Points of Interest – 5/16/07
- The Angry Video Game Nerd now turns his wrath towards… 32X.
None shall be spared.
- Guess maybe last year’s E3 organizers looked too far ahead.
- Do you remember Super Gaming magazine?
Yeah, me neither. Probably because I grew up out in the boonies.
But Matt at Press the Buttons does! And he talks a bit about this interesting rag that would take a look at the foreign market of Japanese video games from the view of a gaijin.
I may have to hunt down a few issues.
- MTV Games, by way of Evil Avatar, discusses how to make dying more fun.
It is possible, just see for yourself.
- You’ve probably seen or heard of Perrin Kaplan, the vice-president of marketing at Nintendo, doing interviews and addressing the press and whatnot.
Well, if you’ve ever wanted to know more about her, GameSpot delivers with a video interview.
- GameSpot has new screenshots of Ultimate Duck Hunting for the Wii, which is really nowhere near as cool as it sounds.
Back to looking for Wii Play, I guess.
- GameSpot takes their first look at Dragon Quest IX.
- Just taking a brief time out to mention something. After ducking indoors to avoid the sky falling, i.e. hail making the street look like a salted baked potato skin in a matter of moments, I went into Future Shop where they had a XBox 360 demo station set up, and among the games playable was a demo of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Holy crap.
Which is precisely what this is. Sonic used to be a video gaming GOD, and this… was utter crap.
And I liked the other 3-D Sonic titles, at least the first two and what I got to play of Heroes.
Definitely a “try before you buy” thing. I spent most of my time checking out LEGO Star Wars II.
- Games Radar presents: The Top 7 games so bad they had to add breasts.
Seems like an odd thing to say about Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, though; breasts have been in DOA since before forever.
- This Wii Crystal Cooler is pretty… er, cool as accessories go.
- o/~ Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, that’s a name you should know!
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, he’s the star of the show! o/~
Go Nintendo has a video pictorial of Kirby’s history for you to check out.
- GN also has new Zelda: Phantom Hourglass info, thanks to a better translation.
- The most expensive DS Phat that you’d never play.
- GN asks, “how do you feel about friend codes?”
They’re a bit of a hassle, frankly, mostly due to quantity (that is, a different one for every game). Other than that, meh.
Even if there are people who don’t hate them, I imagine few actually like them.
- In Mario Paint, the music maker was probably the least-touched option by my non-musically-inclined hands.
Ergo, something like a Final Fantasy IV battle theme created in it would be unfeasible to me.
And this guy has made a ton of others, too.
Mega Man 2‘s Dr. Wily Stage theme?
I salute you, TomBobBlender.
And for added crazy, Meow Mix!
- Coolest.
Party.
- …and the worst part of all is, there’s no evidence of this being put on YouTube.
- Come one, come all, and see the life-size Gundam, lying prone on its back!
But pound for pound, I bet this one is worth more.
- …wait, what?
- This is a neat hack of Super Mario World. Besides what sounds like an interesting premise, it also features a lot of nice original graphics and other unique-to-Mario features.
I’d love to give it a shot, if I knew where to find it.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”