George Bush and Dick Cheney wrestling on the ground nekkid.

The PCE version of SFII' was a great port. Graphically it was superior to the Genesis version and pretty close to the SNES version (I actually felt the SNES version looked too smoothed out). Of course, it lacked the hyper fighting features of the later SNES/Genesis releases.

I think it may have had the largest sprites, by a small margin, out of all three versions due to the PCE's lower resolution. Another advantage was no letterboxing. It did lack the parallax scrolling and animation in the backgrounds seen in the other ports, however (the floors moved fine, though).

It also included the wooden barrel bonus level that was taken out of the SNES original for some reason (though that was added back in with SNES Hyper Fighting). I also loved the fact that it was portable via the TurboExpress.

However, this game was best played with the six button Avenue Pad. It was not really all that playable in the two button configuration.

Don't get me wrong, Club Nintendo is great! I'm just no longer at the point in my life where I'll be able to accrue 600 points in the span of a year. Gone are the days of 6+ hour play sessions trying to beat a game within days of release.=(

To be honest, I'm not sure if I ever was at that point where I was buying a game a month. The only reason I made platinum last year was because I had a bunch of Wii and DS games that I had registered over the course of several years before they launched Club Nintendo stateside.

Yeah, just think of it as a $600 hat (or less, if you got extra points from taking surveys), with 12+ free games.

It depends on how you define "actively" and "exercise," but yes.

Got the Mario hat a couple of weeks ago as well. Much too small to look right on an adult, but it will probably fit my daughter nicely in a couple of years. For now, it resides on a stuffed Spongebob sitting in the entertainment room.

I wonder what they will have in store for club members next year. I'm guessing that since a lot of us had saved up points over the course of several years when there was no Club Nintendo, there won't be nearly as many Platinum members in 2010. Maybe with fewer platinum members, they'll have a cooler item like the SNES/SFC classic controller. That's what I was hoping for this year since it's unlikely I will ever achieve platinum status.

Oh well, the hat is cool too, and much more timeless than a Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack CD.

The "problem" with demos (from the developer's standpoint) is that they can also cut into sales (of subpar products). For every game that someone buys because he or she enjoyed a demo immensely, there are probably five games that the person won't pick up specifically because he or she either thought the demo sucked, or got his or her fill of the game based on the demo alone.

In that sense, the consumer wins doubly because he or she can avoid steaming piles of garbage, while forcing developers to step up their games by generating sales based on developing quality products instead of tricking the consumer with pretty box art.

As for myself, I like demos because I no longer have time to play games for more than a couple of minutes at a time anyway, so they allow me to experience new games without having to shell out any money for a product that I will, in all likelihood, not have an opportunity to use anyway. (I'm still only partially through Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy after so many years of Wii ownership. So sad.)

Momohime.

I think he means, when are they going to release a Wiimote with Wiimote+ already built right in.

@ Shag: Peeing in one's pants isn't exactly what I would call "cool," but whatever floats your boat!=)