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Sometimes people say that Mario is also in the original NES Golf game (programmed by Iwata), but then sometimes NIntendo says, "Oh no, that was 'Ossan'" which is Japanese for middle aged man.  The original NES Golf is one of the few NES games I could get my dad to play.  I thought about getting him NES Open Tournament Golf for Father's Day when I was a kid, but he said he was perfectly happy with the original.

I played the N64 Mario Tennis game over at a friend's house.  It was fun, but I never got it myself.  I did review the Mario Tennis game on GBA, though.  I loved Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on GameCube and played it a ton.  For some reason, I couldn't get into the 3DS version.  I also have the Strikers games, they're a lot of fun.  I'm glad Namco made the Mario Baseball games because they have lots of experience with their Family Stadium (Famista) series in Japan.  The very first Famista game was brought over to the US as R.B.I. Baseball.

I had the first Mario & Sonic Olympic game and it was horrible so I didn't get any of the others.  Did you know there is an arcade version of it?  I actually liked Mario Sports Mix for its simplicity, and if you beat Story Mode in single player, you get to fight a giant Bahamut from Final Fantasy using sports skills in the other games!  I also really liked the horse racing game in Mario Sports Superstars.  Did you know Namco helped make that part, too?  They also have a horse racing series in Japan called Family Jockey, so that's probably why.

I could never get into tennis games, though.  Only one I really liked was SEGA Superstars Tennis (Ulala was in it).  To me, most tennis video games are just glorified Pong games.  So I'll probably skip out on Mario Tennis Aces.

I didn't remember Colony 7, but after looking at screenshots, I can see why I forgot about it.

DK64 hasn't aged as well as Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel.

You could tell LEGO Avengers was made by Traveler's Tales' B team.

Yeah I'm glad Dragon's Crown Pro is coming out.  I've wanted to play that again and not hook up my PS3, which was sputtering the last time I used it.  PS4 is so much better.  Can you guess who my favorite Dragon's Crown character is?

The Game & Watch Gallery games are FANTASIC!  Glad to hear someone else besides me never heard of Game & Watch back then.  Where did they sell them?  I never saw them as a kid until the NES came out.

Yeah normally I don't mind ports.  I may not rebuy them, but I don't mind them.  But I hate how they're re-releasing Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, a game I loved on the Wii U.  I don't want to rebuy the game again just for a few Odyssey levels.  Just make a freaking sequel, Nintendo!  

And also, I only enjoyed Hyrule Warriors as a co-op game, and it didn't take very long to beat that way.  So now that I'm not playing co-op games as much anymore, I don't think I want to rebuy the game again, even if it has all the DLC.  Although I would do that if Smash was a port.  I'm just a bit wishy washy, I suppose.

Yeah like I said before, I had never heard of this game as a kid and I've never seen the cabinet ever, even after I learned about it.  I think it's because i've lived in the Bible Belt my whole life.

My review:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2017/12/15/lego-marvel-super-heroes-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc/

I at least liked it better than LEGO Avengers.

Whew!  That game sounds like math!

Let me know if there's anything in FFXV you think I would iike.

So HAL Laboratory, makers of Kirby and Smash Bros., just released their first mobile game in the US.  It's called Part Time UFO.  Check it out if you're interested.

 I never heard of Strategy X.  But that was one neat thing about Game Room is that Konami especially put some of their more obscure game titles on there.  One of my favorites was Kit N Kaboodle, a block pushing maze game.

It's a shame that Game Room didn't get more support, and that the company who did it didn't go out of business.  I would've loved it if Namco jumped on board.  But my main problem with Game Room is that it was such a memory hog.  I had to eventually take it off my hard drive.  I should've sprung for the Elite model 360, but back when I got the 360 in 2007, who knew how big digital games and DLC would take off?