TimeGal! From the golden era of attractive gals in games. Now we are entering a dark age, but we remember the words of Kenichiro Takaki: "Tits are life, ass is hometown." Some games I don't think we had in the USA, like Ninja-kun, others we knew under different names. Spartan X was Kung-Fu Master (or simply Kung Fu on NES), and Battlefield Wolf was called Commando. It was a prequel to the famous Bionic Commando series. Shigeru Miyamoto himself headed up the port of Spartan X to Famicom, and his work on that title helped him perfect the technique of "side scrolling"... so without Spartan X, there would be no Super Mario Bros. either! Pac-Land is based on the 1982 Pac-Man animated series in the USA. Namco wanted to capitalize on the success of the show with a video game tie-in. The theme music is directly from the animated cartoon. The American release of Pac-Land also had the appearance of Pac-Man and his family changed to match the cartoon series. Pac-Man had a smaller nose and wore a brown fedora instead of a feathered cap. Ms. Pac-Man had brown hair as she did in the cartoon (where her first name was "Pepper"). The FM synth chips in early arcade games are glorious. They give me a feeling of MS-DOS PC games. As usual, so many fond memories and new discoveries! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!