This isn't my favorite Zelda game, but I'm looking forward to playing this, too! It's still really fun and I'm glad I pre-ordered it. I'm just jealous of all those YouTubers who go flown out to preview it, apparently. Did Nintendo pay for all those plane tickets? I miss the days when I was in that circle. Oh well, sorry, sometimes I get discouraged about these things.

I must be behind the times if don't know what goes viral anymore.

I loved playing Ordyne with my brother Jeff when he was little. He called it the 'flying game.'

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers is my number one favorite cartoon of all time.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is my number one favorite TV show of all time.

Highly recommend watching DuckTales. The original is better than the reboot, but both are good.

I loved watching DuckTales when it first came out. After getting tired of Transformers and the other 30 minute commercial cartoons. I kind of stopped watching new cartoons for a while, but DuckTales got me back into it!

As a kid, I could never understand the appeal of Garbage Pail Kids. So many other kids collected them, though.

Actually the SNES game is called Doh it Again and I guess it would be considered the third game in the series. It's different from Revenge of Doh anyway.

Sky Kid was Namco, not Capcom.

I can't believe you never saw Ikari Warriors and Arkanoid in arcades back in the day.. They were EVERYWHERE when I was a kid. I think SNK had really good distributors in Texas because it seemed like every SNK game went around there. And Arkanoid was one of the few games I could get my dad to play.. I remember freaking out when we saw the sequel: Revenge of Doh, at an arcade at a water park!

Believe it or not, I was playing more PC games on my Apple ][+ than consoles. I never had a 2600 and even with the 5200 and NES, around this time I started dabbling in PC point and click adventures especially form LucasFilm games like Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

Marble Madness II was at Push Start Play in Lewisville, TX. It was the joystick cabinet. I wrote about it here:

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2026/02/27/push-start-play-arcade-part-2/

Garfield complains about having to run around so much in the game. :)

I only saw a Sky Kid cabinet back in the day once. It was at the front area of our local Wal-Mart. Remember when stores used to have arcade games in the front area? Sky Kid didn't last for long so I think I only played it once. Also it had to compete with Super Pac-Man, one of my favorite Pac-games. Super Pac-Man was at the Wal-Mart for a long time, that's how I got so good at it.

My cousins and I loved to play PIctionary or Win, Lose, or Draw when I would visit them in Alabama when we were kids. One day we were playing it inside with a big easel and the grown ups said it was a nice day and to go play outside. So we took the easel and played it outside! I don't think that's what they had in mind!

The first place I saw Super Mario Bros. (and Duck Hunt, too), was in the arcade, not the NES. I thought it was cool, but not enough to make me want to buy a NES right away. I was still happy with my Atari 5200. I think that was part of the crash because I was able to get the 5200 and games real cheap. I know that people say the 5200 is one of the worst consoles, but as a kid I loved it and was happy to have it. The game that actually made me want to get a NES was actually The Legend of Zelda. I was so impressed you could save your game!

I never learned how to ride a bike. Because of my vision disability, I have trouble balancing. Plus with little peripheral vision and little depth perception, it probably wouldn't be very safe anyway.

I just finished Garfield: Escape from Monday which I actually liked. My review is up at GamerDad. So now I'm going back to playing LEGO Batman, which is also good.

I remember Punch Out being super popular in arcades. I didn't play it much, because I'm not really into boxing and also usually the bigger kids were playing it. The volume was always up high though because throughout the arcade you could hear "Body Blow! Body Blow!" When I introduced my brother Jeff to classic NES games when he was little, he LOVED Punch Out and Excitebike.

Marble Madness is my favorite Atari game. I'm so glad I got to play the sequel in arcades this year.

I used to watch Danger Mouse on Nickelodeon. Did you know they're making a game out of it? I hope I get to review it!

There was a Xevious movie in Japan.

I was always fascinated with Xevious, too, even if I was never very good at it. The game has a surprisingly deep history and legacy if you ever want to go down that rabbit hole.

Gyruss is so awesome! You know the creator of that game also did Time Pilot and later worked at Capcom making a game about fighting in the streets.. You might've heard of that one.

When my little brother Jeff was about 5, I introduced him to Spy Hunter and that became one of his favorite games!

David Crane (creator of Pitfall) once said in an interview that unless you were in the business of making games, you wouldn't have noticed the great video game crash. I tend to agree with him. Only thing I noticed as a kid was that I could get games for cheap for about a year or so.

I loved watching Saturday Supercade as a kid, but yeah that show is really awful. I would be so mad as a kid when they'd show a Pitfall cartoon instead of a Q*bert one.

1982 was an awesome year for arcade games!

When I was a kid, I took a big roll of my dad's dot matrix printer paper and stretched it out from the front door to the back door and drew Zaxxon maps on one side and a Xevious map on the other. Then I took my toy spaceships and played pretend Zaxxon and Xevious. I got in a little bit of trouble for using up so much paper, but I think my parents were still impressed I was able to entertain myself for a whole day.

I was at the perfect age to soak up all the Pac-Man games and merchandise. If you look at it that way, you can understand why I still like Pac-Man so much.

There were a few games on your list that could tear me away from Pac-Man for a short bit, though. These included Q*bert, Dig Dug, Pengo, and BurgerTime. After I first played BurgerTime I went home and cut out a chef's hat and a pepper shaker out of paper and played pretend BurgerTime around the house! I also loved Time Pilot and Joust.

I never saw Jungle KIng, but I saw Jungle Hunt everywhere!

When I first saw Donkey Kong Jr., I thought it was a Donkey Kong game for little kids and was easier. I was wrong. Still a good game, though.

My cousins had an Intellivision and I swear I played Frog Bog with one of my cousins for what seemed like hours.

I played Choplifter on my Apple ][+ but I had no idea what I was doing as a kid.

Don't forget Ms. Pac-Man was in 1981!

You know, Nintendo always tells us how popular Game & Watch was, but I don't remember seeing one until the NES was already out. And the only ones I remember seeing before G&W Gallery came out was Super Mario Bros., Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and the Zelda G&W.

I just downloaded the demo and will try it later. I'm not really a big Castlevania fan, though. Just could never get into it. My favorite game in the series is Kid Dracula.

I was a kid in the 80s, but grew into an early teen by the late 80s. That was a great time to be a kid.

I could complete the first three SNES DKC games, but Returns and Tropical Freeze were way too hard.

The battle system is way different. You move your monsters around the bottom touch screen with the stylus in a grid based fashion.

No it wasn't a game per se. :)

It is. It reminds me of the newer LEGO Star Wars Skywalker Saga game. More of the same LEGO fun, but with the camera focused more behind the character instead of fixed, giving you a closer to the action feel.

I'm also just about to write a review for Garfield: Escape from Monday which is a surprisingly decent little 3D platformer.

I don't even know what "Woden" means!

The Marsupilami game is pretty good, and not as hard as DKC.

The game I bought this past month was the Switch 2 version of the new LEGO Batman game. It was a birthday gift to myself. :)