Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I know there's a major winter storm going on this weekend, and it's hitting where I live this Sunday. Those you in the path, stay safe and warm. I think I'm going to have another snow day game session on Sunday. Maybe some more classic X-COM and something on Nintendo Classics.

@D-Star92 You're welcome. I've been playing PC games since the early 2000's, always played them alongside my Nintendo systems. That's cool, I remember some edutainment titles I played during my Mac days, like Oregon Trail and Mario Teaches Typing (I didn't own it, but played it at school).

Afraid I haven't. AFAIK, the CD check that those older games have don't work on modern Windows, Microsoft disabled them due to security. There are some I re-bought on GOG. Which is a shame since I still have discs to those old games. Also, I think some games need extra tweaks to get working, that's why I love GOG, they get old games working on modern PCs.

I think I only seen bits and pieces of Gargoyles too, on TV. Sounds like a good offer, a Genesis with QuackShot. Disney, Sega, please get on that re-release. Nice, that reminds me, I think there was a Mickey Mouse game I might have played on SNES or Genesis. I think it was Ultimate Challenge, I just remember the level with the books. Maybe rented for SNES, Sega Channel for Genesis. It's been so long.

Edit: Thank you YouTube, it was Mickey's Ultimate Challenge I played.

Today is a wonderful day for me... because it's my birthday! Hooray for me! 🎂⭐ I'll be celebrating with delicious cake, presents, and of course Mario... plus a little bit of Disney magic. ✨ Thank you for having me be a part of this great community. Giving shout-outs to @Sunsy, @Tyranexx, @jedgamesguy, @BrittGOAL14, @foxyflimflam, and @Nep-Nep-Freak... thanks for being my Nintendo Life/Animal Crossing friends. I love you all! ❤️

@D-Star92 Happy Birthday! 🎂 🎉 I hope you have fun and get a good game as a present.

@D-Star92, it is still winter, so...

Speaking of winter, it is exactly zero degrees outside in my area right now 🥶.

@D-Star92 OMG thank you for the shout-out!!! I haven't been on this forum in so long and I was literally just thinking about the good old early days of AC back in 2020 with you all!
I hope you have the best birthday and are enjoying the new 3.0 update!!! 🎂🎉💖

@D-Star92 Happy birthday!! Hope you have a great day.

@D-Star92 Happy birthday, my friend! Looks like you'll be playing plenty of Mario going by this weekend's "What Are You Playing?" article! I hope you have a great cake day and weekend - hopefully the weather won't be too cold and snowy in your area!

@D-Star92 Happy Birthday, go have a good one today! Thanks for the shout out.

@FishyS @Nep-Nep-Freak @foxyflimflam @BrittGOAL14 @Tyranexx @Sunsy Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! Been having a great day myself. What a wonderful birthday! 🎂❤️ Loved playing New Horizons with some of you folks back in the early days too, that's a memory I will never forget.

Giving a shout-out to @Pastellioli and @PeterTomlan86 as well!

@D-Star92 Well, thank you very much! That's so nice to think me in spirit wishing you happy birthday. Thus, I have no need say that to you. 🙂

We haven't known each other for that long, but I'm happy you define me as a good friend regardless of that. I feel the same about you too because I have enjoyed your posts you have sent me before. Because of that, all I can say to you is to have a great day and hope life bless you in happiness and hope in your journey going forward. 👋

@D-Star92 Ah, happy belated birthday! Thank you for the shout-out

Don't know if anyone has been affected by the winter storm, hopefully everyone's staying warm and it's not too bad by you. I'm snowed in so ended up playing some classic games on PC and Switch.

@D-Star92 You're welcome, glad you had a good birthday.

@Sunsy, our church service ended up not happening at the actual location, but a shorter message was livestreamed on our church's YouTube channel and we did watch that. Other than that, nothing bad or different so far 😀. I'll probably be beating Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1+ tomorrow, and then moving on to a new game on Switch.

The Mario movie hype will reliably confuse me, as everyone gets more excited for Yoshi to be in a 5-6/10 movie when Yoshi is regularly in 7-9/10 games.

Maybe its just movie overhype in general, OMG ITS A MOVIE THE MOST IMPORTANT TYPE OF FICTION111!!!11!

@Nep-Nep-Freak Good thing there are livestreams. That's good, over here I just got snow, but it seems to be stopping. Best of luck beating Hyperdimension Neptunia. Re;Birth1 was actually the first game I played on my then new PC years ago. Good game.

@kkslider5552000 Eh, I could care less about what critics say. I'm really happy Yoshi is in the movie, and I think people get excited because Yoshi is a beloved Mario character.

Tomorrow is birthday anniversary of my fictional character from B.A.P.D. , Don Merimo (Donovan Marquez Merimo) on 27 January.
He is the 7th member joined in B.A.P.D.

@Sunsy Yeah, the winter storm got my area as well... it's really, really cold out. Thank goodness for heating.

That's nice you've always played PC alongside Nintendo. I used to like PlayStation when I played my PS2 way back in the early 2000s, so I played that alongside my GBA and GameCube. Though nowadays, the newer Sony consoles like the PS5 don't really interest me... most of their newer exclusives are too realistic/movie-ish for my liking, outside of stuff like Astro Bot. I remember those two, as well... my schools had quite a few of those edutainment games/software. I remember my elementary school had stuff like Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish, too.

Ah gotcha, that's all right. I remember playing Atari Arcade Hits on a newer PC, which was meant for Windows 95/98, and the colors were all messed up. I would like to give GOG a deeper look when I get a chance... hopefully I can find some good PC classics there.

Yeah definitely, it came with some Sonic games as well. That's cool, I might have heard of Mickey's Ultimate Challenge, but I've not played it. We did have a Pinocchio game for the SNES a long time ago, though.

(Apologies for the double post, I normally don't do this.)

@PeterTomlan86 @Pastellioli Thanks and no problem!

@DreamlandGem I forgot to give you a shout-out on my birthday, my apologies. Thanks for making Nintendo Life a great community! I had a lovely birthday, as well. ❤️

@D-Star92 Aww glad you had a good one!! 🎉🎉🎉

@D-Star92 Indeed, I stepped outside because someone shoveled the walkway where I live, but it didn't look complete. It's cold, and going to be colder as the week goes on. Looks like I'm not going for my walk this week to get milk. I usually bundle up and walk in 30-50 degree weather, but teens and single digits is too cold.

Nice, I think that's the reason why Sony's games don't interest me. I have no problem with realistic games, I'm currently playing XCOM Enemy Unknown, but they just look like movies to me. I think Astro Bot and Rachet and Clank look good, and feel like something I would play. Yes, Freddi Fish! My brother had a Freddi Fish game on Mac, and I remember it was fun. It was very similar to Pac-Man, except Freddy collected kelp seeds.

Yeah, some games get stuck with their old OS without various tweaks. I think I might have had that Atari collection at some point too. Do so, GOG does get games working, and if it's part of their preservation program, the game is guaranteed to work on a current PC.

Cool, Sonic was the game for Genesis. I'm surprised I remembered Mickey's Ultimate Challenge, mostly because of the book levels. I never owned it, but I did play Pinocchio on Sega Channel back then.