I doubt that David Lynch has been reading these comments to get a gauge on how avclub readers enjoy his work, or that he is traveling back in time to integrate our appreciation into the show.

I had the same thoughts. The "mother" might be a bit of stretch, but of everything we've seen so far, that thing in Ep 1 looks most like the egg-puker in this episode.

My wife and I were discussing how he's really leaning into the George Michael look. We both remember him being a little scrawny, long-haired guy in pleather pants, so it's a little weird watching his neck fill out that biker jacket.

Pretty sure Rare and Nintendo have been at loggerheads for a long time about licensing issues, so if they made a mini N64 it wouldn't have Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjoo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, or Conker's Bad Fur Day. I could see that being a sticking point for some people.

On the NES there's pretty much Super Mario Brothers 3 and then a bunch of other shit (and yes, I feel comfortable lumping Castlevania and all of the Mega Men in there, except maybe Mega Man 2).

I got mine for Christmas of 1992, and it worked until around 2011, when my dad's basement flooded. I was living out of state, or I would've tried just drying it out - I think there's a 50/50 chance it would have turned on.

I think somebody else made the good point that Chrono Trigger is available on a different Nintendo console - odds are Nintendo doesn't want to compete with itself (Virtual Console aside).

IMO it's better than the X-Men games for Genesis. It has ups and downs (one chunk of it is just a string of boss battles in the Danger Room, which gets tiresome), but the gameplay and design are very satisfying. It's kind of a sausage party, which is weird for an X-Men adaptation.

I'm sure licensing costs are the biggest limitation. A majority of games on this device are Nintendo properties, and while it's probably not too pricey to re-license 25 year old games, it would still bite into the bottom line.

That's the first game I remember playing that let you kick backward. Also IIRC it had a palette-swapping option where you could play as brightly-colored cartoony turtles or more muted, comic-booky turtles.

But then you don't have a little box that looks like a Super Nintendo sitting around your home?

From what I've read about the open-source GC emulator, the GameCube's hardware was highly customized, which made games challenging to program and also makes the console difficult to emulate. The Wii had hardware emulation for GameCube, but it might be a little while before we see software emulation for it. (Good…

I enjoying configuring older games as much as actually playing them.

DKC is a perfect game. You don't improve on perfection. That's why it's perfect.

"The directors who were frustrating a lot of you are gone, but we aren't shutting down the production, so you'll all keep getting paid, and the new director is a famous, experienced pro with a reputation for being a pretty nice guy!"

I suspect that the current situation is the culmination of a series of decisions that began with "let's make a Han Solo spinoff movie."

In my college acting group there was a woman who would lock her knees, face the audience, and use the same cadence for every line. She modulated volume, and that was about it.

It's probably a challenge to hire someone who is both an enthusiastic fan of Star Wars who wants to bring something new to the table and who's willing to stick to the franchise and corporate rules. I'm sure it's especially difficult with these spin-off stories, which are pretty dodgy propositions artistically and…

I mean, if being slaughtered by poachers were preferable to anything, spending the summer outdoors in Dallas would certainly be a contender.

One time my wife and I were watching gorillas in a zoo exhibit, and one of them was lying on the ground, then reached up with one hand, grabbed some hanging rope, pulled itself completely off the ground, and then grabbed the ropes with its feet and arranged a little hammock for itself. It was adorable, but the thing…