Sorry, I'm wasn't trying to be a dick when I came up with the headline above. The fact is, though, I haven't been all that inter...

Just over a year ago (or just under a year ago, if you don't own a Japanese 3DS), Nintendo dropped a 3DS menu theme that changed lives f...

I honestly don't know what's come over me in the last few weeks. In that time, I've become massively smitten with Nintendo's...

In a perfect world, this post would include 27 ways to celebrate the 27th anniversary of the PC Engine's Japanese launch day, which occu...

I actually have a lot to say about the wacky TV spot that can be enjoyed below (and here ), but all of it was rather eloquently summed up by...

Now that I've seen it, I'd really like to know how TV viewers at the time received it. Did they consider it corny or cheesy, as most...

If I told you Square Enix just released a minute-long TV commercial for  Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call that features only 14 seco...

I know there are a lot of gamers in the world who no longer care about Mario or his pixelated or polygonal exploits--if they ever cared abou...

While writing up this blog post earlier in the week, I came across the following commercial for the Japanese release of Grasshopper Manufa...

The folks at Sony recently prepped a special TV commercial to celebrate the fact that Japanese sales of their crazy-survival-action-game-sta...

Don't worry, I'm fully prepared to be bummed--especially after seeing the game's completely WTF-ish Japanese box art . Even if...

No, I'm not talking about Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or even Serena Williams. I'm talking about the peerless--and o...

True story: I've never played Hudson's oft-criticized, PC Engine-based fighter,  China Warrior (known as  The Kung Fu in Japan). ...

Super Mario 3D Land will hit the streets in the Land of the Rising Sun in just a few weeks (on Nov. 3, to be exact). As such, Nintendo'...

I've rarely met a Japanese gaming commercial I didn't like. Retro ones, especially. I think it's because so many of them are equ...

Good news for those of you who lack patience: Both of the above-mentioned reasons are covered by and in the following video: Yep, tomorr...

My first thought upon watching the five commercials--for Minna no Rhythm Tengoku (aka Everyone's Rhythm Heaven , aka Rhythm Heaven Wii ...

You've just got to love this "classic" Game & Watch commercial. I mean, it features the Mary-oh brothers (I've alway...

What will happen on July 21, you ask? Why, Minna no Rhythm Tengoku (aka Everybody's Rhythm Heaven , aka Rhythm Heaven Wii ) will hit st...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will hit store shelves around North America in just a few days--on June 19, to be exact (pre-order ...