Points of Interest – 11/8/07
Assorted Mushrooms
- From the Onion News Network: Where are our damn flying cars?
And just to keep the topic going, here’s the Kevin Smith take on the subject.
Me? I don’t trust people on the roads, nevermind over my head.
- So Jack Nicholson is furious over the new portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight?
“They never asked me about a sequel with the Joker. I know how to do that! Nobody ever asked me,” Nicholson said. “It’s like, in any area, you can’t believe the reasons things do or don’t happen. Not asking me how to do the sequel is that kind of thing. Maybe it’s not a mistake. Maybe it was the right thing, but to be candid, I’m furious.”
Sheesh, you’d think he originated the character or something. Is he aware that this isn’t the same thing he played in?
Plus, sounds like Hong Kong is being kind of a jerk. But, maybe we don’t know the whole story.
- Wow, this takes me back to a place I wasn’t especially eager to return to…
- …but man, Kelly sure was hot, though, wasn’t she? Wonder how she looks now…
Video Power
- Lolfighterz.
- Racketboy’s Retrogaming looks into what the best Game Boy Advance games are today… even if you own a DS. And many of these are truly fine games, some of which I still need to add to my collection (Minish Cap, Wario Land 4, Gunstar Super Heroes, Castlevania).
- Games Radar has a credible theory that Snake is returning to Outer Heaven in South Africa for Metal Gear Solid 4, as well as some guesses as to the other undisclosed location.
Be neat to see the classic “I feel asleep!” stomping grounds, reimagined in a more realistic 3D…
- AMN has a guest editorial that speaks out against Nintendo’s “refrigerator” analogy for managing Wii memory. Plus, it seems to confirm what I had wondered, whether or not deleting a game would delete its save files as well. Unless it means saves for Wii games, like Sonic and the Secret Rings rather than Sonic 3.
I haven’t run into the issue yet myself, but that doesn’t make the points any less valid. Nintendo ought to listen a little more to the consumer and their wants and needs here.
- Another looks into Ignorance: The World’s Fight Against Games, as people continue to try and put a stranglehold on the content the industry is allowed to have, all for no good reason.
- Remember The Last Starfighter? Well, now you can finally play the game.
- Super Mario Galaxy: the GameTrailers video review. Might be some slight spoiling stuff therein, especially if you’re on a blackout until the game’s release– there was at least one thing new to me there.
- A little more light is shed on the whole controversy of uncredited staff on Manhunt 2 from one of the producers.
- What will it take for microtransactions to be successful? Next Generation has a few ideas.
- It seems the boys at GameDaily just can’t get enough of our main man, Mario. Which is why they’ve put together yet another gallery to highlight the superstar plumber’s athletic achievements.
I’d really like to see something like Mario’s Ice Hockey, as sort of a new take on the old Mario-less NES title. In the meantime, I still need to find a copy of Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour for the Cube.
- So, why haven’t we gotten any good 1:1 swordplay/lightsaber action yet? Jonathan Smith from TT Games explains.
- Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has been talking about Super Mario Galaxy with many of the people who worked on the title. And now, he moves on to the big man himself- Shigeru Miyamoto.
- It’s been 20 years of Mega Man, and Inticreates has thrown something special into Mega Man ZX Advent to celebrate.
It’s not much compared to Contra 4, but still a nice little nod.
- If you don’t mind a bit of down and dirty language, then check out ZeroPunctuation’s review of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for a few laughs. Laughs enough that I was distracted from doing this for quite some time, going through his archive and effectively watching every single video that bore any relevance to any game I have ever shown any interest in among his listings.
Hell, now I’m doing it.
- 1 + 1 = Pikachu.
Ok, maybe not, but Nintendo has begun to use Pokemon for educational purposes.
- Nintendo of Europe has a quick look at two of Mario’s newest power-suits from Super Mario Galaxy.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”