Points of Interest – 11/11/06
- Hmm, I get the feeling that Cooking Mama isn’t getting enough of the sausage from Papa.
- Over at Nintendo, NOA Matt examines the dubious art of ganking.
- o/~ It’s The Legend of Zelda and it’s really rad,
Those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad
GameTrailers has more vids to show how to survive,
As well as their Zelda retrospective, part number five. o/~Chikka-chikka, or something. Boy-ee.
- GameSpot has a rather presumptuous review of XBox Live Arcade’s Contra available.
Um, yeah, barring the glitches they’re working to patch, this IS the Contra I’m looking for, as I’ve never gotten to play it outside of the arcade, much less finish it. Ditto Super Contra. It’s really sort of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game for the NES sort of scenario.
- IGN goes hands-on with Sonic the Hedgehog: Genesis, and it doesn’t get off to a good start, by about five years.
- Destructoid writer eats crow, fed to him by a virtual fork controlled by a Wiimote.
- Ok, so let’s see… Ziff-Davis and Game|Life don’t care much for Yoshi’s Island DS, while GameDaily and GameBrink seem rather fond of it.
Yikes. Seems like a hard game to judge by reviews, apparently you either love it or you… don’t. Here’s hoping rental is possible…
- 1UP editor James Mielke poses the question: Is The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess the most important launch game for a system ever?
- “Ah, what a tasty treat!”
“Best day of my life,” indeed…
- GN links to an interview with the producer of Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2.
- Over at IGN, Jon Robinson is keeping a diary of his road to the gold in WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007. Fun read, if you’re into wrestling at all.
Truth be told, I haven’t really been very interested in a wrestling game in years, but everything I’m seeing on this one is really changing that. Might be a must-buy if I ever get a PS2, or a 360.
- Modojo (via GN) looks at the dark side of touching.
- Game|Life’s Chris Kohler doesn’t have crabs.
Good for him.
- I don’t know, for some reason, launch situations just seem to get worse and worse, moreso than I remember back in the day. Maybe if companies made more product available at launch…
- Atari 2600 = pwned.
- Sigh, I really gotta establish some sort of cred…
- Upon closer inspection, it seems that PS3 games are coming up short.
- In this age of emulation and Virtual Consoles and Live Arcade, it is still important to remember how to replace your faulty batteries for back-up saving in older games.
Unless you’re just lazy or something and want to fork over money for something you might already own. What am I, your mother?
- I want a Wii update of Gumshoe.
- 1UP has a feature up which compares the PS2 launch to the impending PS3 launch.
Is history repeating itself? God, I hope not. Though page 2 shows why things may play out differently, in spite of similar circumstances surrounding the launches.
Then again, maybe this repetition will play right into Nintendo’s hands.
LBD “Nytetrayn”