Thankfully, Nintendo Freaks still lives. The people who make up the core contingent of the group (read: Mkava, Dustin, and ebuch) are busy with their various projects for their various groups. Yet you can always find us on NFNet, an off-shoot of NintendoFreaks that has became its own entity. All information for NFNet can be found at www.nfnet.org.

It's amazing how long it has been since our last event. Almost two years in fact. Yet we still intend on having another one... eventually. As Dustin and I are in college and ebuch is a busy high school student, and we have homework, projects for NFNet and related, homework (yes, again!), jobs, and the need to crash once and awhile, things take time. When we have our next event, it will be posted on this site. We enjoy putting on events, not only because it's a lot of fun to bring people together to game but it gives us some great competition as well. We look forward to announcing the next event when it is in the works.

So until next time, take care and happy gaming. =)

Over the years, Mario has been a lot of things. A bunny, a raccoon, a statue, a bee, a ghost, metal, transparent, tiny, big, very big, a frog, and many many more. Mario has put on more hats and ate so many weird things (how else does a mushroom make you big?) so many things over the years that the list of power-ups seems endless at times. A few of the power-ups have been misses, but a great deal of them have been great. From just plain cute (SMB3 frog suit) to the incredibly useful (SMW cape), and just down-right horrible to use (Galaxy Spring mushroom), power-ups are truly a namesake for the entire Mario Universe. The Official Nintendo Magazine from the UK wrote up a lovely list of power-ups that really are the cream of the crop. This list truly is spot on in my opinion, especially with a large number of older power-ups topping the list. If nothing else, it's a great reminder of some of the great times that were had with some of the crazy power-ups that Mario has to endure over the years.

Two of my favorite power-ups to argue about have to be the Super Leaf and Cape Feather, from SMB3 and SMW respectively. It's quite obvious which game has what, but thinking of Mario and Luigi arguing over which is which simply cracks me up.

[As Mario and Luigi debate near one of the various bottomless pits in the Mushroom Kingdom...]
Mario: Oh, but it has to be a feather...
Luigi: No, it's a leaf, brother.
Mario: No no, it has to be feather. Look at the way it gently floats down.
Luigi: They both float like that!
Mario: Well, I'm going to get it either way.
Luigi: Fine by me. If it's a feather, you'll float across the pit without issue. But if it's a leaf, it'll fall apart and you'll fall to your death. Either way, win-win.

Ok, maybe it's just funny to me. >.>

Top 20 Mario Power-ups from ONM-UK

Top 20 Mario Power-Ups [GoNintendo]

IRC and the entire NintendoFreaks network was down over the weekend. We had some scheduled upgrades that we didn't feel like telling you about, but instead took everything down and pushed everyone over to the IRC servers that would be up. Everything is coming back online slowly. Back to our usual never-update schedule. =)