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They added some DK Sticky Notes to the store for 400 platinum points:

I would have liked if they had shown more then they did. Because right now, all we know is its bigger, has a different shaped stand, the joycons connect differently and maybe can be used as a mouse. I think they should have given us more information then that, as cool as the console looks. The wait from now until April for more information is going to be a slog.

I guess there was always going to be limited excitement over DK anyway, being that its the third time they've released the game and that its sequel was already on the Switch nearly 7 years ago. It's still shocking to me that they took this much time to work on a HD version of the game and bring it to Switch. I think it should have been worked on and come out years ago. I do want to play it again though, although I don't quite have the love for it as the original SNES DKC games, I enjoyed it on the Wii. My only issue was having to waggle the Wiimote to do DK's roll which was annoying when it randomly didn't work, so that is a major reason I want it on Switch.

I had to go back and jog my memory on how the timeline of the Switch reveal went as I seemed to have forgotten a lot of it. There was the initial reveal with the rooftop party on October 20th 2016: Then Reggie and Myamoto showed up on Jimmy Fallons talk show to show the console off it person in December that year: Then, in Jaunary 2017, there was a live press event to reveal the hardware and what it can do, but we also got to see games like 1-2 Switch, Arms, Splatoon 2, Mario Odyssey among others. The Following day there was a hour long Nintendo Treehouse stream which I am finding hard to find the full archives of, but they seemed to have dedicated time to games to the launch games. I am assuming they will follow a similar series of presentations with Switch 2 but in a shorter amount of time. probably without another Fallon appearance though

BBC Archive posted this video of the Wii and PS3 from 2006 on their YouTube channel today. It's crazy to me as this does not feel like that long ago, but the reality is it's nearly 20 years.

Genki have shown some of their Switch 2 peripherals at CES today and they have their Switch 2 joycon charger on display. But they also seem to have put the official joycons ( probably 3D printed) in them for everyone to see: Also supposedly a replica of the Switch 2:

I watched Raw on Netflix last night, which is the first time I've watched current WWE in quite some time outside of the main event of Wrestlemania last year and I thought it was really good. I enjoyed the matches and just the overall feel of the show and want to watch again next week if its this good. I think the only part that that fell flat was Hogans appearance. Even if he didn't have all the negative baggage associated with him, the segment on its own was there was just to promote his beer, which is a waste of time and not what anyone wants the show to stop for.

Donkey Kong Country 3's soundtrack was added just now.

WWE just uploaded this great behind the scenes video from 1995 on their WWE Vault channel. It shows the filming of the rootop intro that was used on Raw for a couple of years. I absolutely love stuff like this. This whole video is just a joy to see these guys in this era and how they were backstage. My favourite part is where you see that they had a Wresltemania arcade game cabinet at Titan Towers, which Triple H and Goldust are playing on as Bret Hart and Undertaker, while the real Bret Hart, Undertaker and Razor Ramon watch.

@Glen-i you might like the episode of Strange New Worlds where Boimler and Mariner show up in live action

Older WWE content appears to be on Netflix already. I had a Quick Look and it seems like most in not all old PPVs have been uploaded as well as some old episodes of RAW and Smackdown.

Yeah, I always felt it was a shame what Nintendo magazine became. When it originally launched in 1992 and was called Nintendo Magazine System, it was a pretty decent, unbiase magazine. Because it was all the same staff from Mean Machines, they were good at breaking down why a game is good or bad etc and giving it a reliable review. I felt like when it changed a lot of it's staff and became NOM, it became a fanboy magazine that would be excited over everything that came out. I never really felt anything they wrote told me why a game was decent or not, it was all mindless praise for the most part. Its why I switched over to reading N64 magazine and I wish I had done that sooner in the SuperPlay days lol

Taz Express sounds truly awful. What is odd is that despite it being a bad game, it seem to get some good reviews in a few magazines. I read on Wikipedia that Nintendo Official Magazine gave it quite a high score, so I found a scan of the issue and read the review, which mostly just goes through Taz's powers and then at the end gives 85%

Officially, Hasbro say these are a one off thing, but they released the Proton pack a couple of years ago with a similar kickstarter type campaign and also also said that once its gone its gone, but then randomly a year later they started selling them: So there is always a chance it will happen again with the Trap. Quite a few people are selling them on ebay right now too but at double the price =/ Personally I don't think they should have released the trap and pke meter through a kickstarter as Hasbro knew there was enough of a demand for them because of how successful the protonpack was, so I think they could have just released it normally. Nice you got the Lego Ecto 1 though, I want to get that too at some point if I can find one lol

Just a heads up, you can currently earn platinum points every day for playing an online game and then also for visiting the NSO page/app. They also are re-uploading avatars they’ve made available on the past, with a different set every day