Welcome to the first of what will hopefully become an annual tradition, where we take a Nintendo-themed look back at the year that was.
There’s no doubt that 2010 was one of Nintendo’s best years ever. The Wii had an excellent line-up of titles that saw many people dusting off their Wii console and rediscovering the joys of waggling a controller. The DS had a very good year as well, with a solid line-up of games that spanned many different styles and genres. Continue Reading…
Platform: Game Boy
Developer: Nintendo
Released: 1991 (North America), 1992 (Europe)
Since a new Kid Icarus game (Uprising) is being released on the 3DS, it might be nice to go back and revisit an earlier entry in the series. What’s that? It sounds like you just said “But Kid Icarus on NES isn’t obscure!” That’s definitely true, but did you know that there was a sequel to that game? Continue Reading…
Platform: Nintendo 64
Developer: DMA Design
Released: 1998
After Super Mario 64 became a massive hit, everyone was scrambling to cash in with their own 3D platform game. Soon the market was flooded with them, but many of them simply followed the same basic formula that had already been laid out by Nintendo’s masterpiece. In hindsight, Continue Reading…
Platform: SNES
Developer: Argonaut Software
Released: 1994 (1995 for PAL regions)
Remember the Super FX Chip? It was developed by Argonaut Software and used to process 3D graphics in SNES games. Chances are you’ve heard of Star Fox (renamed Starwing in Australia), a co-development between Argonaut and Nintendo and the first game to use the Chip. What you may not have heard is that Argonaut went on to develop a lesser-known, though arguably more impressive game called Vortex. Continue Reading…
Platform: Game Boy
Developer: Nintendo/Jupiter
Released: 1998
See that camera on your DSi? There’s a reason why it’s there. Like most of Nintendo’s recent ideas, its origins can be found in some weird peripheral that’s been long forgotten (to be fair, you could probably say that about any hardware manufacturer). In this case, the forefather to the DSi camera was the Game Boy Camera. Continue Reading…
Platform: Game Boy
Developer: Infogrames
Release: 1991
When I first heard the name of this game, I thought it involved making virtual pop-up books. While I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that appeared on the 3DS in the near future, this game was nothing like that. It was a puzzle game where you play as a time-traveling ball. Continue Reading…
Gargoyle’s Quest: Ghosts and Goblins:
Platform: Game Boy
Developer: Capcom
Released: 1990
In recent years we’ve seen many games where you play as the villain, but believe it or not, Capcom was doing this way back in 1990. Using their highly successful Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins/Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts franchise as inspiration, they made a game Continue Reading…
After being embarrassed by a group of mates dressed up as Naruto characters in a MacDonald’s, something in the air told me it was that time of year again. AVCon, Adelaide’s Anime and Video games Convention, had come again, and this time I was slightly more prepared, and in a much bigger group. Well, five is bigger than two. It was very similar to the convention last year, and, as such, was still a very enjoyable day.
