There was a whole line of Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart K’NEX sets.

I dunno, it doesn’t sound like they’re using a lot of EU things specifically, so unfortunately, he may be... Thrawn to the wind.

I see holes in that carrying case for what looks like another set of ABXY buttons. Am I to assume that this controller comes with a set of the standard-colored ABXY buttons to replace the black ones, or is there some other alternative that I’m not thinking of?

Has “sprite” evolved to mean something different in terms of video game art nowadays? Or is it being used here in some other context than in referring to the actual graphics of the game? Because these graphics definitely have nothing to do with sprites, as I understand the traditional meaning of the term.

New Testament?

It’s a pretty solid, if primitive, entry in the Metroid series. It’s interesting, nowadays, to look back at it, and see the evolution in the controls from the first Metroid, to Metroid II, onto Super Metroid.

Was that Matthew Broderick?

It was always just kind of on the outside of canon; like, I don’t think anyone ever explicitly said it wasn’t canon, but story-wise it was so far removed from DBZ, and Toriyama wasn’t even involved (if I remember correctly), so it wasn’t really an issue. But the upcoming Dragon Ball series takes place before GT, which…

He’s Kangaroo Jacked.

I was hoping Missy would turn out to be Romana, the Time Lady that traveled with Tom Baker for a while. It would have been a nice, if somewhat more obscure callback, and a hell of a lot less predictable than the Master.

Is there any way to tell whether the cats are boy cats or girl cats? I want to name mine, but I’m torn between calling it Phyllis or Horatio.

As someone who's always been a huge TMNT fan but has never read the comics, I have to ask: has any of the Turtles ever actually been killed off in the comics before? Like, I know how decisive death is in comics in general, but is this the first time one of the Turtles has been knocked off?

I'm torn on what my response is to this. I'm not sure if this statement is wrong because, no, DC's movies are absolutely not "steeped in realism" any more than Marvel's are; or if the statement is wrong because, shit, movies based on comic books should not be "steeped in realism." Either way, this is a stupid quote.

The fact that you chose to specify "non-human" or "non-Earthling" made me imagine a non-human companion that is from Earth, and now I just want a season of Doctor Who where the Doctor travels around with a TARDIS full of animal companions. He can have a dog, a few cats, a large talky bird, a kangaroo, and a raccoon.…

I think this game, like Captain Toad before it, will prove to have a secondary level of enjoyment from watching someone else play. Playing Captain Toad last year, I felt myself staring at the GamePad more so than the TV, but while my fiancée was playing, I was able to enjoy the game in a different way just by watching…

This doesn't quite qualify as "insane," I suppose, but I once crossed paths with John Travolta in line for It's a Small World at Walt Disney World. He was getting off the ride as I was getting on. I wish I could say it was more exciting than it actually was, but it was really more of a delayed reaction than anything.…

I mean, I'm sure Nintendo probably likes to see that their systems have this much value to people, but even if they wanted to I doubt there's really much they could do. When you start policing sales on eBay you probably get into some murky legal waters.

That seems like a lot of stuff for Best Buy to throw in that they probably don't need to. People will buy the system by itself, and a game (Majora's Mask or otherwise) by itself. They could throw in a charger I suppose, but they probably don't really even need to do that.

This actually puts a lot of Nintendo's policies and practices in perspective. As disappointing as it is that we sometimes don't get all the types of games we'd like to get, it makes sense that a company in which each member has veto power wouldn't necessarily make the choices which we'd consider great ideas, but which…

I've had the same thought. I'm assuming the new program will be some expanded form of the Digital Purchase Program. It's been obvious for a while now that they're more interested in giving out digital rewards, and is it any coincidence that both current programs end around the same time? If they took the DPP, applied…