1. Today, the Untalkative Bunny tries to enjoy a simple meal, but the staff at the restaurant won’t let him be.
2. “THEY’RE ALL NUTS IN THIS WORLD! NUTS I SAY!!”

   Oh Mario, why won’t you let Podobella have her say?

3. More from the Nintendo Short Cuts contest.

   This time, what pretty much amounts to the story of my life.

   Ok, not quite so bad, but close.

   Many more entries are viewable here.

   I still need to watch more, I admit, but let me just say that with the things I’ve seen on the internet, I was expecting a lot more… well, epic stuff.

4. Oh, wow.

   Hellcat at the Allspark found this one. Relive your childhood with the last Ninja Turtles toy ads of the era.

   Man, some of those were so BAD. I do remember thinking that a Manhole-Cover Shooter would have been better than a pizza shooter.

   And some of the toys, it felt like they took forever to come out. Like the Technodrome. I wanted it, but was hitting that “too old to have it bought, too young to have a job” age. Krang’s Android body was another such example.

   Sort of drove me crazy how they’d add so much stuff to the figures and such, making them seem less like their normal portrayals in media. Sure, some may disagree, but I just wanted what I was watching. Keep the over-abundance of “Foot Stinks” and slime stickers, please.

   A lot of the weirder Turtle variants were too much for me. Farmer Turtles? Yech. But I dug stuff like the Cyber Samurai Turtles (ESPECIALLY with the comics), and the Turtle-shaped mechs, even though sadly I never got either.

   That toyline was such an odd lot by the end.

5. Why is pro gaming not as popular as it should be? This article helps shed some light on the matter.

   Personally, it feels like games just used to be a lot more watchable. Then again, when I’d watch my parents play, it was usually something I didn’t have the patience or skill for.

6. They couldn’t keep away… ScrewAttack.com and GameTrailers look back into the Video Game Vault at Mega Man 3 for the NES.
7. Next Generation has a retrospective of… NiGHTS?

   Not to imply that it isn’t worthy, but usually a retrospective covers something with more than one title in the franchise…

8. A neat look at Link’s many shields.

   I think I like Twilight Princess‘s version best, but I still have to wonder what kind of story explanation could or would ever be used to explain the simple cross on the earliest shields of the franchise’s history.

9. Games based on movies tend to blow, though they tend to blow a little less these days.

   All the same, just because the collective blowing of all these movie-games could keep a kite flying indefinitely, doesn’t mean they all do.

   And it is to that end that a list of the top five movie-based games has been made.

   What surprises me most is that the SNES version of Aladdin was chosen over the Genesis version; everyone always swore to me that SEGA’s was better than Capcom’s.

10. It’s strange.

    Everything I’ve seen for Mario Strikers: Charged pretty much seems to imply that Mario and Company have all gone straight to Hell, and all they do there is play soccer. That goes for the style, the expressions, and the music.

    And yet, watching some of this, the music seems rather mild.

11. GameVideos has an exhaustive look at the Hyrule Temple stage from Super Smash Bros. Melee, giving comparisons to past dungeons and noting how it most resembles those in Zelda II.

    It does have its “duh” moments, but is sort of neat to see everything arranged sequentially in a way that shows how things have changed over time.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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