When it was first announced, I loved the idea of the Switch Lite. It looked stylish and sturdy, and that $200 price point was very attractive. I even pre-ordered one at GameStop and defended it online. But the more I thought about it, the more my opinion on it soured.

That’s a good question. It seems like kind of a no-brainer since it’s something fans have been wanting for a long time. I’m hoping they’ll surprise us with an announcement by the end of this year for a new F-Zero that will be out sometime in 2020.

Sega recently attempted to replicate it with an homage to ActRaiser called SolSeraph, but I’ve heard it isn’t very good.

I was excited for the Jaguar too, and I was overjoyed when I actually got it for Christmas. And then I ended up playing exactly ONE really good game on it (Alien vs. Predator). What a dud of a console.

I know what you mean. That’s what sticks out in my mind from back then too.

Yeah, F-Zero is a little too hard to be fun for very long. Even when revisiting it on my Wii U, it didn’t take too long before I had had enough of its difficulty.

It’s hard for me to remember that far back because I wasn’t even a teenager at the time, but I think the big ones for me in magazine previews were Super Mario World and ActRaiser. ActRaiser in particular had a next gen wow factor to its visuals (and it ended up being one of the better games on the Super Nintendo in my…

I think F-Zero still holds up on a technical level. It looks good and feels pretty good to play. Not my favorite racing experience ever, but I enjoyed revisiting it on my Wii U. But yes, I vastly prefer F-Zero GX. I want to see either a remaster of that game or a brand new F-Zero like it on Switch.

I’m just about to get a Switch (the new one in the red box), so I appreciate the heads-up on that Super Mario Odyssey deal. I jumped on it.

I’m just about to get a Switch (the new one in the red box), so I appreciate the heads-up on that Super Mario…

Makes sense. If you’re 28 now, then you would have been too young to properly experience Final Fantasy VII when it was first released.

This really makes the SAD Edition seem even worse. I love what’s been done with the Xbox brand over the last few years, but that was a baffling misstep. That thing should have been priced at $150 with no games and a trial Game Pass membership.

This really makes the SAD Edition seem even worse. I love what’s been done with the Xbox brand over the last few…

From the front, this looks like a really expensive party favor at a gender reveal party.

That’s not the only issue. Even if you did manage to figure out a workaround for docking the Lite, you’d be playing in portable mode image quality on your TV.

Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage is what I consider the Dreamcast’s best game. It was the only reason I kept the console as long as I did (I finally traded in my Dreamcast this year).

I love doing this kind of thing. You can pretty easily do the same thing in Mass Effect: Andromeda. You can get past the shimmering map barrier on the worlds you visit with enough persistence.

Is it weird that I’m excited about Too Human being on that list? I’m immediately curious about it because it’s a Silicon Knights game, and then of course there’s the matter of the controversy surrounding it.

The Gears 5 part of the presentation was strange. The creepy character stuff leading into it was fine, but that should have been followed by at least five minutes of campaign gameplay footage (especially since we’re talking about a game that’s going to be out in September). Was there any campaign footage at all? I…

It looks like a game that would be at home on the Playdate.

There could conceivably be a Getting Over It game for the Playdate. All you’d have to do is make it so that you use the cross-pad to extend or retract the hammer in your preferred direction and the crank to swing it around. There would definitely be a learning curve, but I think it could work.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Any video game that features loot box mechanics that are connected to the spending of real money should have an “Adults Only” rating. That means that even something as seemingly innocuous as Rocket League should have an “Adults Only” rating until any and all loot box…