Toys for Kids & Adults

Wii Supply Short in the UK

The BBCis reportingthat getting a Wii this Holiday season will be quite difficult.

Although Nintendo has upped production, it still cannot meet global demand. To help the Queen's people find the console some industrious people have set uphttp://wii-consoles.co.uk/.

For those of you in the States who are looking for it, you can trythis Wii locator.

Good luck out there!

Xbox Live is 5ive Celebrations

On November 15 Xbox Live will turn five. They grow up so fast *tears*.

To celebrate, Microsoft is holdingall sorts of events.

Of particular interest to me is thePlay and Win Sweepstakes.

In addition, Microsoft has announced that for 48 hours beginning at 12:01 am on Nov. 15th, gamers can downloadCarcassonnefor free AND that it will be giving 500 MS points to anybody who joined Xbox Live in 2002 (that's me!).

Want some more excitement? Hold on to your hats! Original Xbox games will be available for download beginning on Dec. 4. The titles mentioned so far:Halo,Psychonauts,Crimson Skies, andFable. Each of these games will cost 1,200 MS points ($15).

Now is that a birthday celebration or what?

30+ years of gaming up for grabs on eBay
Have US$9,000? Want to blow it on 30+ years and 1,768 pieces of video game nostalgia? Then I have an eBay auction for you!

Check out the auction here.

The consoles: Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx, Coleco ColecoVision, Coleco Gemini, Coleco Telstar, Commodore 64/128, GCE Vectrex, Mattel Aquarius, Mattel Intellivision, Mattel Odyssey 2, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, APF TV Fun, Miscellaneous Handheld Games, Miscellaneous PC Games, SC Eight Thousand, Sega Pods, Miscellaneous TV Games, NEC Turbo Duo, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo NES, Nintendo Nintendo 64, Nintendo Super NES, Nintendo Virtual Boy, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Sega Saturn, SNK Neo Geo, SNK Neo Geo Pocket, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Texas Instruments TI 99/4A, VM Labs Nuon.

The games: I can't begin to list them all, and eBay doesn't have the space, so check it all out here,http://videogames.neocurve.com/list.aspx.

I have to say, I am intrigued by the extremely rare Christmas version ofNiGHTS. Too bad it would take $9,000 (plus $1500 in shipping costs) to get my hands on it.

Finally, it's worth pointing out that there's no PS3 on the block. Did this person never buy one, or do they love it so much they just can't part with it. I have my suspicions that the console never made it into the family.

Mario and Miyamoto Retrospective – ABC News

Hey, look, it's the main stream media covering video games. Crazy, I know.

This pieceon ABCNews.com is a good, if basic, look back at the history of everybody's favorite Italian plumber and Shigeru Miyamoto, the designer behindMario, and current President of Nintendo.

And, in case you didn't grow up in the 80's, I embedded aMariocommercial so that you can see the awesomeness that was that decade.

Child's Play 2007 kicks off
Child's Play, the charity brought to us by thePenny Arcadeteam, has officially kicked off its fifth year and is asking the gaming community to donate toys, games, books, and cash to children in 45 hospitals around the world.

If you can spare a few dollars, it's quite the simple process. Either donate directly to Child's Play viaPaypal, orselect a hospitalto view its Amazon "Wish List", then purchase whatever you want from it.

Child's Play raised more than US$1,000,000 last year. Help them break that this year.

'Super Mario Galaxy' US TV spot
The title says it all: