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This Game Boy Wasn’t That Portable, You Know

The very last model of the Game Boy was the Game Boy Micro. It was tiny. You couldn’t just put it in your pocket, you could lose it in there. Now let’s compare that sleek handheld with something from 1991. It’s easy to remember the original Game Boy existing as a lone entity. You owned…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2011

The Nintendo They’ve Tried to Forget: Gambling, Gangsters, and Love Hotels

Nintendo, the world’s family-friendly video game maker, formed under less virtuous auspices. Before Nintendo made video games, they made playing cards for gangsters and ran their own love hotel, which some assert their own president frequented—during work. Saucy! It’s deathly quiet. I can hear my footsteps as I trundle down a small side-street, where the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2011

The Augmented Reality of Nintendogs + Cats

Nintendogs + Cats doesn’t just add better graphics, the creepy ability for the virtual pets to watch you and cats to the mix. There are also some neat augmented reality features built into this latest version of digital pet ownership. Once you’ve selected your pet, named him or her and done a little training, the…

By Brian Crecente Published March 22, 2011

Nintendo’s 3DS Midnight Launch For NYC

New Yorkers! This Saturday, Nintendo is holding a midnight launch at the Best Buy in Union Square, complete with hands-on demos, entertainment, and schwag giveaways. Playable demos start at noon and wrap up at 8pm. Launch event to follow.

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2011

Brain Age Doctor Is More Than Happy To Drink Your Radiation Milk

In Japan, trace amounts of radiation are being found in vegetables and milk. People are obviously concerned, but fret not, because the guy from Brain Age is here to relax all fears. The Asashi Newspaper reports radiation that exceed government standards were discovered in vegetables grown in Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefecture. Milk with trace…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2011

Capcom Cans Nintendo Event

On March 29, Capcom was planning to hold a get-together called “Nintendo 3DS x Capcom Premium Hands-On Event” in Akihabara, which was to have the first public hands-on with Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D and Mega-Man Legends 3. This event has now been canceled because of the earthquake and tsunami. [via Capcom]

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2011

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

You can grab this shirt for $10 from Ript. See here for reference.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Ten Years Ago Today, The Last Game Boy Was Born

On March 21, 2001, stores in Japan began selling the first units of the Game Boy Advance. There are few sentences that can better describe how far video games have come in the past decade than that. Ten years ago, the words “Game Boy” were still synonymous with not just Nintendo’s handheld domination, but the…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2011

Mario, From A Goomba’s-Eye View

The little “Jumpman” Mario looks awesome in this fan art piece by Jeffrey Cruz. Breakin’ blocks, stomping heads and taking names! Related Rampage: Enter the Mushroom Kingdom (More) Jump Jump JUMP by Jeffrey Cruz / lastscionz (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 21, 2011

Nintendo Doesn’t Want ‘Garage Developers,’ Drawing A Line That Puts Apple On The Other Side

Sharpening a divide between the version of the games industry they like and the version in which they don’t want to participate, Nintendo has stated that it doesn’t want to work with “garage” developers. The very people responsible for many of the good and many more of the godawful games on the iPhone and other…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 21, 2011

Wrestling With This Week’s Nintendo Download

With less than a week before the Nintendo 3DS hits north America, Nintendo keeps things low-key for this week’s Nintendo Download, with a Super Nintendo game from 1994 topping a short list of downloadable titles. When Natsume Championship Wrestling for the Super Nintendo is the most exciting title in the lineup, you know it’s a…

By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2011

Why 3D Isn’t the 3DS’ Greatest Achievement

The window into a world where I am a submarine commander, a street fighter, a pilot, a Jedi, pops outs at me in stunning 3D. The diminutive animated submarine seems to float in front of the colorful screen of the Nintendo 3DS as I play Steel Diver. In LEGO Star Wars III, pieces of toy…

By Brian Crecente Published March 21, 2011

College Cosplay Tradition Banned

Year after year, new graduates of prestigious Kyoto University eschew the traditional suit or kimono in favor of their school’s own custom: showing up at graduation in cosplay. Whether it be game, anime, manga characters or just simply wearing silly outfits, the tradition is very much part of Kyoto University lore. This year, that tradition…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 21, 2011

This Nintendo Mii Is As Big As A Giant Robot

So French men can make a Mario as big as a human? Pffft. Japanese men can make a Mii as big as Gigantor The giant robot you see in the above video is known in the West as Gigantor. Or, as he is known in his native Japan, Tetsujin 28-go. A fairly popular anime series…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2011

3DS StreetPass Groups Forming to Play Together Outside

Street Pass is the new, always-on wireless connection for the Nintendo 3DS through which multiplayer gaming is possible. The idea is, a couple of perfect strangers, both with 3DSes, will be buzzed when they’re near each other, inviting them to connect. A 3DS StreetPass group is forming, a week before the device’s release, to take…

By Owen Good Published March 19, 2011

3DS LEGO Star Wars Makes The Case Against 3D

Playing through a healthy chunk of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars on Nintendo’s 3DS left me impressed. It also left me with a question: Should Nintendo require 3D on all 3DS games? I don’t really know the answer to that, but this LEGO game leaves me hoping they won’t. Don’t get me wrong.…

By Brian Crecente Published March 18, 2011

What We Love And Hate About The 3DS, So Far

We got our Nintendo 3DS systems on Tuesday, many days in advance of the machine’s March 27 North American release. Today is Friday and, wow, have we been working hard! We’ve had a few days to form opinions and notice some things about the 3DS that we love and some that we could do without.…

Brian Crecente and Stephen Totilo Published March 18, 2011

Nintendo 3DS Size Comparo Video

The Nintendo 3DS comes from a long line of handheld game systems of a mostly refined pedigree. We thought it would be fun to line them all up for a little size comparison. (And we threw in an iPhone 4 for reference.) I’m not a terribly big fan of the paint scheme on our office…

By Joel Johnson Published March 18, 2011

Lost Your Nintendo 3DS AR Cards? No Problem: Put Them On Your Phone

Did you know you could use Nintendo’s 3DS to do augmented reality on an iPhone? No, no. Not using an iPhone. I mean on top of an iPhone Totilo forgot to bring his AR Cards into the office today, so instead of printing some new ones, we just copied them onto our phone. Not only…

By Joel Johnson Published March 18, 2011

Pilotwings Resort Is More Than A Simple Nintendo Sequel

Pilotwings Resort is the first Pilotwings game in 15 years, but I was worried that the Nintendo flight sim and 3DS launch game would be the simplest one in the series. It appears to only offer three ways to fly: by plane, jetpack or hang-glider. In the video here you can watch the basics… but…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 18, 2011