11 posts tagged “nintendo”
My roommate is throwing out a bunch of paper junk, and happened to find the "Subscribe to Nintendo Power and get a free Mario 64 player's guide" offer. I was commenting on how the 3D rendered artwork in the insert looked so much better than the 3D in Mario 64, when I discovered on the back this scary render:
Dare I say he looks a bit... come-hither?
What do you think he's saying?
I went with the roommate early yesterday to stand in front of Toys're Us so he could get a DS Lite. When we got there we found to his consternation a line half the length of the building. Turns out, though, that not only were they selling DSes Sunday morning, but Wiis as well—so they had plenty of DSes to go around, while by the time the line grew to the full length of the front of the building, all the Wiis were spoken for.
I, of course, planned ahead, bringing my DS to get in a little more Phoenix Wright: Justice for All. Of course, the dude (12? 14?) in line ahead of us was all, "'Sup. What game do you have?" He had an old blue DS; he'd saved up years of gift cards for a Gamecube, but now had the opportunity to skip it and get the Wii. I found it's kind of hard to explain how little he'd want to play Phoenix Wright—lots of words and stuff, not something you can just pick up—so he showed me a bit of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (maybe I should get it; I liked Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door), and he loved Elite Beat Agents so I let him play Ouendan for a round.
He wanted to unlock me some Mario Kart levels, but after he discerned that my logo was "lame" (I had used the bunny stencil, apparently—it was quite a while ago), the gauntlet was thrown. So we played head to head a few tracks, then he schooled me at the balloon battle mode. Soon enough it was his turn to go inside, soon to be off somewhere else, having a distracted day full of prior obligations that would prevent him from playing his new Wii until last night.
Meanwhile I was off to breakfast, reminded how cool Mario Kart is. That's one of the few multiplayer plays I hadn't set up ahead of time, and one of the few fun times. Funny it took a kid in a line to remind me.
We caved and bought a Wii on eBay. We got a Wii + nunchuck + Wii sports for $325 + $25 shipping. —Ben at The Consumerist
My friend code ("Wii Number") is 5157 3437 2666 1502.
"You can save the characters you create in the Wii remote control and carry them around"?!?!
Yeah, this machine-translated version of the Japanese introduction says:
By the way, as for this Mii, transferring to Wii remote control, it is possible to carry to the house of the friend.
and shows playing the Wii Sports games with your Mii character.
If New Super Mario Bros isn't retro enough for you, get some real retro action with the bit Generations series for GBA, coming out in Japan this month (via insertcredit via gamesetwatch). Note the quoted price is about $17 each, though as insertcredit points out they're all ESRB rated already so maybe they're coming out over here soon anyway.
It's now made the LJ nintendo_ds community, where prguitarman points out from the ESRB reg they plan to call it "Digideluxe" over here, and there's a collective trailer flash movie here.
