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I remember playing Qix a few times as a kid.  I think there must've been a big Taito distributor in the early days of arcades near where I lived, because there sure were a lot of early Taito games around neaby arcades back then.

I didn't play Qix much as a kid because I didn't understand it at first, and it was kind of hard.  Also that wavy stick thing made me nervous.  I wasn't scared of it like I was SiniStar, but it was unnerving.  Plus, I usually spent my hard earned quarters playing games I was better at, so I could make my money last longer.

I think it's interseting how many sequels and spinoffs to Qix there are!  I didn't realize there were so many until I played the Taito Legends games.  I also remember the Game Boy Qix game because Nintendo published it and Mario was in it!

My brother Jeff loves the Qix games, though.  He loved that game and Elevator Action, two Taito titles I didn't get into as much, myself.

I think the only thing I would've done in Shenmue would be play arcade games and collect toys.  Same goes with the Yakuza game I played.  All I did was play arcade games and talk to the cute arcade lady.

I didn't do too much with the character creation in SC6, as compared to how much time I spent making characters in SC4 and 5.  I did make some really buff and strong versions of Ulala and the Ridge Racer lady, though.

I rented this back in the day for my dad to play.  He liked to play flight simulators and enjoyed the Top Gun movie, so I figured he'd enjoy it.  Yeah we couldn't land the thing either.  Definitely one of the worst NES games ever made.  It was games like Top Gun (and also Hydlide) that taught me a lesson back then.  That lesson was: when renting games, make sure to rent two.  That way, if one is a stinker, you have another to fall back on.  Because you were stuck with those games the whole weekend!  I rented a lot of games as a kid because it only cost a buck to rent a game for a weekend, which was a lot more feasable than saving 40 bucks.  Kids just didn't have that much money back then!

Enchanted diamond pants do not sound comfortable.

I only have PInball FX becasue I get free review codes of tables to review.  I'd like to try the others, but the prices would add up after a while, plus I don't have time to play ALL of those.

What's your favorite real life pinball table?  Mine's Cirqus Voltaire.

For a while my brother Jeff was into one of the later Sims games.  I'll just stick to Animal Crossing, myself.

Oh it was a Kinect game?  No wonder why I hadn't heard of it.

Huh, that's strange.  I don't remember this game, and I usually try to keep up with the Disney games.  Speaking of which, right now I'm playing Kingdom Hearts 3.  I haven't talked about it, though, because I know people don't like spoilers about games like that.

It's not a good game, but it is a creative take on the Galaga style shooter that was popular at the time.  First time I saw DK 3 was at a hotel but I didn't have time to play it then when I was a kid.  I kept thinking to myself, "Whatever happened to Donkey Kong 2?" Not realizing Jr. was DK2.

Those Skylander comics look interesting.  It's hard for me to get into comic books for several reasons.  It's hard for me to get to comic book stores when I can't drive, and even though an individual comic book is cheap, they do add up after a while.  Especially considering half the comic is ads anyway.  But there are some comics I wish I could keep up with, like DuckTales or the Mystery Science Theater 3000 comic.