I pity da foo' who doesn't recognize this character:  That's right. It's Mr. T. Now the game never calls him Mr. T, but any culturally literate individual can recognize Mr. T. Or so I'd hope.  But what if you didn't know what Mr. T was all about? Many video game players who have played this game are not age appropriate to catch the Mr. T reference. This could be some people's first encounter with Mr. T. "If you haven't seen it it's new to you," they say... and there's something that could be said about the ephemeral qualities of Mr. T. I remember the big hub-bub when the community over at Starmen.net heard that Mr. T was going to be a guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". They obviously weren't excited because they loved him on the "A-Team" but rather because this was a chance for their generation to experience Mr. T in real time. In Collage and New Media we described ephemeral material as that which fell out of use and has been reintroduced with a new meaning. Certain things retain their cultural significance regardless of time, like The Beatles. To an adult, The Beatles references are probably nostalgic and form a connection with the game's designers who put them there. For someone who is not as familiar with the Beatles it is possible to view these references as ephemeral pieces in a larger collage: something that adds a unique character to the Earthbound universe.  
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