Mailbag: Giant Bomb Mailbag: Maple-Flavored Edition

A sugar rush isn't actually a real thing, eating sugar doesn't have any effect on behavior or activity level. fun fact.

Are those cartridges? Are they disks? Really wanted to see some of those games on the Friday show.

@gsquirrelgo: Dangit NH, stop stealing Maine's stuff! That's our official state soft drink and treat! You have fireworks and a huge rest stop/liquor store! I've actually never had a Moxie, so I'm a shame to my homeland (probably even more of a shame now that I live in Mass). Whoopie pies on the other hand, I grew up with homemade ones. It's weird that they've kind become a popular thing now. Anyway, nice mailbag - even if it came from NH.

Soy and gluten to be exact

Brad Sugarhater.

Wait, farting is cooler than committing vandalism? In what universe?

I really missed you mailbag

Gosh Brad looks worn out, and he doesn't even have kids!!.. I don't think anyway?

Maine

Call subs Italians and we'll have the Maine regionalisms all up in this.

Delta Box City is enjoying a healthy boost to its infrastructure.

I'm gonna be honest after this have been browsing ebay for pc engine bargains.

Just in case anyone missed it, on UPF they drank the Rum and said it was from New Hampshire which says to me that the rest of the food was likely from there too.

Had to buffer and got this savory screencap

Bonus points if you pronounce it eye-talian.

The office clutter continues, reminding me I would freak the fuck out if I worked there.

@gsquirrelgo: The Moxie gave me an idea of where it was from, but when I saw Sea Hagg, I knew it was someone from NH. NH represent! I work for the liquor commission so I see Sea Hagg and all the other local wine and spirits all day long.

Mailbag, you have been missed!

"Rum for your mouth and my mouth." Damn, Brad, nice callback!

We need so much more of THIS on the site. Please.

It's always awesome to see Jeff get excited about something -- which seems to happen so rarely.

Disappointed at the lack of Rondo of Blood. Someone get them a copy, stat!

I love those carts, baseball card like but games.

You know what I would want in the next gen in 6+ years time. Its downloads and are nets will handle it but you buy those cards and you could treat them like a collection and put them in a book with slots for them like you would with your collectable cards.

So functionality wise they would hold the key so your console has a slot for them and you need it in to play the game but you get the game off the net.

The cart collection and variations around the world of the cart art etc is something lost in the modern game era, this would bring it back :)

Drew is looking more Nordic every day.

As was the norm in the early 90s, the Japanese box art SO MUCH BETTER than ours.

While I'm sure it had nothing to do with the TG16 failing here (lack of killer apps, crap pack-in game and complete lack of marketing on NEC's part were the cause of the system failing in the US for the most part), I can't imagine anyone getting these games in stores with laughable displays like this. At least games like Megaman had Nintendo Power coverage to offset how terrible the box was.

Anyone happen to know what camera is being used for this? Seems like quite a nice quality picture and I wouldn't mind a new one. Or better yet, any recommendations for a decent camera for just simple recording but with a high quality picture? Having to use my webcam isn't too bad, but even with the decent picture quality it records at a low framerate and that just sucks and makes the video look shitty.

How come mailbags aren't uploaded to the YouTube channel any more? One-off mistake?

So, after seeing this I asked myself "Is a whoopie pie just a regional moon pie?" and a brief Google search told me to go fuck myself.

In case anyone else was wondering, a whoopie pie is not a moon pie.