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First Full Fisher on Japanese Wii
At the end of this month Japan will get their first Wii fishing sim when ?????????????(Mezase!! Tsuri Masutaa) or “Take Aim!! Fishing Master” is released by Hudson. Like Zelda’s mini fishing system, the game uses the remote and nunchuck to hook and catch fish, but this time you get to do it in different locations all over Japan, improving your skills as you travel the country. Wh...
VC Monday: Footballs and spinballs
Infendo Virtual Console posting ninja David is on vaca this week wherever it is Infendo ninjas go for vacation, so I have assumed the VC Monday posting responsibilities. They are: * Tecmo Bowl – NES – 1-2 players – 500 Wii Points * Sonic Spinball – Sega Genesis – 1-4 players – 800 Wii Points * Double Dungeons – TurboGrafx16 – 1-2 players – 600 ...
Koji Kondo rocks Mario theme on a baby grand
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQUW3Ip380w]Sweet nostalgia.
Koji Kondo speaks with Game|Life
Do you like music? Do you like Mario? Do like Mario music? Great, then check out Wired’s interview with Nintendo’s own Koji Kondo today: Koji Kondo is a reticent man. A very friendly and supremely talented man, but a reticent man. Unlike Miyamoto, who will basically talk forever, many of Kondo’s responses to my questions were initially a terse “yes” or “no.̶...
Nintendo, platformers, and "teh kidde image" hypocrisy
Last week on the super secret Infendo internal communications network (read: gmail), I fired off a email to the crew about this new game coming out in 2008. It’s called LittleBigPlanet. People love it. Heck, even I found myself watching the keynote trailer a few times. Jack, Infendo fanboy: How ironic that, in 2008, the “Killer app” for the PS3 [will be] a platformer. A simple, 2...
Everybody Votes: "By this time next year, I will be…" with video game personalities
The voting channel is perhaps the least liked of all the current Wii Channel fare because, well, it’s kind of campy and doesn’t do much of anything. The current “question” up for vote at the Everybody Votes Channel is “By this time next year, I will be”¦” with “Better off” and “The same/worse off” as the choices. That said, I thought it’d be fun to go outside the channel̵...
Can Nintendo’s Mii Concept Kill MySpace?
Yahoo News takes a look at the recently announced Mii “popularity” channel. In their article, they question whether or not the Wii will be a rival to MySpace. Gaming industry analyst Richard Doherty, research director for Envisioneering Group, said that it is a smart move by Nintendo. “Absolutely. Within a year, the Wii may be the most successful and valuable social-networking co...
New Tiger Woods Wii golf ad
How does it feel? Behold, the sophistication and style. Nice.
Eyeshield 21 Tackles the Wii
American Wii owners seek to Madden to get their football fix. In Japan, there’s “Eyeshield 21.” Faaaar from the football sim, the Wii version of the cell-shaded game based on a popular anime series let’s players run, kick, pass, and tackle through their opponents using various Wiimote shakes and sweeps. The game features an exhibition mode and a story mode that includes mor...
New Wii TV commercials emphasize Mii creation
Coming soon to your TV, new commercials that want you to “Make your Mii, then play it on Wii!” “Grandpa”[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuRxVKranY”> “Board Room” Forget making Mii characters .. I want to know where they got that car!
Chris Hecker apologizes
I dedicate this post to anonymous commenter, who said I had no idea what I was talking about when I called out (and did what Reggie did yesterday to Phil Harrison) Chris Hecker of Maxis for calling the Wii “a piece of sh*t.” Chris Hecker, from today: I don’t know who has read the internet, yesterday. In a [unintelligible] panel I said a bunch of things. I was trying to be thought...
New Dance Dance Revolution to arrive in time for holidays on Wii
Nintendo Power’s April 2007 issue confirms the release of Konami’s newest installment in the Dance Dance Revolution franchise for the Wii, due the second half of 2007. “Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party” promises traditional DDR gameplay via the traditional DDR dance platform (included), but will also include extra movements for the Remote and Nunchuk that promise to cra...