Nintendo Minute – “Whistle that Nintendo Tune Challenge”
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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta perform whistle renditions of Nintendo songs for each other and viewers to guess. Check out the full episode below.
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Unused Pokemon shown in manga about creator Satoshi Tajiri
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A new manga about the life of Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri and Game Freak will soon be released in Japan. Game Freak staffer James Turner tweeted out some excerpts early, which show some interesting things pertaining to the franchise.
Some have believed that we would never get a good look at documentation for the original Pokemon games due to it being lost to time or never having exited. However, one of the manga panels actually has a look at an internal Game Freak poll from way back in the day.
Nintendo’s E3 2018 video presentation seems to have a final name
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Update (5/17): The mention of “Nintendo Direct: E3 2018” has now been removed. It’s unclear if that’s due to the name being updated or because Nintendo didn’t want to share that name at this time.
Original (5/16): When Nintendo initially announced its plans for E3 2018 a few weeks ago, a digital presentation was confirmed. But at that time, the show didn’t actually have a name.
Now that seems to have changed. Nintendo updated its E3 website today, and it now includes the following title for the presentation: “Nintendo Direct: E3 2018”. It states specifically, “Three days of Nintendo Switch gameplay with Treehouse members and developers, starting right after Nintendo Direct: E3 2018 with Super Smash Bros.”
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NES Classic Edition restock up on Amazon Spain, ships to the US
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A few days ago, Nintendo announced that the NES Classic Edition (or NES Mini) will be restocked in June. Amazon Spain is now taking pre-orders here. It does ship to the US, so that’s something you can take advantage of. Separate controllers can also be ordered here.
Thanks to elfred for the tip.
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Nintendo toy from 1966 discovered
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French Nintendo historian Yamafuda has stumbled upon an interesting discovery. In 1966, Nintendo produced a toy called “Poï Tan”. This was unknown until today.
Poï Tan was designed as a toy, albeit a simple one. It involves throwing a plastic fish into a hoop floating in water.
Over 50 years ago, Nintendo was selling the Poï Tan for 500 yen.
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My Nintendo adds new discounts, Mario 3DS theme in Europe
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My Nintendo has updated with the latest European rewards. Along with discounts including Wave Race 64, a Mario 3DS theme is available.
The full lineup of rewards is as follows:
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New Pokemon The Movie: Everyone’s Story image shows off Zerora
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A new image was revealed today for Pokemon The Movie: Everyone’s Story and it reveals that the newest Mythical Pokemon Zerora will be in the movie. It’s most likely Zerora will play an important part in the movie like the previous Pokemon movies with other Mythical Pokemon in them.
SNES Classic Edition software hacked onto a Switch
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We don’t often cover hacks here, but this one is too amusing to pass up. YouTuber Sam Breadman has shown a video of the SNES Classic software running on a Switch. While there’s still work to be done, it shows that it’s possible.
Here’s a look:
Breadman says that there is a reason for the somewhat poor performance. Later on, future versions will be written with a different base.
Koei Tecmo president interested in working with Mario
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Koei Tecmo has worked with a number of Nintendo-related IPs in the past, including Pokemon, Zelda, and Fire Emblem. President Hisashi Koinuma also has his sights set on another franchise: Mario.
In an interview with Kotaku, Koinuma stated:
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Sonic designer Yuji Naka really wanted to work at Nintendo
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Yuji Naka was instrumental for the creation of Sonic. He programmed the very first game, and continued to work on the series – as well as SEGA projects – for over two decades.
Naka would eventually leave SEGA in 2006 to form his own studio Prope. Earlier this year, he joined Square Enix.
