geeksugar (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Can you really put a price tag on joy? I say no cause that's exactly what I felt when I stumbled across these amazing Controller Ornaments . For a mere $25, you can have your own collection of gaming controllers that span decades - from Super NES to PS3 to Sega - so there's sure to be one that satisfies your inner gaming goddess. Sold as a set of seven, the acrylic ornaments come in four different...
Busy Gamer News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Here are this week's downloads, demos and videos for the Wii and Nintendo DS: WiiWare: Bit.Trip Void ($6), Harvest Moon: My Little Shop ($12), Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 1 ($5) and Little Tournament Over Yonder ($8) Virtual Console: A...
1UP (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Thursday of this week is turkey day in the U.S., and Nintendo's accompanying downloads definitely bring plenty of goods for us to digest with a total of 13 new downloads. For WiiWare, we have Bit.Trip Void for 600 Wii Points ($6), the latest in Aksys Games' line of retro-inspired arcade shooters. Also available are Harvest Moon: My Little Shop for 1,200 points ($12), which seems to have the features...
Press The Buttons (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
So apparently pronouncing the acronym for the Super NES as "sness" is a United Kingdom thing, while "S-N-E-S" is centered in North America. Now I'm wondering how other consoles are abbreviated and acronymized around the world. Is there a place that speaks highly of a "Sega Genny"? Where is the MSX actually shorthand for Microsoft's original Xbox? What about Nintendo's...
Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Super NES classic to be joined by Pilotwings and Smash Bros. originals. The absolutely epic Super NES original Super Mario Kart will finally arrive on the Virtual Console today, claim reports. About bloody time. Click here to read the full article
1UP (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Following up their teaser announcement on Famitsu.com last week, Square Enix released the first official details today on Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods , a brand-new Nintendo DS installment in the role-playing series known as Lufia in America. The game's due out February 25 in Japan for 5980 yen; no US date has been announced. The new Estpolis is being developed by Lufia creator Neverland...
Press The Buttons (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Wander through the world of Nintendo's EarthBound for the Super NES and you'll end up talking to hundreds of people. Every city, village, and dark underworld is packed with folks all too eager to speak with hero Ness and his band of adventurers. Some of these talkative characters fell victim to programming errors, however, and fail to appear during the course of the game. Nothing vital to the quest...
Verbal Spew (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
So, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is pretty good . I'm sure the 1UP score will skew high compared to a lot of other reviews, but bear in mind that I reviewed it based on what it does as opposed to some fevered vision of what I think it should do. It's designed to be a universally accessible and enjoyable game, and NSMB Wii passed the Fiancée Test, which made the difference between a great score...
1UP (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is precisely the game that, back in 1991, I figured we'd be playing 20 years down the road. That is to say, it's a direct evolution of the classic Mario games , specifically Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World . Of course, I didn't have the first clue about polygons back then, and I could never have guessed that in just a few short years Mario himself would be laying...
Vintage Computing and Gaming (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Remember the PowerPak — that wondrous device from RetroZone that allowed you to cram every NES game ever made into one cartridge? Well, two years later, RetroZone has released its follow-up, the SNES PowerPak for the Super NES. Well, they’ve kinda released it. Sales appear to temporarily be on hold in order to “investigate [...]
1UP (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Retro updates are all the rage these days, so what's next on the docket. According to the veteran developer Mark Turmell, it may be Smash TV . In an interview on Retrogaming with Racketboy , the Smash TV programmer discussed the game at length, and also made mention of a potential sequel. Unfortunately, while it appears that the 3D revival actually made it into the programming stages, progress was...
videogamesblogger.com: (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Nintendo downloads this Halloween week: The WiiWare service invites you to explore a ghostly mansion or face menacing foes in a new Tales of Monkey Island adventure. On the Virtual Console, battle zombies and other supernatural creatures in a Super NES classic, or ward off evil forces in the legendary arcade game Golden Axe. For [...]
Press The Buttons (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Once Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog made it big, video game developers and publishers everywhere seized on the idea of creating their own radical animal mascot character to star in colorful platforming games. Software Creations and Tradewest were no different, but instead of coming up with an animal with attitude, they went with a collection of animated clothes with a somewhat mild outlook on life for the...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
“The Memory Card” is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time. For the last two weeks, The Memory Card has put on a fine suit and fancy top hat and become The Graphics Card, a three-part miniseries focusing on amazing, specific moments in outstanding videogame graphics over the years. The first installment...
geeksugar (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I've seen some good proposals in my day, but this one has to take the Super Mario cake . Using his geek smarts, this gaming guy asked his equally Mario-obsessed gal to be his "player two" by the light of their Super NES, and a hacked copy of Super Mario World . It doesn't get any better than that! And although the vessel of this sweet surprise wasn't Super Mario Bros. 3 (which is battling...
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