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Filed under 'nintendo'

June 4, 2009

New Super Mario Bros Wii - E3 2009 Trailer

I love Love LOVED the 2D DS Super Mario game, and can’t wait to throw my money at Nintendo for the Wii version.

October 18, 2008

How to Get an Official Nintendo Seal of Quality

“Works extra good when blown-on”

September 23, 2008

Wario Land - Shake It! YouTube ad

Brilliantly-done ad for the new Wario game for Wii. Seems dull to start, but worth continuing with!

January 13, 2008

2007's Worst Wii Games

Thankfully, I was completely unaware that any of these games existed — I had to do a quick search to make sure they were real, and not created purely for the purposes of this article!

July 15, 2007

Nintendo E3 2007 - Wii Fit

Video of Nintendo’s forthcoming workout game for the Wii. Looks like a Brain Age for your whole body!

April 6, 2007

CHICK CHICK BOOM

Fun Flashgame from Nintendo. Are they prototyping ideas for console games using Flash? This could easily be a great two-player DS game.

February 13, 2007

Everybody Votes

I’m in the middle of flipping between writing two emails and a document, and getting nothing completed, when I get distracted by the shiny blue light on my Wii. A message has arrived! What can it say? I must drop everything immediately and become distracted.

It was heralding the arrival of a new free channel called Everybody Votes. (there are some photos at Kotaku)

It’s kind of cute. You vote (with entertaining Mii graphics) on silly little questions like “Do you prefer cats or dogs?”, then predict how you think the majority will vote. Nosing around it, it looks like you get feedback on how well you predict the populous, as well as how far you verge from normal.

Joy happened to walk by as I was playing, so I got her to join in. It was fun comparing our votes, and if Nintendo were to expand it to allow you to compare with your Wii friends, I could see this becoming wicked popular, especially when you consider all the silly meme polls that flood LiveJournal and the like. People like showing off their opinion (plus comparing scores!)

If nothing else, it acts as an example of out-there thinking from someone at Nintendo. You wouldn’t see this on a PS3!

January 26, 2007

Wii News Channel

Wii News Channel

It just seems right that the first story I pulled up on the new Wii "News Channel" was about the European PS3 launch.

December 19, 2006

Opera for Wii will be released on Dec 22nd

With the Weather channel being released this morning, and Opera later this week, it’s going to be fun to see how the non-gaming side of Wii grows.

November 27, 2006

Wii Skin - Retro Revolution @ DecalGirl.com

Make your Wii like a bit more NESy! (I just ordered a Union Jack skin for my Wii, so I can play Super Monkey Ball for Queen And Country)

November 22, 2006

A Selection of Miis

A Selection of Miis

Four Miis currently inhabiting our Wii.

Top left, it's me. Top right, the missus

Bottom left, the prince of darkness. Bottom right, some Austrian bloke.

November 20, 2006

My Wii number

is 8208 9478 2034 3274.

If you want to see my scruffy, portly (and endearingly accurate) Mii strut his stuff in your Mii Parade, or just want to send rude messages to my TV screen, let me know your friend code.

November 5, 2006

WiiSeeker

Mashing up the “leaked” (and possibly true) information on how many Wiis each branch of Target will be selling on launch day with Google Maps. I might try the Everett Target instead of the Somerville one — they’re looking to be getting almost three times as many.

September 19, 2006

Game Informer Online: Will Wii Be Disappointed Again?

Are us Nintendo fanboys just setting ourselves up for disappointment again? Frankly, I’ve never been disappointed with Nintendo consoles: They were the only places to play Donkey Kong Country or Pikmin, and well worth the price of admittance.

September 17, 2006

DSicons.com | Fresh Nintendo DS Icons

Icons you can copy to spruce up your Mario Kart. Of course, you still require a modicum of artistic talent to copy these to your DS.

September 14, 2006

Wii.com - Introducing Wii Channels

Videos of Nintendo’s non-gamey stuff built in to the Wii. Browse news and weather on your television set. What a concept! Someone should invent that 30 years ago and call it Teletext.

Live at Nintendo's NYC Wii press conference - Engadget

The Wii details are out: Launches Nov 19th (two days after PS3), $250 including one remote+nunchuck and Wii Sports, Extra remote+nunchuck for $60. From the download service, NES games will be $5, SNES games $8, N64 games $10. I can’t bloody wait!

August 15, 2006

no$gba - nocash gameboy advance emulator

DS emulator which can play “backup” ROMs on your PC.

July 4, 2006

Guides: New Super Mario Bros. Guide

Now that I’ve “completed” New Super Mario Bros, I need a walkthrough to get me to the two hidden worlds that I skipped.

June 26, 2006

Flickr: The Brain Age Drawings Pool

A collection of folks’s sketches when challenged by Brain Age. I’ll have to upload some of my own “artistry”.

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