PixlBit

I have Scramble on PS1, and I played the Atari 8-bit version of Super Cobra. There was a really good knockoff of Scramble on the TRS-80 called Penetrator.

This is a great game. I'm playing it now. Between this, Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4, Xenoblade Chronicles, plus the upcoming releases of Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, and hopefully Dragon Quest XI S, the Switch is becoming an RPG and arcade dream machine.

The remaster has content that wasn't in the 360 version. Namco did that with a lot of its 360 titles. They made them limited exclusives in exchange for money from Microsoft, then released better versions on PS3 once the exclusivity window was up.

I've dabbled in streaming but it's been over a year since I did. I've never shown my face on YouTube.

I guess they don't have Kinect for Xbox anymore?

This was a bit surprising. Labo isn't my cup of tea now, but I probably would have been all over it when I was a kid. I got a lot of these kinds of kits and add-ons when I was a kid. It's a pretty neat concept and pretty interesting how Nintendo made the Switch work with cardboard.

I haven't dusted off the Vita in awhile. On the Switch, I've been doing Vesperia and old arcade games lately.

The game I really wanted the SNK collection for is Vanguard, which was a pre-NES favorite on the 2600 and 8-bit Ataris. I also play Athena, but that game is a Soulsbourne level of punishing even at easy difficulty. Ikari Warriors and P.O.W. are the other ones I play on that collection. It has both the arcade and NES versions where available.

I got Spyro for my friend's kids. I've mostly been playing Tales of Vesperia on my Switch. I no longer have a 360 so this is the only way I can play it now.

I don't miss the stockpiling for snowstorms, I say as I enjoy the 70 degree weather in Phoenix right now. When I did live in snowy areas I wasn't all that bad about it either. Amy and I kept pretty level heads. When I was a kid, my mom would buy MREs from the military commissary for snow and tornadoes. They keep pretty much forever.

I've seen homemade arcade cabinets that are supposed to sit on bartops. They're sold on sites like Etsy. I'm tempted to get a cabinet with Donkey Kong graphics on it (it includes thousands of games, not just DK).

At this point, though, my Switch is my childhood dream arcade, with classics from Nintendo, Atari, Namco, Sega, Capcom, and SNK on it.

I remember the first TJ&E being shown at Genesis kiosks at Walmart when I was a kid. It was a weird game. I'd played dungeon crawlers before (specifically, a game called Gemstone Warriors on Atari XE), but didn't make the connection to this one.

One Genesis game I wish they'd revive is this little platforming/RPG gem called Alisia Dragoon.