For some reason, XTal always reminded me of the Water Palace from Secret of Mana (where you learn Undine magic). Skip ahead in the video to around the 2:30 mark.

My theory re: KFC having big sales in Japan: look no further than th' good Colonel Sanders statues out front. No, seriously: Big white dude in with a white beard smiling happily at the fine folks all year. How can he not be Santa? I've even seen it where they throw the red suit on him to further make the connection.…

youtube, like most other providers at this point, has both versions of their player (and this is why you can watch youtube on iphones/ipads). this is done via a fallback method via javascript. the script first checks to see if it can load the flash player version, and if it can't (because the browser doesn't support…

your loss, i guess

Ah, makes sense. Incidentally, I couldn't stop watching episode 1 once it started, so I gotta admit that was well played.

Episode 3 I think is what you're referring to -

ha ha... yeah. we grew up in different times.

That's a really awesome way to teach them! Seriously — imagine how different your world would have been if you had had a cabinet downstairs when growing up! Sounds like a great way to bond, too - I'm sure they thought it was the coolest thing daddy was building while it was happening, and since everyone stands to…

Only YOU can prevent forest fires!

Really excited for the new Paper Mario for 3DS, but would love to see Super Mario RPG or any Paper Mario games released as 3D Classics just the same!

My 10th was last year - and the organizer decided to hold it on 2-day weekend in the middle of fall, citing that she had plans for Thanksgiving and thus would not be available then. No surprises here, the turnout was a tiny fraction of the class, and very poorly attended. Can't recall if there was a charge for it; as…

yay for timed hits, nay for SNES purple blehhhh!

Exactly, I see working on smaller projects as a good thing. Not sure what the results would be, but perhaps a new IP or rather, setting up a group to create new IPs for Nintendo could be the best thing to happen to the company in a long time.

In other words, putting the fantasy back into Final Fantasy? Just might be onto something here....

In summary: Miyamoto going back to making games and not overseeing franchises? This is what every Nintendo fanboy has essentially been waiting for since they realized there were no new IPs since Pikmin.

so say we all! It's the first stop on the tour.

Really? I still have my FF3 SNES box, though sadly, not the game. Dropped maybe USD $15~16 for FFVI in japan 8 years ago.

or soundtrack! perhaps THE most upbeat mario soundtrack ever, yes?

wouldn't be surprised if they were flood victims or something along those lines.

Thanks, xsbs. Wasn't aware of retromags but great to know (and great for graphic design ideas)