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Thank you Mega Man …
…but our Princess is in another dorm room. [photo taken on the campus of Boston University]
What’s your favorite power-up snack?
Popeye has spinach and Mario likes mushrooms, but what’s your favorite power-up snack? [image from here]
Limited-edition Metroid shirt available today
With the release of the controversial Other M, Nintendo has given Metroid fans a closer and more intimate look into the eyes of their alien-hunting heroine than ever before. Well, the closest look they’ve had for another 20 minutes, anyway. Beginning at 12:00 am CDT on Sept. 11, RIPT Apparel will offer a limited-edition t-shirt inspired by Metroid’s leading lady. Entitled “SAMUS,...
25 years and still no great Goonies game
Forget Lara Croft. Forget Indiana Jones. You want an adventure game that’ll sell millions? The Goonies. Seriously. Love it or hate it, that Spielberg/Donner film has gained popularity like no other 80’s film except maybe Ferris Bueller (and Bueller would make a lousy game). Despite The Goonies’ many, many”¦many flaws, it’s got the perfect scenario for a fantastic adventure-...
Wii sales fading. Is this the end everyone was predicting in 2007?
“The Wii realized its lowest month since launch in hardware unit sales,” market researcher NPD announced today, and the console was beat for the third consecutive time by Xbox 360. Total U.S. bragging rights were as follows: Xbox 360, 356.7k Nintendo DS, 342.7k Wii, 244.3k PlayStation 3, 226.0k PSP, 79.4k That said, think Wii sales will ever pick back up? More importantly, will three s...
Apple eating into portable Nintendo sales?
When Max Batch wants to play a video game, he turns to his Apple Inc. iPhone. The 22-year-old German has shunned hand-held consoles such as Sony Corp.’s PSP and Nintendo Co.’s DS, joining a growing number of people who use their smartphones for online and other games, eroding sales of the dedicated handsets. “It’s not worth having a hand-held,” said Batch, who spends about 2 eur...
Nintendo’s next gen “console” will be strangely portable
Congrats, Blake. You inspired me this morning with your impromptu poll about Nintendo’s next console and when it might arrive. I took the poll, but here’s my guess, fleshed out all hyperbole and speculation-like: The next Nintendo console could arrive in late 2010, but an early 2011 arrival is more likely. It will be called the 3DS.
Top 50 best Mario games of all time
Or so say these guys. Out of more than 200 eligible games, Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix takes the last spot. Super Mario Bros. 3 takes the top spot, followed closely by Super Mario World and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Regarding the list, be sure to duck through all 50 pages’it’ll take a while.
At $400, this is a motion gaming console priced to move!
UPDATE: As electricfuture pointed out, the pictured bundle is the $300 version. More palatable for the consumer, yes, but still suspect. Coming Nov. 4, here is Microsoft’s $400 version of Wii. Suffice it to say, a $400 console this late in the game is pretty laughable’with or without motion. But who am I to judge? Maybe it will sell like hot cakes. (Wink, wink.) That said, I’m glad bot...
Remember these? The best catch-phrases in video game history
How many of these classics and clunkers are you familiar with? It’s So Reeeeeeal! Thank you, Sammy Sosa, for one of the best lines ever: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBazo5uciVc[/youtube] At the launch of N64, Nintendo dared us to “Change the System!” and abandon the load-time heavy Playstation. This came after a campaign urging players to stick with SNES because, R...