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While we're at it, I'm pretty sure we're missing the point by arguing whether it is demonstrating the ability to play soccer or football, since it was in fact a contestant in Bandai's annual Robo-One where the goal was to have little anthropomorphic (.PNG) robots pummel (.MPG) the crap (.MPG) out of each other to win by TKO. Dig around the sites and you'll find piles of highly entertaining videos.

For those of you who can't stomach anthropomorphic robot on anthropomorphic robot violence, click here for footage of the little suckers particpating in non-combative activities.

Before he passed away Gunpei Yokoi also worked on the Wonderswan and the game Gunpey. The Wonderswan is a really cute little portable machine. The coolest thing about it is that the it can be used either in a tall or wide orientation (depending on the software, obviously). They've done some clever things with the buttons and d-pad so that they work in either orientation.

Gunpey is an insanely addictive dropping pieces puzzle game (one of Wonderswan's launch titles), which is one of the most original since Tetris invented the genre. There's a Windows demo downloadable here. Click on any of the 3 bulleted text links on the left side of the page. They require you to fill out a form--you can probably enter garbage. (It's been a while since I downloaded it myself.)