If you are old enough to remember the excitement of each and every new NES game being released, no matter how insignificant, then Retro Game Challenge will certainly be a positively nostalgic experience for you.

Comprised of faux Famicom games, Retro Game features a crazed, Max Headroom-esque game master who tasks you with several silly challenges for each game as you thumb through humorously era-appropriate fan mags. It’s silly, it’s appropriately nostalgic and enticing enough to keep even current gen gamers interested.

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Our favorite Japanese import site, J-List (J-Box) is selling Super Mario plush keychains or, really, mini stuffed characters with keychains protruding from their heads. Of course, if you are a Japanophile you’ll consider hanging these from your cell phone or backpack instead of using them for your car keys. The characters available in the set more »

Here’s another wacky Nintendo product from Japan. Made to look like an old school Famicom controller, this little device actually controls a mini Mario figure that hits little golf balls.

Hour and hours of desktop gaming, literally. There’s also a Luigi version available on the site but any true gamer would go for Mario first. Each golf game sells for $18

The game comes with the controller, Mario, a small hole and two tiny golf balls.

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Nintendo doesn’t know what it’s doing with multiplayer online gameplay. It’s just that simple.

The Famicom and the Super Famicom, and the Nintendo 64 had online peripherals which were never a wide enough success to release in the US market. Nintendo tried, and it decided nobody cared… and then the online gaming market exploded. Nintendo was too far ahead of its time. Then, the DS and the Wii came along and Nintendo promised wireless internet connectivity right out of the box. But Nintendo has left us sour in the one aspect that it has always claimed deserves the most attention: The games.