What have I been playing lately?

Sega Ages 2500 Vol 9: Gain Ground - JPS2 - Played through to the last epoch and gave up. I don't wanna talk about the number of lives lost or continues used. Still, it's immensely fun and I think whoever did the work did right by the game. It's a little tough to determine the exact hit location of projectiles in 3D but it's not a bother most of the time. I'm not sure if I'll keep the game or not, I mean, I have the old school version in Sega Collection and it seems a waste for a whole PS2 disc to be occupied with this one not-so-mindless excursion. I would like to unlock Extra Mode eventually too. I just need to learn to keep Cyborg alive over the course of the game though he does pop up more than once.

Penny Racers - EUGBA - Thought I'd give Choro Q for GBA a run for it's money on emulator and it is definitely neat. I love the Choro Q games and this one lives up to the moniker. I breezed through the first circuit and changed my car around a bit in doing so. I think I'm going to enjoy this. Actually ordered the Euro version of Road Trip for PS2 because I know my son will get a real kick out of it. My completed game save is for the NA version of the game but I won't mind playing it all again with him.

Mother 3 - JGBA - I so totally love the combat system in this game, the music is great and rhythm fighting adds a lot to the experience IMO. A real work of art this thing and not having played Mother 1 and 2 it makes me realize where the inspiration for Popolocrois came from...there are a lot of similarities in art style between the two titles (but of course that is where the similarities end...it's enough though to make one wonder).

Oh wait! Where's the DS in all this?!

It's still got Super Robot Wars W in it from earlier. Finally an SRPG!!! Anyway, I still hold the opinion that this is the BEST damn super robot wars to date. I think I'm going to take that out tho and put in Etrian Odyssey for bed.