You’ve got all the games, for every system. You can draw the maps for Zelda dungeons from memory. You wore a Power Glove to your wedding. You’re a Nintendo nerd, or at least you think you are. I hate to pop your bubble, but unless you’ve got the numerous items in this Nintendo apparel ad from 1994, you’re nothing. The retailer even recommends that you purchase a “backup Nintendo T-shirt for those surprise attacks.” Apparently, you might barf yourself or pee your shirt or something. See the full ad, in its antiquated glory, after the break.

Since the recent creation of NutLiquor (say it out loud), the world has been held in suspense for someone to take the next logical step and create a peanut butter and jelly flavored vodka. Finally, the wait is over as Van Gogh Vodka recently unveiled their latest flavor: PB&J. At long last, you can get that “mom packed my lunch” flavor from a bottle of booze.

So, they’re making another Total Recall movie. Sounds like total crap, right? Just another poorly thought-out attempt by Hollywood studios to cash in on our collective nostalgia for the original 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger Marsfest. Except this one is apparently set in a Blade Runner-esque Earth city, and has a bunch of flying cars like in The Fifth Element, some Stormtroopers that look like they wandered out of Clone Wars, and – oh crap, this is starting to actually sound kind of cool. See the teaser trailer, after the break.

While Bob Karman and family were returning from a trip to Disney World, he filmed the Challenger launch and subsequent explosion from the Orlando airport, creating what is thought to be only the second home video of the explosion. We apologize for leaving you on such an eerie note, but you know, history and all that.

Some of our readers may be familiar with the classic children’s claymation series Pingu, about a young penguin and his friends and family living in the arctic. Some of our readers may also be familiar with John Carpenter’s The Thing, a delightfully gory re-make of the classic sci-fi film. Today, those two groups will overlap thanks to Lee Hardcastle in something that is both wonderful and horrible. Be warned, if Play-Doh gore upsets you, then you should probably not watch this video.

As we prepare to close the book on another year, YouTube user derDon1234 threw together a quick look back at the last 100 years of history — conveniently compacted into 10 minutes. While interesting it’s, uh, not exactly uplifting. In fact, it’s nearly all wars and explosions, with a few sporting events thrown in for good measure. Also, only one woman was apparently noteworthy enough to make the cut — and it’s Lewinksy. So, while deeply flawed, its a sobering reminder of how far we’ve come. See the video after the break, but be forewarned that it does contain some graphic images, so watch at your own discretion.

The somewhat startling reveal of the 3DS Slide Pad, while hilarious, isn’t exactly unprecedented. Nintendo is notorious for releasing a variety of peripherals that are either misguided attempts to provide functionality they should have had at launch, or to fill relatively niche purposes, but they aren’t the only purveyors of crazy add-ons.

Nearly every handheld ever released has at one time or another decided to further extend its capabilities by tacking on an external device of some kind. That’s not even counting accessories made by third parties; we’re talking strictly those things produced and sanctioned by the makers of the system.

To remind those of you out there that might think Nintendo is out of their mind that they are surely not alone, here’s some of the most ridiculous accessories and add-ons released on handheld gaming devices over the years.

The last iteration in third pillar (sorry, Lost Vikings fans, myself included) of Blizzard-based gaming, Diablo, released over a decade ago, so one can assume Diablo fans are pretty stoked about the upcoming Diablo 3. While they warm up their grindy clickfest finger in what one can only assume is a rigorous workout using a tiny, finger-sized preacher curl machine, Diablo fans might not be pleased to know that Diablo 3 will require an always-on Internet connection in order to play the game.

Yep, it’s the Ubisoft mess all over again, except slapped onto a much bigger, more anticipated title with what is arguably one of the most rabid fanbases in gaming. This’ll go well, right?

DC Comics has announced that it will no longer be submitting its issues to the notorious Comics Code Authority (CCA) for their approval as of January 2011. In a letter addressed to retailers, DC unveiled a rating system designed to inform comics consumers (or their parents) about the content of the issues. DC’s decision to leave the CCA come a full decade after Marvel’s decision to leave. This leaves Archie Comics and Bongo comics — famous for printing adaptations of the Simpsons and Futurama –  as the only publishers still seeking the once-ubiquitous CCA seal of approval for their comics.

With only two publishers left, the CCA seems even more unnecessary than ever. The advent of comic book shops and online marketplaces has all but eliminated the pressure on publishers to submit to the code. Moreover, there is more interest in the artistry of comics than ever before, which places almost no importance on preserving so-called moral values. Take, for example, Art Spiegelman’s award winning graphic novel Maus. It would have almost certainly been soundly rejected by the CCA and yet it has been enormously successful — critically and commercially.

With DC joining Marvel in using their own in-house rating system, this will hopefully be the death knell for this antiquated piece of comics history. Keep going after the jump for a little more history on the CCA, and some highlights from the original 1954 rules.

Apparently, when predicting what the future would entail for those of us, people thought that the human population would be infiltrated with a bunch of emotional robots, computers that could manipulate our subconscious, and CYBORGSCYBORGSCYBORGS. Whatever. Robots can’t even juggle … oh.

(via Everything Is Terrible)