This has been something I've come to realize is a hallmark of the Zelda games. The faraway corners of Hyrule, the dungeons and forests and lakes, they just feel like nobody's stepped foot in them for ages. There's something strangely melancholy about even the most populated areas of those worlds, like you're all alone.

Immortal Power: Plug It In!

Say "fuzzy pickles!"

Some of these are pranks like hitting your best friend in the face with a rock is a prank. And some of these are seemingly just as painful. And some of these are lifting your "friend" up into a running ceiling fan.

Butterbeer, Rock Candy— what childhood memory will they bring to life next?!

Junior Senior? Sandstorm? Kids in America? Were these even in the Japanese version?

Your Tiny Zebra: Battling is Supernatural— or is that the Chinese knockoff?

I hate this as much as the next guy, the 20 something year old talking about how things were in -their- day but seriously, we've come a really long way in just a decade or two. It seems like yesterday that plugging in 4 controllers was a novelty, now I'm playing Scrabble with some stranger in France while riding the…

It's not laugh out loud funny, well not every strip is... in fact, many comic strips aren't the source of big laughs. It's difficult to describe what makes Peanuts so wonderful— the winning characters, the blend of joyous sincerity and true-to-life sadness— but if you're looking to burst out laughing then maybe you…

Wait, it's free...

Triple Town, Spry Fox, Sim City, co-op, strategy, cute little leaping worker guys and glorified conveyor belts— sold.

Sometimes I forget just how wonderful the Dreamcast was. I'm pretty sure you needed to import the pictures using the Dreamcast network so I'm guessing it's not an option anymore?

Man, this sort of thing makes me awful nostalgic. Microsoft Word's Word Art feature, the idea of referring to your parents sternly saying no to a thing as "getting mad" and, wow, anything related to the Nintendo 64 which during the Christmas season makes me all the more warm and fuzzy inside.

Huh, the thing I'm enjoying about this seemingly trivial fact is that the idea behind it is to immerse the player a little more, and immersion is often the thing that make games a unique art form. I mean, I'm a filmmaker and the audience isn't going to consciously notice every cut in the movie but there's a level of…

Huh, no mention of the hatch from Lost? This was the Twin Peaks of my generation, my friends and I spent an entire summer guessing what was in the hatch and man did that opening scene from season 2 deliver!

I'll admit that even as a die-hard Nintendo fan I've found myself prone to thinking about the Playstation 4 and the Next-Box and all those rote issues of graphics capabilities and processing power and, ugh, the "console wars."

The thing I really enjoy about some of these crazier tech hacks is that they remind me of what we thought the future would be like in the 70s or 80s, like a computer telling us before we leave the house "Mr. Smith, aren't you forgetting something?" The future is now fellas!

How come I'm only hearing about this game now?!

This is so stupid.

Bees?