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Here is the second part of “The Warcraft Retrospective: A Call to Arms.”

Once again – for any Warcraft fan it is worth sitting though.  Taking a break from WoW myself at the moment, but I love these history vids.

For any fan of Blizzard and Warcraft, this video is worth your time.  At 16min long it will take a while… but the nostalgia factor is worth it.  (Warcraft II was an old favorite of mine.)

Ensemble Studios is working on a new Halo game.  This one, Halo Wars, is a Real Time Strategy game along the lines of the Age of Empires games(made by Ensemble as well).  It will be released as a Xbox 360 game only.  No word as yet as to when the release date is.

They do however have a trailer available.

I grew up on Super Mario Brothers.  I can’t begin to count the hours I’ve lost in the game series depths.  When asked what my favorite of the series is, I invariably answer “Super Mario Bros. 2″.

I never knew.  I never knew that what I thought was my favorite Super Mario Brothers game wasn’t really a Super Mario Brothers game at all.

What I thought was Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally released in Japan as Doki Doki Panic.  All Nintendo did was to replace the characters in the original Doki Doki Panic game with the Mario characters and shipped it off to us unknowing Americans.

Why did we get the wool pulled over our eyes?  Nintendo thought the real game was just too hard for us.  Yep.  Too hard.

Turns out, some of us have played the real Super Mario 2 at one point or another.  It was released as “The Lost Levels” on the Super Mario All-Stars cartridge.  The look and feel of that game is truly in Mario Bros. style.

All this makes me curious to play Doki Doki Panic.  Maybe Nintendo should have released that into the U.S.  and given us the original “lost Levels” Mario 2.

Doki Mario 2 is still my favorite by the way.