Category: Video Game Musings

VIDEO – James & Mike Don't Know What A Prototype Is

(2020 Update: This video hurt my brain… and now I’m sharing the pain.)

I’m watching the James & Mike video where they’re playing the Super Mario Wacky Worlds prototype game and… guys, you do realize that is an UNFINISHED prototype. As in NOT FINISHED. There is a reason why it was never released for sale during the CDi’s active years… BECAUSE IT WASN’T FINISHED AND IT WAS CANNED. You cannot play and bitch about the thing as if it was a FULL GAME. This video was almost Boresian in its conception.

Cop Guns Down Kid Armed With Wii Remote

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/child-gunned-cop-answering-door-holding-wii-controler/#axzz2tnRuNzCN

For those who don’t want to read the whole thing, basically a female cop was a little trigger-happy and shot a seventeen-year-old kid who was armed with a Wii Remote. She apparently thought that the kid was armed with a gun, despite the fact that a Wii Remote looks nothing like a gun. There is no possible way a SANE and MENTALLY FUNCTIONAL human being could confuse the two.

And people wonder why I have no faith in law enforcement.

Retron 5 Head David Hu Interviewed By Retroware TV

http://retrowaretv.com/retron-5-interview/

There’s a nice little interview at Retroware TV with Hyperkin Marketing Director David Hu regarding the upcoming Retron 5 system, an Android-powered clone console which emulates functionality for NES, Super NES (and their Famicom and Super Famicom equivalents, respectively), Genesis/Mega Drive, and the Game Boy line. It’s actually a nice little read.

The Retron 5 is due out December 10 with a suggested price of $99.

Old Wii Wii Go Bye Bye… And That’s Too bad

So in case you haven’t heard, Nintendo is planning on shutting down production of the original Wii soon, thus bringing the chapter of their all-time best selling console to a close.

No word as to whether this’ll affect online services like Virtual Console or that sort of thing… not much of a surprise, really. The console is pretty much retired at this point and the Wii U can pretty much do what the Wii could and more, so really, you knew it was going to happen eventually, if it hadn’t already.

The thing is… Nintendo sucks at this kind of thing. You have the best-selling console of the current generation and you toss it under the bus to focus on your new console that isn’t up to par in terms of numbers or content or whatever. Why not support the thing for another year or so before axing it?

I’m not saying producing a shit ton of games, but a handful, you know? Go for compilations or something. That kind of stuff will always sell for good prices. The PS2 has a massive library of games and pretty much lasted more than a decade in service… best-selling console of all time. Indisputable. That’s factual. PS2 is the best-selling console and it was supported for a good long time even got games years into the current generation.

It is the modern-day Atari 2600, just in terms of the longevity because the 2600 also had a long life span, from 1977 to 1989-1990 when the era of Nintendo and Sega was in full swing. And Nintendo has their best-selling console in the Wii… and they drop it. I understand that it’s a underpowered machine; you’d rather go for the HD console, but your HD console not is doing the numbers you’d hoped for. I don’t know… yeah…

Not quite sure where I was going with that, but in any case, there you go.