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I thought it was interesting to have a beat 'em up with a top down view, but yeah, the game wasn't very good.

1991 was a great year for games.  I got a SNES two weeks before it came out officially, and Super Mario World, ActRaiser, and FF4 were tops.

Don't worry, I'm not doing a blog a day either.  I will post a couple of blogs this month (in fact I just posted one), and I'll read and post comments on others' blogs, but my priority is on game reviews at GamerDad.com.

Pac-Man is my all time favorite video game and the first video game I ever played.

That second statement isn't ENTIRELY true, as the first game I ever played was a Pong clone on a TV my dad built.  But I didn't realize that was a video game.  I thought it was something you could do on the TV when there wasn't anything interesting on.  So Pac-Man was the first time I REALIZED I was playing a video game.

When I was very little, I was watching the news with my dad and they showed people building these big yellow machines.  I didn't know what they were, but they had a lighted marquee and a coin slot, so I thought it was a soda machine.  A few months later, I was with my mom at the Kroger grocery store and saw that same machine that was on TV.  I asked my mom if I could go look at it while she was in the checkout lane, and she said yes.  When she was finished buying groceries, she came over and gave me a quarter to try it.  Turns out that big yellow machine was a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, and if my mom only knew what she started by giving me that quarter!  All the way home I was talking non stop about that Pac-Man game (keep in mind I was like, 5).  

Ever since then I was hooked.  As a kid I watched the Pac-Man cartoon, slept on Pac-Man bedsheets, and carried a Pac-Man lunchbox to school. And as an adult, I still have a full size Pac-Man arcade machine in my garage.  So yeah, that game is kind of a big deal to me.

I've never heard of that one.  I think my favorite obscure Game Boy competitor was the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

No Detective Pikachu or Kirby Battle Royale?

If you want to play the first one on NES, I'd hghly recommend trying the remake instead.  It's called Metroid: Zero Mission and it's on GBA.

I disagree, but I still enjoyed the game anyway!  Maybe next time they can have a happy medium with old and new!

My number one favorite game of all time is from 1980.  You can probably guess what it is.

Samus Returns was one of my top games from last year.  Your first Metroid game, huh?  Well if you like it a lot and want more, I suggest tracking down Super Metroid on SNES or one of the Metroid Prime games.