Famicom creator looks back on the console
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Famitsu has a significant feature on the Famicom this week. With the system reaching its 30th anniversary in just few days, the publication spoke with Masayuki Uemura, head of the original hardware staff. For his thoughts on the Famicom, read on below.
Miyamoto on Super Mario 3D World, Wii U’s recent system update, teases new franchise
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Shigeru Miyamoto spoke with Famitsu this week and provided some commentary on Super Mario 3D World. Among the items discussed is the game’s multiplayer. Miyamoto hopes that with the new game, the team can deliver “something where everyone can have fun competing against with each other”.
“With 3D World, we’re aiming for something where everyone can have fun competing against with each other, not just in co-op. If it was a straight competition, it’d be hard to tell characters apart from one other, so with this project we introduced different abilities for each character, letting you play in different ways.”
[Famicompendium] Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan – My cheers are burning red!
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I hope you all like anime cheerleaders and J-pop, because this week I’m taking a look back at a pair (or is it a trio?) of quirky rhythm games produced by iNiS that are up there as personally my favourite games on the Nintendo DS. As a development team that takes a clear musical direction with each of their games (iNiS itself stands for Infinite Noise of the Inner Soul), they understand how to create a perfect blend of personality and compelling gameplay unlike anything else out there. Case in point: their 2005, Nintendo-published title – Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (“Yeah! Fight! Cheer Squad”, if you were wondering why nobody ever translates its name) In an interview with 1UP, the game’s director Keiichi Yano stated that iNiS’s philosophy was to create games with “passion” – both in terms of the act of making the games and the actual content. Rather than making games as pure entertainment, he wants to create experiences that “make people feel good”. None of their games exemplify this approach quite as well as Ouendan because, really, who can express and incite passion quite like a good cheer squad?
Scan shows Meena in Dragon Quest X
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Nintendo to integrate departments as more games release around the world simultaneously
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A new report from Japanese publication Nikkei states that Nintendo will be integrating its Japanese and foreign sales department. The two divisions, which contain 150 and 70 staffers respectively, is being done because more titles are starting to be released simultaneously worldwide. Previously, games made their debuts in japan.
Analyst David Gibson relayed the news from Nikkei through Twitter today:
Nintendo -Nikkei reports it will integrate Japanese (150 people) and foreign sales departments (70+) to stop overlap http://t.co/BLWuqebuFH
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) July 10, 2013
Nikkei story also says its because of "more games being released simultaneously worldwide instead of debuting domestically"- region free?
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) July 10, 2013
Japanese Wii U VC trailers (7/10/13)
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Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. hitting the Japanese Wii U VC next week
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A pair of Donkey Kong games will be making their way to the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console next week. Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. will both be going live on the eShop on July 17. Pricing for both games is set at 500 yen. Donkey Kong will initially carry a special 30 yen price as part of the Wii U Virtual Console Trial Campaign.
