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Well whoever wins the tournament, I hope the winner gives the Ms. Pac-Man machine to me! :)

Yoshi's Island is one of the best 2-D platformers ever made.  I love the crayon graphics.  It's like Nintendo was rebellious since everyone else at this time was using pre-rendered 3-D visuals.  And what they did with the Super FX chip was amazing.

It's also a special game to me because this came out when I was in college, so I played it a lot with my roommate and his girlfriend (now wife) and also I played it with my little brothers.  So I have a lot of good memories associated with it.

I really liked the clay graphics in Rainbow Curse.  It's not my favorite Kirby game, but I do like it better than its predecessor, Canvas Curse.

Paper Mario: Color Splash isn't very good.  But luckily Origami King is much better.

Link's Awakening is my all time favorite Zelda game.  The Switch remake was my GOTY last year.

And if it does get too fan service-y, it's my own darn fault for liking so many female fighter characters!  But what can I say, they're more interesting.  Now all we need is a story.  Why are all these ladies fighting?

I don't mind a little bit of fan service in games, I mean, look at some of my favorite characters.  It's just when they overdo it is when it annoys me.  LIke with DOA Volleyball, Rumble Roses, or that last SNK Heroines fighter.  

Racing around giant indoor environments is what drew me to review the game, but you can't get to those until you unlock them by racing around boring forest and mountain tracks.  And the game is so awful I wasn't going to get that far!

A Space Channel 5 sequel would be neat.  Only problem is I'm awful at those games.  I'd like to play the VR game, though.  Because...ah, well, just because.

I'm a huge fan of Wallace and Gromit and loved the movie.  It's a shame the studio where they made it burned down the day after the movie premiered.  

2005 was still a good year for me, as nothing much had changed.  My Game of the Year was Psychonauts.  Unfortunately, the last half of the next year 2006 wasn't so great.  But we'll get to that later.

Yes I have that Popeye game.  Namco published it in the US.  They published a lot of weird GBA games during its twilight years, like a Gumby game and a Berenstain Bears game.

I think FFX was even more turned based.  I think FF12 was when it got more action-y.  But I don't really know for sure because FF games are a mystery to me after FF9.  I think FF12 had a cool female character with rabbit ears, though.  I hope she had a carrot sword.