Born Under Punches

The wait for Gekisou! Benza Race - Toilet Shooting Star is almost over

After learning about this game, a toilet racer, I am now retroactively spending the last year anticipating its May 15 release.

An exciting toilet racing game that lets you experience a toilet revolution. Many circuits and toilet racers are waiting for your challenge. After customizing the toilet and getting your stomach ready, it's time to start the race!

Can you seriously read the words "toilet revolution" without being overcome by curiosity? And that screenshot with the amazing "weird arcade game" or even "weird WiiWare game that would never be localized" vibes!

Character art: Various Villager renders from Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Here’s a hands-on with the Playdate ⊟ 

It’s the first time we get to see the hardware handled! Shout-outs to Sony engineer Kohichi Aoki for recording this video messing around with Panic’s upcoming Playdate portable, as well as Keita Takahashi’s game Crankin Presents Time Travel Adventures.

I love you, inexplicable N64 Switch dock ⊟

Hyperkin Lab is one of my favorite accessory outfits going – they put so many resources into such odd flights of fancy, leading to things too wonderful to be real, like the relaunched Xbox Duke controller, the Retron 77 (which awaits an eventual Tiny giveaway in storage, I’ve just realized) and this. 

Why would a Switch dock be shaped like an N64? Why that console when the Switch has almost no common threads with that one weird console? And why would it be Play it Loud green? I don’t know, but I can dig it.

I’ve been trying to read if the problems with third-party Switch docks have been resolved since last year, and my official findings indicate… man I don’t know. I think so? 

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening GB/GBC compared with Switch remake ⊟ 

Okay, this looks amazing. Also, I am just now realizing that is a fox and not an orange dog. 🤯 The remake will release for Switch later this year.

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening remake coming to Switch ⊟ 

25 years after its original release to Game Boy, this classic is getting a “modern re-imagining”, with everything from the graphics and music overhauled.

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening releases to Switch later this year.

Contact’s manual was formatted like a LiveJournal ⊟ 

No one had mentioned it in a while, and I could not find decent photos of the DS RPG’s booklet on Google, so here you go. Shout-outs to Atlus USA.

Related: I launched a site about planners, notebooks, and journals recently. You can check it out at Planner.Club, or follow it on Twitter and Instagram. 💕📔

How Wario paints others vs how he paints himself ⊟ 

WarioWare Gold has one of the best amiibo features yet, allowing you to scan a figure that the eponymous swindler will paint, and then try to sell you. His portraits are magnificently awful, applying wild gradients and inverted colors to crude sketches – check out all the paintings posted on the wonderfully named Mon Amiibo and this imgur gallery I saw on ResetEra.

Wario puts a bit more effort when painting himself, though, as you can see here when the character’s Smash Bros. figure is scanned (I photoshopped the painting onto the template). He’s gotta live up to the game’s Japanese title, Made in Wario Gorgeous, right? NintenDaan also shared a video showing what Wario’s standard figure looks like painted and the game’s amiibo feature.

Check out this Dr. Mario lmao:

WarioWare Gold releases for Nintendo 3DS in the U.S. on August 2nd.