Square and Enix were rivals back when FFI was first released. When FFI was released on PS1, Square was in the midst of being bought by Enix and wasn't on great terms with Nintendo.
The NES version of Ultima III also mentions Link.
I thought about the TG-16. The Japanese version had a lot neater games than the US version (which was also true of the Sega ones). Maybe if they'd had some of the PC-Engine CD games included on it i would have gotten it, auch as the first Legend of Heroes game, which was fully localized in English for the US market.
In addition to the fact that the Atari 8-bit games aren't widely available (with the exception of a couple that appeared in the recent Atari 50 and Llamasoft collections), the Atari 400 was designed out of the gate to allow you to import your own Atari 8-bit titles into it, as it includes a USB port specifically for a USB thumb drive and can recognize Atari ROMs. It even has a full version of Atari BASIC which you can type programs into. When I'm feeling more ambitious, I might try typing in a couple of games from archived ANTIC Magazines. Early computer magazines generally included type-in BASIC listings for games and such.
I wonder if they'll do Amiibos for Nintendo's next system. I didn't get heavily into Amiibo collecting, but I do have the Metroid Dread and the Princess Zelda with the Loftwing Amiibos, as well as Toon Link. Sora is kind of an interesting Amiibo because he's based on a character partly owned by Disney, who left the toys-to-life market years ago.
The colorzied versions of the original Erdrick trilogy are on Switch. I happened to find a cartridge version of them in Maine.
Lots of good NES games. Zelda, FF, DQ in particular. I'd love it if they had Faxanadu and Ultima: Exodus on NSO, but the latter is never gonna happen. It's a Western game owned by EA, which holds a long-standing grudge against both Nintendo and Richard Garriott.
I've been playing a lot of Dragon Quest lately. I have the original trilogy on cartridge on Switch and XI S, which is absolutely stuffed with content. Part of it is me feeling sad about the death of Akira Toriyama. He and Sugiyama are gone now, and of the original trio only Yuji Horii remains.
They do make power strips and surge protectors with USB and USB-c jacks in them. You can find them at Target and Best Buy. I used those before I started replacing my wall outlets with ones that had USB connectors, which is obviously a little more involved and requires a few safety precautions. My dad was, among other things, an electrician so he showed me some of that stuff.
I saw a C64 mini for sale at a local game shop. I never was into the C64, though. But Atari did recently announce an Atari 400 Mini, and that's right up my alley, given how much I love the Atari 8-bit line. 25 games and more can be uploaded to it. So I'm seriously thinking about getting that one. The only mini-console I actually have is the SNES Classic.
A lot of companies are actually doing away with packaging USB adapters and even cables with their products. Their rationale is that people likely have so many USB cables and adapters already that they don't need to spend money on including them. For my part, I've replaced three power outlets in my house with outlets that have USB and USB-c connectors built into them, and it's pretty nice without those wall warts taking up extra space and without having to keep track of them to begin with. The Switch still requires the AC adapter that comes with it, but I can charge the controllers right out of the wall outlet now.
It's a tough game, and the difficulty ramps up rather quickly. The worst are the Cobra ships, especially in "red zones" where the game reverses the controls. To add insult to injury, the Cobra ships are only worth 30 points apiece, which is really low. The only upside to them is that they apparently are incapable of attacking base planets.
Solaris is a really ambitious game and was a great swan song for the 2600. I'm glad they finally put it on a home collection. The author, Doug Neubauer, made sure he retained the rights to the game in his agreement with Atari, so he actually owns his creation and that's why it doesn't show up in a loot of Atari collections.
Atari's executives had hoped that between scoring exclusive home rights to the biggest arcade game in the world and a game licensed on what was the most successful movie in history at the time, that people would flood the stores trying to buy Atari 2600s. At that time, they were also trying to push the 5200 as a competitor for the ColecoVision, which launched with Donkey Kong, And in addition to giving Warshaw an impossible time frame to make a video game based on a movie that really didn't lend itself well to video games, they paid what was considered an exorbitant sum for the rights to E.T., $25 million. And given that this was in 1982 dollars, they basically Shemued themselves.
Another Gaplus afficionado. I first saw Gaplus at the Air Force Exchange at Tempelhof in Berlin, it was branded as Galaga 3, and it was in 1990, so it was a long time after the game first came out. I later got it on Namco Museum Vol. 2 for PS1. I have the Arcade Archives version on Switch. Nowadays, it kind of depresses me to put my age in on the high score screen.
The Exchange services on military bases always had arcades, and in a lot of cases they were arcade machines that were made for Japan and not intended for the US market. One of them, Chelnov, even had a big disclaimer saying "Warning: If you are playing this game outside of Japan, you are involved in a crime." That one was in England.
Since I was pretty young when the 2600 was a thing, I didn't know until years after the fact that there was a big stink about Pac-Man on 2600. We naturally assumed back then that the home version was never going to be as good as the arcade. Look at Space Invaders, which was pretty bastardized on the 2600. Or Donkey Kong, which was incredibly primitive. I did know that Atari lost money on Pac-Man despite it being the best-selling 2600 game of all time by virture of still having 2 million cartridges sitting on store shelves, most of which ended up being buried in New Mexico.
