Satoru Shibata celebrates his birthday with a Mario Kart 8 competition
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Random, Wii U | 5 Comments
Happy birthday, Satoru Shibata! Shibata, the president of Nintendo of Europe, celebrated his big day yesterday. And he did so in style… by participating in a competition.
Mr Shibata's birthday was yesterday. To celebrate Nintendo staff just had a #MK8 competition with him. See the video: http://t.co/5nvjPIjaQ1
— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) September 5, 2014
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Nintendo wanted Danny DeVito to star in the Super Mario Bros. film
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Random | 5 Comments
Bob Hoskins played Mario in the notorious Super Mario Bros. film from 1993. However, it sounds like Nintendo was originally seeking Danny DeVito for the role.
Take a look at this article from January 1991, which was shared by Console Wars author Blake J. Harris:
It's Always Sunny in the Mushroom Kingdom! (AP article from January, 1991) pic.twitter.com/vh6MfSCL1n
— blake j. harris (@blakejharrisNYC) September 2, 2014
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Video: Girl beats her first Zelda game, cries tears of joy
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 11 Comments
How adorable is this?!
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Video: Mario Kart 8 with Raspberry Pie makes for neat ambient light effects
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Random, Videos, Wii U | 2 Comments
This seems like a neat little thing. One gamer made use of Raspberry Pie tech so that ambient lights illuminating from behind the TV correspond to the colors from the game. You can find a couple of tutorial videos on putting the whole thing together here and here.
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Video: Super Mario 64’s “impossible coin” finally collected
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 7 Comments
Have you ever heard about Super Mario 64’s “impossible coin”? It can be found on Tiny-Huge Island, and has been said that no one can obtain it.
But after 18 years, someone has managed to finally collect the coin – thanks to a tool-assisted run. Check out the results in the video above.
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Video: Kids react to Game Boy
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 13 Comments
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Video: Froot Loops commercial features Super Mario Bros.
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 4 Comments
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Shovel Knight cheat codes include “Butt Mode”
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Random, Wii U eShop | 6 Comments
Shovel Knight has a wholeeeee lot of cheats. One of these, the “Butt Mode”, might just be the most humorous one yet.
By entering “WSWWAEAW” as your name when starting Shovel Knight, mentions for various reoccurring words such as Shovel, Knight, Health, and Magic are replaced with the word “Butt”. Lovely, isn’t it?
You can find more cheat codes here.
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Video: Super Smash Bros. meets the world of WWE
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Random, Videos | 2 Comments
This is just too humorous not to share with you all: