PixlBit

The first Trails in the Sky was very draining for Xseed financially, which is why there was such a long wait between its release and Second Chapter. The Legend of Heroes games are very heavy in dialogue. And First Chapter is smaller than Second or Third Chapters. They contracted the second game's translation out to a company called Carpe Fulgur, and the guy who leads that company supposedly had a nervous breakdown while working on Second Chapter due to the pressure. I don't know if Xseed handled the translation of Trails of Cold Steel or if they contracted out to Carpe Fulgur or some other outside party.

I played some of your Mario Maker levels (left stars and a comment on your Miiverse page as well). Mad props, man, mad props.

Personally, I would kill for original arcade versions of Donkey Kong and Mario Bros instead of the crappy NES versions. I'd also like Nintendo's Popeye arcade game, but I realize that Nintendo isn't going to deal with the licensing behind that these days.

From Square, I would want FFI-XII in a single collection. For the SNES games I want the original SNES roms instead of the iOS/Android ports they push these days.

Namco has actually done a pretty fair job of curating its classic library. You can buy all five volumes of Namco Museum on PSN for play on PS3 or Vita, and they usually offer their old games in muti-game bundles. The Namco Museum titles are unfortunately not 100% comprehensive and are missing classics like Rolling Thunder, but they're pretty good.

Yeah, instruction booklets used to be a lot of the fun of getting a new video game. The instruction booklets for the origina NESl Legend of Zelda and Metroid were epic. Square used to put out great booklets for Final Fantasy that were 60 pages and had maps and such in them. FFII came with a mock newsletter from Squaresoft USA called the Ogopogo Examiner, if I remember correctly. You simply don't see that anymore except with niche publishers like Xseed or NISA. Nowadays we get crappy in-game manuals and patronizing tutorial levels that make you demonstrate your ability to press "A" to jump to the game's satisfaction before you can proceed.

That said, I got Super Mario Maker for Christmas and it did come with a pretty good size tip book, as well as an in-game manual.

I hate it when trophies make you repeat stuff over and over to get them.

The PS4 version. I've been streaming it through twitch and uploading videos. If I could find my mic I'd do voice commentary. :)

Looks fantastic, can't wait. Playing the original now.

Are you one of the Hammer Bros. ?

Congrats, buddy!

Game Boy for Christmas 1989.

SNES Christmas 1994.