PixlBit

It's all right.  I break the rules a lot in my podcasts.  We make up the rules as we go along and break 'em all if we're not having fun.  That's from a song.

The Pinky and the Brain ornament was hard to get.  I only got it because I reserved it!

I have more nostalgia for early 80s arcades.  By the time the SNES came out, Street Fighter 2 was dominating arcades so I didn't play arcade games as much.  Although I still played a lot of titles like Konami's beat 'em ups like TMNT and The Simpsons.

You know what's funny is that in real life, I never eat when playing games.  I don't see how people do that and keep their controllers clean.  Plus I only have two hands.

Your pretend present is a real life Borderlands square robot.  I forget his name, but in Poker Night 2, GlaDOS is the dealer and the robot is playable and she calls him Juice Box.  So that's your present: Juice Box the Robot.

I do like Odin Sphere and Muramasa a lot.  It's hard for me to classify those as plastformers because you seem to do more hack and slashing in those.  I liked playing as that Valkyrie character in Odin Sphere.

The new 2D Rayman games were very good, too.  They had excellent controls.

That cabinet is neat.  I have that Pac-Man tabletop and FF7 figures in storage somewhere.

I reviewed one of the Inazuma games that came to the US on the 3DS.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2014/03/12/inazuma-eleven-3ds/

I never got into Costume Quest.  You'd think I would, but the battles just didn't draw me in like a Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi game does.

I have a physical copy of TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, too.  It's a very good game.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2022/07/08/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shredders-revenge-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc/

I rented the Willow game a couple of times as a kid and was pretty impressed with it.  But then, I was a bigger fan of Capcom's NES gamse than Nintendo's own back then.  I think there's a new Willow series on Disney+ now.  I watched the original movie a couple of times as a kid but it's been a very long while so I don't remember much about it.

Yeah I rented Mischief Makers once.  It was fun, even if I did have the same problems with it as I did other Treasure games.

The N64 was really lacking in 2-D platformers.  The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Yoshi's Story, Mischief Makers, Kirby 64, and Goemon's Great Adventure.  I hate that I missed out on that last game.  It came out when I was just graduating college so I was still poor and couldn't afford to buy it, and it was also really rare, even back then!

Stage Select:

Well I did give you all a superhero game idea a few podcasts ago, but NOOO, you all rejected it, you big meanies!  Just joking!  But yeah, do you remember my idea about a superhero who has no superpowers except he or she can turn anything they touch into a superhero?  So if you needed to rescue a cat from a tree, just touch the tree and it'll turn into Super Tree and save the cat.  Just be careful not to touch too much stuff or you'll have a world full of super toilets.  I think that would make a silly comic book or cartoon, and even a sillier video game.  I like that you all said it was like Katamari Damacy the last time I sent you that idea.

Cage Match:

I've never played either game.  Not really a big fan of Spiderman.

Yeah the three games you mentioned are definitely some of the better titles in this batch.  I took a survey from PlayDate recently and they asked how much I'd be willing to pay for a season 2.  If they ever did one, I hope it doesn't cost too much!