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Tuesday, Dec 30
Nintendo (mostly) owned Japan in 2008
PSP Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) - 2 507 400 / 2 507 400DS Pokémon Platinum (Nintendo) - 2 125 348 / 2 125 348Wii Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 2 024 113 / 2 889 790Wii Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 1 973 089 / 1 973 089 Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) - 1 808 709 / 1 808 709 DS Rhythm Heaven (Ninten...
Friday, Dec 5
Metareview: Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars
We've been raving about Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars for the best part of a year. Starved of a top-drawer platformer since Mario did his thing in oh-seven, hopes are high in these parts for Red Fly's platformer. The big question: can the gameplay match the undoubtedly stellar art design (as s...
Tuesday, Nov 25
Opinion: Oz developers love de Blob - Nintendo Wii Fanboy
The story, More like it. Wii Fanboy Review: Tetris Party · Reviews · Top 5: Castlevania Games · Top Five · It's-a Mario World: Fan Art · It's-a Mario World · Mod that: 5 of our favorite DIY Zappers · Mod that · Revolutionary: Hz So Good ...
Wednesday, Nov 5
Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 30 - Nov 5
Before you check out the juicy links below, check out our latest giveaways. We're hooking some lucky readers up with MySims Kingdom on the Wii and DS. Here's the DS contest post and here's the Wii contest post. After you enter in each, head back here and peep the latest from the Nintendo side of t...
Wednesday, Oct 29
Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 23 - Oct 29
DS content We chat up the devs Wii content We check out Nintendo's latest bit Generations turned Wii gameNWF Review: Disaster: Day of Crisis Just in time for HalloweenIt's-a Mario World: Mushroom Matriarchy Behind every good plumber is a great princessNWF Review: The Incredible Maze
Thursday, Oct 23
Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 16 - Oct 22
Nintendo DS Review'd Nintendo Wii Our weekly column offers up the top Castlevania gamesIt's-a Mario World: Fan Art We celebrate the great Mario fan art on the internetWii Fanboy Review: Cubello Check out Nintendo's latest WiiWare offeringBorn for Wii: Cosmic Smash
Wednesday, Oct 8
Nintendo Fanboy Weekly - Oct 2 - Oct 8
DS features Read our analysis of the gameA brief history of Club Nintendo Awesomeness Wii features A Mario-focused slant on the big Nintendo news last weekBorn for Wii: Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil Check out why we want it on WiiVC Monday Madness: Mario Golf and Shining Force II
Thursday, Sep 11
Virtually Overlooked: Punch Ball Mario Bros./Mario Bros. Special
Like they did with Super Mario Bros. Special, Hudson Soft remade the original Mario Bros. (which is becoming somewhat of an obscure title itself these days) for Japanese computer systems. Also like Super Mario Bros. Special, the remake is a bit awkward and contains gameplay elements not fou...
Thursday, Sep 4
It's-a Mario World: Koopa Kids
Lately we have found ourselves pondering the Koopa family lineage in all of its complexity. Bowser seems to have outdone himself in the procreation department, but no one seems to know who mothered his children. It seems likely that Princess Peach did at least some of the laboring, given th...
Monday, Sep 1
Wii Fanboy Review: Mario Super Sluggers
Mario Super Sluggers very much feels like a first-party game, despite being developed by Namco. It's got a plethora of Nintendo characters, wonderful bits of fan service and quite the bit of polish. There aren't that many flaws in the game, and the single biggest is only the lack of a label on...
Thursday, Aug 28
Virtually Overlooked: Mario Artist
Paint Studio is like the lost sequel to Mario Paint: a drawing program, bundled with a mouse, that featured several Nintendo-themed stamps, including Rare's N64 characters and all 151 Red/Blue-era Pokémon. It interfaced with a wacky peripheral called the Nintendo 64 Capture Cartridg...
Thursday, Aug 14
Virtually Overlooked: All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. is a collection of levels from Super Mario Bros.,Super Mario Bros. 2, and the arcade VS. Super Mario Bros., which is pretty much interesting enough all by itself. But All Night Nippon isn't just a fairly unique version of Super Mario Bros. It's an officially sanc...
Monday, Aug 11
Wii Warm Up: Mario & Sonic at the thing that is happening right now
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Friday, Jul 18
E308: Wii Fanboy bats-on with Mario Super Sluggers
Seeing as how the game has been out in Japan for quite some time now (and releasing here in little over a month), you've probably seen and heard all their is to Mario Super Sluggers. But, we'd be remiss if we didn't do our duty and sit down with the game and enjoy some time at the ballpark.
Thursday, Jul 10
It's-a Mario World: Mario's Many Professions, Part 2 of 2
Anyway, the weird keeps on trucking. We've yet to reveal (or remind you of) Mario's part-time endeavors after 1991, back when he dropped a POW on a Pawn Shop, faced eviction from the kingdom's sewer-ghetto and struggled through 'shroom addiction. Yeah, this hero has been a long time in the m...
Wednesday, Jul 9
Wii Fanboy Weekly: July 3 - July 9
Wii Fanboy Review: SPOGS Racing Our new features look at the top 5 hottest upcoming WiiWare gamesIt's-a Mario World: Mario's Many Professions part 1 of 2 Mod plays NES in a NES cartridge The world just explodedMidna, Rosalina expertly cosplayed by Nintendo convert
Wii Fanboy Review: SPOGS Racing
As for controls, there are several options available. You can play with a motion-based scheme, which has you controlling your SPOG like you were playing Excite Truck or Mario Kart Wii. If you have a Wii Wheel, it's not a bad way to play. You can also enjoy the game without the motion-sensitive s...
Monday, Jun 9
Wii Fanboy Review: Actionloop Twist
It is not long, however, before Actionloop's flaws begin to show -- and it's not only the tiresome controls that grate. The lack of an online mode (or, indeed, any online functionality whatsoever) does the game no favors, and only pushes it further below the likes of the excellent Dr. Mario;...
Friday, Jun 6
Wario to shake up Australia
Filed under: News, ImportsThe original source of this image is unknown, but Jeux-France seems to have found a tiny rendition of Wario Land Shake's (potential) Japanese boxart. It's small and blurry, but it's clear enough to see that, as they have in the game, Nintendo put aside their usua...
Thursday, May 22
Wii Fanboy Review: Toki Tori
It's a consistently clever game that rewards lateral thinking and preparation, yet I fear that Two Tribes' title will be ignored in the breathless fanboy rush for Dr. Mario and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened, either -- the Game Boy Color ve...
Wednesday, May 21
Wii Fanboy Weekly: May 15 - May 21
Wii Fanboy Review: Critter Round-Up We round-up some opinions on Konami's WiiWare titleWii Fanboy Review: Dr. Mario and Germ Buster Is it the Dr. Mario you know and love?Wii Fanboy's Review: Star Soldier R Revolutionary: Mario Kart Training Wheel
Tuesday, May 20
Wii Fanboy Review: Dr. Mario & Germ Buster
Reviving a seventeen-year-old puzzle game seems like a strange way of kick-starting a download service that promises "genre-defying gameplay." That said, we find it easy to forgive Dr. Mario & Germ Buster for its lack of innovation. While not the perfect version we had hoped for, Arik...
Friday, May 16
Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 5/5-5/11
01.(01) [WII] Mario Kart Wii --- 107,000 (1,227,000) 03.(04) [WII] Wii Fit --- 53,000 (2,039,000) 11.(14) [WII] Wii Play 12.(16) [NDS] Mario Kart DS 18.(25) [NDS] Mario Party DS 19.(23) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. 26.(__) [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Monday, May 12
Wii Fanboy Review: Pop
Nnooo's Pop is an unusual puzzle/shooter hybrid. It has a lot in common with matching-based puzzle games: activating multiple objects (in this case, bubbles, activated by tapping) of the same color as they fall builds a score multiplier, and gameplay-modifying items are found in some o...
Friday, May 9
Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 4/28-5/4
01.(01) [Wii] Mario Kart Wii --- 173,387 (1,120,000) 03.(__) [Wii] Link's Crossbow Training --- 92,534 (New) 04.(06) [Wii] Wii Fit --- 51,851 (1,986,000) 09.(13) [Wii] Deca Sports --- 24,302 (186,000) 10.(14) [Wii] Wii Sports --- 21,979 (2,959,000)
The hidden emotional depths of Super Mario Galaxy
To illustrate his point, Wilson draws on the story told by Princess Rosalina, whose life story is recounted throughout Galaxy. Although this narrative thread starts life as the kind of standard fare you'd expect from a Mario title, Rosalina's tale quickly becomes tragic, as she recalls...
Thursday, May 8
Virtually Overlooked: Super Mario Bros. Special
Hudson Soft made an agreement with Nintendo to port their arcade/Famicom hits to the PC-8801 system. It was in this way that fairly ugly, slow versions of Mario Bros., Ice Climber, and Excitebike appeared on the computer system with Hudson's name on the title screens. For the most part, they...
Friday, Apr 25
Wii Fanboy Review: Mario Kart Wii
And that's because Mario Kart Wii handles joyfully. Whether on bike or kart, or whether using the Wii Wheel or a controller, drifting and producing measured power slides and counter-steering to just the right degree as you take on a bend feels as deeply satisfying as ever. Of all the games in...
Thursday, Apr 24
Virtually Overlooked: Kart Fighter
That was the idea behind Kart Fighter, created ... some time after Super Mario Kart was released, by an unknown Hong Kong developer. It's a 2D fighting game starring Mario and friends, in familiar settings based on the Mario games. Nintendo totally ripped these guys off. Have they no respect for...
Tuesday, Apr 15
PAL Super Mario 64 signed by Miyamoto
If you live in the UK and don't mind tossing some money away, may we suggest you toss your tender at this auction for a signed copy of Super Mario 64? We can't think of anything more fitting for your hard-earned scratch. Food? Psh, don't be a sucker and pay for food when the princess is offering t...
Wednesday, Apr 9
Podcast: Revolutionary: Capturing the Moment
Once, I even connected the output of one computer to the input of another to get some clear gameplay footage and lessen the number of editing steps I'd have to go through when compositing some camera footage of my hands working the controller.
Friday, Apr 4
Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 3/24-3/30
12. (15) [WII] Wii Sports 13. (09) [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training 15. (__) [NDS] Lux Pain 18. (18) [WII] Wii Play 20. (24) [NDS] Mario Party DS 22. (21) [NDS] Mario Kart DS 26. (26) [NDS] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games 29. (31) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. 30. (30) [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS
Monday, Jul 23
Podcast: Revolutionary: Respectable Specs
When we take in the whole picture, it is evident that Nintendo doesn't intend for the world of Wii possibilities to be populated with just PS2 ports and minigames. Epic games with online multiplayer, downloadable content and improved graphics are all apparent in Nintendo's upgrades to t...
Monday, Jul 16
E307: SMG developer walkthrough - Stardust Galaxy
Filed under: VideoThis latest Super Mario Galaxy video doesn't introduce any new outfits like the last developer walkthrough, but it does demonstrate star-hopping, gravity tricks, and other essential skills for traveling in this 3D platformer. The latter half of this two-minute mov...
Hands-on: Metroid Prime 3
Both Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy have done a great job at reminding us that Nintendo hasn't abandoned the core gamer completely. It's been a long time since we've dusted off our Wii, and we can't wait to finally play a game meant just for us. The game will be available in late August.Pe...
Saturday, Jul 14
E307: And that's a wrap
Endless Ocean depths exploration Umbrella Chronicles with the Zapper Super Mario Galaxy Honey Bee developer walkthrough Super Mario Galaxy: This is an obvious choice, but all of the new media that came from E3 has gotten us that much more excited for the game.
Thursday, Jul 12
E307: Crisp, clear Mario Kart footage from the Nintendo keynote
Whether you saw Reggie's announcement on Mario Kart Wii yesterday or not, odds are that the footage you saw of the game was fuzzy or distant, and that is just plain wrong. Mario Kart is a delicious treat meant to be enjoyed up close, like a fluffy, flaky, French pastry. So of course, when we need...
E307: Mario Kart Wii spins its wheels through our hearts
Nintendo didn't give us much on Mario Kart Wii, but it's enough. A smattering of sweet screenshots, a peripheral we're uncertain about, and news of online multiplayer is enough to get any good Nintendo fan's heart racing. As for the upcoming wheel ... Mario and Luigi manage to make it look like a...
SMG developer walkthrough: Honey Bee Galaxy
Filed under: VideoOf all the scenes we spotted in yesterday's Super Mario Galaxy trailer, the ones that excited us most were the moments we saw our mustachioed protagonist bedecked in his bee and Boo outfits. Tears of joy came to our eyes, salty with the nostalgia of Super Mario Bros. 3's fro...
Tuesday, Jun 19
Top ten Mario sellout moments (as determined by some guy)
Prepare to put on your angry hat, because we've got quite the ridiculous video for you to watch. As you gathered from the post title, it's the supposed top ten Mario sellout moments. Now, we'll say that Mario did sell out a couple times during his time as Nintendo's mascot, but some of these cla...
Friday, Jun 15
Completely unexciting DK Jet videos
There are a lot of movies and sections at the site that haven't been revealed yet, so there's still plenty of opportunities for DK Jet to impress us before its June 28th release in Japan. If you listen to the ridiculous noises Donkey Kong makes with every jump, however, it sounds like the depr...
Wednesday, May 30
Metareview: Mario Party 8
Filed under: Reviews, MetareviewIt's been awhile since we've been able to do one of these and, frankly, we're surprised at the mixed bag of reviews Mario Party 8 is getting. Sure, we had a feeling that with a game in its 8th installment, many might find the franchise to be lacking, but we were...
Tuesday, May 29
Mario Party 8 'party' TV spot
With the release of Mario Party 8 today in the United States, those "Wii would like to play" ads have a new one in rotation featuring Nintendo's latest game. Obviously, the ad plays up the whole party aspect of the game, as we're shown many a party-goer taking their turn in the game to find it is...
Friday, May 25
Super Mario Strikers only lets you play against those in your region?
When is Nintendo going to get a clue about online gameplay? This kind of thing isn't going to cut it and surely doesn't necessarily even improve the chances that a gamer will not receive lag. We can't be the only ones thinking this, right?Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs ...
Monday, May 21
Nintendo drops the bomb on us, MP3 this Summer
July 30 Mario Strikers Charged Nintendo Aug. 20 Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Nintendo Aug. 14 High School Musical: Sing It! Disney Interactive Studios Aug. 14 Madden NFL '08 EA August Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08 EA August Space Station Tycoon Namco Bandai August Brunswick Pro Bowling Crave Augu...
Tuesday, Apr 24
Get a glimpse into online play for Mario Strikers: Charged
The fine folks over at Jeux-France got their hands on an early build of Mario Strikers: Charged, taking care to document the online gameplay capabilities. Considering that the only glimpse into online gameplay on the Wii we've been privileged enough to see so far, we'll take what we can ge...
Friday, Apr 6
Wii would like to play (Super Paper Mario)
Filed under: Video We can't get enough of these guys that star in all the Wii commercials. The latest, which features a game all of us are climbing the walls for (hint: it's Super Paper Mario). The commercial shows lots of gameplay and emphasizes the ability to transition from 2D to 3D.
Wednesday, Apr 4
Metroid Prime 3 not shipping before July
More disturbing, however, is the concept of the "Big Three" (Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl) all supposedly being released in 2007. Realistically, one of these three will be pushed back (most likely Brawl, since Prime is extremely far into development an...
Tuesday, Mar 27
Wii circuitry changed to thwart modchips?
There were similar concerns in the past about Mario Kart DS updating the Nintendo DS' firmware as an anti-piracy measure, but it was quickly discovered that the handheld was only saving its WiFi settings. It seems far more likely that Nintendo has had the Wii's revised motherboard planne...
