Oh dear… I’ve found myself in this exact situation before. It’s not fun, I’ll tell you that much. I’ll try not to go into anything that Matt (PrattP) and Michael (punkgorilla) have already touched on and I’ll do my best to keep things as short and sweet as possible.
I originally discovered The Nintendo Basement through another local Nintendo website known as Aussie-Nintendo. From what I remember, PrattP was plugging TNB on the A-N forums and, not being able to help myself at the time, I came across to the site and sussed things out. Eventually I worked Continue Reading…

If you’re a follower of TNB’s twitter or visited the forums recently you’ll already know this, but The Nintendo Basement will be closing down. I’d like to take this opportunity to make one final post and say a few important thank you’s.
Nintendo announces that effective 12 August, the 3DS will be available for AU$249.95. Previously the system was AU $349.95.
Nintendo’s much awaited 3DS remake, Star Fox 64 3D, will be hitting our shores September 15. It will retail for $69.95 in Australia and $99.95 in New Zealand. In related news, I am really glad I don’t live in New Zealand. You have my sympathy, neighbours.
Australians are now able to download Mario’s Picross on the Nintendo eShop.
The Nintendo Video service has just gone live in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Square Enix have announced a brand new spin-off of it’s well loved Final Fantasy series, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. No, I’m not sure how to pronounce that either. The name is a portmanteau of ‘theatre’ and ‘rhythm’, so maybe that gives us an idea about how to say it. As you may have guessed from this, the game is touted as a ‘theatre rhythm’ game.






