Thought I fell off the ol’ update wagon there, didn’t you? No such luck.

1. A lot of cool cosplay from the Anime Expo. I haven’t looked at them all thoroughly, but I do dig the Ganondorf one. You can find more here, here, here, here, here, and here. Whew!

   Thanks to GoNintendo for the round-up.

2. Topless Robot recently posted a list of “The 10 Most Heinously Corporate Video Games,” and I think this may just be the first time I’ve ever seen anyone utter an ill word about Cool Spot. Truth be told, there are a number on here I’d like to play; without spoiling the count, I’ll just say: 6B (played the first one mentioned), 5, and 1.

   I’m actually a touch bewildered that McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure isn’t on the list. I would love to get to play that, as a) I’m a sucker for the McDonaldland stuff, and b) it was made by Treasure, so that automatically makes it worth a shot.

   I doubt any of these would make it to the Virtual Console, save for maybe Cool Spot (it was released in Europe sans 7up marketing, as they didn’t use the Spot character there). Guess it’s up to eBay and Amazon.

3. Speaking of Topless Robot, they also have a list of “The 12 Strangest TransFormers Beast Wars Figures,” which actually proves that robotic testicles existed on Cybertron before Michael Bay got there. Go figure.
4. GameGirl (via GoNintendo) has a list of the “Top 7 Video Game Cowboys.”

   One who’s not listed, perhaps because it’s too soon, would be the unnamed “Swordsman” from Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2, which I can’t wait to get my hands on.

5. Following the announcement that Asteroids has been optioned for the motion picture treatment, TotalFilm.com has organized 7 Classic Arcade Games That Could Be Movies. 1 and 4 are my favorite; for number seven, all I’ll say is “he didn’t take the role last time, why would he do it this time?”
6. Let’s see… how about something that’s not a list? Let’s see… ah, here we go.

   A little while back, MattG over at Press the Buttons assembled a nice collection of Super Mario World artwork to check out. Good stuff, I miss when Nintendo Power produced a lot of their own original-but-official artwork. Particularly when it could barely (if at all) be distinguished from the stuff out of Japan.

7. I haven’t even read this yet, because it’s loooong. IGN Retro has compiled The History of SEGA. Might be good for my train trip next week, though.
8. Also of considerable length, and also from IGN Retro is The History of Wrestling Games.

   I do wish Capcom would bring back Saturday Night Slam Masters, and maybe Nintendo with Pro Wrestling while they’re at it.

Ok, I think that’s enough for tonight. Til’ next time!

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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