My relatives were really excited about The Phantom Menace and bought the soundtrack before the movie came out, and one of the tracks is titled "Qui-Gon's Noble End." So… that got ruined.

The Smurfs 3: Mandy Patinkin Pays Off His Mortgage

The E3 Questionnaire is really just an elaborate way to avoid rising health care costs.

The original also has Tim Curry, which is massive added value.

Urgh, all good choices. I would say start with Anvil of Dawn and Gabriel Knight. It is great how happy they get about games, even if it makes it really hard to tell what's actually recommendable. They'll give low scores occasionally.. mostly for Christian edutainment games.

Aw man, I was really hoping Space Pope's question would make the cut. Great list this year though!

Noooooooo. The landspeeder level was impenetrable as a kid. I had to resort to passwords and cheats to get to the actual game.

This is my second rodeo with the game, so I'm actually trying to hit much/most of the side content. But not chocobo racing, of course not.

The stages in SROTJ are still really intimidating in how sprawling they are. Even just the first stage on Tatooine: there are so many vertical paths you can take that it's almost impossible to map it all out mentally.

Please continue this conversation thread because I took a pause in my VII playthrough when I got to Wutai, and talking about all the awesome scenes (I loved the flashbacks!) is inspiring me to keep going.

Albion! That's one that definitely deserves a comeback. (Never got through much of it though…)

Not really, he always just struck me as the game developer equivalent of an outsider artist. I remember that you can fight a garbage can in Dungeons of the Unforgiven, and that said basically everything. Dangerously insane in a good way!

MoraffWare! What a dangerously insane man.

1995 was the year my family upgraded to a Macintosh computer, so that was when I started playing CD-ROMs and adventure games and all those other things I love so much. I think we had also recently picked up a SNES, which let me play Super Metroid and Illusion of Gaia, still two of my favorite games.

"And, also, you should win things by playing!"

It's awful that the first thing I noticed is he's just alternating his fingers back and forth on the controller. In the game he'd just be going back and forth stabbing the air and laying bombs.

The last year has put a major spotlight on the challenges of diversity in gaming. How does your game accommodate diverse audiences and representation?

The new Killer Instinct is absolutely terrific, and I'll fight anyone on that. Even if it's the outlier.

Can we all collectively remember that this happened? https://www.youtube.com/wat…

The biggest disappointment about the Virtual Boy has to be its ignoble ending of Gunpei Yokoi's career. His contributions to Nintendo and gaming in general are staggering. In addition to the Game Boy and Game and Watch mentioned in the article (and by extension the idea of a portable game system), he was the producer…