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The Mario Kart 7 trophies have reached to Club Nintendo Europe. There are five to choose from, each of which costs 5,000 stars. The different trophies can be ordered here.

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Over the past few days, Examiner has been putting up a bunch of quotes from Scott Moffitt, executive VP of sales at Nintendo of America. There are still comments from Moffitt to read up on, including topics that cover franchise annualization, the Wii U GamePad, the 3DS, and more. Head past the break for a roundup of his different remarks.

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We now have the packaging for the upcoming Mewtwo amiibo. Check it out above.

As a bonus, here’s a high-quality shot of the Mewtwo figure:

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The amiibo Retro 3-Pack is currently in stock on GameStop. Get yours here.

As a reminder, the pack comes with the R.O.B., Mr. Game & Watch, and Duck Hunt amiibo. The set is due out on September 25.

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YouTube user “famicomplicated” has another look at Luigi’s Mansion Arcade. More off-screen footage from the game is attached below.

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MCV reports that 345,000 people attended Gamescom 2015 last week. Compared to the expo’s show in 2014, there was an increase of 10,000 people. 96 different countries were represented at Gamescom, and 33,200 of the attendees were trade visitors (up five percent year-on-year).

Also at Gamescom 2015 were 806 companies from 45 countries. This was an increase of 14 percent.

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German website Nintendo-Online has conducted some research about the development of the SNES. Through their investigation, they were able to find a discover interesting facts. You can find a summary of what Nintendo-Online passed along below.

– The SNES was developed by Nintendo’s Research & Development 2 department under Masayuki Uemura, which had already been responsible for the NES.
– The buttons on the controller were originally named A, B, C and D, while the shoulder buttons were supposed to be called E and F.
– In 1988, the SNES was supposed to have 8 KB RAM. This was increased to 32 KB in mid-1989. The final console comes with 128 KB RAM.
– The main advantages the SNES had over its rivals TurboGrafx-16 and Sega Genesis were the high amount of colors displayable and Mode 7. The console’s bottleneck was its 5A22 processor, which, as already the NES’s processor, was based on the 6502 chip.
– The reason for using a modified NES processor was most likely the goal to make the SNES backward compatible. But as this feature would have increased the console’s price, Nintendo had to drop those plans.
– Instead, backward compatibility should have been made possible by the Famicom Adapter, which was basically a stripped down Famicom that you were supposed to plug into the new console to play the old 8 bit games. Although the Famicom Adapter had been publicly shown, it was never released, rendering the SNES absolutely incompatible to NES games.
– The SNES was first announced on September 9, 1987 by local newspaper Kyoto Shimbun. Announced were the consoles name, the 16 bit architecture and the planned backward compatibility. The console was supposed to retail for less than 20.000 Yen, but was finally released for 25.000 Yen.
– On November 21, 1988 Nintendo first presented the Super Famicom to the Japanese press. Instead of fully featured games, Nintendo showed mere tech demos, but also announced that Super Mario Bros. 4 and The Legend of Zelda 3 were in the making for the new console. Both games were sheduled as launch games at that time.
– The Super Famicom was supposed to launch in Juli 1989, but although the console was next to finished at this time, it was delayed to November 21, 1990.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen drawings of what seemed to be a new Pokémon fans spotted while attending Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages in theaters in Japan. Though we couldn’t make out what it was, one similarity showed that it seemed to be that a of a blob. Last week, we got an even better look at the new Pokémon, getting a more detailed visual with colors. Now, it seeems CoroCoro is ready to unveil this new mysterious Pokémon in the upcoming issue.

Though the issue doesn’t elaborate further on the new Pokémon outside of the photos, it’s nice to get a clearer look at what’s been teased for so long now. The new Pokémon is expected to be seen in full in Pokémon The Movie XY when it releases sometime next year. The full page from the CoroCoro leak can be seen below:

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Nintendo has a video up showing how its Gamescom 2015 booth came together. Additionally, you can view a few highlight videos after the break.

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The latest episode of Nintendo Minute has now gone live. This week, Kit and Krysta have a report from the Super Mario Maker Facebook Hackathon. Check out the full video below.

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