In some deeply weird alternative universe, perhaps one in which Japanese people actually bought Microsoft consoles and England's footballers weren't quite so irredeemably rubbish, we might never have experienced Super Mario Bros. as we know it. Instead, we could have been playing Super Mario Sisters.Alas, Nintendo of America never did follow through on a trademark application it filed in February, 1990 for a game called "SUPER MARIO SISTERS." The application was abandoned almost two years later, depriving us all of an estrogen-fuelled version of the world's favorite platformer.
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For obvious reasons, today's daily question is aimed squarely at those of you who
You may have a few Zelda games on the Virtual Console -- and sure, we'd love to hear about those -- but which discs and carts do you still physically own? Sometimes, the best are just worth keeping, even if you sometimes don't even have the system on which they run any longer. We know a lot of people who've hung on to that first golden cartridge long after selling (or 
Game Center CX is an absolutely brilliant Japanese TV show in which, with the help of some production assistants, Shinya Arino plays old games to completion. The show documents the hardships involved in trying to finish the most unfairly difficult and nonsensical old games from the Famicom generation and beyond.



At this point, the only things that could make us want 
Is there anything the 



