My wife and I spent a long weekend in Manhattan as sort of a mini-vacation. It was my third trip there, but my wife's first. Love the place. We managed to drop an obscene amount of money in the three days we were there by checking out some really nice restaurants, including the Rainbow Room.

On Saturday, I finally got a chance to walk around in the Nintendo World Store. Man, it's tiny. Well, not tiny, but certainly not as big as you'd expect or like it to be. The bottom floor was dominated by Pokemon and DS stuff, though there's also a cool GBA Bar were you can sit down and play games on the house portables. A guy behind the bar is on hand to swap out titles for you. Neat concept, though I prefer my bars to be stocked with Gin and Tonic, not Mario and Luigi.

Upstairs there's a mini museum of sorts, with some old school Ninty relics under glass. There's also a lot of cool buyable schwag on hand. I picked up two remote control Mario Kart cars (for my son and I), some miniatures, candy, clothes and a surprisingly cool Role Model baseball hat. How cool that they have a hat for the father of the chip music movement. I wonder if he knows?

I ran into a native New Yorker and Kotaku reader on the bottom floor. It was his first trip to the store, for shame.

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