He may have gotten his start as Jumpman in Donkey Kong, but it was really the release of Super Mario Bros that made Nintendo’s mascot the icon that he is today. The Mario Bros. game were out in 1983, but it wasn’t until Super Mario Bros. came out that Princess Peach’s boyfriend got, well, super. [...]
Metroid: Other M‘s being hatched between Nintendo’s internal development team and the Team Ninja studio, who are best known for the Ninja Gaiden games on the Xbox platform. I saw and played the new title at GDC, where I learned that series heroine Samus Aran would be speaking in a game for the first time.
Ah, the single biggest hurdle of the retro gaming movement: Playing all your old favorites with anything other than the original controller. The $70 RetroN 3 Video Gaming System appears to have that base covered, though.
One of the best aspects of the Nintendo Wii is the ability to download old-school NES games for $5 a pop. But a trend’s been emerging lately; some classic old franchises are making their way into the WiiWare downloads section, a section that’s normally reserved for games from independent developers and shorter titles from well-known [...]
For reasons unknown to me I’ve been asked to declare what I presume to be the five greatest gadgets of all time. No simple task considering the vast number of gizmos and doodads that have been feverishly churned out over the last millennia. But we’re not talking about things that have had some revolutionary impact [...]
