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Nintendo shared a new infographic for the Mario Kart series on Twitter earlier today. You can check it out below.

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Yet another Pokemon game soundtrack is available on iTunes. As of today, fans can download the Pokemon Black & Pokemon White: Super Music Collection.

The soundtrack offers music composed by Junichi Masuda, Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Sat?, G? Ichinose, Morikazu Aoki, Minako Adachi, and Satoshi Nohara. It’s arranged by Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Sat?, G? Ichinose, and Minako Adachi.

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What’s the team behind Super Mario 3D World working on next? Why, a new Mario game of course!

Nintendo producer Yoshiaki Koizumi wouldn’t say if the new project is for Wii U or 3DS while speaking with EDGE. He did mention, however:

“That’s still a secret! I can tell you, though, that we’ve already started approaching our next challenge.”

“There’s still a lot more room for discovery and invention, and we’ll continue to propose new and exciting game mechanics going into the future.”

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The Zelda and Pokemon Monopoly sets announced last month are apparently releasing a month earlier than expected. Southern Hobby Supply lists both products for release on August 21.

Southern Hobby Supply also has a listing up for a 550-piece Zelda puzzle. This will launch on August 15, according to the retailer.

You can find boxarts for all three products above.

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Note that Silicon Studio’s tech should eventually make its way to Wii U.

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This month’s digital rewards on Club Nintendo have gone live. Members can choose from Trajectile (3DS, 200 coins), Super Mario World (Wii U, 200 coins), Art Academy: First Semester (3DS, 200 coins), and Mario Golf (Wii/Wii U, 250 coins). These items last through May 11.

Visit this page to order a downloadable game.

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Nintendo has filed a new trademark with the USPTO. On April 2, the company picked up “Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Strike Team Eliminating the Alien Menace”.

That’s a pretty interesting name, to say the least. I wonder what it could be about…

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There’s a lot to like about the Game Boy Advance Virtual Console for Wii U. For instance, each game comes with the title’s original instruction manual. As shown above, this even includes old advertisements… like one for the Game Boy Player!

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German website Nintendo-Online has researched the development of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Bros. Here’s a summary of the site’s report passed along to us:

Super Mario Land:

– Development was handled by a team consisting of eight R&D1 members; noone from the Super Mario Bros. development team – not even Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto – was involved.
– The core development team – producer Gunpei Yokoi, director Satoru Okada and designer Hirofumi Matsuoka – had worked together with Intelligent Systems on Famicom Wars before Super Mario Land. Famicom Wars was released in August 1988. That means that development of Super Mario Land started around August 1988 and did take approximately six to nine months.
– Compared to Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, the development time was short. Also, the development team did not have experience developing a Mario game. These two points caused the game to be glitchy, short and a bit weird.
– Yokoi and Okada were also the main engineers working on the Game Boy. Super Mario Land might have started as a kind of intern tech demo.

Super Mario Bros.:

– It is often claimed that the development team of the original Super Mario Bros. consisted of the following six people: Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka (designers), Koji Kondo (composer) and Toshihiko Nakago, Kazuaki Morita and Yasunari Nishida (programming).
– While there are sources proving that Miyamoto, Tezuka, Kondo, Nakago and Morita were involved in the project (e.g. Iwata asks), there is now such proof for Nishida.
– The operator of the website Kyoto-Report.wikidot.com that deals with the history of Nintendo confirmed to us that Nishida was in fact not part of the development team.
– We believe that this misconception derives from a misinterpretation: The pseudonym “Yachan” which is listed as a programmer in the credits of The Legend of Zelda was interpreted as “Yasunari Nishida”, but in fact the Nintendo programmer Yasunari Soejima was behind that pseudonym.
– Because of that, the development team of Super Mario Bros. only consisted of five developers, and Yasunari Nishida was not one of them.

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