Friday, April 21, 1989 — the day the Game Boy launched in Japan. 35 years ago, the video game landscape would change forever as Nintendo opened a new frontier portable playing for the masses. The company’s Game & Watch line gives you a limited gaming experience on the go, but the Game Boy was a ...
Jim Norman, staff writer I’m still working my way through the Pokémon Trading Card Game after falling back into the trap of being a bit obsessed with cards right now. I’m sure this will pass. I hope they will for my bank balance. To get my mind off of this, I was actually dying to ...
Ollie Reynolds, staff writer I’m still playing my wonderful Metroidvanias, and I actually picked up Blasphemous 2 last weekend, so I’m working on that right now. By the way, I have a few things to do this weekend (building a new bed for starters), so I’m not really sure how much gaming I’ll get done. ...
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 This is very much in line with the Mario Golf series we all know and love. Mario stands in the center of the stage – the same model as we ...
Image: Nintendo Life Happy MAR10! Well, almost. Mario Day is on March 10, so we’re republishing our list of the best mainline games starring a plumber. Which is the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank all the Mario games? Let’s face it, anyone in the top 10 could legitimately take ...
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America Picture: Let’s compete The design for North America and Europe is remarkably similar, with the only real differences being the general look of the Ryu Hayabusa and the applied art style. Here, Ryu shows ...
But what is the best Tomb Raider game? That’s what we’re here to find out. This ranked list of every Tomb Raider game ever on Nintendo consoles is governed by the user rating of each game in our database and is subject to change in real time depending on the score, even as you read ...
Image: Nintendo Life Hello folks and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get into this week’s clash, let’s find out how things went last time, shall we? We watched Rayman Advance for the, uh, Game Boy Advance (if it wasn’t already obvious), pitting North America against Europe in a classic ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life It’s Christmas morning, and amidst the thick haze of food already being prepared for lunch and the soothing laughter of our children enjoying their new toys, my wife approaches me with a small, square package. I didn’t see this under the tree. “That’s your last one,” she says. Instinctively ...
Man, myth, legend. Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds roughly the same prestige within Nintendo’s ranks as Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, ...
