The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS has been enjoying a spectacular reception from consumers. Still, that hasn’t stopped Nintendo from making a very conservative profit forecast. Currently there is a lot of speculation regarding why Nintendo has decided to go against the current trend. Perhaps they know that the Wii is approaching the point of [...]
Be careful where when you hold your wii-mote or else….
-Derek
[Source: Youtube]
01.26Lego Mario
The pictures basically say it all. A large lego statue of Mario was made by scanning a regular figurine and modifying the resulting image to produce a lego compilation. The compilation was then pieced together in real life.
-Derek
[Source: luxology]
01.23Duckhunt Kill Screen
Maybe Nintendo never intended for a player to actually reach level 99 in Duck Hunt or maybe they just didn’t care. Either way, check out the finale you are treated to if you happen to make it to level 100. It’s known as a kill screen and many earlier games had it. Basically, a programming [...]
01.21Real Life Mario
I’ve always found the concept of Nintendo characters to be a little outlandish. Donkey Kong for example, is a Gorilla who throws wooden barrels at people. Mario is a plumber who travels around through big gaping pipes. They have no real life relevance and even for a fantasy, they are a little TOO fantastic. Needless [...]
01.20Nintendo Back Tattoo
How much do you love Nintendo? For many of us members of Generation Y, Nintendo holds a very special place in our hearts. It was probably one of the main reasons many of us got into gaming as a hobby. However, with the advent of better graphics and more realistic/violent games, many of us have [...]
Prince of Persia was a pretty good game when it came out for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Although may critics complained that it was far too easy, the story and graphics easily made up for that. With a DS version of the game, obviously the graphics would not be as great. Ubisoft Casablanca has [...]
According to a report from Nintendo, the company is responsible for about 99% of the growth that the video game industry has experienced in 2008. Nintendo couldn’t help but pat itself on the back and provide us with various ways of displaying a 99:1 ratio. The bottom chart is from Kotaku:
We like making charts because [...]
The Nintendo Wii might be a family friendly console but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have ANY blood on its hands… A woman from Michigan almost killed her dog when she was swinging the wii-mote and accidentally struck her dog on the temple rendering the animal unconscious. A neighbor managed to perform successful mouth to [...]
Check out this man’s ultimate mastery of the hand-fart technique. He can manage to play the entire Super Mario theme (with a little assistance from the background instrumentals). Impressive nonetheless! You see this kids? No need to go to college when you are blessed with natural talent like Gerry Phillips. He has a whole series [...]