PixlBit

Yeah you gotta wonder how reliable a wordhippo would be? :)

Just as long as I can play all the new games on my old Switch, I'll be all right.  You know how when Nintendo brought out all those 3DS XL and New 3DS and 2DS etc.?  Well I still use my old original 3DS!  Sure I'd love to have a bigger screen, but why spend all that money when the one I have works just fine?

When 1up.com shut down, I went to two different places to make new blogs: here at PixlBit and at IGN.  I figured if I didn't like one, I'd just focus on the other one.  Well, after three blogs at IGN, I stopped and just stuck with PixlBit.  It was just too hard to find blogs I wanted to read, and I had no idea if anyone was reading mine.  

I haven't visited IGN in years.  Which is a shame because for a long time I was a big supporter of them and visited them even back when they were just N64.com.  But there came a point where they just got worse and worse, plus I was getting all my gaming news through press releases that were emailed to me anyway.

Oh yes, Monster Hunter is very popular in Japan.  In fact, a few years ago in the 3DS game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, for a limited time you could get Monster Hunter furniture to decorate with.  Even in the US!

Yeah they are hard!  I think the only ninja games I ever beat was I-Ninja and the TMNT arcade games.

Gesundheit (sorry).

Oh that makes "Chiki" sound like even less sense! :)

One cool thing about Shadow is that he has a dog.

I've never played Monster Hunter Stories (or any Monster Hunter game for that matter), but in Japan they did release six different amiibo figures of Monster Hunter Stories and I have them all.  I wonder if they'd still work on the US version of the game?

I remember reading about Pocket Monsters in Nintendo Power about a year before it came out in the US.  I put it in the back of my mind.  A year later I was writing game reviews for a major newspaper, and I went to my first E3 and saw how Pokemon was going to be marketed in the US, and I knew it would be a hit.  Speaking of which, according to my original press kit (which I still have), the Pokemon slogan was "Catch 'em if you can," not "Gotta Catch 'em All" and Ash's name was Casey.  Anyway, when I got back from E3, I told my editior I wanted to cover everything Pokemon.  He was like, "Yeah, sure, whatever."  But he kept his word, and when the game did come out, I was writing Pokemon articles left and right when it got popular.  I was getting paid for my artciles back then, so I like to say that Pokemon helped pay my way through college.  I don't play Pokemon as much now, but I sure do have memories about it back then!