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This episode features a fair amount of flashing light, so please mind your photosensitivities. Nintendo's final push for 1989 feels like someone at the company realized that they had been selling systems on the strength of pack-in peripherals (the Zapper and Power Pad) but had done a miserable job of supporting those devices. Just in time for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Festivus, To The Earth and Short Order/Eggsplode hit shelves to trick gift-shopping parents into thinking that those ungainly plastic gadgets had life in them after all. Never mind that this is the final Power Pad game; who knew? Or cared? Grandma couldn't see the future, but she could write a check for $129, and that's what really counts. Please support this documentation project through Patreon (www.patreon.com/gamespite) or by picking up some of the related books (www.limitedrungames.com/collections/books). AND you can preorder Metroidvania: The First Decade from a fine book chain or comic shop, such as B&N (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-history-of-metroidvania-jeremy-parish/1148489848 ). Thanks!