Thinkgeek didn’t go out of business. They were purchased by Gamestop for $140m when they decided gamer swag and nerd tchotchkes might compensate for the struggling used game market. Buying someone who does that was easier than developing it themselves.

The Stadium-style games had the benefit of using an entire game’s development resources to make a pretty battle system for games that already existed. And carrying over the models and animation from the previous iteration in the process.

You could always sell the cartridge, if you haven’t been lulled into the sweet embrace of digital convenience.

You can mostly just watch whichever one you like because there’s no important continuity between shows.

You see a lot sold at that price tagged “best offer accepted”, which means they could have sold for anything.

I haven’t seen evidence of these Oreos actually selling for that much. If you actually sort by completed listings, the most recent sale was $5.72. All the completed ones with a high price tag also have a “best offer accepted” tag, which means they could have gone for anything.

Pedantic rant incoming:

Pedantic rant incoming:

It’s not just Mario in his default idle animation — Nintendo has an actual render of Mario in this pose that this version seemingly tried to recreate.

Some far-future space creature is going to be studying Super Pochako, known only to them as a Polyvinyl Venus.

If anything, I feel bad for Sony and the dev team at WB Games.

I know Animal Crossing was always going to be a big seller, but I’m curious how it would have stacked up if it hadn’t released alongside the pandemic. It was a perfect synergy for sales.

They announced a mobile revamp...in 2018. So yes, they’re “trying to revitalize the brand” but I think it’s still more “trying” than “revitalizing”.

Here’s the thing:

Fair, and Episode 1 and Episode 2 weren’t all that long.

I would still take 4-8 hour over the short “experiences” VR has been plagued with.

I’m amazed at the number of people complaining that it’s a VR title. I dunno what you folks expected, Valve is at the forefront of VR and they’re making the hardware now — of course they’re going to make software for their own hardware.

I’d at least get it if Half-Life 3 had become an exclusive for hardware you don’t…

Can a MCU film even fail at this point? At least without them intentionally driving them into the ground?

For as much as a vocal group of people complained about Captain Marvel and tried to ruin its Rotten Tomato scores I just found it really unlikely people 20 films deep into this franchise were going to skip this one…

It’s explicitly a G Gundam reference.

The Team Rocket gimmick of the week — the “Nyavil Oniarth” — is a parody of the Devil Gundam. Domon and Rain use that love-love combo attack to defeat it once and for all. The tentacle attacks reference another scene with the Devil Gundam.

To be perfectly honest, I had a hard time deciding between the Gamecube keyboard controller and the Wii U gamepad.

How do you miss Wario Ware's plot? It's a goofy cutscene at the beginning of the game and it's so simplistic.