I can imagine people who already have a vast collection of obscure and childhood-ruining pornography seeing this as their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shine. Their parents will be so proud =/

The "-tan" suffix is a degeneration of the "-chan" suffix. It's typically used by kids when they're just learning to speak, and so it's used for these kiddie anthropomorphizations to make the various countries 'cute'. It just so happens that each of the countries in the region end with "tan"; maybe this pun spurred the creation of the series.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-tan#Variations_on_chan

"$28,000 for each dancer dressed as Hitler"

That's bizarre taken out of context.

The phrase "Leave Luck to Heaven" is a paraphrase of the meaning of the word Nintendo. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nintendo

Don't know if you know this factoid already, but it's an interesting insight into the company.

It is awesomesauce. I want this ROM, only to load it up and see it for myself.