At the risk of tooting my own horn, I thought the mailbag section was amazing this week. All three letters made for great conversation.
Jon being accused of writing my letter. I feel like a real breakthrough has been made! I try to bring the spirit of the old Now Playing at NWR to the Mailbag. Since James and Jon are my inspiration, maybe I'll try playing that song from Elite Beat Agents in the background when I write future letters.
Since the RFN Hall of Fame's focus seems to embrace all of RFN, a few moments I think are worthy of nomination for some future class of this sure to-be august institution: The stinger where Jon and Jonny are podcasting in the same room, Jonny has a cold and Jon asks him if he wants some medicine. James and Greg's reaction to that is hilarious.
Perhaps there could be an exhibit dedicated to the games created by J&J Dream Factory. A wax figure of Roger Goddell as a mail boy in Megaton Commissioner of Rage, etc.
To up the interaction, you could have a bowling alley dedicated to Kimberly Keller's RFN appearance and review of Undead Bowling. She could make a weekly appearance and bowl with the HOF's customers. But only if they're dressed up as zombies. We don't want anything weird going on.
Maybe every time a customer goes through the turnstyle, we could hear a whip-snapping sound, to symbolize Gui's wiping the floor with his nephews at videogames.
My earliest Nintendo memories would have to be playing Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600 or playing Donkey Kong on one of those mini-arcade Coleco units. I believe they used vector graphics. It was always so neat when the Icemen showed up in the later levels of Mario Bros.!
Not Nintendo-releated, but when I was really little, I remember playing Atari Football on the 2600. You couldn't control individual players. When you moved, the whole team moved in unison. Though it was a few years before I got the NES and became aware that there was such a thing as technological progfress in games, even at that time, I thought that football game was bad and stopped playing it. I hear people really wax nostalgic about 2600 games. There were some gems, but many of them, even the celebrated ones, are so bad! IMO.
Just to be clear about WiiWare, this isn't like the DSiWare situation where almost all the games can still be bought on the 3DS right? Once the shop goes down on Wii, we won't be able to buy them on WiiU right? Seems silly that they can't just keep it going on the WiiU, even if only for a few years (since they want to drop the WiiU ASAP).