Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels



Just rewatched Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie, signaling the halfway mark through the series run. One of my favorite anime series ever, which prompts an annual session every Spring. Little early this year, but with the PS3 MIA I'm hitting the Netflix and TV series discs hard.

Now on to a cop-out of a review brief mention on an expansion:



Such a kind smile for a soul-crushing game...



SOPA

"Sometimes, it takes a crazy person to see the truth. If so, than I'm a freaking lunatic."
-Stephen Colbert



She wants you to click on her. Now that we've got your attention:



One of the reasons I love the Internet is that it's a digital Wild West: Anything goes, limitless possibilities, all kinds of people. You can find out something about anything if you search hard enough and no matter how screwed up you think you are, there's always someone somewhere in the depths of the Internet that will agree with you, will listen to your ideas, to appreciate whatever you've posted online.
That place is here, the Internet - our digital frontier.

Here, you and I are free to be ourselves.
Here, you and I are not alone.
Here, you and I are not censored.

Please don't let them take that away.

Balloon Fight

I'm so glad my 3DS is back from Nintendo! The L button got busted during an online Mario Kart 7 match right when my Ambassador Games arrived back in December and I find it semi-frustrating to defeat online opponents with items using X instead of L (read: personal preferences = comfort zone). I've missed playing two of the GBA games offered, Metroid Fusion and Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, since a friend has had them since '05. Still waitin' on those!

Now my Metroid and Fire Emblem collection is  complete! Now announce an international release of that new 3DS Fire Emblem...

Of course, earlier this week my PS3 decided to die on me right as I was finishing the Final Fantasy XIII-2 demo (which I was thoroughly enjoying), so I'm without a convenient entertainment hub for Hulu Plus, Netflix and my first -technically second- Final Fantasy IX playthrough. I had put my first time off back in '10 around the end of disc 3 when other new game had arrived and I'd forgotten how much fun and charming IX is and was quite eager to finish it before getting to XIII (lost track of time when Christmas rolled around - came and went far too quickly this year, methinks).

But now my PS3 has my disc 3 hostage, dammit!! Looks like I'll only have time to go through XIII again when my system gets back for "internal damage repairs" and I assume I'm one of the few 1% (semi-toopical!) who're lucky enough to essentially get screwed by YLOD'd (Yellow Light of Death-ed). I had wanted to get through Final Fantasy X, X-2, XII and XIII before my Collector's Edition of XIII-2 arrives in early February, but now I know I'll only get time for one game before that arrives. One gets fixed, another decides to break it seems...

Enough of my personal misery! Now, on to another cultish Nintendo game:

A lotta NES Nintendo games that didn't quite became popular franchises are harder to find simple logos for.

Mach Rider

Happy New Year an' all that jazz!

Social schedule got a bit of a busy week, with a Downtown Disney stroll doubling as a B-Day dinner, some friends coming over more often for games, shows and movies, a random get-together with best friends to eat ox tail (tasty and a bit bony), play Munchkin and watch all three Robot Chicken Star Wars specials. Good week, and more eventful than I'm used to.

Now, on to a cult classic Nintendo game of sorts, known to many by its cameos in various other Nintendo compilations such as Smash Bros.

Difficult to find a large logo for this one, so here's the American box art.