Retro
What Nintendo purchase do you regret most?
I’m sure I got burned in the 8, 16, and 32-bit days. But the one Nintendo game I most regret buying was Star Fox Adventures Assault for GameCube. Before plopping down for it, I hadn’t bought a Star Fox game game since the original gangster version for SNES. I thought it would similarly be fun. It wasn’t. It sucked. It was obviously intended for a much younger audience. $50’gon...
“Sonic, I don’t hate you anymore.”
Nintendo Power editor Chris Slate wrote a great column this month on Sonic vs Mario. I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share. Here it is transcribed in its entirety from print to internet: Sonic, when you first burst on the scene bragging about blast processing, I kind of hated your guts. For me, no other platformer came close the Super Mario series. So when some friends suddenly sided with the ne...
Would it be possible to make an HD console that can’t render 3D graphics?
You know, to make a new 2D console that looks nice on our HDTVs… so developers could focus on only 2D experiences and not be tempted to dabble in 3D.
Best gameplay description ever?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50Qu000zL4[/youtube] As part of my summer-long quest to relive classic Game Boy games, I bought Final Fight One recently. Good game, as expected. What’s better is the game’s listed gameplay features. Whoever wrote these deserves a gold star.Â
My GBA recase is better than yours
My backlit GBA used to be babysitter blue. But thanks to a tip from Infendo reader richufc, it’s now jet black with all new buttons. The skinny: I bought what is seemingly an official replacement case from Hong Kong for dirt cheap: $4.30 with shipping. Bought a couple of drivers for $5 more smackers. Then followed doginmylense’s wonderful tutorial for navigating the more trickier par...
Nintentunes, your one stop shop for your retro music fix!
Today we will take a journey to Nintendo past through the power of music. Most of my memories playing video games don’t involve any graphics or gameplay at all, but instead it’s the music that stays with me. I’m willing to bet the same can be said for many of you gamers as well, so I hope this music retrospective is enjoyable for you. Click on through if things that are awesome...
What eShop titles do you want most?
June has a lot of things going for it. e3 starts next month, 3DS gets it’s first “must have” title, and the eShop finally launches for Nintendo’s newest handheld. Not to bad! I always love revising old classics so the most exciting feature for the eShop, to me, is the virtual console support. As such, I would like to ask you, Infendo, what classic games are you hoping to ...
What Nintendo franchise needs an upgrade?
Who doesn’t love the weekend? When mine comes around I usually like to pull out one of my classic gaming consoles and give them a whirl, much like Blake has been doing lately. This weekend during one such play session I popped in a game, closed the game-flap on my NES, and thought to myself, “Wow! Why hasn’t this game been released again!?” What was that game you ask? StarT...
The story of that generic fighting guy in beat ’em ups who wore jeans and a white t-shirt
While we’re on the subject, behold this odd-ball story I penned for GamePro in 2007: At the height of beat ’em up popularity, there existed one archetype character most publishers didn’t mind sharing. He was a slender, blond white male in his early twenties. His only attire was a lucid white t-shirt, skin-tight blue jeans, Chuck Taylors, and those fancy racing gloves presumably ...
What’s the best beat ’em up of all time?
Amid the great Wii, 3DS, and DS drought of early 2011, I’ve been revisiting sprite-based classics, mostly on my backlit GBA “Special.” One I’m particularly fond of: River City Ransom EX (original also on WiiWare). Thanks to its genuinely funny script (“Cool it, Bro!”), diverse combat, and RPG-like leveling, I think it might be one of the greatest beat ’em...
Miyamoto thinks it would be a good idea to remake A Link to the Past…do you?
The Guardian today has an insightful interview with Miyamoto up. What got my attention was the discussion of how a remake to A Link to the Past would be just fine by him. Are there any plans to adapt other older Nintendo games for the 3DS console? Not really. We would like to create more new titles. For example, this year we are making Super Mario 3D, but it’s not really a remake of [the Wii...