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A Wii U edition of Mario Kart is in production at Nintendo. While we don’t even have a title or a single screen shot yet, one thing’s for sure- we’ll see it in action at E3 this year. As a massive fan of the series I thought I’d take a look at what I want from the next instalment.
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I’ve been a Nintendo fan all my life. For me, the Nintendo 64 represented fun with my friends and memories of being young and carefree. The Gamecube on the other hand, represented a darker, lonelier time in my life and when I looked back at the games I played and what they meant for me at the time, I realised the escape of gaming really helped me get through. It’s not all doom and gloom, though. Here I rank every game I ever owned on my absolute favourite console ever, Nintendo Gamecube. Accompanied by some cool videos from Youtube.
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Every Nintendo fan has their favourite first party franchises. For me there hasn’t been a better first party line up than Gamecube’s. F-Zero GX, Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Waverace Blue Storm, Starfox Adventures, Starfox Assault WarioWare, Inc., Mario Party 4, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Pikmin, Pikmin 2, and Battalion Wars. What a Nintendo line up. Heaps of major franchises skipped Wii, and that’s left me dreaming of an amazing first party line up for Wii U. Here’s my ultimate line up.
Miiverse is the friendly social network. It is heavily moderated by Nintendo and that’s a good thing. It really is. No one needs trolls or bullies in a social environment. But how do you stop them? You have rules, you enforce rules, and you moderate the hell out of posts and profiles. And Nintendo does.
It’s fair enough, it’s Nintendo’s service and if you want to be a part of it you play by the rules. I get all that. And I agreed with the heavy moderation even though I had heard from various people how unfair it was that their posts we being deleted for no reason. I’ve gotta say I didn’t believe users were having their posts deleted by administrators for no reason. Until it happened to me.
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Hello, I’m back from my amazing holiday around Thailand and Singapore. Have been completely out of the loop. So much happens in the gaming world in 10 days! I have to catch up and get back to posting.
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As with all mini game collections, Nintendo Land is just the sum of its parts. 12 parts, to be precise. And as with all mini game collections, some are more fun than others. Here I break down each attraction and give an individual fun factor rating for each one.
Nintendo’s latest Nintendo direct certainly got the internet and Nintendo fans excited for what’s coming up on Wii U. There was new games, new services and plenty of surprises. I’ve had a few days to digest what went down and thought I’d share my thoughts about each of the announcements.
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I wrote a piece the other week about what I was looking forward to on Wii U in 2013. There’s heaps. But for 3DS this year, considering I’m not a Pokemon fan, there’s not too much that’s been announced I’m legitimately look forward to. Besides the imminent integration of Miiverse to 3DS, on the games front there’s only a few. Here they are.
There were so many amazing Nintendo 64 games. There’s so many amazing, memorable games on any system, but when it’s your childhood, or just wherever you were at a great point in your life, one system has to stand out.
For me it was Nintendo 64. Middle of high school I was going through an awkward, find-yourself kind of time, like most kids my age. Luckily, my (few) but close friends were Nintendo 64 fanatics too, and I got to experience heaps of N64 games with them. In my home, and theirs. I’m also lucky my mum is a gamer too, she loved the classic N64 platformers like Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie. She’d also sit and watch me play the likes of Turok, Extreme G, and Mario Kart. Games she tried but wasn’t too keen on getting good at. But I digress. I ranked every N64 game I ever owned from least to most favourite. Here we go.
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With the announcement of Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture’s new title Killer Is Dead last week, it seems at this stage the game will skip Wii U. I’ve been drafting a list of Nintendo series I would like to see make a return, and last week’s news put No More Heroes at the front of my mind. I know it’s not Nintendo’s own series, but the first two games were Wii exclusives, (Heroes Paradise was an enhanced port of the original for PS3) a Nintendo machine gave the series life.
Swanson Street Melbourne is kind of the spiritual home of Nintendo in Australia (on the East coast, anyway), but it pales in comparison to The Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center, New York City. I was lucky enough to embark on a 5 week odyssey around the U.S.A last October, and the Nintendo World Store was definitely high on my priority list. Inspired by Ausretrogamer’s post earlier this week, I thought I’d share my own pics from my pilgrimage to Nintendo fans’ mecca.
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Here’s my monthly look at decent retail deals around the stores. For those who aren’t worn out from Christmas shopping or the Boxing Day sales. I break it down by retailer and I’ll be updating as soon as I see anything else. UPDATED: 10/1/12
This isn’t twitter so I can just write one sentence to sum up my Wii U midnight launch experience. I could, but I won’t. I went to a 24 hour Kmart, at 11:30 there was no staff there, just a guy sitting in a deckchair on the phone. He was was the first in line and he had brought his own deckchair to sit on. Not so interesting, but the shop staff actually gave him a pager (taped to a photo frame) so he could press the bell at midnight and a staff member would come over. Hilarious. I wish I took a picture of it. In the end there was just me and my friend, another guy and his friend but only 3 of us bought machines. I wan’t expecting a EB style launch with a massive queue but I thought there might be at least a few more people waiting. Kmart had no pro controllers though. $379 for the deluxe is better than I thought i was going to have to pay. The staff and manager that came over at midnight were really clueless about gaming but helpful and friendly nonetheless. Thanks Kmart. I sit here writing this as the update is happening. 50 minutes in and just on half way.
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It’s hard to describe to a non gamer the feeling you get when a new console arrives. Sleepless nights, third person dreams, etc. A new Nintendo machine comes around once every 5 years or so. That’s less times than the Olympics. As I wait for midnight to come- I thought I’d share my final thoughts and memories about my favourite machine of this generation, Nintendo Wii.
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As Wii enters its final days in Australia, I thought I’d take a look back at every Wii game I ever paid for (so far) and decide whether or not they were worth the purchase.
