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Humorous How-to Tackles NES Installation
As anyone who’s ever tangled with an RF switcher knows, hooking up consoles in the old days was more plug and less play. Helpfully the gang at Shamoozal have put together this step-by-step look at rigging up your Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s done in the style of the old Disney explainers with Goofy as the…
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Mario was Put in Punch-Out Without Permission
The latest “Iwata Asks” bull session regards Punch-Out!!! – the NES original, not the Wii sequel – and it’s quite revealing. Especially when designer Makoto Wada (pictured) pipes up. Wada-san, who came aboard Nintendo right around the time the Punch-Out!!! port for the NES was being created, spills two interesting details. The first is that…
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Today’s Punishment: The Nintendo Cereal System
Even though it’s only 30 seconds, and you’ll probably make it all the way through, today’s punishment is having that obnoxious goddamn "NIN-TEN-DO!!!!" stuck in your head for the rest of the day. That, plus watching a knockoff cast of “Head of the Class” dance their way through World 1-1 got me to bail at…
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Hey, Spidey’s Pink in VC Shinobi
Revenge of Shinobi, for Genesis, went through a tortured history thanks to someone’s decision to make the Hulk, Batman, Spider-Man, etc. into bosses, without paying to license them. Eventually, Sega was able to license Spider-Man for the game. But now that it’s on the NIntendo Virtual Console, pretty good bet that deal has expired or…
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The First Game Dedicated Entirely To Sushi
City Interactive makes a bold claim while introducing its upcoming Nintendo DS game, Sushi Academy, the “The first-ever video game dedicated entirely to sushi.” Bold words! I’m pretty sure I’ve played a sushi-themed puzzle game or two in my lifetime, but if they mean the first-ever video game dedicated to the preparation to sushi…well who…
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Tying Together Dead Space Extraction’s Story
How does a development team create a whole new story for a prequel like Dead Space Extraction for the Wii while maintaining ties to established fiction? If only there was some sort of video explanation… Ooo, convenient. Running parallel to the events in the Dead Space comic book series and the animated feature, Dead Space…
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Link Outfit Makes Cosplayers of Unwitting Infants
This is one part dawwww, two parts badass. Part one, it’s an adorable infant’s Link costume. Part two: that’s a BABY BOTTLE QUIVER on the back. Part three: It’s made by someone called “UpKnitCreek.” Unfortunately, UpKnitCreek’s not making this available for general sale, as are most homespun game/geek items like this that we usually post.…
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Spyborgs Combo System Delivers a Century Clubbing
Spyborgs, Capcom’s remastered old-school brawler for the Wii, is promising old school brawler bona fides in the form of combo bonuses – going up to 100-plus hit combos for those talented enough. Capcom-Unity released this gameplay video, which in addition to showing, like, gameplay, also accompanied a 10-point breakdown of how to exploit Spyborgs’ combo…
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Bakugan Collector’s Editions Have Balls
Fans picking up the first run of Bakugan Battle Brawlers for the Nintendo DS this October can score the Collector’s Edition, which comes packed with a limited edition ball for them to play with. Bakugan is big with the kids, or it was last time I checked, which was a year ago, so the Nintendo…
By Mike Fahey