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My friend and I rented the Double Dragon NES games a few times when we were kids, but I didn't really get into beat 'em ups until Final Fight and TMNT came along.

The helicopter boss in Double Dragon Neon is hilarious.  It tries to fly upside down to hit you with its blades.

I remember seeing Labyrinth in the theater.  I wasn't scared by any of the puppets, but David Bowie scared me in that movie as a kid.

I remember Psikyo because it sounds kind of like 'psycho.'

If I had an Xbox One, or if Farm Together had cross platform play, or if I didn't have so many other games to play right now, I'd play it with you!

I wish you could get a Switch, too!  I hate it that they're so hard to find now!

You know, Fortnite has a lot of interesting characters and such, it's just the gameplay isn't my cup of tea.  I feel the same way about Overwatch and Team Fortress 2.

Streets of Rage 4 is very good!  It won the award in my Arcade Classic Collection/Remake category, and there was a lot of competition there.  

Paper Mario: The Origami KIng doesn't seem too bad so far, although I said that about Color Splash at first until tedium set in.  It's still not the Paper Mario game anyone wants, but I'm still going to give it a chance.  I didn't put it on this list, though, because it came out after July 1st, and that was my limit on games released halfway through the year.  So maybe it'll show up on my list at the end of the year?  I think I might write a blog ranking the Paper Mario games later on, in a month or two.

I guess if you liked those games it wasn't such a bad Direct, but I still think it could've been much better.  I'm surprised you're not mad about what I said about Trials of Mana. :)

I got this one as well.  Joust is one of my favorite arcade games so I'm glad this came out. It's the only arcade cabinet ornament this year, but there are lots of other video game themed ornaments at Hallmark.  In July we get the Joust cabinet, Yoshi in a go-kart, and a NES that plays the Super Mario Bros. theme song.  I got all of those, plus an Animaniacs ornament because I like that cartoon and you don't see much merchandise from it.

In October we'll get more video game themed ornaments from Hallmark as well.  Two mini ornaments of 8-bit Mario and Luigi, a gold Zelda cartridge, Pikachu, and two store-only limited oraments of a metal Poke Ball and 8-bit Donkey Kong.  I'll be getting all of those and plan to write an article about them closer to Christmas.  There are also ornaments of Fortnite and Minecraft, but I'm not interested in those.

If they ever made a Spy Hunter cabinet ornament, I'd have to get it for my brother Jeff, because he LOVED that game when he was little.

It was, but it went downhill quickly a couple of years later!

I can't remember how expensive Streets of Rage 4 is, but I'd say 20 bucks would be a good deal. 

Dark Crystal is also worth trying out but don't expect it to blow you away or anything. Definitely check out the show, too, if you have Netflix. 

I wish Nintendo would just be honest with us about what's coming up in the future, even if they don't know themselves, what with the Coronavirus and all.  Their Direct on Monday was really bad.

My friend and I rented Rygar on the NES.  We also saw the arcade version once and was surprised how different it was.  I have the Rygar PS2 game.  You swing that yo-yo shield around and break so many columns and buildings that it felt more like Rampage!