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Brawl Brawl Brawl

My Super Smash Bros. Brawl friend code: 3308 4229 3088

Please let me know if you add me, so I can add you back.

I wish I knew why but my current favorite character is turning out to be Diddy Kong. Diddy Kong?! WTF?! I don’t even like Diddy as a character, but he’s fun in Brawl.

More for myself than anyone, a character checklist (big ups to Burch for helping me unlock all of these): Read the rest of this entry »

March 10th, 2008 · Tags Nintendo, Video Games, Wii | Comments Off

The shakedown: Transformers & Pokemon Battle Revolution

Transformers cover Pokemon Battle Revolution cover

Picked up both of these games yesterday, since I had them on reserve and had store credit to completely cover one and partially cover the other. (Yes, I’m a 24-year-old man who likes giant robots and battling monsters. So what, you wanna fight about it?) How did they fare? Read the rest of this entry »

June 27th, 2007 · Tags Nintendo, Pokemon, Reviews, Transformers, Video Games, Wii | Comments Off

Super Mario Bros.: the really, *really* lost levels

Most people who know about Super Mario Bros. know about the infamous Minus World glitch. Basically, you slide through a wall, you go down a pipe, you end up in a world that doesn’t really exist; hence, instead of displaying 1-1 or 2-1, it displays -1. (Incidentally, here’s an explanation of why the Minus World works - or rather, doesn’t.)

However, for a while in Japan, the game was re-released on the Famicom Disk System. The FDS was a Japanese-only Nintendo-proprietary floppy-disk game system. And, you might think, surely re-releasing Super Mario Bros. onto a different format entirely might change the way the Minus World works, right?

Well, you’d be right. Watch this video to see how right you are:

Fascinating. The FDS version of the Minus World kind of works!

April 4th, 2007 · Tags Nintendo, Nostalgia, Video, Video Games, YouTube | Comments Off