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I'm looking forward to FFXV more and more. I was concerned about it for awhile myself, given Square Enix's problems with FFXIII (which I enjoyed) and FF Versus/XV itself. And Square Enix's weak console showing on PS3/Xbox 360/Wii. Most of what was enjoyable from them was stuck on DS or PSP.

That said, they've done quite a nice turnaround on PS4, though they still have a ways to go before they catch up to the days of Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Quest VIII. Two of my favorite games of last year were Square Enix titles, Final Fantasy Type-0 and Dragon Quest Heroes. And everything I've seen on FFXV looks and plays great. Can't wait for November.

FF Type-0 was really good. I loved it. And I like what I've seen of FFXV. Can't wait.

If it works as both a handheld and a console and the games don't take a hit in quality, I'm sold on it. Especially if Breath of the Wild is a launch title. Throw Dragon Quest XI on top of that and it will sweeten the deal.

I'm sticking with my PS4 for now. If I get a new one it will be a Neo.

I'll probably try PSVR, especially if it comes down in price a bit and there are games that interest me on it, which means I want something other than EA or Activision first-person shooters.

Blech, management change. Those always fill me with trepidation. Even when the outgoing manager sucked, at least you generally knew where you stood with them, and it was basically the devil you know versus one you don't know.

I might download Peggle at some point. I like the odd pick-up-and-play game like that, though I prefer old arcade classics and abhor what passes for gaming on iOS and Android.

I have the Pac-Man fever vinyl album, too, but I'm thinking of downloading it onto my phone so I can listen to it in my car during those long drives down I-95 and on the Beltway.

Ugh, that blows about the PS4. Non-Nintendo consoles can sometimes be spotty. I still have my launch PS4 and it's still working perfectly. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. My PS1 and PS2 lasted two years before they started giving me disc read errors, while my PS3 lasted a long time before yellow-lighting.  The only Nintendo console I ever had fail on me was a Nintendo 64 (still outlived my PS1 though!). My launch Game Boy still works and that thing has taken almost as much punishment as the Gulf War Game Boy!

I kind of want to start looking for Fragile Dreams on the Wii. I'm also wanting to find Sakura Wars: So Long My Love. That's one of my favorite games of all time. I have the PS2 collectors' edition, but I don't have a system to play it on now. I was playing PS2 games on my OG 60GB PS3 fatty, and that console bought the farm around New Years'. I'll probably try to get it fixed, but it still sucks, and in the meantime, I've kind of wanted to play Sakura Wars again (mostly since I started replaying Valkyria Chronicles, which was made by many of the same people.)

The first time, my Game Boy simply stayed at home. My dad was in the military for over 20 years and he is also an expert on electronics and anything to do with radio/television. He told me that I probably wouldn't be able to take my Game Boy on the plane due to potential radio interference, so I didn't. I wasn't mad until I saw the flight crew playing their Game Boys. My dad actually called Space-A and confirmed that while I couldn't actually play my Game Boy, it could travel with me. So it went to Germany that summer. And when we were trying to fly back home from Rhein Main Airbase near Frankfurt (at a bad time to catch a military flight home to the US, it turned out; we eventually had to catch a commercial flight from Frankfurt to JFK in New York City and then had to take a Greyhound bus from New York City to Oklahoma City) a boy my age was interested in my Game Boy. His dad was an American airman, but his mother was German and he had lived his entire life in Germany and spoke little English. So with his dad intepreting, I shared my Game Boy and we had a good time. That Game Boy kept me sane during the ordeal of trying to get home! When I first got the Game Boy, I got Super Mario Land in addition to the Tetris that came with it, and by that summer, I was probably playing The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle.

One of my souvenirs from Germany was a German-language Tom and Jerry comic book that I bought at a convenience store. One of my most memorable experiences was us going to McDonald's in Germany and finding out that 1) they served beer at McDonald's and 2) you actually had to pay for ketchup pouches, about 50 pfennig for a ketchup pouch.

I've actually played a couple of the more obscure games on this blog. Attack of the Mutant Camels was a knockoff of the Atari 2600 Star Wars game where you shot AT-AT walkers, only you were shooting giant mutant camels instead. It was written by Jeff Minter, who also wrote a game called Hover-Bovver where the object was for you to successfully mow your lawn, and who later went on to develop Tempest 2000 for the Jaguar.

Jumpman Junior was a Donkey Kong style jumper that had looser physics and a lot of BS deaths.

I never saw the original box art for these games until years later. My copies were given to me by my uncle on self-made floppy disks. :)

The last time I saw a movie in theaters was when I took my wife to see Star Wars: TFA on New Years'. I almost never go to movies otherwise. As far as the movies above, the online hysteria over Ghostbusters reminds me again of why I deleted my Twitter account and never looked back. Twitter is like the open sewer of the Internet.

VisuaLIES reminded me of something with his post. In 1989-1990, my family visited Germany. The first time in 1989 was more of a trip to Dover AFB in Delaware with a 19 hour layover in Germany wherein I was miffed because the Air Force told my dad that I couldn't bring my brand  new Game Boy onto the plane because of radio interference only to find the Air Force crew playing their brand new Game Boys during the flight to Germany. The second time, July 1990 was three weeks. I saw a lot of posters for a movie called "Der Fledermausman (The Flying Mouse Man)" with a familiar logo. "Der Fledermausman" was the German title for the Batman movie with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. There were even more posters for "Zurück in die Zukunft III", which translates to "Back to the Future Part III".