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1987: Yumekojo Doki Doki Panic was released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan - later known as America's
Super Mario Bros. 2 - otherwise known as the random game Mario was glued in because Japan's SM2 was too difficult for our sloppy, caveman, American hands. (The Japanese SMB2 was later released in the SNES cart Super Mario All-Stars as 'The Lost Levels.'

1998: Hudson Soft released Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth for N64. Earth was never seen again.

2001: 'Final Fantasy Fan Day' is held at San Francisco's Sony Metreon to "celebrate" the launch of PlayStation game Final Fantasy Chronicles and the soon-to-be-released feature film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. At least the game was good—they should have made the movie about Chrono Trigger.

2002: Codemasters released Operation Flashpoint: Resistance for PC. We did not play it.

2002: Canadian adventure game Syberia is announced for US release. We wonder how many Canadian games are ever not released in the US.

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