I was looking for some wall-fillers the other day and ran across this gem. It’s a fold-out poster from an old Nintendo Power magazine.

Sure, we all know what those orbs are for but I love how they are represented in this poster. The entire Ninja Gaiden franchise had such a deep and epic storyline and yet, here we see Ryu cutting up oranges with the Dark Sword of Chaos.

You also can’t help but notice that Ryu’s bicep looks like a very nasty tumor.

From the depths of anime retardation through the site known as 4chan, something incredible emerges. A mysterious internetter remakes MC Escher’s stair drawing through Portal. This is one of the best fan art creations I’ve seen in a long time. The creator deserves a metal and a beer, but if he’s like everyone else on 4chan then he deserves a wedgy and a punch in the gut.

Strider was released by Capcom in 1989 and was a relatively big hit in the arcades before being perfectly ported to the Genesis a year later. Both the Arcade and Genesis versions are considered by many to be classics. Like most games back then, the Japanese art for the game was much different than what was released in the US.
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Sometimes we don’t get right to playing a game due to its uninviting box art cover. As mentioned in the first part of this article and how it was difficult to make good choices on our Nintendo game purchases due to the lack of review resources like the internet or a wide variety of game magazines. We relied on one thing - our eyes. » read more

You are going to buy a Nintendo game today so it’s either your birthday or it’s close to Christmas. There was plenty of time in between these two great events to decide what game you wanted to buy. Unfortunately you had no resources; there was no internet to read reviews and you couldn’t trust Nintendo Power’s “reviews” either. All you can do is drag your parents to the mall and pray that they had something “bitchin” behind the counter.
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