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Many of Activision's early games were great.  Even I had River Raid on the 5200.  The Activision Anthology was one of the best classic game compilations ever.  It even rivaled the PSOne Namco Museums!

Next time you fire up Activision Anthology, try playing my favorite 2600 game: Pressure Cooker.  But make sure to read the instructions first.  It's actually surprisingly complex for a 2600 game.  But once you know what you're doing, it's an amazing little game.

Samus Returns was my favorite 3DS game of 2017.

I've never seen Crazy Balloon in arcades ever either.  The game kind of reminds me of a PSOne game also based on a Japanese game show called Irritating Stick.  Have you seen the arcade flyer for Crazy Balloon?  It's, well, crazy!

Mega Twins was a game I had never heard of until I played it on the Capcom collections.  Which is unusual because I'm pretty well versed in all things Capcom.  I think Mega Twins was on the Genesis, too.  And it's quite possible that Akira Toriyama did the artwork.  I think he did the art for other video games around that time, like Buster Bros. and Go! Go! Ackman!

My problem with Minish Cap is that it felt too short.  I beat it in a weekend.  Did you know Capcom made it?  My favorite Zelda game is Link's Awakening.  Have you ever played that one?

WarioWare Touched was all right, but my favorite DS WarioWare game came out a few years later.  It was called WarioWare D.I.Y., and the game used a Mario Paint format to let you make your own micro games!  I actually won a contest and had my game featured by Nintendo, and that's why it was my Game of the Year in 2010.

Psychonauts was my Game of the Year in 2005.

Kirby: Canvas Curse is actually one of my least favorite Kirby games.  And that's one that everyone else seems to rave over.

I have never seen Balloon Bomber in an arcade.  Back then or recently.

I've only played it on the Taito Legends collections.  I do like how the derpy music goes along with the bombs swaying back and forth on the balloons.  Do-do, doo doo, do-do, doo doo...

On the PSP version of Taito Legends, there is an updated version of Balloon Bomber and the background graphics do make it look like it has a WW1 theme.

The good thing is that my second iPad cost half as much as my original did.  So the cost of these things are going down!

I played this game a lot in the arcade and enjoyed it quite a bit, despite it being pretty mindless.

I didn't like Paper Mario Color Splash much at all.  It was better than Sticker Star, but not by much.  I wish they'd go back to making Paper Mario games like what was on the GameCube!

I'm stubborn and old fashioned, so I'll try to get physical copies whenever I can.