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The Nintendo Download: My Life As A Darklord
Nintendo only adds four titles to the Wii and DS this week, with the Virtual Console passed up completely, but hey…one of the games has “Final Fantasy” in it, and the kids love Final Fantasy. Of course it also has “Crystal Chronicles” in it, which tends to make many a Final Fantasy fan cringe, but…
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We Didn’t Have Achievements Back in the Day
But if we did, posits Gamespy’s Brian Altano – in this nostalgic and disarmingly sweet take on growing up with games – they might have looked a little like these. The part about bringing games to school is especially true. I think the only time I’ve ever read a game’s instruction manual was in study…
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Conan O’Brien Gets Topical with Video Game Sales, Bombs
Were it me, I might have made a crack about a pencil-cup peripheral. As it is, Wii isn’t the best motion control for job interviews. Natal would offer a more immersive groveling experience. Conan O’Brien Discusses Video Game sales, Offers up a Wii Joke [GoNintendo]
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Study Touts Calorie-Burn Benefits of Exergaming
A study published online by the journal Pediatrics finds that exergaming -in this case DDR and Wii Sports‘ bowling and boxing – provide as much or more activity than a brisk or intense walking pace. What’s more, the study’s authors were surprised to find the Wii Sports games, which rely almost solely on upper-body motion,…
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Gold Cartridge Buyer Recreating Nintendo Championships Today
J.J. Hendricks, the Denver entrepreneur who bought the rare Nintendo World Championships Gold cartridge, is hosting an event today that seeks to recreate the original contest. He spoke to Kotaku about it and his acquisition. Hendricks, the owner of vintage game-and-console retailer JJGames.com, bought the NWC Gold cart last month for $17,500. The seller was…
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Mario’s Family Line
It’s not a family tree – a) that would be too large and b) it assumes games mate and produce offspring. This is a family line, showing all Mario games, by generation, with their siblings. The thing is so super-huge you should probably just go directly to it or download it to magnify it for…
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Nostalgia’s Airships Make Us Nostalgic
Ignition Entertainment‘s Nostalgia for the Nintendo DS lives up to its name, bringing to mind roleplaying games of ages past with battling airships. Nostalgia basically takes the same sort of airship travel as we’ve seen in earlier entries in the Final Fantasy series and countless other roleplaying games and pimps it out, letting the player…
By Mike Fahey
