For Americanfest this year I’d like to talk about Mario, Super Mario. Now Nintendo doesn’t usually go out of their way to celebrate holidays but let’s take a look at the couple of times everyone’s favorite plumber has shown his love to America. I’m not going to try to pretend Mario is the most patriotic … Read More “Patriotic Super Mario for Independence Day: Nintendo’s Fourth of July” »

Nintendo has pride, they even have an official logo for it and go on the Pride Parade. They are a very family oriented company but also a very inclusionary one. They want everyone to have fun. Sometimes that creates problems since they can be a bit strict if they don’t think something is for everyone … Read More “Nintendo Pride: The spectrum of diveristy in a Japanese company” »

Going to a planet of dinosaurs is not just an idea the bad reboot of Turok but the main plot of two different movies almost 50 years apart. This means it must be a winning formula. The first is more explicit with its title as Planet of Dinosaurs from 1977 and 65 a bit more … Read More “Planet of Dinosaurs & 65 two different takes on the same idea” »

The early 2010s seemed to have a dinosaur revival happening and Terra Nova was one of those shows that seemed to be making this a thing. A scifi Dinosaur TV series produced by Steven Spielberg? It seemed too good to be true. And it looked like it was since it got cancelled after one season … Read More “Terra Nova: Future Dinosaur Past” »

Can you imagine The Office but with dinosaurs? I’m guessing that’s what the pitch was for Dinosaur Office was even though it’s nothing like that and it’s well I don’t know these are all my notes after watching it: nihilistic, annoying roar, 3d great, killing. So if we’re going to make it through this article … Read More “Dinosaur Office ROAR Memories” »

A new Nintendo console releases in less than a year. This is not something that happens often so to build some of that sweet pre-release hype for the next-gen system we’re going to be having a bunch of Nintendo related articles until it launches. You’ll see more than a couple of them every month but … Read More “All Aboard the Nintendo hype train” »

My first memories of Planet of the Apes is the musical with Troy Mcclure on The Simpsons. Perhaps not the best way to get introduced into the franchise, besides that it was my mother telling stories of the movie and specifically the tv show she used to watch about it. I also remember Chris Jericho … Read More “Alternate Universe of the Planet of the Apes” »