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Opening Match: Mario is too busy getting busy with Peach and possibly Pauline, so he literally phones it in. As in, he phones the ring and tells them to declare him the winner. Which they do. Chrono Cross resigns itself to a consolation prize of a night for one at the Desert Sands Motel in Stanfield, Arizona, where it has only the company of a 1974 issue of Playboy and the smell of the Stanfield stockyards. 

Closing Match: Ched Quest is doing well, but Tetris gets a Tetris. The resulting block explosion squashes Chex Quest into the ceiling. Chex Quest sounds surprisingly like Doomguy when he dies. 

Mortal Kombat mania was huge. I was even more hyped for MK2 (Nothing.... NOTHING can prepare you.) Especially when I saw the SNES version in a playable demo. 

I originally played TP on GameCube, which is the canon version, judging by the fact that the Wii U version is based on the GC version. Motion controls are why I didn't finish Skyward Sword on Wii. I finished it on Switch using the Pro Controller.

Single greatest game ever made at the time of its release. Nothing made in the 16-bit era on any platform even came close. It's still part of my "holy trinity" of Zelda games, the other two being Breath of the Wild and Twilight Princess. 

I love my Switch. I have my launch year model. I own more games for Switch than any other platform I've ever had.

I recently learned that there is a Game Boy port as well. And watching it on YouTube, it's pretty good.

Cage Match:

Chrono Cross takes Dead Space in a somewhat difficult match.

Area 51 gets into the ring, sees Mario, and is like, "OH, COME ON!" before storming out of the ring in a huff.

www.atarimania.com

You can play almost every Atari 2600 game ever made in your browser, and download ROMs for emulation. There are also ROMs for the 5200, 7800, 8-bit, and ST, but those don't have browser emulation.

Compared to almost every Atari-era arcade conversion, the NES version of Elevator Action is a masterpiece. Even on the NES, Elevator Action is one of the better conversions, especially when even Donkey Kong had over 25 percent of the game cut out on the NES.

Yars' Revenge was my second favorite 2600 game of all time. The shape of Qotile was one of the more memorable video game icons of the time. I kind of want to play the Reimagined Yars' Revenge. 

I have Atari Flashback Classics on Switch, which combines all three volumes on one cartridge. The best Atari collection I saw was the PS2 collection, which had all kinds of scanned documentation and memorabilia, plus it had more games. Atari sold off Battlezone and a few of its other IPs in the late 2000s to stay solvent. 

One game that seems to always be missing from Atari collections is my favorite Atari 2600 game, Solaris. The guy that wrote it, Doug Neubauer (who created Star Raiders as well), managed to keep control of the rights to the game, so Atari never actually owned Solaris. That game was deep enough and pretty enough to be a NES game rather than a 2600 game.