When he’s not paying off his loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to cover the latest Nintendo news and admire his video game collection. His favorite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but now he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America Image: Nintendo The North American design has what we’d say is the best picture of DK himself on the right, but what is this..? Are those… are those people? Like, real people? Um. I’m ...
For a long time, perhaps because the medium was still in its infancy, there wasn’t a “right” way to promote home video games. As a result, some of the earliest video game companies – including some that we now recognize as major industry players, such as Nintendo – created some of the most bizarre TV ...
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America / Europe If you owned a Super Nintendo, this probably brings back a lot of memories. Donkey Kong proudly forward, bananas in hand. Kremlin in the background. Zingers are buzzing around. Slippas that slide ...
Image: Nintendo Life / LEGO After being teased earlier this week, we’ve now got our first real look at four new Donkey Kong LEGO Adventure Playsets that provide yet another expansion to the LEGO Super Mario collection. Each set features one or two famous members of the Kong family and has a variety of interactive ...
Image: Nintendo The Strong National Museum of Play — best known for its “World Video Game Hall of Fame” — has announced it’s creating the world’s “largest” Donkey Arcade cabinet that’s “nearly 20 feet tall” and about “370% larger” than the Original. It will be part of The Strong’s 90,000 sq ft extension, which will ...
The ratings for The Super Mario Bros. Movie are in and they are surprisingly polarized. Mario’s return to Hollywood could end up being a box office hit, but not all critics are thrilled. It is currently under 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Why Mario Strikers: Battle League could be Nintendo’s next multiplayer hit The edge ...
photo: Rodin Eckerroth (Getty Images) A retranslated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto liked, and his hopes for Mario’s future. A little background on these two before we get into the fun stuff. ...
Image: Lego Ideas / by If You Build It Mario Lego has become quite popular, but what other Nintendo IP could adapt to the world of brick building? A Lego Ideas user known as ‘By If You Build It’ submitted a Donkey Kong themed set. Although a big monkey species it looks scary up close, ...
Before Super Nintendo World decided on a Mario theme, there was apparently some discussion within the Japanese video game giant and Universal Studios about a “second” Nintendo-themed IP to be included in the park. Speaking to Polygon, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that Splatoon is one of the series considered outside of the company’s core franchise, ...
