Irrelevant But Awesome

I don't have a Nintendo Wii U yet. But I'm going to cave, I just know I am. The first blow was Super Mario 3D World. I only played the game for a few minutes on a friends console, but man that was magical. It's the kind of game that transports you right back to that feeling you got playing your favorite Mario game as a kid (Super Mario 64 for me). The second blow was the new Super Smash Bros. game though I obviously don't need to go into much detail here. If there's a Smash Bros game out there, you need it. Simple enough. The next blow was Splatoon. Again, it was a game that looked fun, but I wanted to wait to see if this game would actually be any good. After all, Nintendo wasn't really known for their shooter games, so maybe I'll wait to see how it turns out. Well it turns out that Splatoon surpassed all of my expectations. More and more it's looking like I'm actually going to need to drop money on one of these.   But it looks like the final ...

Back in 1990, Nintendo hosed a special video game competition that was loosely based on the film, The Wizard. It featured a special cartridge that was to be used for that competition only, and featured three different Nintendo games that were popular at the time. The competition was based on scoring the highest number of possible points in the alotted time limit. That unique cartridge has gone on to become a thing of video game legend as only a handful were ever made and they've since gone on to become one of the holy grails of video game collecting, easily selling for several thousand dollars each on the rare occasion that they've gone on sale. But that's another story for another time. What's exciting today is that Nintendo is reviving and updating their World Championship competition for 2015. Eight Best Buy stores have been selected to host the qualifying events for the competition on May 30th. The stores are as follows. 1717 Harrison St. Sa...