  They've even referenced it in cartoons like Regular Show!

I never got into the Assassin's Creed games, but I watched my brother play one and the only things I can remember about it is that you can fall from 20 stories high and be OK if you land in a tiny haystack.  And you can feed animals by summoning bread crumbs from your hand that wasn't there before!  That's some kind of super power!

I never got into D&D, but my first taste of RPGs was on the NES with Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy.  I liked them, but not enough to buy them myself.  I was perfectly happy playing them over at a friend's house.  It wasn't until the SNES and FF4 that I got really into RPGs myself.  I was especially into them during the 16-bit days.  FF6 is even one of my top five favorite games of all time.  But in the 32-bit era and beyond, I kind of got out of RPGs.  I had too many other commitments and RPGs were getting too long for my tastes.  But I still dabble in RPGs from time to time, like FF9, Tales of Legendia, or Mario RPGs. 

As a kid, I remember the local game rental store had a couple of NES Dizzy games unlicensed by Nintendo for rent.  I also remember reading that Dizzy was more popular in Europe.  But yeah, I've never played a Dizzy game.  They sound frustrating, though.