I poked around a bit, but it never really captured my interest. Too much resetting for not enough reward, really. But, weirdly enough, I loved the idea behind it even though I didn’t have the patience myself.

In a sense, yeah. Although I don’t really believe that Nintendo of America intended it that way. My suspicion is that it was because Birdo was intended to be female all along (and the egg spitting thing is even stranger otherwise, really) and NoA was simply uncomfortable having Mario and company fighting a “real”…

There’s a fair bit of nostalgia involved, certainly, but I tend to find the redone graphics for the All-Stars versions a little too busy. They’re not terrible by any means, but there’s a simplicity in the original art that I find both aesthetically appealing and less distracting from the game itself.

Semi-related, but when I was young and really, really bad at most games (I mean, I’m still bad, just not as young) I was a fairly early adopter of the Game Genie cheat device. So was my best friend at the time, though he didn’t get as much use out of it as I did. But while I had the standard Galoob- published US…

It’s definitely got one of the more memorable instruction booklets the NES ever graced us with. Some (okay, a lot) of it is a bit silly, but I love the fact that it does its damndest to give every random enemy their own backstory, from Birdo being trans to Ninji being in a gang (called the 8-Bits, no less, who “haunt…

There has typically been a degree of... snootiness, I guess, surrounding the game because of how different it was to other entries in the franchise, and especially the fact that it’s a Doki Doki Panic reskin rather than the “real” SMB2j. But it’s never been without its defenders (myself included), and I haven’t seen…

Oh, I definitely agree. I just have my doubts they’d go all-out on girls’ toys because of the perceived audience for this kind of show. The retro toy scene skews heavily male and towards boys’ toys, and I fear the showrunners won’t want to risk (rightly or wrongly) alienating that crowd. I would be thrilled to be…

I’d be surprised if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles don’t show up in the second season. Part of me doubts they’d go so heavy on “girls’ toys” to do MLP, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, and American Girl all in one season, but, given that I found the Barbie episode to be the most interesting of the first batch, I’d…

Disney’s respect for its heritage certainly leaves a lot to be desired, at least these days. Their “Treasures” DVD sets have basically trickled down to nothing and the ones they did release, while very nice in terms of content and presentation, were produced in such low numbers that they’re next to impossible to find.…

Frank Oz is a damned fine puppeteer, and his creative instincts were at least decent when paired with the other minds behind the Muppets, like Henson and Jerry Juhl. But his solo directing career is a mixed bag at best, with the only genuinely great film he’s done being a fairly flat adaptation of a stage musical.…

I suppose it depends on how the show itself actually shakes out. Is it going to be a standard teen sitcom starring actual teen actors with Melissa Joan Hart only there as the parental figure and as a sort of value-added extra appeal to any older folks who might tune in? Or is it actually going to be centered on…

As I referenced before that type of clothing of the zero suit is common in gymnasts and in people who wear large shoulder pads.

Right. And the moment that Samus Aran is an actual person that question might become relevant. As it is, the suit design isn’t even credited to a woman. So what “beautiful athletic women like” is almost entirely beside the point, because no women were actually in the position to have any such preference one way or the…

That definitely hasn’t helped them, but it feels like they’ve been on the decline (around my neck of the woods, anyway) for a little bit longer than that. I suspect it’s just too expensive to lease the space, which required the higher ticket/concession prices, which made them marginally less appealing in comparison to…

Second-run theaters, you mean? They’re not as common as they used to be, but there are still a few around, yeah. Even there, though, tickets are more than a dollar. Matinee prices are around $4, with evening shows at $6, last time I checked.

I’ve secretly suspected that a lot of our past presidents would never have passed a security clearance background check under any other circumstances. I don’t know of anything that would have ruled Obama out, and George Bush the Elder was formerly head of the CIA, so he presumably did pass the check at some point in…

Movie ticket prices vary wildly from place to place. In my neck of the woods I don’t think we’re up to $18 yet for a normal ticket, but 3D showings are $16, and even the cheapest matinee tickets are in the $11-12 range. In larger cities than mine, it’s more than that. On the flip side, I’ve been to smaller and more…

I don’t want to repeat what I’ve said in other replies too much, and a lot of the points you raise are fair, anyway. I will say, however, that I didn’t criticize the Zero Suit for being too “revealing,” I criticized it for being too sexualized. The two are often related, but not identical. If it looked more like…

Ah, well, in my defense I don’t have a Switch yet.

I really don’t see Nintendo promoting Zero Suit Samus that much.