The impossible is now possible! Twice!

In the console wars of the silver age of videogames (I'm talking the '90's kiddies) Nintendo had a rivalry with Sega. In turn their mascots Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog respectively had their own beef.

You see, Sonic had been Mario's rival from the silver age of videogames when the SNES and the Sega Genesis fought to be number one in the console game, so it just made sense to the gamers out there to actually see the rivalry materialize. However, in recent years its has been more closely possible as Sega had gone the way of Atari, stopped producing consoles of their own after the Sega Dreamcast, and decided to focus on producing games. Since then we've been seeing an influx of what would've been blasphemy 10 years ago: Sega games on Nintendo systems!


Sega had acquired the rights to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and had originally thought to fill the game with Sonic characters, then some geniuses at Sega had later asked Nintendo to include their characters as well. Thus, earlier this year they had dropped a bombshell: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games!


The character selection screen you would've never thought you'd ever see 10 years ago.
So the game marks a milestone of gamer's dreams brought to life. However, rumors of Sonic appearing in a game with Mario had never been so deeply rooted since Smash Bros. Melee for Nintendo Gamecube. Since the game pits video game mascots upon each other and Sega was producing games for Nintendo, gamers thought Sonic's appearance in the game would be appropriate enough to finally see if he could best Mario in a fight for #1 videogame mascot. People spread rumors of how Sonic was a secret character in the game but in reality no blue hedgehog was available in sight.


Fast forward to the upcoming and anticipated Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. With this game, we've seen the impossible before: Konami's Solid Snake appears as a secret character.


With that in mind check out what was JUST announced today:


It's official: Sonic in Smash Bros. Brawl!

That's right, now I'll never get sleep until January February 10, 2008!

Are Wii having fun yet???

Take your Wii Gaming Experience to the next level:
Equip your Wii with the right weapon of choice.





I mean, sure, use the bat to play baseball on Wii Sports or use the sword for Legend of Zelda but,
what if...
you use the golf club to stir your ingredients on Cooking Mama or use the sword to chop your onions!
Now that will have Mama screaming (with accent and all,) "Bet-tter dhan Ma-Ma!"

That's my kind of Wii Experience.

Blinky Road and other T-Shirts

Some cool t-shirts at Huzzah Goods!

Particularly, this Pac-Man/ Abbey Road inspired shirt caught my eye:


nintendo related shirts:



I just thought it was funny that they actually made a shirt that mocked the
recent controversy of artist Todd Goldman who owns "David and Goliath" and his alleged plagiarized art for his merchandising.


Another awesome shirt that deals with blogs themselves:


On another late note, nintendo/video game blog 4 color rebellion held a contest for video game designs. The winners got a free shirt from the huzzah website, but I suspect the contest, which ended on Friday April 27, was a search for new designs. Here's one of the winning designs that definitely deserves a print:

Here's the winning shirt from their previous contest:


Geek-tastic!