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Kitt:
The Ranma 1/2 was a side-by-side fighting game (similar to Street Fighter) if memory serves, but it played on their SNES console, so it had to be English, I think.  My brothers had it for all of a week before trading it in.  They were really into the Mario games and the only one of those I can stand is the RPG (Geno for the win!)

It's awesome that there is a spread of ages here!  I might not have to explain my dated cultural references all the time!

I don't think FuncoLand had anime... but I rediscovered anime through video games.  Xenogears led me to Fushigi Yuugi which led to Cardcaptor Sakura (the fan subtitled version) and Vampire Hunter D, Petshop of Horrors, Sorcerer Stabber Orphen, Bakurestu Hunters and ultimately Yu-Gi-Oh!  (Kaiba is way more tolerable in his Japanese incarnation, though I love dub Kaiba voice actor's band).  One of my hobbies for a while was collecting anime cels.  I have a gallery online here -- Forever Dreaming though I haven't collected any new cels in years.  Still, it will give an idea what fandoms have caught my eye.

Yeah, the load times with PS CT have been bad.  I only resorted to it because my SNES cartridge was giving me a visual hiccup with the very first time tunnel effect and I thought it was broken.  It wasn't until I got to the same section in the PS game that I recalled that first time tunnel is that much longer than the later ones, so I just need to be patient and see if the visuals return after the travel sequence.

I have noticed the various CT fan games for sale on eBay and have been torn about them.  On the one hand, I would dearly love to play more games in the CTverse with the characters I fell in love with, but, on the other, I really try to respect IPR.  I buy game and anime music CDs only from Japan, even though they are so much more expensive, to avoid supporting the bootleggers like Son-May.  It's different when it's clearly a labor of love by fans, but...  it's still a bit in the gray area.  Clearly, I'm still wrestling with it.  On the third hand (hey, I'm a writer at heart, I can just whip up whatever I need to make something work!) until I get some of these CT fic out of my brain and onto my screen, I don't risk adding more information about the characters to the mix or I will never, ever get them done.  Itchy fic-writing brain is an awful thing!  I just realized today that with a decent amount of careful thought, I can redeem a good story that started its life infested with a Mary Sue, and bring it from something I would never post online to a credible AU story in the CT universe.  That makes me really happy because while it's Glenn-centric, it's got a lot of really fun Magus stuff in it, and I would love to be able to share.

Transformers...  Well, my nickname Kitt comes from my deep affection for the car from Knight Rider, so falling for Transformers was bound to happen.  Optimus Prime is my absolute favorite but I really liked Michael Bell's voice acting for Prowl, too.  Scatman Crothers for Jazz, Dan Gilvezian for Bumblebee, all of them were just amazing.  I always found myself wanting to kick Starscream in the shins, and realize now that evoking such an emotional reaction using only one's voice is the pinnacle of the voice actor's skill.

To this day, even after all the various villains from video games, anime, movies and tv shows, Megatron is the one who scares me the most. Pure, utterly cold, irredeemable evil.  Frank Welker is simply amazing.

Among the writers for the original show, David Wise wrote all of my favorite episodes.  I was crushed when he passed away last year.  It was awesome to see the Transformers on the big screen, but they threw too many new characters at us with not enough reference, relegated almost all the original characters to being just background visuals, then killed most of them off, then killed Optimus.  I too loved Judd Nelson's version of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime, but didn't like the character, if that makes any sense.  If they had given us decent lead up to the events of the movie with episodes that laid some groundwork (like how Ultra Magnus became Optimus' right hand 'bot instead of Ironhide, and why Optimus took Hot Rod under his guidance), I would have liked it much better.  Pretty much everything after the movie wasn't to my liking, as I felt it broke too much from the canon they had established prior.  I mean why would the Quintessons, as what, five faced beings floating around on a bunch of tentacles, be inspired to create giant bipedal robots?  It made no sense!

Geez, I write a lot!

Mauron:
Yeah, I was mistaken. One got a US release, another got a super localized release as Street Combat.

Fushigi Yuugi, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Yuu Watase and CLAMP in general are all excellent. I finally got the first volume of Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Senki in English only to find out it's on indefinite hiatus.

I must give the Sakura anime credit for cutting out most of Rika's "romance." That was quite ugh.

As far as hacks on carts go, don't go that route. Every hack involved has been distributed freely online, and the hackers have no involvement with the cart makers.

As for fics... I generally write the first half of <insert series>, but gayer, then get bored.

I missed out on a lot of G1 transformers, but got into Beast Wars a bunch.

VidKid369:
Hi, Kitt! Welcome, I'm fairly new here myself! Lol, I've loved Chrono Trigger since I was a little kid, too. Omg, I loved FuncoLand I managed to get a couple of really good games there like Breath of Fire and Final Fantasy II. (U.S.)  It was always pretty cool how they had T.V.'s set inside the walls and you have to stand up to playtest the game you want to buy. I always thought it was a toy/computer store but I walked in on a whim one time and couldn't believe it actually led to a paradise of video games. The employees there were also always actually pretty cool.

Lol, that your brothers's first impressions were that it was boring! If I'm being really honest, that was my first reaction to RPGs too, but I trudged on and I found that I fell in love with the reading.

Anyway just wanted to say welcome again!

Boo the Gentleman Caller:

--- Quote ---Optimus Prime is my absolute favorite but I really liked Michael Bell's voice acting for Prowl, too.  Scatman Crothers for Jazz, Dan Gilvezian for Bumblebee, all of them were just amazing.  I always found myself wanting to kick Starscream in the shins, and realize now that evoking such an emotional reaction using only one's voice is the pinnacle of the voice actor's skill.
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You're right about both the excellent voice acting (especially for the early 80's) and the overall Gen One versus Gen Two. Even though I love Hot Rod as a character (gotta love a good underdog daredevil thrust into leadership), I do agree... Transformers: the Movie, while entertaining, totally RUINED the original run of the franchise. The unceremonious slaying of most Gen One characters, not to mention the move to outer space adventures for Season Three -- all in the name of selling more toys. "Out with the old and in with the new!"

At least Bumblebee remained unscathed. Barely, hahaha... But Orson Welles as Unicron... Legendary. Same with Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron.

My favorite episode of the series is actually the Pilot (followed by Fire on the Mountain). I love seeing Cybertron as it was in the Pilot, including the Cybertronian vehicle transformations of many of the OG characters.

In fact, I got really into the early Dreamwave/IDW Transformers comic series in the early 2000's. The first miniseries, Prime Directive, https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prime_Directive, bridged the gap between Season Two of the television series and the Movie, and it was quite good overall. It essentially followed up that the Transformers defeated the Decepticons and tried to leave Earth after Season Two, but the Ark II was destroyed after blasting off, seemingly killing every Transformer and Sparkplug, who was on the Ark with the Transformers when it exploded. Spike returns to civilian life, gets married (and widowed), and has Daniel. Years later, the government comes back to Spike and reveals that they have found the Transformers, some damaged and dormant on the ocean floor, having survived the explosion of the Ark. Events happen and all of the Transformers are ultimately revived, now committed to Earth as a new home.

They also made a War for Cybertron miniseries (which has since spawned an animated miniseries on Netflix, although I've not seen it yet) which followed the Transformers - with their Cybertronian vehicle modes - during the early years of the war. It was a bit dark and made some canon changes, but was overall quite good.

Much of the comics are pretty good if you are into that sort of thing, and introduce some now-staples of the franchise, such as the existence of the Fallen, the Thirteen Primes, etc.

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