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Jest in Time: A Look Back at the Clowns of Nintendo
Lola Pop, the newest addition to ARMS, might have you thinking Nintendo’s just clowning around with their character design. But a look back at Nintendo’s long game design history actually reveals an affinity for these face-painted juggalos. Here’s a look back at some big-time big-top dwellers from Nintendo’s lineup. MAD CLOWN – SUPER PUNCH OUT Don’t let ARMS tri...
Steve Peacock’s Top 25 Favorite Nintendo Games
The idea for this article stemmed from Infendo Radio Episode 400. If you have not listened to that show….why are you here? Go listen! It was fantastic. The group had the idea to do an individual top 25 list, and I was the first one to say that sounded like a great idea. I was not able to be on 400, and was very disappointed by some of the games that got cut. For those of you that know me, you will...
Best Retro Nintendo Consoles
Nintendo has long been one of the best video game console producers in the world. Alongside their fantastic franchises like Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, they have also created some of the most influential and successful consoles of all time. These consoles created the bedrock that the video games industry still walks on today. Here are some of the best retro Nintendo consoles. N64...
10 Classic Nintendo Games That Haven’t Been Remade, but Should Be
I know what you’re thinking. Doesn’t Nintendo already remake everything? Well, yes, Nintendo is notorious for releasing, re-releasing, and re-re-releasing many of their more popular titles. Take Metroid for example. Excluding its original release on the Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System, Metroid has been rereleased a grand total of six times (the Classic NES Series ...
Infendo Radio Episode 330: Turbulent History
Welcome to episode 330 of Infendo Radio! In this episode, Harrison Milfeld, Lewis Pugh, Colin Crompton, and myself find ourselves inadvertently exploring a theme: the turbulent history between Nintendo consoles and mature video games. We also talk about Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Shovel Knight, a high-capacity battery for the Wii U GamePad, and why some video...
Happy Birthday, old friend. Nintendo turns 125 today
Today is Nintendo’s 125th birthday. Time to celebrate. For many, we know the story of how a small Japanese hanafuda card company rose to prominence during the 1970s and 80s to become the gaming giant it is today. Fans and writers alike have seen the ups and downs the company has gone through, yet its characters and products still somehow resonate with the masses. It surely has been a wild ri...
Guest Post – Nintendo Blacksheep: StarTropics
For those of you readers who don’t know me (which I’m sure is 99.9% of you), my name is Anthony DeVirgilis, and I’ve been writing at GameGravy.com for around 4 years on and off. I consider myself a well-rounded gamer, owning just about every console and willing to give a game in any genre at least a chance. Enough about me though, the reason I am here and writing this article i...
Could Nintendo continue its business on the handheld market alone?
The common trend that follows Nintendo’s history is they always perform better in the handheld space while their home consoles drag behind. The main reason for this seems to be third party support is easier to garner for portables then their homebound counterparts, the key example is Square Enix, when they jumped back on board the Nintendo train after the Final Fantasy VII debacle (then rubb...
Nintendo Slays Patent Troll
Let us begin with a review: In the original lawsuit, Interaction Laboratories (IA Labs) claimed Nintendo infringed its patents through technology in the Nintendo Wii, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus, the Wii Balance Board, Wii Remote, Wii Wheel, Wii MotionPlus, Wii Nunchuck and Wii Zapper. IA Labs lost that lawsuit in 2012 and, after a failed appeal in trial court, was ordered to pay Nintendo’s legal ...
Video: Star Wars meets Zelda and the rest of Nintendo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-BEKM-jRc[/youtube] If you don’t know who James Farr is, then immediately check out his YouTube page. Farr, a YouTube celebrity in his own right, has been responsible for some the best pop culture mash-ups on the Internet. His previous mash-ups include Teenage Mutant Koopa Troopas, Super Mario Busters, and its sequel New Super Mario Busters 2, and no...
Nintendo’s Hiroshi Yamauchi has died at age 85
A sad, yet perpetual state of mourning for Nintendo today, as the company announced that their longtime former president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, has died. He was 85. Yamauchi first became president of Nintendo in 1949, when the company was just a simple card-playing game manufacture. By 1963, Yamauchi had renamed Nintendo Card Playing Co. to just Nintendo. With the boom of video games quickly taking sh...
Best Buy Locations To Demo Nintendo’s E3 Games
This year, Nintendo has teamed up with Best Buy to bring E3 to the fans. To be part of this moment in Nintendo/E3 history, you need only to visit a participating Best Buy location on either: • June 12 from 4 p.m.–8 p.m. • June 15 from 1 p.m.–5 p.m. The event is limited to only 110 retail locations at this time, up ten from the original announcement, throughout the United States and Canada. At th...