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Yeah even though Saturday Supercade and the Pac-Man cartoon were awful, we 80's kids watched them anyway because we didn't have YouTube or the Internet to get our gaming fix.  And we liked it!  Now get off my lawn!

For some reason I don't remember much of the second season.  I kind of remember the DK Jr. cartoons, but not much of Space Ace or Kangaroo.  One thing I do remember is that they would alternate one weekend having a Q*bert cartoon, and one weekend having a Pitfall cartoon.  I loved the Q*bert cartoon, but I didn't have a 2600 back then and never got into Pitfall as a kid because of that, so I was always mad on the weekends they had a Pitfall cartoon.  Years later I gained more respect for Pitfall, but as a little kid it just didn't grab me.

One of the early ideas for the Q*bert game was for him to shoot out boogers from his nose to attack enemies.  That's why one of the original names for it was Snots and Boogers.  So I think that's why Q*bert in the cartoon shot out 'slippy-doos' from his nose.  It's sad that I remember that.

Did you know that Rhonda and Quickclaw appear in one of the later 3-D Pitfall games, too?  It was one that was on the PS2 and GameCube, and later ported to the Wii under a different subtitle.  I thought it was actually a pretty good game, too, with neat dual analog controls like Ape Escape.

I have it still, but it's somewhere in storage.  Plus it's a VHS tape, so even if I had it, I'd have to figure out how to get it to work on a computer, and you know that would take some doing.

They should make a game where I visit a bunch of video game worlds.  What kind of game do you think that would be?

Yeah sometimes I like to call Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers the "Jim Cummings Show."

You had both a NES and a SEGA Master System?  You were a lucky kid.  Every kid I knew back then only had one or the other, and most had NES.

They are making an amiibo of the DQ hero in Smash.

I think I had Rayman 2 on Dreamcast.  It was good, but I lost interest in it as well, for some reason.

One year at E3, when Ubisoft was first showing off Rayman 2, they had a stage show with a talking Rayman on a green screen, and he was talking to us live.  He actually called me up on stage to interact with him for a bit, so I looked like I was in the game with him.  They gave me a video tape of me on stage with him, and when I brought it home and showed it to my little brothers, it blew their little minds that I appeared to be in a game with Rayman.  Now if only I could get into Space Channel 5... :)

My friend bought Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy when we were kids.  I liked them, but not enough to buy them for myself.  I was perfectly happy with playing them at my friend's house.  We would take turns with someone playing the game, and someone looking at maps and bestiaries to tell the other player what to do.

Remember the Captain N cartoon?  They had a Dragon Warrior episode once and my friend and I were excited because I spent the night over at his house that Friday night, and Saturday morning we got up and thought it was cool that it was a Dragon Warrior episode because that was the game we were playing at the time.

I really didn't get into RPGs myself until the SNES, with games like FF4, FF6, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, etc.  And since none of the 16-bit Dragon Quest games came out over here, I missed out on those, so Dragon Quest was never a series I got into as much.  My favorite Dragon Quest game is Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime on the DS.  If you've never played it, you really should!

Yeah I'll definitely visit.  Like before, it'll take a bit of pre-planning, but we'll do it.  Get used to getting presents in the mail in the meantime, though.

Well at least Druaga has a sword button. :)  I think a lot of other games were inspired by Druaga, too, including The Legend of Zelda!

Ys and Cadash are great, but they do suffer from some problems that old games have that have been improved upon since then.

I got the Splatterhouse game on 360 for 20 bucks.  It was actually the special edition from Namco's Web site when they had a huge sale, so it came with a Terror Mask statue, too!  I also got the game because I knew it had the three classic titles on it, but you have to beat the main game to unlock those, which I knew I'd never do after playing it.  Blech.  Only good thing I can say about the new Splatterhouse game is that Jim Cummings was the voice of the Terror Mask.  I was hoping he'd say something like "Let's get dangerous." but I don't think that happened.