Nintendo through the Ages (and Colors)
Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 10:54am by Blake
Color Lovers examine Nintendo colors through the ages. It’s a pretty cool little piece contrasting the differences from the NES to Wii. Excerpt: “While controllers have seemingly become just more complicated and the games just the same, what’s been interesting to watch is the evolution of graphics over gameplay, specifically with Nintendo, the longest running console manufacturer.”
May 24th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
It’s great to be old enough to have watched Nintendo grow over the years, almost like a son or daughter…I still remember being highly addicted to Tetris and seeing blocks falling even after I had turned the game off and gone to bed.
May 24th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Yeah, as an artist in the industry, looking back, it’s the colors that you remember first and most vividly about Nintendo and its first-party products. To this day, I personally still use Metroid as a color theory reference. In general, though, I can’t tell you how much Nintendo has meant to me growing up and even motivating me as an adult. There’s something magic about the Big N, something that no other developer on Earth has ever managed to grasp. There’s a few out there that get pretty close, and some might suggest it’s all Miyamoto (kinda hard to argue otherwise sometimes), but I don’t think that there’s any other company out there that could have provided the proper environment in which Shigeru Miyamoto would have been able to create and imagine anything the way Nintendo has facilitated him all these years.
May 24th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Mario 64 on the VC looks sweeeeeet to me. Great transfer.
I’d rather talk about how good the gameplay was than “How were the graphics”.
I have met plenty of Playstation 3 buyers (yes, at UK prices…plus they needed a new HD) who rave about how realistic and pretty it looks, but never talk about the gameplay.