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Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime Retiring Later this Year

After nearly fifteen years as President and CEO of Nintendo of America, industry icon Reggie Fils-Aime is set to retire from Nintendo in April of this year. This announcement was made earlier today, with Nintendo appointing the aptly named Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Doug Bowser as the new head of Nintendo of America beginning on April 15. 

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Dream Journal 2018-03-19: With Special Guest Appearance By Reggie Fils-Aime

Reggie Fils-Aime is the current president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America. He’s also the subject of many memes in the gaming community and at least one dream journal entry (spoiler alert: you’re reading that one now). We’ll get to him in a moment.

For reasons unknown to me, I woke up nearly every hour last night to various dream fragments involving me missing a flight to somewhere. Sometimes I got on the wrong plane, sometimes I missed a connecting flight, and sometimes I just didn’t know where to go in the airport. This happened 5 or 6 times, and was incredibly annoying.

But there was one instance that did not involve me missing a flight, and that’s the one with Reggie. I begin this dream as a reseller of antiques, and I’m looking for a good bargain in a musty old shop. Everything is covered in dust, and boxes filled with what appear to be living shadows that loom overhead in the cramped aisles.

I find two objects of interest: a metal crow made out of railroad spikes, and a prototype version of Street Fighter II for the SNES. I bought both the crow and the game and headed for home. The journey home somehow involved an old fuel station, a bunch of giant cups made out of bricks, and riding a stream of water from a firehose. Neither of my recent purchases sustain any water damage, which is nice.

Back at home, I load up Street Fighter II and put the cartridge through its paces. There is a secret code in the prototype version that unlocks characters that aren’t in the public release of the game, and I know what it is. Select Sagat as your fighter and play until you reach Dhalsim’s stage. Pause the game, hold down the right shoulder button, and press R, L, L, B.

Sagat transforms into Reggie Fils-Aime, and he is super-powerful and cannot be defeated. He’s wearing a black suit and tie, and his alternate costume is identical except that he’s wearing sunglasses. Please disregard the fact that Street Fighter II came out long before Reggie Fils-Aime became a meme (because my subconscious sure did). Another unusual thing about the Regginator is that the player can no longer control him. Reggie is exclusively controlled by the computer, and he will always win by a narrow margin.

The only thing that the player can control at this point is when Reggie will use his secret transformation attack. By smashing some buttons and yelling at the television screen, you can make Reggie turn into a giant anthropomorphic rabbit wearing a top hat. The top hat has a sword inside of it that Reggie Rabbit will use to smite his opponent and declare victory.

You may use this power once, and only once.

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