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Today on the Spot - Deca Sports 3, Comic-Con, Nobuo Uematsu interview, and more

Rinry is working hard on her next video for you guys. We were looking to have it on the site tonight, but some upload issues are currently driving Rinry crazy. Rest assured that she’s working hard to get a perfect copy online for you guys to check out. Hopefully we’ll have that this weekend, but for now, you’ll have the ‘pleasure’ of enjoying some more Street Fighter cartoons! They’re so bad that you can’t help but love them. You have a look at that as I head off to bed. See you in a few, short hours. The best part of this episode, in my opinion, happens within the first 20 seconds. As you can see in the still below, the quality assurance team on the Street Fighter animated project had a pretty relaxed attitude! I’m not sure how lighting managed to flash in front of Guile’s face. I guess being as awesome as Guile leads the way for some amazing things. Either that, or there were some lazy animators on staff. I’m thinking it might be the second one. I really shouldn’t pick on this cartoon. I couldn’t make a project anywhere near this good if I tried! I absolutely love animated programming, and truly admire those that put it together for a living. If I had a final project that came out with the quality of these Street Fighter cartoons, I’d see it as exceeding my wildest expectations! With that said, I still can’t deny that the mess-up is pretty funny. Pair that with some of the dialog in this episode, and we have a winner! Direct link here

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It’s Friday, my friends. Time to get excited for the weekend! Let’s all do whatever we need to do to get Friday over with. Then we can get to the fun stuff…the relaxing! I hope you have a work/school work-free weekend ahead of you. Don’t shirk your Friday routine, though! Work hard, finish up the week, and then enjoy your hard-earned rest! I’m heading to bed now so that I can power through Friday’s work schedule! See you all in a few, short hours. I talked about this a little bit on the podcast last week, and I finally have the footage for you guys. I thought it would be best to kick off the weekend with a video like this! Last week, Nintendo held a pre-launch event for Super Mario Galaxy 2 at the Nintendo World Store. The event was for Club Nintendo members only, and there were some pretty rad happenings taking place. One of those ‘events’ was a Mario dance contest. People were chosen to take the floor and do a dance that they thought Mario would do. Basically, it was an excuse for attendees to get up in front of everyone and show off their dance moves, all for a Super Mario Galaxy 2 bag, or a plush doll. I took some footage of the dancers, which you can check out below. In my opinion, the very last kid was, by far, the best dancer. I don’t know how he moves the way he does. If only I could dance like that. I’m not quite sure it’s a dance routine Mario would do, but perhaps Nintendo should consider it from here on out! Direct link here

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Nintendo World Store - Super Mario Galaxy 2 launch event pics

A portion of an interview from author Tristan Donovan with Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani… Tristan Donovan : What was the thinking behind using the kawaii (cute) art style for Cutie Q and Pac-Man? Toru Iwatani : The hardware spec at the time, compared to the present time, was very limited, so we could only have artwork in a very simplistic style. It was very difficult to create a sense of empathy for the player in this limited way, but we wanted as many people as possible to enjoy the game. By creating a character saga and kawaii characters we thought we could appeal to women as well. Tristan Donovan : Women?! Why? Toru Iwatani : This was before the Famicom [NES] home consoles so the only place to play videogames was at arcades. Most arcade videogames of the time were violent and focused on the male player, so the game-centres became places frequented mainly by men. We decided to change that demographic by designing games that can appeal to women and thus to couples, therefore making game-centres desirable places to go on a date. Full interview here

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Women were the key to Pac-Man’s creation, design

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Puzzle Quest 2 - paperweight edition

Today is one of those days where I just don’t want to go to bed. I want to enjoy the weekend as much as possible! I think I’ve squeezed in as much fun as I could though, because I’m feeling pretty beat. I hope you guys have a great weekend lined up for yourselves. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, make sure you make the most of it! Catch you guys in a few, short hours. I know a lot of you were looking forward to more Super Mario Galaxy 2 footage for tonight’s End of Day thoughts, but that’s not something I can offer up right now. The powers that be have requested that I only do two more videos, and keep them both to a minute each. With a week left to go for the game’s launch, I figured I’d space out those videos. I’ll be posting one up come Sunday night’s ‘EoD’ post. Since it can only be a minute long, I’ll have to make sure it’s extra entertaining! With that apology out of the way, we’ll kick off this weekend with another Street Fighter episode. While it’s not nearly as fun as Super Mario Galaxy 2, it still feels like the right way to jump-start a Saturday morning. I promise you that this episode is just as good/bad as the others we’ve shared! I think my favorite part is Guile’s outfit in the very beginning. It’s explained a few minutes in, but it’s still hilarious. Direct link here

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Did you think that CoroCoro magazine was done with their Pokemon Black/White coverage? Of course they aren’t…they’re not even close! Here’s what you can expect to learn from the next issue. - more screens - more details - reveal of another brand-new Pokemon - how to obtain Zorua - due out June 15th link

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