Tales of Symphonia is my favorite Gamecube RPG. It was really the herald of proper RPGs returning to Nintendo systems. The Gamecube version also runs at 60FPS, which no other version does. All subsequent versions of the game were based off of the inferior PS2 version and can only do 30FPS. Even modders haven't been able to get the modern versions to run in 60 FPS.
I just saw a an ad for the American Red Cross featuring Pac-Man, offering a free pair of Pac-Man socks if you donate blood.
Dreamcast had some cool games like SoulCalibur. I never got one, though. I got FF8 on PS1 instead of a Dreamcast and got a PS2 a couple of years later. I do have Skies of Arcadia Legends on Gamecube.
There actually was a Dragonriders of Pern game made on early 80s computer systems. It was made by Epyx. It was a diplomacy/resource management game, though it did have some arcade shooter sequences where you were mounted on a dragon and fighting Thread. That one and the Dreamcast game are the only Pern games I know of.
I mean, all Tom needs is a bunch of neck and back tattoos and he's basically Kazuma Kiryu. He even wears a shirt similar to the one that Kaz wears in Yakuza 3 when he's on Okinawa.
In Animal Crossing: NH, Tom Nook comes off as a G-rated mob boss/loan shark. Dude constantly keeps you in debt. They should have kept Resetti in the game as Tom Nook's debt collector. There's even a dude on the island who fences stolen/counterfeit artwork.
I have, in the past, referred to Ys 8 as Gilligan's Island: The RPG. The princess is pretty much Ginger, and Sahad is the Skipper.
Ultima I (or at least the 1987 remake) had the same sequence in it. In Ultima 2, you could visit all planets in the solar system, but only Planet X had anything of importance on it. Neptune was a grassy plain with a computer camp in it.
That's probably not going to happen. I looked up Konami's market cap. It is worth $20bn USD, which is larger than any Japanese game company other than Nintendo and almost as big as EA or Take-Two (and EA, as of this writing is about to get bought out by the Saudis and a consortium of venture capitalists including Kushner).
Boulder Dash has been a nearly lifelong favorite of mine, since i first played it on the A8.
Alleyway was the first Game Boy game I bought. I got mine at Christmas, along with the pack-in Tetris game and Super Mario Land.
I love Gaplus. I have it on Switch.
Saturn emulation was notoriously difficult in the past, but it is much better now, though I still had to work on it a bit to get it running well on EmuDeck.
