Hat Stack Mike

My introduction: Hi, I’m Hat Stack Mike! I talk about video games, new and old, and wear a stack of hats. Series I like include: - Sonic - Zelda - Smash Bros. - Street Fighter - Super Mario - Donkey Kong - Ace Attorney - Mortal Kombat - Banjo-Kazooie - WarioWare and a LOT more. Let’s be friends!

These are my Top 10 Sonic the Hedgehog characters!

Who else is a fan of the Tony Hawk games? Which one’s your favorite? I got Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 with my GameCube on launch day, and had such a great time with it. It’s awesome. Hot take, but I actually ended up liking THPS3 a lot more than the other GC launch game I bought, Luigi’s Mansion.

Chaos Angel is such a badass level in Sonic Advance 3.

Super Street Fighter II is such an unbelievably special game to me. I played the console ports of this with friends for so many countless hours, and this (and the other versions of Street Fighter II) was always the game I played the most at the arcades.

Star Fox 2 is such a fascinating piece of Nintendo history. I think it’s the only time they officially released a cancelled game over 20 years later. I can’t think of a game that pushed a system more than this. It runs so sluggishly though that it makes it a bit hard to fully appreciate. 😆

NEW VIDEO! ▶️ youtu.be/UUGbzYQdfBo The early Sonic games have many differences between their releases in different regions, and I'll be looking at some of those differences between the Japanese and western releases of Sonic games. Hope you enjoy! #Sonic #SonicTheHedgehog

My face when I find random food on the ground.

What do you think is the best launch game that released concurrently with a brand new console in your region? These are my top three picks: Super Mario World, Sonic Adventure, and Zelda: Breath of the Wild!

Is there a better 3D fighter than Virtua Fighter 2? I mean, probably, but not to my nostalgic, biased self.

Seeing Street Fighter tonight and I’m super excited!

These are some of my favorite pieces of video game box art throughout the years. What’s your favorite game box art?

How many different versions of WarioWare: Touched! does one person need? Apparently three, if you’re me.

Who else played 8-bit Sonic on the go back in the day?

What’s your preferred port of Mortal Kombat II? As far as home ports go, I’d say the winner goes to the Sega 32X version. Excellent arcade ports is like the one thing the 32X has bragging rights to. 😆

I had a great weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, and socialized with a lot of really awesome people! I didn’t buy a whole lot there this year, but one thing of note I got that’s pretty cool is a store kiosk demo unit cart of WarioWare: Touched! It’s neat to have.

I don’t really talk about Pokémon as much as I should, but I just want to say that I like Oshawott an osha-lot.

“Ah, yeah! This is happenin’!” Today I got to meet and hang out with the original game voice of Sonic from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic Advance 3, Ryan Drummond! He gave such an iconic voice to Sonic, and is an awesome guy and really cool to talk to.

I got to meet and hang out with Scott Dreier who voices Knuckles in some of my very favorite Sonic games such as Sonic Advance 3, Sonic Heroes, and of course, Sonic Adventure 2! He’s such an awesome guy and it was great geeking out with him.

They have some pretty cool stuff on My Nintendo right now. I’m going to carry around my sunglasses in STYLE!

My top 9 Sonic games. #My9Games

Mortal Kombat 3 got many releases across different platforms, and I’m one of the few people who can say they have the most history with this game on the Sega Saturn, through its port of Ultimate MK3. I have some great memories with this one!

My top 9 Zelda games. #My9Games

Probably the best way to play 16-bit Sonic 1 vs. the absolute WORST way.

I know it’s been over 4 years now, but man, I’m still not over the Sonic 3 replacement music in Sonic Origins. It’s not AWFUL or anything, but the Sonic games always represented the best music the Genesis had to offer. These sound like they belong in Bubsy or something. See what I mean:

September 30th vs. October 1st

I’m probably the only person on this planet who, for whatever reason, owns three separate sealed copies of Zoop.

I really like Sonic Origins and think it’s a great way to play the classics overall, but one thing that brings it down is they didn’t include the Easter egg where Knuckles shoos you on your way in Sky Sanctuary in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I made this video comparing the original to Origins.

What’s your favorite Special Stage from the classic Sonic games? I’ve always been a Blue Spheres guy myself.

Happy 30th Anniversary to the North American launch of Nintendo 64! I’ll never forget the first time I saw Super Mario 64. It blew me away. It was one of the most impressive technical leaps in gaming history. The N64 is still to this day one of my favorite game consoles ever.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Game Gear has so much going for it. It has really cool level themes and a great soundtrack! I just wish it didn’t have so much “screw the player” design. If this game wasn’t so full of cheap deaths, it might be among my favorites on the system.

The Sonic concert was awesome! Lots of the iconic songs were performed on stage, but also unexpected stuff like medleys from Sonic R, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Rush, and the Sonic Advance series. It was a cool experience!

At Sonic Live in Concert in Portland!

That time SEGA ran out of ideas when making a Sonic game so they just threw in another one of their games.

Happy 40th Anniversary to the original arcade release of the SEGA classic, OutRun! This iconic racer is a lot of fun and has a great soundtrack.

Cyrax is so cool he can literally be in two places at once. #MortalKombat

I keep seeing people online talk about the video game “Wolverine” so I started playing it myself and yes this is indeed pretty bad.

My cat snuggled in a blanket that has her face on it.

Happy 25th Anniversary to the launch of the Nintendo GameCube! While it has some great Nintendo games such as F-Zero GX and WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games!, Sonic especially had an AMAZING run on this console and I played so much Sonic on this system, both new and old games.

What’s your favorite classic Sonic title screen? I have a hard time deciding between Sonic 2 and Sonic CD, myself.

Hanging out with the voice of Sonic, Roger Craig Smith!

I don’t think so, Tim.

Ocarina of Time looks SO good! And it comes out on my birthday! 🎉

My predictions for tomorrow’s Zelda Direct: - Ocarina of Time footage and information - Movie trailer - Twilight Princess in some form, either HD or on NSO - Some sort of weird cross-over no one would expect And my biggest out-there, WTF prediction: - A complete remake of Zelda 1

I’ve played some really cool stuff at PAX West, but I want to specifically shoutout @royaltyfree4all.bsky.social and @polyfightergame.bsky.social for being really fun to play and also having really awesome people running the booths that are cool to chat with.

NiGHTS! And Virtua Fighter! #SEGA

I got to visit the Sonic 35th Anniversary art exhibit and it’s WAY past cool!

“Rush Road” would be such a perfect name for a Sonic level.

Two Nintendo Directs next week back to back with one focused entirely on Zelda?! My excitement has reached maximum level!