Remember how Nintendo Power would have short profiles of the game tip pros on staff? In one early issue, one staffer said he could beat Ninja Gaiden (NES) blindfolded.

Remember how Nintendo Power would have short profiles of the game tip pros on staff? In one early issue, one staffer said he could beat Ninja Gaiden (NES) blindfolded.

I'm using my MX Revolution right now, which is 4 or 5 years old and still performing well. The only drawback is the charging contacts don't work very well anymore and I have to put it just right on the charging stand.

This looks like art from the old Super Metroid comic that ran in Nintendo Power in the 1990s. Here is another example of the "transparent" suit illustration.

Yes! I thought to include Nintendo cereal but I preferred C-3POs. Mr. T Cereal was good too but it didn't have a cut-out Stormtrooper mask.

I'm a child of the 1980s and I'd pay money for one more bowl of C-3POs. ;_;

I see Super Mario Bros. 3 in the NES. Excellent.

35 here, I win

I agree

I'm not a fan of touchscreen games either but this one seems to work. It's easy to beat on easy mode and normal mode is not too hard or too easy. The developers were smart enough to add some things to offset touchscreen-unfriendliness, like auto-charge on the X-Buster.

Anyone played Mega Man X on the iPad? It's a pretty good port. It's my 3-year-old son's favorite game now. :)

I've played games for years. However, I have a young son now and I can't really stand these violent games anymore—the execution of the soldier just really disgusts me.

I would bet it is Amazing Spider-Man 300, which is the first full appearance of Venom. Here are some current auctions of that issue: [bit.ly]

Mike Fahey gets the No-Prize!

And the item now "does not exist" on the store: [www.bambalandstore.com]

It comes with a "Snake Pilot (non-articulating)". I wonder if that will be Old Snake from MGS4.

Rocksteady would have been a great pick to develop a TMNT game.

I have to say thanks to Azim Durrani for showing us a facet of game design through the Pakistani/cultural perspective. Very interesting and well-written.

I was in the BSA, and in 1994 I participated in an advanced training camp with about 100 other boys and several well-regarded Scoutmasters from the entire region. The head Scoutmaster there was very respected. Anyway, he required that each unit shower once during the week and to make sure it happened he and all the…

Same here.