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Didn’t Pre-Order The Wii U? You Still Have Time!
Over the weekend we received great feedback about the Wii U and your thoughts on the device. We have some very passionate fans out there! It was great to see the views from those of you that are on both sides of the fence. I, for one, am very excited about the launch and cannot wait to get the deluxe bundle. For those of you that decided to think about the purchase, there is still time but you ...
Rumor: Nintendo executives meet with top content providers to provide video content for Wii U
To say that Nintendo has been slow to get up to speed in the online space is an understatement. Just look at their history. Nintendo’s first move actually came on the Super Famicom with the Satellaview, a satellite modem add-on only available in Japan. The system was developed to receive broadcast signals from a satellite TV station during a fixed time-slot, effectively allowing for subscription b...
Could Iwata’s days be numbered?
The evidence is fairly obvious- Nintendo’s change in business strategy under the leadership of CEO and President, Satoru Iwata, brought the company back from the depths. Back in the GameCube days of the early 2000’s, many had ultimately consigned Nintendo to the same fate as Sega. And, let’s face it, some of us didn’t know what the hell to think after seeing the initial DS ...
Juicy tidbits from Iwata Asks: Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo has posted the transcription of another session of “Iwata Asks”, the ongoing roundtable discussions featuring Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, and Satoru Iwata. You can read through the whole interview here, but we’ve also collected a few juicy excerpts from the discussion here for your ravenous consumption.
Dragon Quest VI is coming to DS in February 2011
Dragon Quest VI will be available for the first time in North America for DS on Valentine’s Day 2011. The game is a re-worked version of the Super Famicom game, originally released in 1995 in Japan. It’ll be interesting to see if they re-release Dragon Quest VII or VIII on the DS or maybe even the 3DS. Anyone get enough of Dragon Quest IX yet and looking forward to this remake of Drag...
Murder!
…I will forever hate the guys at iFixit with the burning, white intensity of a thousand suns. [more here]
Zelda: Link to the Past… for the NES?!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnaA7O2uGf8[/youtube] If you’re a classic Nintendo collector, you may be familiar with “Hong Kong Originals,” and pirate cartridges – if you aren’t, it’s simple – NES, or “Famicom” development is alive and well in Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.  The result? Terrible 8-bit versions of popular prop...
The NES that never was…A look at the “Home Computer” Nintendo ALMOST released in North America
In the summer of 1983, the original Famicom was unleashed on the Japanese market – a small, affordable home computer system with just three launch titles: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong 2, and Popeye – each nearly dead ringers for their arcade counterparts. The console was an instant hit, and it wasn’t long before Nintendo started to look to the west, eventually releasing the legenda...
Club Nintendo Swag or “How Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nintendo of America”
After receiving my Club Nintendo calendar, it got me thinking about the other cool stuff that I could buy in the Rewards section of the website. I headed over to club.nintendo.com, and found myself faced with a few things that maybe piqued my interest, but nothing that I was overly excited about. Some posters, game cases, and the like. Then, out of curiosity I headed over to other Club Nintendo...
What if… Professor Layton was a NES game?
What if Professor Layton was a series on the Famicom in Japan. Would we have ever seen it on American shores?
Review: Legacy of Ys: Books I & II [DS]
If you don’t know how to pronounce it, don’t worry ”“ neither does the rest of North America. Despite having been released in DOS, on the Famicom, and a slew of other platforms, the Ys RPG series only saw major stateside release on the Turbographix 16 – and even this version of the game was extremely difficult to find until it was finally released on the Nintendo Wii’s Virt...
Datel “Old Skool” Retro Controller Review
Last summer, Datel released a retro styled classic controller in Japan, based off of the Famicom controller of the 1980s. Holding the same form factor as an NES controller, yet equipped with X, Y, and shoulder buttons of the SNES controller, it was something Wii owners had been waiting for – a classic controller from the era their Virtual Console games. The new game-pad made it’s w...