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Sonic Team's follow-up to the Sonic franchise. Released on the Sega Saturn, so despite it being one of the Saturn's better-selling games, few people played it back when it was new. It has a decent cult following of fans and seems to be generally regarded as a good-but-not-spectacular game (like a solid 7-8 out of 10), but it's nowhere near Mario 64's caliber.

Didn't help that the games weren't there for it either. But the vicious cycle of "console needs games to sell units -> devs won't make games for consoles that don't sell" was in full effect for the 7800, and really any Atari console after the 2600, except maybe their Lynx handheld (which still lived in the Game Boy monolith's shadow just like every other competing handheld).

There were popular MMOs before WoW, such as Runescape and Everquest. WoW just took a popular genre and rocketed it into the stratusphere.

Legend of Zelda OoT followed up with popularizing a targeting button (good ol' Z-targeting) to focus on one object or enemy in a 3D space and move around it or fight/otherwise interact with it. Such targeting has been a standard feature of 3D action-adventure games ever since.

Of the games I can think of, probably Super Mario Land.

Servers are the one thing I've generally heard people agree that snaps are good for, so given its history it's a bit of a strange thing to hear of Ubuntu being a better server distro than desktop distro nowadays.

I'm a Vikings fan myself, and I've seen the ones who have thought he was going to start right away, but nobody actually involved with the team or the sports media here in MN has ever even implied he would. The absolute earliest they figured he would see the field in the regular season would be late season depending on the circumstances. I think it's a lot of fans hoping against hope to have some sort of expectation for this upcoming season, but I always figured this was going to be a rebuilding year at best so my own expectations are low to zero. That said, my own hope was that he'd be ready to go for next year and those hopes were probably dashed here.

He was unlikely to see any regular season playing time this year unless Darnold got hurt, so the real tragedy is the delay in his development.

Wasn't really expecting him to see any regular season snaps unless Darnold was a total disaster and/or he somehow got to what KOC thought would be an elite level early, but this is definitely going to slow down his development at any rate. Hopefully it doesn't do any permanent damage.

My Switch hasn't seen any playtime in the past couple weeks 'cause I've been watching the Olympics, but I have one more chapter to go in Paper Mario: TTYD remake that I'll probably go back to once the Olympics are over.

I did dust off my 3DS one afternoon and finally continue some progress in Fire Emblem Echoes. I'm almost through that game as well, and then to complete my playthroughs of the 3DS Fire Emblem games I have both versions of Fire Emblem Fates waiting on the docket. I've generally heard Conquest is better (for gameplay at least) between the two but both are something of "black sheep" in the series. Since the eShop shut down I won't be able to play Revelations, but from what I understand that's a good thing, lol.

This should surprise nobody. Darnold was brought in with the express purpose of being a short-term bridge QB while whichever rookie QB they drafted was trained up. It would've taken a Stroud-level rookie QB camp to change that plan. As a Vikings fan I have less than zero expectations for this season but higher hopes for the near future. The only annoying thing is that the division as a whole is taking big leaps forward into one of the overall strongest divisions in the league and it's taking all this rebuilding effort just to keep up with the other three teams.

They are. The IOC is just incredibly slow on the uptake, as they are with many things.