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River City Girls is very good, but also very hard.  I haven't beaten it yet.  I enjoyed Streets of Rage 4 more as it was more approachable for me.  And I had so much fun playing it with my brother Jeff.  We would gang up on bad guys and 'baby duck' them.  That's a phrase we came up with, and if you want an idea what it means, watch the 'baby duck' episode of Regular Show.

Aside from the orignal GBA game, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is my favorite.  I just reviewed Shantae and the Seven Sirens and it's a lot like Pirate's Curse, just a little bit easier.  Not that I'm complaining about that.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2020/06/26/shantae-and-the-seven-sirens-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile/

I don't like strategy RPGs, but I did play one this year that I enjoyed.  And that was The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics.  Of course, a lot of the reasons why I liked it have to do with how much I enjoyed the Netflix show.  But I still say check it out if you can.  Both the game and the show.  I'll definitely be giving the game a mention when I write my 'Game of the Year SO FAR' blog later this month.

I never played much of the PS3 Ratchet and Clank game because I got it very late in the PS3 lifecycle.  The PS4 just runs so much better, although I didn't get my PS4 until two years after it was released, and I got it on a Black Friday sale.

Since you mentioned Jurassic Park, have you played the LEGO Jurassic World game?  It's one of the better LEGO games out there and very funny.

I graduated high school in the spring of 1995 and started college in the fall of 1995, so that year was a whirlwind for me.  But there were two games that year that stuck out in my mind (or at least I could think of off the top of my head): Chrono Trigger and Yoshi's Island.

I usually would go trick or treating with one of my best friends.  But since I don't like candy very much, I usually gave him more than half of my haul.  I just kept the candy I liked, which wasn't very much.  Even as a kid I never had much of a sweet tooth.

I don't know if I'm at max capacity, but I could certainly do better at organization and stuff.

It certainly had the charm and trick or treating nostalgia.  But for me, gameplay is king, and for RPGs, that means I have to really like the battles to keep going.  It's a shame that trick or treating has become almost dead, though.  It was a big deal when I was a kid.

Yeah I have a lot of boxes lying around, too.

Yeah, but games like the Mario RPG titles did that kind of battle system much better.

Yeah anime DVDs are usually pretty expensive.  I rewatched the original Star Blazers back when I first got Netflix.  This was back when I played a lot of 360 in its heyday.  I don't know if it's on there anymore, as that was a very long time ago.  Rewatching it again, I'd have to say that was a surprisingly dark cartoon to release in the US back in the late 70's!  But then, I only watched it as a little kid because it had spaceships in it.  Little Cary was pretty easily amused.  Heck, I watched The Dukes of Hazzard simply because it had cars jumping over ramps.