A little surprised to see some of these insults being hurled at Sony — although their dig at Nintendo was kinda stupid, that doesn't change the fact that the Playstation consoles have been very very good to true gamers over the years, just like Nintendo has. For example, a daring, life-affirming, exclusive indie game (Journey) won tons of well-deserved "game of the year" awards just last year, and Sony deserves kudos for repeatedly supporting (and essentially launching the careers of) innovative developers like that. In short, it's fine to diss Sony's Nintendo diss, but it's pretty dumb to spew venom at the company itself given everything they've done to foster/create truly amazing games.

My sis and I were a little younger than that when we got our first system, the Mighty Atari 2600, and yes, we flipped the eff out. We probably went bonkers for NES too (especially since some of our friends already had one, so we already knew how awesome it was), but I don't really remember opening it. By the time SNES came around, I bought it with my own money, so there wasn't any surprise unwrapping; but the experience was maybe even better b/c the system was such a huge leap and came packed with one of the greatest/prettiest games of all time. Great memories all around!

For all of you who haven't played it or only know the first game: Trine 2 is a fantastic game, one of the best I've played in recent memory (and quite a bit better and prettier than the already-great 1st installment). And while the extra content isn't quite enough to make me buy a WiiU at launch, I'm definitely super-jealous . But for the rest of you, I would consider this one of the most essential games for the system; in fact, if it was a brand new Nintendo exclusive, it would actually be a killer app for me, i.e., enough to make me buy at launch. Yes, it's that wonderful.