Image: Nintendo Life When you think back to being in high school, staying up all night with your friends playing video games, what games do you play? Is it Mass effect? Maybe some iteration of Smash or Mario Kart? The big one when I was that age was Street Fighter II in all its iterations. ...
Take on Me by A-Ha it may have seemed a bit random to choose a song for the hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Nintendo and Illumination. However, the inclusion of the classic pop song in the hit animation was because the song was the number 1 music single in the United States on ...
Gaming News Nintendo: This NES turns into a robot, it’s useless but it’s awesome Published on 04/11/2023 at 21:45 Share : The Nintendo is an absolutely legendary console and a true pillar of video games, no one will doubt that. Some choose to honor it by sublimating it… or by making it mortal. Literally. No ...
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America / Europe Image: Nintendo …why is this so disturbing? It’s Kirby verbatim sucking the whole world in here, establishing his powers for the end of the world from the very beginning. Just kidding, just ...
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America / Europe Image: Nintendo The design for North America and Europe is pretty simple, all in all. It features the main man himself front and center, and he actually looks pretty jolly. We like ...
Retro fans with a subscription to Nintendo Switch Online are getting supplies again, because the Japanese put together a neat package of NES, SNES and Game Boy games in March. For some time now, Nintendo has been publishing numerous classics from the past via Nintendo Switch Online, which can then be enjoyed on the current ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Here’s some balm for your soul this Thursday morning: There’s a museum in Japan that aims to reunite people with the Famicom games they once owned (via my city). Have you ever scrawled your name on an old cassette or game box, only to sell it later? You might ...
In the mid-1980s in Kyoto, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka and their team at Nintendo were working in parallel on two game designs that would represent two sides of the same coin. One would be linear, an obstacle course, a headless rush towards a goal. The other would be non-linear, a mysterious labyrinth, an unpredictable world ...
If there is a classic title that has marked the evolution of video games throughout history in many ways, this is it. The legend of Zelda, that since his first cartridge for the NES, in 1986, he made it clear what his intentions were and it contained virtually all the elements that we have seen ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Hopping on and off public transport can be a boring task at the best of times and an all-out nightmare at the worst. But what if instead of having to pay for the bus with our normal people hard-earned money, we could instead use all that which we had ...
