Well, there is simply a "Nintendo" voice channel - put your friends together from Gameological and chat while you play.

Good! I think it'll be fun, and I'm bummed I'm going to miss it! I build them based on what I'd want to play, and might have to revisit this combination again sometime when I'm around, maybe with bikes-only next time, since they are a smaller target.

This week, I finished my first Zelda game ever! And it's not the one you'd think!

Yeah, I'm out the next two, but should be back in August and September. I'll be out in DrFlimFlam's neighborhood (Iowa) for the July Event, which is why Singing Brakeman is hosting.

I'll admit, I'm going to miss it, too…I'll be in Fort Worth, Texas for a race. I'm on Belle Isle in Detroit this weekend, and we're going to have four races in two weeks by the time we finish!

JUNE IS BUSTING OUT (SHELLS) ALL OVER! Mario Kart 8 on the 8th is next Thursday, and we'll be doing a special "Summer Drive (By)" Edition, featuring 50cc Karts and Shells Only! Now is the best time to hone up on your sniping skills and your serpentine driving, because everyone is a sitting duck this month!

Cheers! We sorta prefer to be relatively obscure over here. I get the impression it's not terribly profitable, but we do try to keep it sincere and respectful over here, and the less attention from the Peanut Gallery that is "the Internet", the better.

Good show, everyone.

(The meal is a lie. The welcoming with open arms isn't.)

It was a testament to the chipset from Silicon Graphics that they could exploit the anti-aliasing, bezier curves, and polygon collision functions with such little RAM and storage capacity.

Actually, you kinda can cheat the system: I went to the "evil" prayer statue hear the house you buy in Hateno and converted some of my stamina into enough hearts to get 13, then converted them back after I got the Sword, all for a nominal fee.

Yes, I need to work on Planescape: Torment at some point, too…gosh! It pretty much takes me a year to put 50 hours into a game, and I have three 100+ hour games that need to be finished, not to mention the myriad 20-30 hour games like 1979 Revolution that I think I have to restart after getting about halfway through…

Glad you enjoy it! I don't really have to go out to pit lane during running much anymore, and when I did, I was always wearing hearing protection in the form of a radio headset, so my hearing is still (mostly) intact after 19 years working at racetracks.

You're right about how awful and muddy textures look on the N64, and they "cleaned up" some of the gameplay, but the warts of the original Star Wars print (the cut cel borders on TIE fighter flybys, the under-populated outdoor scenes, and the way that Han Solo has a blaster pointed at his chest from point-blank range…

I worried about inventory restrictions until I found the Royal Claymore stuck in the skull over the tower near Lost Woods and the weapons cache out near the Gerudo Tower. I even had a sledgehammer respawn seconds after I took it during the rise of a Blood Moon, so I can time my usage accordingly.

Working this weekend and having house guests, so not much game playing for me, save showing off Breath of the Wild and maybe working on Ganon's Castle in Ocarina of Time 3D, which looks beautiful! The bridge to the Castle looks WAY cooler than screenshots of the N64 version! I only worry that, even though it's…

I dunno; I am a chicken from the kitchen, and I ain't kiddin' (though, only this is written).

Very well said, and the challenge is sometimes in the creator giving up part of their creation; leaving content on the cutting room floor is so very difficult, because no trivial amount of effort went into creating it, and it's not exactly content that can't be created, lest one do a disservice to the creative process.

I actually (to continue the off-topic conversation) would siege enemies near the start, bombing them from high ground and/or infiltrate through stealthy assassination. Now that I'm stronger and have access to powerful weapon selections, I saunter up to camps and lay waste or lure them out into open combat.

It's the hyperspace button for Frontier: Elite II…