If you really think about the plot of Super Mario Brothers it clearly refers to Mario and Luigi having ingested something that's probably not legal, and definitely not safe. All the signs are there: The environment being the Mushroom Kingdom, the Mushrooms make them "super", and it all being accessible from the world's largest plumbing pipes. I ( Read more... )

So, knowing full well that nothing I could find could likely match the Magic Mirror or the Link Mask, I decided to go a slightly different route. I still choose something seasonable and strange, but not as horrifying. What I came up with was Wario the pooh or Winnie the Wario, I really could decide which I preferred.

What the heck is that!? You may ( Read more... )

Introduction
I'm not sure if this happened to everyone, but when I was a kid sometimes it seemed as though the hand of fate simply placed cartridges in my NES collection. I didn't recall buying them or asking for them, they were just there. Sometimes I found a wondrous treasure in these foundling games, like Life Force. Sometimes I found something ( Read more... )

It's October, and I'm a goth kid at heart so I've been trying to stick with a Halloween sort of theme for my posts. This weeks oddity post will be no different.

If You've managed to avoid looking at the title of this post I have a fun little look and find game for you. Find the terrifying oddity in this picture from our collection.


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I've finally managed to get together another collection oddity post. If you've read the oddities featured in this blog previously, you'll notice that we collect a wide of variety of strange objects from our various fandoms. One of the weirdest things that are more than a one-off bad marketing move (I'm looking at you crazy Irwin Sailor Moon toys), ( Read more... )

INTRODUCTIONChances are that if you're old enough to ever be sitting around with your friends discussing your favorite classic NES games, Contra is going to come up. Somehow the abuse delivered by this Konami classic was well received, back when gamers were truly an elite corps, and willing to take it. Within the seemingly simple run-and-shoot ( Read more... )

So far in my retro reviews we've only done reviews of good games, and if not good they've at least been classics. Today changes all that, today I'm reviewing a game that has got to be one of the poorest excuses for game to have ever made it to a system as glorious as the SNES, a game that makes me ashamed to be a girl and even more ashamed to have ( Read more... )

Once again I have to apologize for the lack of entries I've got fun stuff it's just that we were without internet access for awhile last week.

This is another awesome classic review written by my awesome brother. Enjoy.

INTRODUCTION

Nearly thirty years ago, Paramount produced a move that would forever staple the "Summer Camp Horror" cliche into our ( Read more... )

It's now 2009 and when you want play a basketball game you can just pop in NBA 2k9 when you want a realistic looking challenging game of basketball on your favorite console. But let's get in our time machine and set the dial to an era where you didn't always have the luxury of such a lush experience. Back when the Nintendo Entertainment System was ( Read more... )

If it isn't obvious from my review of the Sailor Moon Vanity Case, we like to add oddball items to our collections. So I'm going to try to feature one of these each week. This week's is a vintage Legend of Zelda storybook, Molblin's Magic Spear. Published in 1989 it's a 23 page "Golden look-look book". Apparently some of these came with a cassette ( Read more... )