Mario Kart 64: Rainbow Road Trick

I came across this .gif today of a Wario player successfully jumping the gap on Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 64. If any of you are familiar with this game, you know that Nintendo likes to sneak in shortcuts on many of the different tracks. However out of all of them this one is probably the most difficult to actually pull off. On paper it seems fairly simple, you do a quick hop near the beginning of the track over the fence, and try to steer yourself towards the track floating on the other side of the abyss. If you do manage to make it, you have just pretty much guaranteed your victory, as Rainbow Road is one of the longest tracks in the game, and this shortcut lets you skip almost the whole track and puts you near the end of the first lap.

Beware though, as it is much, much harder to pull off than it looks. I usually try it every time my friends and I are playing, though much to my dismay (and their enjoyment) I never make it. The bitter irony of this whole trick is if you miss, it takes forever to be put back onto the stage, so you have pretty much guaranteed yourself last place instead of the comfortable first place lead you were hoping for.

Pokemon Trading Card Game coming to 3DS Virtual Console

First I just want to start off by saying I freaking love this game. If I had some way of counting exactly how many times I've replayed games this one would certainly be near the top of the list. The Pokemon Trading Card Game originally came out in 1998 in Japan and 2000 in the US for the GameBoy Color. It is a video game adaptation of the original Pokemon Trading Card Game, which was still immensely popular at the time. While I myself never quite got into the craze of the physical collectible card game, I was very much so into this video game. One of the reasons I loved it so much is that at its core it is a fairly simple game; you go around to different places and duel people with Pokemon cards. Each time you win, you receive more cards as a prize, thus allowing you to further build and customize your decks. And I also loved the music. I can hear the dueling theme in my head right now as I'm typing this, even though it has been so long (which just goes to show how much I played this game back in the day).

There was a sequel to this game, Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR! however unfortunately it was never released outside of Japan. There is a fan translation, if you are computer savvy enough to figure out how to get it to work. I plan on taking a crack at it as soon as I have some free time, as I would really love a chance to be able to play the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time.

Pokemon Trading Card Game will be available on the 3DS Virtual Console on November 13 for only $6 USD. Absolutely worth it if you ask me, I'll be getting it for sure.