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I never had an Atari 2600 as a kid.  I wanted one, but I was pretty young and they were kind of expensive so I never asked my parents for one.  And once I was in kindergarten, we got our first computer, an Apple ][+, so I just played games on that.  At that age I was more interested in arcade games, which were much better than what was on the 2600.  And our computer could play arcade ports that were better than the ones on Atari 2600 anyway.  I did play the 2600 a lot at other people's houses, but I was still happy with our computer.  My first home console was actually the 5200, and that was a total surprise to get for Christmas as a kid because I didn't even ask for it.  But I think by then it was already old and on sale, but I didn't care, I was a kid.  I would continue playing that system until Zelda came out on the NES.  Then I was all aboard the Nintendo train!

Looking back on it, I think the best games on the 2600 were from Activision.  I think I may have asked this before, but have you ever played Activision Anthology on the PS2?  It's one of the best game collections out there, even to this day.

Speaking of Star Blazers, I watched that all the time as a kid.  Did you know that a few years ago, they remade that series in Japan (it's called Space Battleship Yamato over there).  I'd like to see more of the remake, I've only seen a couple of episodes of it, and that was at an anime convention I took my brothers to a few years ago.

OH MY GOSH I AM SO GETTING THIS!!! *explodes*

I like to look at achievements to see if there are any fun ones to get.  I don't go for the hard ones. 

I get to review LEGO Worlds, Yay!

When I was a kid, I had a Russian Blue cat named Chekov who loved to watch me play Nintendo games.  He would either swat at the screen or try to push the buttons on my controller.  He was a really smart cat, too.  I taught him how to play fetch, open doors, and use the toilet.  No lie.

Back in the 70's you could order parts to build your own electronics from a catalog called Heathkit.  My dad did that and built a metronome and our first TV!  When he built our TV, he added a Pong-like game console in the back, so if you wanted to play, all you had to do was pull out the controllers and turn it to channel 3 (or 2, can't remember).  Back then, I was so young that I didn't realize it was a video game.  I just thought it was something you could do when there wasn't anything else on TV.

On the original PSOne, there was a Pong update that was pretty cool.  It gave the paddles personalities, and you had to do some pretty creative things while playing Pong, like herding sheep!

I got the first Bravely Default game.  It was fun at first but then kept adding more and more rules to the battles to where it was hard to understand.  Plus the game kind of meadandered a bit.  So I didn't get the sequel since I never finished the first.  Is it too much to ask for a simple RPG nowadays?  I hope the Switch RPG I'm reviewing soon, I Am Setsuna, stays simple and classic.

I'm thinking more like she should team up with Captain Toad.

Oh yeah this is probably the hardest Zelda game since Zelda 2 on the NES.

There are some things about this Zelda game that I don't like as much, like how hard it is and how easy it is for weapons to break, and a few other little minor quibbles.  But so far the game is incredibly addictive.  I do hope that Nintendo doesn't permenantly change future Zelda games to be like this, because I do like having more dungeons and stuff.  I haven't been able to play it as much as I'd like.  I beat the giant elephant and now I'm working on that giant camel. 

Breath of the Wild reminds me of Mega Man X.  I prefer the original Mega Man, but the first Mega Man X game is exactly what the series needed at the time to stay fresh.  Zelda games have been awfully formulaic as of late (actually for a while), so Breath of the Wild is exactly what the series needs right now.

PS: I've been calling it Cooking Mama Link, because cooking is what I've been doing the most in that game.  I also like Link's eating animations.