darksnowman

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-03-17-the-reason-behind-waluigis-infamous-mario-strikers-crotch-centric-celebration No one ever interpreted it as anything other than half a W...

Just to update with GBP prices: Nano Assault EX (3DS) £1.69 Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! (3DS) £1.00 Jett Rocket 2: The Wrath of Taikai (3DS) £1.53 Art of Balance TOUCH! (3DS) £1.25 And a few other sale items on 3DS eShop: Virtue's Last Reward £3.99 SteamWorld Dig £1.39 SteamWorld Dig 2 £4.49 SteamWorld Heist £2.19 Theatrhythm FF Curtain Call £14.99 (50% off) FF Explorers £11.99 (60% off)

155 this morning. This will be my maximum for the week it says.

Glad to hear that's over with and hopefully this is you on the road to recovery, @Cookyman!

Not only were films a different sort of beast at that time (as you mentioned above with the likes of Total Recall), Mario was still a ways from being distilled down to the clean, sterile template we... enjoy... nowadays so the casting didn't seem as outlandish as it might do through today's prism. At the moment I'm leaning towards Mario's low point being Mario Tennis 64 because of the way he calls every shot that sails past him as out. Come on, Mario. Keep it classy--the line judges have got this.

Any updates on if your purchase of the Booster Pack on the Russian eShop is going to go through, @MindFreak?

121 this evening @BowserBasher. What say ye? I'm almost 100% on the small spike pattern which should result in an extra little surge tomorrow or Thursday.

There's also a trailer, @Ike. And it's looking like a pretty decent follow up to the first.

Yup, given the choice I reckon the (vast?) majority of fans would side with Chris Pratt being Mario's low point because it's definitely not Bob Hoskins.

Money less important than trying to take MK Tour out of the firing line of the middle finger.

I'm so very sorry to read this, Cooky. Hope they get the third tumour out of you in the morning without any hitches and you're fighting fit before long! 💪 My thoughts'll be with you so as soon as you can, get online and let us know you're alive and well.

There's some good tuneage in 3D World + Bowser's Fury.

Pretty sure no one'd claim these games were system sellers but the Mario, Luigi and Princess inclusion was a nice incentive for people who had more than one console to get the GC edition that year, and equally for GC-only owners who wouldn't normally have tried these games to have a go at what EA was doing. Just shows how high Mario's alleged low point is.

I bought in for 97 a pop so could have saved you a bit. Try to be up and on a bit earlier next Sunday. The early signs are for a 582 maximum so I will keep you posted!!

Interesting way of looking at it. They were also in SSX On Tour and was Little Mac in a boxing game or was that axed? I thought it was a cool way of setting the GC versions of those EA BIG games apart rather than desperation/ a low point for anyone involved. Different strokes for different folks I suppose. So, is something like Snake being in Smash Bros the low point for him then?

Nicely done! I had some Wii Music vibes from that clapping session. Love the transition from KK to jukebox music.

I just went with that because of your avatar and sig combo. Haven't a clue which particular game it might be from! Looking forward to finding out later in the week and seeing what the next brainteaser is.

Great. I'll bring three when I'm coming!

Mush Partition and Mush Parasol and I'll supply the shrooms?

I'll hedge my bets and guess the lyrics are from a Sonic game, @S.C.G?

Sounded like you were available. Will do! There are still DIYs I don't have for items I fancy putting out so I'll give you a shout when there's something else. Maybe the Autumn stuff. Go on, then. I'll drop over for a clap-along.

Get on the Switch then and I'll open the gate!

Och well, we do lovingly think of you as a great old Turtle in Time after all.

Based on playing the Jack Cup this morning (six races) on the Pro Controller, I'd say the only thing to be concerned about here is the stick being a bit finicky. For example, my muscle memory knew the path I wanted to take around Big Blue to hit some of the yellow boost arrows, but my thumb just wasn't getting the right adjustments on the stick. So, that'll take some getting used to. Visually it seemed smooth and faithful to the N64. But of course, there will be better judges than me on that so check around. I noticed a cloud popping in which was weird enough that I'm mentioning it although that could be 1:1 with the N64 original and I just don't remember it. Anyway, pretty certain I haven't played this from the N64 days when I used to delete the save data and start over again (!) so it was nice romp through the first cup with 6/6 wins and 2 stars... i.e. two kills! There's life in the old dog yet.

Not a problem. I'll keep an eye out.