Kotaku: nitnendo

Nintendo And McDonalds Japan Serve Up DS Service

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MDT

Following on the test program Nintendo launched in Tokyo last spring, the Kyoto-based game company and the fast food giant announce "Mac de DS".

Way back in 2005, Nintendo of America teamed up with McDonalds to offer free WiFi in the United States. This new nationwide service is a first for Japanese McDonalds.

Starting June 19, the service rolls out a DS wireless service at restaurants across Japan. Customers who bring their DS units to McDonalds can download items and original content as well as play others via WiFi. Besides Pokémon mini-games and character downloads (Jirachi, anyone?), there are also McDonalds quizzes and even a McDonalds manga service. I'm loving it?

任天堂岩田社長｢全国のマックに笑顔を｣−−"マックでDS"サービス発表会 [Famitsu]

Coin-Op NES

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:00:22 MDT

Want to play? Get out those coins. Here's a coin-operated Famicom that was hooked up to standard TVs in Japanese hotels and inns. One hundred yen coin got players 10~15 minutes of playtime. There's a Zapper and everything! Hit the jump for the pricier Super Famicom, which only doled out 5 minutes of playtime for a hundred yen. Well, it was "Super." Super expensive!

Business Use Home Consoles [via Danny Choo]

Club Nintendo Dates Animal Crossing Wii? Eh...

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:00:07 MDT

Maybe this is just a kwinky-dink. Who knows? Nintendo does! The 2008 Japanese Club Nintendo has a picture of Mario Kart Wii for April. And of course, Mario Kart Wii goes on sale in April. Taking this rubrick, let's look at December, which shows a picture of...

Hit the jump for an image of December.

CONFIRMED: Animal Crossing Wii on sale this December. Er, no — what's on the other months? No idea! Still, we wouldn't put a big Winter Animal Crossing Wii E3 announcement past Nintendo.

Animal Crossing Wii Dated? [Mada Genkai]

Super Mario World Explores Quantum Physics

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:20:00 MST

Who said games aren't educational? It may not have the sex appeal of my personal time-merged favorite, The 1K Project II for Trackmania Sunrise, but the ensuing write-up, which helps explain quantum theories with a SNES classic gives it an intellectual bonus. The Super Mario World hack, by the way, is known as Kaizo Mario World and looks infinitely unenjoyable. What you're seeing above is 134 playthroughs of Kaizo layered upon each other using a custom SNES emulator.

Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics [Mechanically Separated Meat - thanks, Ricky!]

Clip: Team Kotaku On Spike TV

Brian Crecente — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:00:26 MDT

The latest episode of Game Head, set to hit this Friday night, will feature a special look at Shigeru Miyamoto with the likes of Koji Kondo, Stephen Totilo, Heather Chaplin, the Game Jew, Team Kotaku and Miyamoto himself. The clip offers a taste. Yes, I've got that damn bird shirt on. In my defense, they shot a bunch of stuff with us in one sitting that they will be using over the year, so it's going to look like I never change clothes. Promise I do. Brian Crecente

Nintendo Games Channel: Wii Live Arcade

Mark Wilson — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:45:01 MST

In a recent interview with Game Informer, Hudson Entertainment's marketing director, John Lee, shot down the idea of the Virtual Console ever releasing new, previously released titles for the Wii. But then he added:

However, in the future, you should rephrase that question to: Are there any plans to launch original content on some downloadable service on the Wii, and you might get a different answer.

This is fantastic news, as Nintendo will surely hold developers to the same high standards that have made Xbox Live Arcade titles so buying-a-360 worthy. So is everyone copying Microsoft, or is small developer content just the natural evolution of networked consoles? Mark Wilson

Nintendo to offer original game... [computerandvideogames]