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Gotta Protectors is basically Protect Me Knight 2.

Pac-Man Championship Edition is one of the reasons why I got an Xbox 360.  It's one of my favorite Pac-Man games.  Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 might make me get a PS4 someday.

I don't really regret writing for GamerDad for so long.  If everything goes VR, I may not be able to review games much after that anyway.

Great advice again.  But like I said, life is a balancing act and all.

Hey thanks!  But you know you'll have to deal with an old fart! :)

This was a game I wanted to get, but never got around to doing so.  But I don't feel too bad because I'm not a big fan of those "Mystery Dungeon" style games anyway.

As you said in your blog, I heard it has lots of remixes of classic FF tunes.  Some of them even made it to the Theatrhythm sequel!

Have you ever played Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Tales on DS?

A new Shiren the Wanderer game just came out for Vita.

I don't have a top 6-10 list, but I do have a definitive top 5:

1. Pac-Man (Arcade)

2. Animal Crossing (GameCube)

3. Final Fantasy 6 (SNES)

4. Super Mario Kart (SNES)

5. Namco Museums vol. 1 to 5 (PSOne)

Yeah that's sad about the guy who played the new Chekov dying.  When I was a kid I had a Russian Blue cat that I named Chekov.

Hey I've got another game for your to add to your list of things you should play:  Gotta Protectors!  It's a downloadable 3DS game by Yuzo Koshiro.

I was only in college a year before writing game reviews, so it sounds like we went to college at about the same time.

That's funny that you remember that Lara Croft Memory Card, too.  I remember getting that in the mail and thinking, "How am I supposed to review this?  It's just a dang memory card!"  But you know me, I'll review anything.  I have no shame. :)

Yeah, you know how it is!  The year gap I had between writing for the newspaper and GamerDad was enough that I had to get some of my contacts back into my list.  That's why I don't want to stop reviewing games if I can because I have built up such a good press contact list now.  They may not be as receptive as they were back when I was writing for the newspaper, but times have changed a lot since then.  I may still make my own site someday, but it may be a while.  As you know, it's all a balancing act. 

By the way, Nick, you know what one of my backup plans to continue writing game reviews is?   Heh heh. :)