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I think my Smash Bros. go-tos will be Pac-Man, Kirby, and Mega Man.

I don't know anything about Resident Evil but my favorite character is Jill because I like calling her Jill Sandwich.

Well, you can at least read my birthday blog when I post it later this week. :)

There were a lot of games I had on my Apple II+ that I had no idea how I got.  I think there was a lot of copying back then.

Wizardry is very popular in Japan.

Oh I'm just joking with you.  My birthday is Sept. 15.

Yeah I don't know.  I didn't get to see ALL the games at PAX.

Your favorite holiday is coming up?  It's my birthday, right? :)

I haven't even been keeping up with GamerGate at all.  I kind of feel bad, like I'm not doing my job as a games 'journalist'.  But I'm just having too much fun playing Professor Layton vs. Pheonix Wright.

Link's Awakening is my all-time favorite Zelda game.  I'd love to see a remake.  I wouldn't change the story too much or extend it too much or anything though.  I did think the same thing as you when I played Link Between Worlds, that Link's Awakening would look great in this style.

I loved the original's island setting.  It set a certain mood.  Also, rudiementary as it was, I also liked some of the text.  It was almost poetic.  "Earth, Wind, Sea, Sky, All on the lid of a dreamer's eye."  Some of the crytic text even explains what happens to the island when you wake up: "Somday thou may recall this island in the waking world.  That memory must be the dream world."  That and the secret ending you can get in the GBC version explains things a bit, I think. 

But yeah I love that game.  All the great things about Link to the Past in a more compact form.  Great for replaying, too.  Not too short and not too long.

I didn't get into RPGs until Final Fantasy 4 (2) on the Super Nintendo.  Anything before was too daunting or not interesting enough.  Either that or I was just too young.  Although my friend and I did have fun taking turns playing Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy on the NES at his house.  But I never felt the need to buy those myself.

We used graph paper to make maps back then as well.  This was before strategy guides or GameFAQs, so us 'old folk' had to do things differently.  At PAX I played a tablet game from Cartoon Network called Adventure Time: Game Wizard.  You use real graph paper to draw levels, and the game uses the tablet camera to read your map and make a 2-D platforming level in the game!  I thought it was quite clever.

Did you know that a couple of years ago, a new Wizardry game came out on the PS3?  It was a download only title, and I had to review it.  I don't think I did a very good job.  Those games are hard!  --Cary