This image is very interesting to me because it goes against this original image on the Smash Bros Dojo:

Personally, I like the new version on the video screen much better - it reminds me a lot of Melee. I assume this select screen is a demo version for the conference, and yet it's still missing Pokémon Trainer, Lucas, Wario, Zero Suit Samus, Ice Climbers, Zelda, etc.

I'm curious to see how the "ridiculous" number of characters all fit on the screen in the final version when each one is unlocked. Remember Nintendo, I don't have widescreen!

I was caught off-guard last night with Nintendo's Fall Press Conference in Japan. I had no idea there was going to be such a conference, let alone a conference where they would actually reveal important information! Sonic in Smash Bros. is a huge revelation as Ray points out in a surprisingly composed blog post. But there were other tid-bits too. A new Mario Baseball title for the Wii has me pretty excited as I'm ready to unlock all the Star Characters all over again. Motorcycles in Mario Kart should be interesting and very fitting for at least 1 character I can think of. The news of a DS Demo channel confirms that we will get Wii to DS connectivity which will hopefully spill over into innovative new gameplay as well. All-in-all, some exciting stuff around the corner!

I thought I'd plug what I felt was one of the best new shows on TV last year. Jericho, a show about a post-nuclear U.S., gained a very loyal fanbase as CBS found out when they cancelled the show this summer. Fans (myself included), sent CBS over 40,000 lbs. of nuts to CBS in protest of the cancellation (there was a significant reference to nuts in the season finale). While the show had some faults and low points, it really drew you in and made you curious about the circumstances surrounding the nuclear attacks. Who was behind the attacks? Which cities remained standing? Who was in charge now? Was there even a U.S. anymore? The show had a lot of potential, and luckily CBS listened to the fans. Although already cancelled, CBS went back and ordered a shortened season 2 (I think only 7 episodes) to give the show one more chance in the ratings. The DVD set for season 1 just came out if you're interested. Alternatively, you can still watch the entire season on CBS's website.

Ray and I made a podcast for Ray's site last night outlining the Nintendo games of October we're looking forward to. The podcast weighs in at about 20 minutes. As Ray mentions in the Raybob Podcast (or 'Bobcast'), this may be the last Bobcast as we transition to possibly doing a 2P START! podcast. We welcome any ideas out there for topics to discuss in the 2P PODCAST!, so leave a comment if you've got a request, or criticism on the current Bobcast.

This feels like the "world exclusive review" since no one seems to have bothered doing it yet....

It's really nice that Sonic Rush Adventure allows you to submit your best times to the online leaderboard. It's also very irritating when someone figures out a way to ruin it for everybody else.

The good news is that you can find me listed in the top rankings
for Zone 2-2 and Zone 7-2.

I also want to iterate how much fun racing against opponents online is. The difference in abilities between Sonic and Blaze make each race incredibly balanced, as long as you know what you're doing...

Well, I'll admit, I'm a bit new to the whole MySpace thing, but 200 million people must have MySpace pages for a reason, right? I made a MySpace page for 2P START! the other day and welcome all of you to add us as friends if you'd like. I figure it might be a fun way to get to know some of you better and put a face with a screen name. And who knows, maybe some day we'll release some exclusive content on our MySpace page, we don't mind buying our friends!

Super Smash Bros. Dojo has been giving those addictive daily updates about the new Wii title, but what you may not have noticed is that there's a lot of freaks like me who have been paying way too close of attention to the details.

Franchise icons (shown above) are used to highlight which game a character, stage, or item is from. These are labeled as /world_b_01.jpg, /world_b_02.jpg, /world_b_03.jpg, etc. etc. Except when you hit number 13, the icon is missing. This was also true for numbers 14 and 17 until Ice Climbers and Solid Snake showed up. The question is, which game will take the unknown spot?

My guess is Mr.Game&Watch.

What I really want to know, however, is whether or not these icons stop at number 18...

You can check out my review by clicking on the image above. Being a "true" Sonic fan, I'm sure my reviews of Sonic games are skewed, but which way? Sometimes I can't tell if I'm being too easy or too hard...

Stripey, an impartial fan of both 2P START! and Dueling Analogs, pointed out that DA's comic today is also about Tetris. It's funny how that worked out because it's not like Tetris is a new game or anything. It's also funny because just last week I mentioned to Steve on the DA boards that his Mario Strike comic had the same 'spherical characters' concept that our Samus vs. Aiai comic had. I think his Mario Strike comic was better than ours, but it's hard not to be biased with the Tetris comics, so we'll leave that up to the Joystiq readers this weekend!