Lucky guys! Gaming wise I got a $30 Gamestop gift card, which I'm thinking of taking to Gamestop and buying $30 in Steam gift cards. LOL Gaming wise, my son got an ocarina from his mom! He also got a Skylanders thing, but it's for XB1/360 (which we don't have), so it's going to get returned for something else.

Oh and as for the N64, I remember that Christmas when I got mine. I got enough money for Christmas that I went to Wal-Mart and bought one. It was sometime around or after high school (which ended in '98 for me). I still have it!

@Travis, I agree. I read about that issue and forgot about it. Since I have already paid for a 3DS and 2 3DS XLs, I already have more than one charger for the 3DS family, so that mattered little to me. I seem to remember reading that they did that to reduce the cost of the system (which is currently about $200), although it seems like a charger would be only a slight cost and not including one just seems like a stupid idea.

Yeah! I know Nintendo has demos, because I've downloaded some of them from their online store. I haven't played OoT 3D, but I bet it's pretty sweet (as the original and other ports are). I have Link Between Worlds, or at least I bought the golden Triforce 3DS XL that came with it. Well it was really a code I had to enter to get it downloaded from the store.

Jon, did you get the New 3DS XL or just the New 3DS? Apparently that "New" model you got has better hardware. I was told that the Hyrule Warriors game for the 3DS doesn't play well on the original system, but works fine on the "New" model.

OMG Zelda 2 is freaking hard. I never was able to figure it out when I played it on the NES. I finally found another way to play it (many years later) with cheats and then looked up what I was supposed to do. I really don't know about that game, it's perhaps one of the most mind boggling games I can think of!

I saw Wil Wheaton tweet this, and the idea, and look, of it was really exciting. I don't play mobile/handheld games much, but I think I could get into this.

I skipped out on this because I didn't bother to ask if it was going to be spoiler-free, I just assumed it wouldn't be. So, I'll ask before watching, was it? I'm interested in the Cheerful Ghost opinion of it. Did you all like it? I mean, I am a rare one that enjoyed the prequels, so I'll probably like it. LOL

Doh! I just saw in the post that this Roundtable is in two parts. I obviously didn't read that when I asked my question.

Thanks for the head's up and opinion, Travis. I'm kind of surprised by the "dark for Star Wars" comment, because I thought Episode III and VII were dark, but I didn't dislike them. But, that's 2 out of 7 movies, so that kind of barely makes the series "gray."

Hahaha if I was on the panel, that would be a +1 to Jon upping his beard game. I have one, too.

Good show, guys! Awesome to see you in there, Adam. Sorry I couldn't make it. I think you guys covered most of the things turning in my head, but there are a few things that came to mind after watching this and another review. I don't want to post spoilers, so I'm working on a supplemental that I'll try to post soon, or maybe something else entirely... O.o

That's awesome. I love the Internet.

I finally watched Rogue One and this Roundtable! I agree with you all that it was a good movie. I didn't have high expectations for it, in fact I was quite baffled with it right away (before seeing it) because we pretty much already know the plot and what happens. But, it was good. Travis said it was "dark" and after watching it, I can see that perspective. It certainly is! I was not expecting so much death. I liked that Death Star guy/commander who returned from the original trilogy. I didn't noticed he was CG. I also didn't noticed Leia at the end was CG, too. I did wonder how they got those people in the movie. They both looked fine at first glance, so I'll see how that holds up when I watch it again.

I liked the two characters that worked together, the blind guy, and that one with a huge gun. They were cool. Oh and I'm not very good with remembering Star Wars character names.

Comparing to The Force Awakens, I think I like Awakens more than Rogue One. I also like the Star Wars pre-sequels, probably more than anyone else I know. If I were to watch the Star Wars movies again, I'd probably start out with the pre-sequels, then Rogue One, and then the original trilogy. As for rating each movie, I don't know. They're all good to me.

I also watched Arrival, which was better than I expected. It was deep and quite different from other ET movies.

One of the biggest problems I have with Super Mario Run is the perpetual downloading of game data. The game size listed on it's App Store page is 173mb. I've played through the entire demo, and have since run into two instances where game data was being downloaded, increasing the games size (so far) to just over 345mb. That's just the demo levels. It's not the size, but the multiple instances of waiting for the game to... I don't even know what it's doing. Updating? I've already played through all the levels, so it can't be downloading any new textures or sounds. Whatever it is, it's weird and annoying. Nintendo is really good at weird and annoying. But they're also good at cute and nostalgic. It's Mario, for better or worse. Once you pass the first couple levels, play the Rally, and see the loop that their driving toward, then it all just feels like a really lazy way for Nintendo to make another small fortune. A mobile experience worthy of a $10 price tag, this is not. At least not by what's on show in the demo (I didn't fork out the money, so I'm only speaking relative to the demo). It's not boring, but I also found it to be uninteresting. Or at least, not as interesting as I was hoping it would be, for a Mario game.

Strange that I've experienced two distinct "data downloading" sequences. Maybe it was my connection?

I do like the Tour mode. That's enjoyable enough. All the other stuff reminds me too much of the Miitomo experience of playing mini-games to unlock cosmetics (which, for me, got boring after a while).

One of the reviewers in the App Store mentioned disappointment in the Rally mode, and said that it would have been cool if it was instead a challenge mode where you play other players created maps (similar to Super Mario Maker), and I totally agree. I'd pay $10 for that.

Funny. I was just reading about a similar situation, in a completely different game. Certain elements of the game are trapped behind a skill-wall. Some players are obviously better than others, or become so over time, but to the point that those rewards are all but unattainable to the average player. The average player will eventually stop playing, because the only alternative is constant defeat and frustration. Half the people say that this is ultimately a design flaw, while the other half simply say "Get good." I'm in the "design-flaw" category, especially if the mechanic is in anything other than an e-sports game. Achievements/Trophies are the exception, because the accumulation (or futility) of these types of rewards has no bearing on the in-game experience.

Racing against someones ghost in Super Mario Run can be fun, but with in-game currency on the line, it becomes more like gambling, except that you have no say in the stakes. What would be a better solution for this problem? Maybe allowing you to wage a certain number of Toads before the race?