The day I became 12 again

Yesterday, August 25th, The Wii released Ys Book 1&2 for download on it's Virtual Console. If you're not familiar, instead of buying games at the store, The Wii has the option of having you buy games through the system like classic games for the NES, SNES and even some Wii games from indy-developers who might not having the marketing money to release games in the store.

Ys Book 1 & 2 originally came out for the Turbo Duo (old CD based system) and used to be one of my favorite games. I haven't played it in years and it was only $8 or something like that so I got it... and played it for 2.5 hours straight. This length of time may be chump change to most gamers but now that I have 3 kids and work full time this is the first time I've played a game for that long in one sitting in a good few years.

After taking a break from it for a short while, I turned it right back on and continued playing it until about 1am. Again, chump change in gamer time, but, again, 3 kids and what-not. Felt pretty good, too.

Legend of Zelda: The Movie

Based on the N64 version, Ocarina of Time but don't get your hopes up... IGN published this video on April 1st.. and it's due to come out next April 1st.

I'm sure it's not the case, but it'd be great if the April Fools joke was the fact that this was an actual movie.

Super realistic Mario

Someone with way better photoshop skills than I have decided to come up with what Mario might look like in real life... pretty creepy. Click on the picture to see it enlarged (even creepier)

'Spy Hunter' Pontiac

This could be the best car commercial of all time... maybe even the best commercial of all time.

Once you see it, you can't un-see it: Part 2

Ever notice this?

Now do you notice it?

Yep, the clouds and the bushes in Super Mario Brothers are the same! Just different colors!

I feel like I've been lied to for the past 20 years...

Free online multi-player games from your browser

http://www.instantaction.com/

I just (and when I say 'just', I mean an hour ago) got an email saying that InstantAction, the 3-D multiplayer console-type games on your web browser company, has released a 4 new games you can play online - best of all, it's free so if you're bored at work and are sick solitaire (both in the lame-factor and the 'it's only a one player' factor), you should check'em out.



MarbleBlast Online, Think Tanks, Screw Jumper and (my favorite) Cyclomite are immediately at your disposal. There's a game called Fallen Empire: Legions that looks AMAZING that's coming soon so watch out for that, for sure.

Laura: RockStar in the making

I was playing RockBand the other morning just by myself when my 2 year old picked up the drumsticks and decided to play along. Becaused everything she does is cute (not that I'm biased or anything) I grabbed some video of this.

And if you complain about the quality of the video, then you can get me a camera.