I'm up to the final castle in Zelda (I think). I'll probably beat it tomorrow sometime, then go onto the i------t to find out about all the little things I missed and do that for the next couple days.

That shit nearly sent me into a seizure!
Will there be SuperNES games available I wonder?
My Mario-kart game is so tight I've got the princess eating her own mushrooms.

Is the Zelda game good, Carl?

I know that's not the point here, but...who is Rolf von Ostrauch? I thought of Ulf Merbold who i know has said similar things plenty of times and has annoyed the hell out of me all my life by appearing on any show that has anything to do with space...ANNOYING!!!!
Someone give him a wiiiiii to keep him busy and off tv.
thank you.

Rory, you haven't heard of SNES emulators have you?

[ dzima ]　yes! But I really enjoy the frustration of a cartridge not working for the first three tries. Godamnd computators work too well.

clh -

i have no idea what the hell you are talking about but it's awesome.

i dunno.. what about " [ " and " ] ".. it's been a slow rise, but it seems to me they have taken over for " ( " and " ) "..
" ) " seem to have been retired to smilies. sad.

dude has got hella OPINIONS!!

shit, i don't even know where the hell i am anymore.

But... but that's what wii sports is all about.

I'm just angry at the whole Nintendo brand right now. Why can't they just produce enough units so we can all judge the quality of the system/games. We showed up at Toys r Us this morning as they were getting a shipment of 200 Wii's and 300 Ninetendo DS'. We wanted a Wii but figured the DS would be a good booby prize. We showed up 4 minutes (10:04am) after the store opened and they had already sold the wad of Nintendo and Sony product.
Don't know what this has to do with your post - I just needed to vent. If you don't want to play classic games on the Wii I recommend you download MAME and play them on your computer instead.

Up until recently I was completely ignorant about this DS scarcity issue. A student of mine was telling me just last week that she had to wait in line before Toys R Us opened just to get a DS and I was really surprised considering how long it's been around. (With Wii it can be expected, but DS Lite was released 9 months ago!!) Well, that'll show you for not getting there an hour early, shiny. (Was the setting for your tale Japan or someplace else? Is this manufactured scarcity a global practice?)

PC emus are fine but if you really want to play those old games on your TV go to the recycle shop and get a Dreamcast;(Even six years or so later, I still think the DC was a damn fine machine, although loud when loading.) Nester DC is a good choice for NES emulation. That shit doesn't look right unless it's bombarding your retinae with cathode rays!

When does metaanalysis stop because it's really making everything kind of dull! Yes, your top 10 top 10 top 10 lists is very humorous!

I feel like going meta is not being cheeky - it's just being realistic.

Laotree: I don't know what the DS Lite's current status in Japan is, but it has been widely available in the New World pretty much all along. There may have been a brief (week or two?) period right after its introduction in early Summer when supplies were constrained, but it has been reasonably available (with some sellouts at individual retailers) since then.

Re: Wii, I can't help but thinking with the current uptake rate of Hi-Def (my lovely wife is hardly a Luddite, but it counts for something that it was she who said "let's get an HDTV", and that was in February), the little console that could is going to be the best console to buy this year, and the worst one to buy next year. It apparently doesn't do HD by design, and even if it ultimately manages to push HD-ish graphics out, it's clearly (and by design) a step behind the XStation 3sixty.

It's still the one I am most interested in, but so far, it's only interest. Mine DS Lite is the One True Console, and half my department is now planning to ask Santa for or buy one (several under the guise of "for the kid").

Oh Mario Kart, your sensuously responsive controls entice me!

Ryan,
Yeah apparently DS is the first game console in Japan to ever have such supply problems.
Wouldn't it be reasonable to think that Nintendo will probably release an HD version of Wii within the next couple of years? The impression I get is that they rushed the development of Wii to be competitive with the other new consoles, but consider they have a history of updates and add-ons for their consoles, esp. in Japan...

Laotree: what baffles about the DS Lite is two things:

1) apparently enduring shortages even to the present day in Japan
2) simultaneously being readily available throughout the rest of the first world

That said, even now it's the most popular game thingy in Japan: latest weekly sales figures put it at about ten times the weekly sales of either the PSP or the XBox 360, and while it sells better than the Wii and the PS3, those two at least have the excuse of constrained sales.

Regarding the HD Wii theory, it is intriguing. But it is pure speculation, and whether it is reasonable or not, my instinct is that it's unlikely.

Also, updates and add-ons are notoriously poor sellers, at least in proportion to the original console.

1. The DS is sold out Stateside at the moment.
2. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003962.html