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Who knew you could use one of Nintendo's oldest toys to grab meat?

Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! is one of the latest prizes featured in Club Nintendo. The WiiWare game is a digital representation of a classic Nintendo-themed trinket. Ultra Hand is the inspiration for the game, a toy that Nintendo created in the late ‘60s before the company was involved in the video game industry. Even though Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! is currently the cheapest prize available on Club Nintendo, it's one of the better prizes offered to the Nintendo loyal.

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An improvement from last year, but the experience is still flawed.

With the 2010 MLB season back in full swing, 2K Sports has released the latest in their baseball line, MLB 2K10. Given the past few years being a disappointment, MLB 2K10 offers a brand new look, new modes, and updated rosters. Though this is taking a huge step in the right direction, the game still has a few problems.

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Delving into his past, Phil takes on an adult perspective of a much loved childhood game.

Before the “Paper Mario” and the “Mario & Luigi” RPG series, Nintendo and Square teamed up to create what I consider to be one of the greatest RPGs of all-time. Released back in May 1996, Super Mario RPG quickly grew to be one of the highest rated SNES games of all-time and often appears on many of the “Greatest Games of All-Time” lists to this day.

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Never have I experienced so much jiggling, juggling, and innuendo in an RPG.

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier is the latest title in the Super Robot Wars series to be released in North America. While countless titles in the series were released in Japan on consoles and portables, only a total of three titles in the series managed to reach North America, courtesy of Atlus. For those who aren’t familiar with the series, each title is typically a strategy-RPG that features robots from popular series such a Gundam and Mazinger Z (known as Tranzor Z in North America) along with original robot designs. However, this game is more along the lines of a traditional RPG with cameos from the Xenosaga and Namco X Capcom series. Due to the memorable themes contained in the dialog and an engaging combat system Endless Frontier stands out as a high quality RPG on the DS.

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Finally, we now know what a one-button wai wai action game is.

Occasionally a game is released that can't be described due to how weird it is. Tomena Sanner is the latest zany game from Konami that is described as a "one-button wai wai action game", or in other words the whole game is controlled by one button.

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