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“The right thing… what is it? I wonder, if you do the right thing, does it really make everyone happy?“
R.I.P.
*Cough*
“Thank you all. Please be seated. *Ahem*. Ladies and gentlemen, like many of you here today I came across Nintendo Power at a very young age. For me personally, it was the third grade and I was eight years old when I first heard whispers of a magazine that was all about Nintendo and filled with maps, special codes and strategies. These rumors spread like wild fire across the black top during recess but that’s all they amounted to at first: Rumors. Some kid knew a guy from another school who’s brother supposedly had described some book he’d seen as having the small clay Mario you see beside me plastered across the cover. More words were spoken of free pull-out posters and comic strips as well as contests that gave away prizes like t-shirts, toys and most importantly: Nintendo Games. It all sounded too good to be true of course and these second hand (third and fourth even) stories were all I had to tide me over before the truth of the matter would finally be revealed to me. It was a cold, overcast October afternoon when this kid I knew opened his backpack to reveal the beautiful image of a grown man in full body armor holding the decapitated head of Dracula by his hair.
I was hooked.
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Dude, I only play 80s Joel!
New dates have been confirmed for Symphony of the Goddesses, the Legend of Zelda concert series touring North America. Before you do like me and get all excited that it might be coming somewhere near you, take a look at the up-to-date concert listing, with the new dates in bold:
March 14 Vancouver
March 26 Seattle
March 28 San Francisco
April 7 Denver
April 20-21 Phoenix
May 12 Atlanta
May 31 Montreal
June 6 Los Angeles
June 22 Austin
July 7 Houston
July 12 San Diego
July 14 Orlando
July 25 Philadelphia
July 26 Vienna (Virginia, not Austria… or sausage)
Sept. 15 Toronto
Sept. 22 Minneapolis
So yep, with six new dates on the board, the closest one for me is still an eight hour drive away. It’s cool, I’m totally not bitter. If you can actually go to one of these things, click here for info on buying tickets… and so I can vicariously experience it through you.
So a little while back a guy named Jay Pavlina (alias Exploding Rabbit) created Super Mario Bros. Crossover, a fan-made replica of the classic sidescroller that lets players plow through the Mushroom Kingdom as Mario… or Mega Man or Samus Aran or Simon Belmont. Earlier this month he launched version 2.0 of Super Mario Bros. Crossover, and it is bigger and better in just about every conceivable way. See for yourself:
Click here to play it, or here to read up on the development of the game from the man himself. In-depth impressions after the jump!
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5 years and 1 day later I found myself once again out in the freezing November cold waiting for a new Legend of Zelda game.
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Sonuvaf$%k
Nintendo announced today that in addition to the fancy pants 3DS bundles Europe’s getting, those lucky bastards will also have the option of snagging a special limited Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary 3DS. Yep, you hear that? That’s the sound of Nintendo sticking it into all of us “Ambassadors” and snapping it right off.
Click right here to check out the box (it comes with Ocarina of Time 3D packed in) and right here for a look at all of the little gold flourishes inside.
Now let’s just hurry it up with those Goddamned 10 free GBA games, ok guys?
Hey, kids! Who wants to check out a late ass review? What’s that? None of you? Well, guess what? Nobody is twisting your arm to read it!
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Theme performed by the Fucking London Philharmonic Orchestra!
Thanks, gonintendo.com
It looks like Nintendo’s arguably last major release for the Wii console will launch in 2 editions. The one pictured above includes the game (obviously), a soundtrack featuring orchestrated selections spanning the Zelda series and a “fancy-pants gold” Wii-mote plus controller (Motion + is required to play). It will retail at $69.99 which isn’t too shabby considering that the non “fancy-pants gold” Wii-motes cost $39.99 by themselves. The other stripped down “value” edition is listed at the standard $49.99 price tag but Nintendo has decided to include the soundtrack at no extra cost during the first run. That’s nice of them.
Sadly, no mention was made as to which version comes with the instruction booklet. I guess we’ll have to wait until November 20th when this thing hits store shelves to find out about that one.
Insert that warm, fuzzy feeling right here.
Thanks to Nintendorks for the heads up on this one.
2010 marked the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. for the NES and fans were understandably underwhelmed when Nintendo kinda, sorta, didn’t really go all out for the occasion. Sure, that limited edition red Wii system was snazzy, but the software “celebratory” release was sadly lacking. A fancy red box turned out to be little more than a shallow shell housing a 15 year old SNES port and a book/cd combo that offered barely even a slight glance at Super Mario’s rich platform history.
Spoiled and bitter. That pretty much sums up where I was during that awkward transition between the Nintendo 64 and the Gamecube. Let’s face it: my old friends over at Nintendo had just had their little yellow asses owned for the first time ever by Sony’s Playstation, despite a valiant first and third party effort (courtesy of in-house development and those genius british bastards over at Rare). It really burned my ass at the time. The N64 was (and still is) home to some of the best games ever made and yet kids back then sounded practically embarrassed to admit that they owned one. Probably because every asshole that bought a fancy pants CD based system wouldn’t shut up about how mind-blowing the load times were or how they could just sit there for hours and watch a bunch of CG cut-scenes that they didn’t even have to play.
…unfortunately it’s just not in the cards. Money is pretty tight in general and if I’m gonna blow my bread on anything anytime soon it’s gonna be Epic Mickey which hits shelves next week. Not to say that I’m not excited about DK. The reviews have been pretty positive across the board. I just never really cared about the Country franchise all that much growing up to not be able to wait a little while for this new entry.
I normally hate this cosplay shit but there’s a crack at a full on Legend of Zelda live action movie being put together by a bunch of those freakshows that caught my interest. It’s called The Zelda Project and apparently the idea is to use homemade costumes and real locations in forests and stuff to create the land of Hyrule. I’m guessing Detroit will double as the Dark World.
