Awesome.

Quoted: BROOKLYN, NY—According to an fMRI of Philip Jenkins' brain during memory recall, his parietal lobe is activated equally for the words mother and Banjo Kazooie.

Who says Nintendo just serves the younger demographic?

Quoted: In 2007, UVM graduate Ethan Bechtel came across an article describing the positive affects of the Nintendo Wii with the elder population. After witnessing his own grandfather live at a nursing home, Ethan decided to contact his younger brother Nate, and the two developed WiiSeniors to create a fun environment at these homes.

Pretty amazing that Nintendo is valued higher than such a seemingly diversified company as Sony.

Quoted: Nintendo Co. currently enjoying the sweet taste of success in the gaming industry, has entered the top ten of Japan's most valuable companies for the first time with a value of 6.54 trillion yen ($53 billion), surpassing its chief rival Sony Corp. in market value.

Yet another reason to get a Wii (although the Xbox ships with such a feature).

Quoted: Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

This animated gif is helpful. Still trying to get to the minus level!

Quoted: As demonstrated in the leftside image, big Mario doesn't need to do any of the complicated stuff that applied to when he is small. When he is big, he can simply perform a duck-jump into the corner and start walking

Ran into this game when I was looking at a site of old Commodore 64 games. It looked almost exactly like Super Mario Brothers, so I wanted to figure out what was up...

Quoted: With a tag-line of 'The brothers are history!', Rainbow Arts was less than subtle in addressing the striking similarities between the two titles. I mean, take the game's friggin' name: The Great (Super) Giana (Mario) Sisters (Bros). They might as well have called it Screw You Nintendo, We Stole Your Stupid Game. But what really got Nintendo's attention was that this copycat game didn't actually suck; instead of fading away into video game obscurity, Giana Sisters was released to very favourable reviews and it began to sell quite well.

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talking about this now. also, didn't realize bbc documentaries are on google video -- great!