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Never played it.  Although there is a character in it named Burger Dog, so I've always been interested.

Jeff Minter is working on Tempest 4000.  I played it at PAX West.

I hear the Tempest arcade machine is a pain in the butt to maintain.

I have a Genesis Flashback, the emulation on it is HORRIBLE!

My favorite Atari collection is the Activision Anthology on PS2.  Have you ever tried that one?

FF6 is one of my top five favorite games of all time.

I got the Dreamcast for Christmas in 1999, too!

I hated it when the dot com bubble burst.  Before then I was high on the hog writing for The Dallas Morning News and when I graduated college in 1999, companies were asking ME to write for them!  I even brought multiple company business cards with me to E3 that year!  But right after that, everyone backed out, the dot com boom went to bust, and it's been all downhill from there.  Even my dad agrees with me that I've had bad timing and luck with that, so it makes me feel good that at least one other person understands what was going on then.

I loved the SNES.  It's my favorite console and I'm glad I got the SNES Mini.  I knew it wouldn't have ALL the games I wanted on it, but it would've been neat to have ActRaiser, Chrono Trigger, the rest of the DKC games, Kirby's Dream Land 3, FF4, Lufia 2, Mario Paint, and many more!

Even though it was a generic beat 'em up, I just loved the character designs in Captain Commando.  You could be a baby driving a mech, and then you could hop into an even bigger mech!  There was a Captain Commando arcade machine at a gas station near my house back then, and my friends and I would play it all the time.

Mario Kart 64 is my third favorite Mario Kart game.  I played it so much with friends in college.

I rented Blast Corps once.  Kind of reminded me of Lemmings mixed with Rampage.

I got to review Turok for the newspaper back then.  The developers of that game were in Austin: Iguana Studios, and I interviewed them several times for school projects in college.  Many of the folks from that team went on to become Retro Studios.

I played a demo of Croc and didn't like it, so I never got the game.  There's some interesting rumors and history behind Croc, like it originally was going to be a 3-D  Yoshi game.

PaRappa the Rapper was more fun to watch than to play.  I could probably recite all the lyrics to the second song level in that game.

"Here we are, just sittin' in the car.  I want you to show me if you can go far.  Step on the gas...etc. etc."

Diddy Kong Racing was an awesome game, but it was the game that also caused me to get a PlayStation because that was the N64's big holiday release that year and I wasn't satisfied with just that.  

Yoshi's Story was fun, but ultimately disappointing compared the the great Yoshi's Island.  And yes that is the game that started Yoshi's annoying voice.  I liked his 16-bit 'bree-burp' sound better.  Sounded like someone stepped on a duck.

Gosh, I'm a child of the 80's and I don't remember those at all!  And I was into Transformers, too, for a while. But I did start to get out of it after the first animated movie.

Well, some of my favorite KOF characters include Leona Heidern, Shermie, Vanessa, and Blue Mary.  I do have a Fatal Fury hat like Terry Bogard wears, though.  SNK gave it to me at E3 a long time ago.

Considering that it's been more than 20 years since I reviewed DKC3, I don't remember much of what I wrote.  I'm sure I gave it a good review, though.