on random game-related merchandise

So I realized I had a rather… misleading title for my website (till now).
Allow me to just clarify that I’m not necessarily zoning out or blanking out constantly =p
However… I figured I’d make the title somewhat consistent with its Japanese counterpart, thus I’m calling this English version “alternative.”

Alright, on to what I meant to talk about.
Even though I am in possession of a PS2, NDS-Lite, and a PSP, it’s not like I’m that much of a hardcore gamer.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily stop me from buying (yes, you heard me right) games.
Not only that, but it seems my bro (who btw is living on the other side of the Pacific) acquired quite a few games as well.
So we came to the conclusion that I’d sign myself up for a Club Nintendo account, and accumulate points from both my own and my bro’s acquisitions.
As a result, I (we) ended up achieving platinum rank, which is rather cool. I had my hopes up high since one of the special gifts that platinum members got last year was an SNES Wii Classic controller – as in, a Wii Classic controller that looked virtually identical to an SNES controller.

Now, Nintendo seemed to disappoint me by giving me some… rather odd choices this year.
As with the past years, one of the choices was a set of (identical) calendars w/Nintendo characters – um, not thanks, I have enough calendars for next year already.
Another (less boring) choice was a golden steering wheel for Mario Kart – erm… no.
The final choice was a Mario cap. Yes, the red cap that Mario wears – hmm, now this is slightly more interesting…

Then the idea that popped in my head was that Mario cosplay Katsura did in the wii-related episode of Gintama. Hmm, (easy) cosplay idea for S-con? I think yes XD