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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 1 Comment

Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! was shown on the latest episode of Denjin Getcha. Take a look at the full recording below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

Stephen Radosh produced the Mario and Zelda games for the Philips CD-i. But before that, one position he had was at SEGA.

Radosh was involved with working on arcade cabinets. One that never released was actually for a Nintendo character – specifically Donkey Kong. This would have been a title in which players controlled Donkey Kong as a parking attendant.

Radosh told Game Informer:

“Somehow Sega had gotten the rights to Donkey Kong. You were dodging cars that were pulling in and out of the lot, and you had to get X number of cars parked in spaces.”

What happened to that project, might you ask? When it was in development and Radosh was working at SEGA, the company (owned by Paramount at the time) was sold back to Japan.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Switch | 4 Comments

A few new Dragon Quest XI details have emerged from NHK’s Dragon Quest 30th anniversary special program.

First, camping is in the game. One image shown from the PlayStation 4 version is of a “Camp Menu”. Here players can rest (heals HP and MP), do “mysterious smithing,” pray to the statue of the goddess, and patrol the area.

On another screen which asks the player what they want to create, the following options are shown:

Copper Sword (Seidou no Tsurugi)
Iron Sword (Tetsu no Tsurugi)
Silver Rapier (Zan no Rapier)
Zombie Killer
Platinum Sword
Zombie Buster
Magic Swordsman Rapier (Makenshi no Rapier)
Fire Sword (Honoo no Tsurugi)
Metal Slime Sword (Metasura no Tsurugi)
Miracle Sword Modified (Kiseki no Tsurugi Kai)
Hayabusa Sword Modified (Hayabusa no Tsurugi Kai)
Inferno Sword

As Gematsu points out, each item in the smithing menu has a list of required items to create that item, a description, and difficulty level.

NHK’s program also showed that players will be able to ride dragons in Dragon Quest XI.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

During NHK’s Dragon Quest 30th anniversary special program, some footage of Dragon Quest XI footage. We get a brief look at the 3DS version as well as the PS4 (and possibly Switch) release. Watch the clip below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

After recently revealing plans for a Meta Ridley figure, First 4 Figures has pulled back the curtains on another Nintendo item. At some point in 2017, a new Bowser figure will be released.

Just like with Meta Ridley, we only have a single teaser image to look at, which is attached above. We’ll hopefully have more images and an actual release date at the start of 2017.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Switch | 91 Comments

After spilling the beans on Ubisoft’s apparent plans to bring the next Assassin’s Creed to Switch earlier this week, YouTube user OBE1plays spoke with reliable leaker Laura Kate Dale during a stream yesterday. Dale was more than willing to answer questions about the system. Here’s a roundup of information shared, as collected by Nintendo Life:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 17 Comments

We found out this past summer that the servers for Devil’s Third would be taken offline. That day has finally come. If you try playing the game online, you’ll be greeted with the message above. It was fun while it lasted I suppose!

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

This month’s issue of Retro Gamer features an interview with Satoru Okada, a former designer at Nintendo. Okada worked at the company for about 40 years, and was directly involved with the creation of various hardware.

Some excerpts from the interview are now available. Below, you can read excerpts from Okada about the Game & Watch, Game Boy, and DS. You might be surprised to learn that late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata wasn’t initially interested in the idea for dual screens…

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, New Nintendo 3DS, News, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Virtual Console

Mario Kart 64 – $9.99

New 3DS Virtual Console

Castlevania Dracula X – $7.99

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Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

A new Fire Emblem CD featuring music from the series is coming to Japan. Called “Fire Emblem Music Collection: Piano – Faith & Engagement -“, the CD will feature, as the name suggests, piano rearrangements of various tracks from the whole Fire Emblem series. All of these arrangements were performed and composed by KEIKO.

Below is the track list of the CD, including which game the track originated from:

1. Battle Map 1 – Player Attack Phase (FE: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light)
2. The Path to You (FE: Fates)
3. Distant Utopia (FE: The Binding Blade)
4. Victory is Near (FE: Path of Radiance)
5. World Map – Chapter 3 (Liberation Battle – Each Road) (FE: Gaiden)
6. Encounter (FE: Gaiden)
7. Father’s Back (FE: Path of Radiance)
8. Seliph’s Theme / Thoughts Going Around (FE: Genealogy of the Holy War)
9. Leif’s Army, In Search of Victory – Leif (FE: Thracia 766)
10. Id (Serenity) (FE: Awakening)
11. Legend of the Divine Dragon (A) (FE: Mystery of the Emblem)
12. Child of Chaos (FE: Radiant Dawn)
13. Don’t Speak her Name! (FE: Awakening)
14. Alight (FE: Fates)
15. Ascent (FE: Radiant Dawn)
16. Lost in Thoughts All Alone (FE: Fates)

The album will be released on February 22nd for the price of 3200 Yen.

Additionally, two live performances of the CD will be held on March 12th at the Science Museum Science Hall in Tokyo.

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