PixlBit

Oh great! I miss reading your posts here. 

I hope I really get into some of them instead of being frustrated like I usually am with platformers. 

I noticed David Crane was wearing a Stampede belt buckle in interviews on the Atari 50 collection. Stampede is one of my favorites on 2600. I really want that belt buckle. 

I have a feeling they will be tough as nails, but I want to play them anyway. 

They are. Rune was fun and Blade of Darkness, though challenging, has a lot of good atmosphere. In DMC, I remember a lot of long, button-mashy chains of X/O/square/triangle. I want to try and finish it again though. 

Co-op would be excellent but my usual co-op friend doesn't seem to interested. I think a while back, on the Capcom Beat 'em Up Bundle, I played one of those games with a random online player, which is a neat feature in that collection. I would love to play the coin-op cabinets sometime. I think my last year in the arcades was about 1989 or so, and I mainly played Gauntlet, 1943 and Sky Shark.  

Oh wow. I didn't know you could get them that cheap. 

I liked all those games, but I've never played them in an arcade. That would be fun. 

Those Lego sets are cool but I can never afford them. 

Yeah, I think I wasn't hugely into it, just it was different. 

Yeah, those big characters are in a few games. Odd choice I guess.