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Derek picks favorite Wii games of 2011
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPA4RiQElc8[/youtube] Let’s be honest. 2011 wasn’t exactly the Nintendo Wii’s best year. Sales continued to dip, and it suffered a game drought that made even GameCube’s driest days seem prosperous in hindsight. But even so, there were still some great Wii games released last year. Believe me. I really had to look. Check out my picks ...
The 10 most gameplay enabling Nintendo systems
Nintendo has a rich history of innovative and gameplay contributing hardware. You know: new hardware twists that improve the way we interactive with games. Having played all of the company’s systems since 1986, here’s how I’d rank ’em in terms of most gameplay enabling to least gameplay enabling: Nintendo DS. Whose to blame for the ongoing touch gaming revolution? This litt...
Death of the fanman: How Nintendo lost one of its most avid evangelists
Jack Loftus was one of the first contributors to Infendo. He began writing for the blog in 2006, a year after I founded it. Known for his wit, provocative writing, and unabashed subjectivity, Jack lovingly referred to himself as the “fanman.” When gamers prematurely wrote off the DS, and later Wii, Jack was quick to champion each platform and its maker. Over the last half decade, i...
Looking at old Nintendo hardware makes me smile
We play for the games, that’s for sure. But it’s hard not to hold a soft spot for the last thing you see before escaping.Â
Happy trails: Ten best Wii games remaining
Remember when consecutive vowels were the most confusing thing about a Nintendo system? Those bygone days when console names didn’t end with text messages? And U thought a remote seemed like a crazy idea. Nearly five years have passed since Nintendo launched its revolution, a small white console with a silly name that suddenly doesn’t seem quite so silly. Its pace may have slowed in re...
This is why you won’t be buying Nintendo’s next console
So the entire Internet has been buzzing about Nintendo and their new console, but for some reason it’s hard to be excited about it. Right now with Wii, I haven’t had anything to play since Donkey Kong, and the rest of 2011 is looking bleak. I don’t think I will be stopping in for coffee at Nintendo’s next café, and here’s why.
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 ...
Metroid Other M: 7 things you need to know
Like Metroid, but don’t care for all that fancy shmancy first-person stuff from recent years? Then Metroid Other M might be your cup of space tea. Here are seven things you might not know about the newest game in the series for Wii.Â
Top 10 GBA Games for your DS
With the 3DS wandering around in our minds, and the excitement almost at peak levels due to E3 rapidly approaching… I thought it might be great to look back on the Game Boy Advance and games that you might of carried around in your DS before the removal of the GBA Slot. While most top 10 lists would list the cream-of-the-crop games… I am going to list some realistically good games for ...
Was touch the secret to DS success?
Since launching nearly six years ago, the Nintendo DS has enjoyed otherworldly success. It has sold faster than any video game system before it. Including both DS Lite and DSi variations, Nintendo has shipped more than 130 million units worldwide, putting the DS on pace to become the best selling system ever’a mere 10 million away from current heavy weight champion, the PlayStation 2. And it still...
Ape and hog ousted to similarly loony tune
Nintendo’s mascots know how things work in Kyoto. It’s not about what you’ve done. It’s about whether your cap has an “M” on it. As its unabated string of Mario sequels and spin-offs suggests, Nintendo knows who butters the corporate bread. The company has turned to the plumber with unflinching regularity over the years, and while it has sold countless millions of titles b...