PixlBit

I remember watching three of the four robot cartoons you listed.  Voltron was one of my first introductions to anime, alongside Star Blazers.  Of course I was a big Transformers fan, and the Go-Bots cartoon felt like a budget Transformers so I mostly avoided that one.  But I had never remembered watching The Mighty Orbots.  I didn't even know about it until many years later, when I watched it with some friends I made after college.  Seemed pretty cool.

Man I loved watching Starcade when I was a kid.  I always wanted to be in that arcade they started out in.  I learned about a lot of arcade games from watching that show.

Wait did I read that right that you said the animation in He-Man "isn't that bad?"  I have to disagree on that one!  That's the poster child for bad animation in 80s cartoons.  I never got into He-Man toys, but I had to watch the cartoon because my mom watched a lot of the neighborhood kids and they all wanted to watch it.  

You know about the female version of He-Man, right?  She-Ra?  Well when I was a kid, I was playing outside with a neighbor kid and he asked, "What's your mom's name?" And I said, "Sheilah."  And his eyes got real big and he said, "Whoa, your mom is She-Ra?"  My mom heard that and loved it, so from then on we had to watch that cartoon, too.  To this day, my mom names her characters in video games "She-Ra."

There's a new He-Man cartoon on Netflix and most everyone hates it, and I can't blame them.  But I watched it all anyway because they take some crazy liberties with the plot, and it's almost the same plot as Final Fantasy 6's, so that got me intrigued.  Plus other characters besides He-Man use the sword to power-up, so that got my attention.

Yeah I didn't get far in Fantasy either.  There's a part where you're supposed to land a balloon on a pirate ship and avoid the cannon fire, and I couldn't do it.

I've heard good things about It Takes Two.  I don't have anyone in my life right now to play it with me, so it's not a big priority for me, though.

I'm really looking forward to that Mario RPG remake as well as Detective Pikachu Returns, WarioWare: Move It!, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.  Any one of those could easily topple Tears of the Kingdom for me.

Yes there is a Mario RPG remake coming and it looks amazing!

Gameplay-wise, Theatrhythm games play very similarly to Taiko games, so if you like Final Fantasy music (and who doesn't?) you may want to check them out.

I think most Nintendo games control pretty well, it's just some like Tears of the Kindgom and Luigi's Mansion take a little getting used to.

Link has a belt?

I know I played Pac-Man when I was five, so I must've not played it untll 1981.  But I was just a little kid and didn't have access to arcades or much of anything really.  Looking back now, it seems that big 1981 titles would've been Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Galaga.  The ones on your list I had never seen in arcades, but I did play Fantasy on the SNK collection.  Love that digital voice!

Yeah I can do it now, but it took a while.  I still press the wrong buttons for things every now and then.  I'm not good with games where you use every single button on the controller.  And I still haven't figured out things like how to surf on your shield or attach things to it.  And how Zonai batteries work.  

When I was a kid I used to watch Ultraman and Godzilla movies a lot.  After the Saturday morning cartoons were over, one local station would usually show a giant monster movie like that.  Later as a teenager, my younger brothers would watch a lot of Power Rangers.  At first my reaction to that was like, "Ugh, how stupid." But then I remembered all the Godzilla and Ultraman shows I watched as a kid and realized they weren't that much different than Power Rangers.  And of course, I'm a huge fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and that has a lot of those kinds of movies as well.  Especially Gamera.

I miss those pinball collections.  Pinball FX kind of ruined those, especially now that they are on a subscription service.  And I loved how many games Taito Legends 1 and 2 had on them!

I dunno, there's a lot of things that took me a while to get used to.  LIke attaching things to arrows.  First you gotta hold down a button to aim, then press and hold another button on the other JoyCon, then on the opposite JoyCon you gotta use the stick to cycle through what you want to attach.  And then you have to tilt your head, stick out your tongue, and stand on one foot.  OK I made that last one up, but you get the idea.  And I sitll haven't figured out stuff like how to surf on your shield or attach things to it.