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Gold Cartridge Buyer Recreating Nintendo Championships Today

J.J. Hendricks, the Denver entrepreneur who bought the rare Nintendo World Championships Gold cartridge, is hosting an event today that seeks to recreate the original contest. He spoke to Kotaku about it and his acquisition. Hendricks, the owner of vintage game-and-console retailer JJGames.com, bought the NWC Gold cart last month for $17,500. The seller was…

By Owen Good Published July 18, 2009

If Nintendo Won’t Make A HD Starfox, These Guys Will

In the absence of a high definition Nintendo console – or even new Starfox games, for that matter – some fans have taken matters into their own hands, and are building a new Starfox game: Shadows of Lylat. Similar to the popular Battlestar Galactica mod, Beyond the Red Line, Shadows of Lylat is built on…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 18, 2009

Mario’s Family Line

It’s not a family tree – a) that would be too large and b) it assumes games mate and produce offspring. This is a family line, showing all Mario games, by generation, with their siblings. The thing is so super-huge you should probably just go directly to it or download it to magnify it for…

By Owen Good Published July 17, 2009

Yes, Someone At Google Is Slightly Triforce Obsessed

When Earth Day rolled around, an army of Kotaku tipsters pointed out the Triforce from The Legend of Zelda‘s cameo in Google’s holiday logo. Turns out that’s happened more than once. A lot more than once. Google apparently has an… enthusiastic Legend of Zelda fan on staff, as Google Blogoscoped points out, highlighting eight of…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 17, 2009

The Many Shapes of Stylus To Come

Tired of your boring old DS stylus? Is the Transformer’s stylus a bit too much? Maybe you should look into a custom stylus from Shapeways. The company has a service that lets people customize a number of pre-designed styluses, including ones shaped like a Wii remote, a Pokemon and Link’s shield, by selecting the material…

By Brian Crecente Published July 17, 2009

Caution: Japanese Designer Pokemon Shirts Ahead

Continuing their recent run of collaborations with the clothing label, Nintendo have teamed up with A Bathing Ape to bring us a line of Pokemon/Bape t-shirts that will no doubt set your wallet’s heart aflutter. There’s six shirts in the line, some heavy on the Pokemon, others heavier on a freaky, Pokemonised version of the…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009

Wii MotionPlus Sales Off To A Good Start

June may not have been a good month for the video game industry, but the prospects for Nintendo’s motion-controller are looking promising. First month sales for Wii MotionPlus were what we’d consider a pretty good start. First month figures for the Wii Remote add-on were “nearly 374,000” according to the NPD Group. That was split…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 16, 2009

DS Sales Double In Japan (Thanks Dragon Quest IX!)

According to Ascii Media Works, the release of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS hasn’t just been good business for Square Enix. It’s been good news for Nintendo as well. The market research firm says that in the week before the game went on sale, Nintendo shifted 51,601 DS handhelds. But last week, after…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2009

Wii Firmware Upgraded to 4.1

If you’ve got WiiConnect24 hooked up on your console, it should be glowing blue right about…now, with Nintendo having just pushed through firmware update 4.1 Unless you’re adverse to this type of business (ie you’re the homebrewing type), you might want to grab it, especially if you’re planning on getting Wii Sports Resort, because when…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2009

A Boy And His Home-Made Blob

The best part of the upcoming reimagining of A Boy & His Blob isn’t the fact the game’s being reimagined. It’s that gorgeous storybook art style, which these home-made figures capture perfectly. Since official figures from such an obscure license might be wishful thinking, this sculpt by Appy is probably as close as we’ll get…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2009

The Market Obviously Requires A SECOND Pokemon X-Ray Machine

In April, we showed you a mobile x-ray unit adorned with Pokemans, intended for Japanese hospitals. But would you believe it’s not the only Pokemon-branded x-ray machine on the market? No, there’s another one. It’s made by the same company – Shimadzu – and is the real deal, a “proper” x-ray unit, sacrificing mobility (and…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2009

Nostalgia’s Airships Make Us Nostalgic

Ignition Entertainment‘s Nostalgia for the Nintendo DS lives up to its name, bringing to mind roleplaying games of ages past with battling airships. Nostalgia basically takes the same sort of airship travel as we’ve seen in earlier entries in the Final Fantasy series and countless other roleplaying games and pimps it out, letting the player…

By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009

How Nintendo Has Described Itself From ’87 To ’09

Over the years, Nintendo, like most companies, has had to explain what in the world it is at the bottom of the press releases it issues. That description has changed. A lot. 1987 Nintendo financial earnings report… Nintendo of America Inc. is the U.S. marketing and sales arm of Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo Co. Ltd., the…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2009

A One-Two Shot Of Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!

Club Nintendo of America is giving away a trio of exclusive prizes to members in good standing, the club announced earlier today. One of those is Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!, a WiiWare title based on the Wii game Punch-Out!!. This is what it looks like. An awful lot like the Wii-imagined Punch-Out!!, obviously, but with the…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2009

Times Square Getting A Wii Sports Resort Make-Over

A concrete island in New York’s Times Square will be getting a sandy beach, swimming pool and “tropical lounge” next week to help promote Nintendo’s upcoming release of Wii Sports Resort. The faux island getaway on Times Square’s Military Island, 7th and Broadway avenues, will be open to everyone from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.…

By Brian Crecente Published July 14, 2009

Check Out These Club Nintendo Member Platinum And Gold Member Rewards

Nintendo of America’s Club Nintendo is announcing the “Elite Status” rewards for folks who snagged Gold or Platinum Member status. According to Nintendo.com, Customers are able to register select merchandise for Nintendo Coins, which can be redeemed for Club Nintendo items. Those who reach a certain amount of Coins can become for eligible for Platinum…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 14, 2009

Want To Peek Inside Smash Bros. Creator’s New Office?

Earlier this year, Nintendo announced it was joining forces with Smash Bros. designer Masahiro Sakurai‘s Sora Ltd. to found a new company, Project Sora. Nintendo is the principal investor, owning up to 72 percent of the company. The company is hard at work at a game, but it’s not another Smash Bros. title. Sakurai added,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 14, 2009

Some Words That Are, And Are Not, In Scribblenauts

There are over 10,000 nouns you can conjure in Scribblenauts. That’s a lot. To help give you an idea of just what’s included – and not included – in that number, please, consult this list. A writer from Britain’s Official Nintendo Magazine has a build of the game, and having asked readers for a list…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2009

Black Wii Box Is From The Dark, Distant Future

Here’s the box art for the upcoming Black Wii, the first coloured variant of the console. Looks a lot like the white version! Only black. Amazing what a change in colour can do for a console. The white Wii is simple, clean, innocent. This black one? Menacing, stylish, ominous. And probably the best-looking games machine…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 13, 2009