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In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

  
  Nintendo to launch a new hand-held device
Nintendo Co., which has been alluding for months to a secret video-game product in the works, last night identified it as a new hand-held device with two separate screens for game-playing.
Nintendo did not release an image of the new product, but it said that the dual screens will let a user view games from two different perspectives, such as an overview map and a close-up of a battle.
Nintendo has said it is also working on successors to the GameBoy Advance and the GameCube, which competes with Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 2.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/157413_nintendo21.html   (424 words)

  
 EGM Retro: 20 Years of NES from 1UP.com
Nintendo's decision to force third parties to license their games was actually a very prudent one, since unrestrained software was precisely what had killed the Atari 2600.
Nintendo's quarterly Fun Club News was so popular that after a few issues the company changed its free mailer's name to Nintendo Power and started charging kids for the privilege of reading shameless propaganda.
Nintendo's patent on the system's hardware has expired, leaving anyone free to churn out their own version of the machine.
www.1up.com /do/feature?cId=3144996   (1319 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Article: Nintendo Spaceworld 2001
Nintendo was in full force at this year's Spaceworld with huge announcements, some surprises, and of course, kick ass titles.
Nintendo held a pre-show press conference where they announced their Japanese plans for the GameCube.
Mario Sunshine (tentative title) is the sequel to Mario 64 that appeared on the Nintendo 64 at its launch.
archive.gamespy.com /articles/august01/spaceworld   (636 words)

  
 Press The Buttons: May 2005
Nintendo claimed at this year's pre-E3 press conference that they were wary of revealing their Revolution controller because they feared that the competition would steal their ideas.
Confirmed for the Nintendo DS and not the Sony PlayStation Portable (the initial press release was vague on which unit the game was headed towards), it appears that Majesco has gone for a cartoonish quality of visuals for this one.
Nintendo issued a press release this afternoon that confirms something that many people (myself included) had already thought was going to happen: the company will be wirelessly transmitting various game demos and video content to anyone who brings a Nintendo DS to the trade show and comes into range of one of Nintendo's transmitters.
www.pressthebuttons.com /2005/05/index.html   (10000 words)

  
 Nintendo City - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Well this is the system that started it all, not just for Nintendo, but for an entire business market.
Nintendo knew they would have to make the system better and cheaper than the others to make the system big.
Well the NES started it all, it made Nintendo known as an amazing system creator, and brought back the home video game industry, which many believed to be dead.
www.nintendocity.com /games/systems/nes.shtml   (480 words)

  
 Nintendo Comics System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was part of a licensing deal with Nintendo, featuring characters from their video games and the cartoons based on them.
One particular character created for the comics was Dirk Drain-Head, a comic book superhero favored by Mario and all of Bowser's minions, and disliked by most other characters.
The cancellation of the Nintendo Comics System was not the end of Nintendo comics in general, as Nintendo's characters would appear in several more comics in the coming years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nintendo_Comics_System   (618 words)

  
 IGN: E3 2004: The Nintendo DS: Revealed
The Nintendo DS is still the project name and is expected to have a new one as it gets closer to its release.
Nintendo has mentioned the possibility of linking the system in hotspots all over the world for connectivity with players thousands of miles away.
The system is currently on schedule for a late 2004 release in the US and Japan, followed by an early 2005 release in Europe.
gameboy.ign.com /articles/513/513188p1.html   (447 words)

  
 Q & A Potpourri
Bob Rozakis is a thirty-year veteran of the comic book industry, having spent the first twenty-five at DC Comics.
NINTENDO COMICS SYSTEM ran for nine issues between 1989 and 1991.
However, at the end of the first novel, TARZAN OF THE APES, he says in answer to the question of how he ended up in the jungle, “My mother was an Ape, and of course she couldn’t tell me much about it.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /bobro/102368738379223.htm   (1799 words)

  
 GameSpy: Nintendo's New Direction
Nintendo does not open the doors of its gleaming white Kyoto tower to the press very often, so when Nintendo Company Ltd. President Satoru Iwata agreed to meet with GameSpy last month, it was an invitation that could not be refused.
Game Boy Advance is the unrivalled leader in the portable market, but Nintendo will face a strong challenge in the form of the Sony PSP in 2005.
And the latest rumor is that Nintendo may not even launch another game console in the future.
www.gamespy.com /articles/505/505234p1.html   (573 words)

  
 AtariAge - Lynx History
Epyx first showed the system to industry insiders at the Winter CES in January of 1989, and the audience was impressed.
For $199, gamers received a deluxe package that consisted of the system, a carrying case, a ComLynx cable, an AC adaptor, and California Games.
Fans and collectors still play and discuss the system, and developers such as Songbird are releasing new games as well as completing unfinished games from Atari's past.
www.atariage.com /Lynx/index.html?SystemID=LYNX   (741 words)

  
 GameSpy: Nintendo's Revolution Is About to Begin
He spoke of what he believes had changed over the last 20 years of video-game creation and understanding, and concluded that the future can only be forged successfully through the combination of famous franchises, innovative and emotional response-inducing games.
During his speech, it became apparent that Nintendo's vision for the future relies on constantly innovating the design and creation process.
Shifting gears up a notch, Iwata proceeded to talk about the Nintendo DS and how its Wi-Fi capabilities are going to be real next big focus for the platform.
www.gamespy.com /articles/595/595032p1.html   (463 words)

  
 Metroid
The game was produced by Gunpei Yokoi, one of Nintendo's most famous game and hardware designers, and directed by Yoshio Sakamoto.
In addition, it has been noted as one of the first games to use a password system - the original game, released for Famicom/Famicom Disk System, allowed saving state on disk, but the American release was in NES cartridge form, and didn't implement battery backed memory.
The decision to use a password system was not made because the then current NES games were incapable of battery backed memory, The Legend of Zelda, released several months earlier in Japan, featured battery backed memory.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Metroid.php   (1834 words)

  
 eBay Guides - Video Game Systems Buying Guide
Nintendo, the originator of modern home video games, launched its first advanced game system, Nintendo GameCube, shortly after PS2 and Xbox entered the market.
Nintendo Revolution will also have a "virtual console" that allows users to download practically any Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo NES video game ever made, equaling thousands of video game titles.
But slightly older Nintendo Game Boy Advance (released 2001) and Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP (released 2003) are still more common and have a large selection of games available at reasonable prices.
pages.ebay.com /buy/guides/video-game-systems-buying-guide   (3364 words)

  
 Super Mario - Broken Controllers Wiiclopedia - An encyclopedia for video games
This surname theory has never been employed in official Nintendo games or media, however, and it is broadly accepted that Mario and Luigi are collectively called the Mario Bros. simply because Mario is the headliner of the pair.
Nintendo holds the copyright to Mario in many nations and retains these rights for its own use with few exceptions.
Nintendo of Japan produced a 60-minute anime feature starring Mario and his friends in 1986, although this film has never been released outside of Japan.
brokencontrollers.com /bcpedia/index.php?SuperMario   (3158 words)

  
 IGN Boards - What System will YOU Play MUA On?
Also, in defense of the PS3, the system has the tilt recognizing system that is supposed to be pretty cool.
I want a system that has some real greatness to it, not just another pile of crap Sony piles together, overprices, and tells everyone is the best because they're Sony and they say so.
The thing about Sony is, whenever you compare their system to the competition, their system isn't as good, but they try to make up for that in name recognition and quantity.
boards.ign.com /marvel_comics_games/b7683/129278889/p1   (1221 words)

  
 GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
Nintendo and Valiant Comics published several series of Mario and Nintendo-related comic books in 1990 and 1991, with titles like Adventures of the Super Mario Bros. and Nintendo Comics System.
The overall tone of the books was light humor, and the stories thankfully moved away from the traditional rescue-the-princess theme.
These portable games, designed by Gunpei Yokoi (who went on to design the Game Boy), were introduced in 1980 and were the first non-arcade games Nintendo created for the US market.
www.gamespot.com /features/vgs/universal/mario/6.html   (308 words)

  
 Chronicles Of Hyrule | Created by Air Grady | Layout by Spixxx
Many Legend of Zelda comics have been created over the years, you have the chance to download them and read them.
The comic was written and illustrated by one of Japan's most famous comic creators, Shotaro Ishinomori.
It was first published in the January issue of Nintendo Power in 1992, and it completed the comic into the December issue of 1992.
chronicles.zeldavortex.com /comics.php   (148 words)

  
 Nintendo Comics System
Many of the stories were semi-serious, with the exception of the Mario comics (which were generally meant to be funny).
Many of these comics contain a "Letters" section in the middle where readers wrote to the editors with story suggestions and upcoming game rumors (mostly about "Super Mario Bros. 4", AKA Super Mario World).
Many of these comics contain a mix of stories - they aren't totally separated by series as the heavy-stock comics are.
www.trsrockin.com /ncs.html   (1072 words)

  
 Zelda Legends - Other Material - Comics/Manga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This comic book series is set after the events of "The Legend of Zelda" and "The Adventure of Link." Ganon is once again alive, has stolen the Triforce of Power, and still schemes to steal the other pieces of the Triforce and rule Hyrule.
This comic was written and illustrated by Shotaro Isinomori, one of Japan's most famous comic book creators.
This comic was published in a special edition of the European "Club Nintendo" magazine.
www.zeldalegends.com /index.php?n=manga   (1028 words)

  
 TheForce.Net - Comics - Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Scoundrel's Wages
He meets with the resident crime lord on the third moon of Blimph, a Hutt named Quaffug who is an old acquaintance of Lando's and happens to want revenge for what he lost at Sabacc 12 years ago.
They are e-mailed to Dark Horse Comics and archived on theForce.net.
With the exception of Dark Horse Comics Inc, they may not be reprinted without permission.
www.theforce.net /comics/darkhorse/cp_bh2.asp   (454 words)

  
 Go Nintendo » Blog Archive » Super Mario Adventures- What are you waiting for?
This entry was posted on Saturday, July 8th, 2006 at 2:46 pm and is filed under News by RMC, Nintendo in general, Off-beat news.
these were also in nintendo power, but not sure as to whether they appeared in nintendo power first or as seperate comics first.
also, the comics with mario land and captain N and stuff i belive were called the “nintendo comics system”, i have some of those as well if you want me to scan them to see if you have different ones or not
gonintendo.com /?p=3581   (661 words)

  
 Mario comics
Some were published by Nintendo Power Magazine, but they were published mainly by Valiant, now Acclaim Comics.
Nintendo Comics System Featuring Game Boy Vol.1, Feb. No.
Nintendo Comics System Featuring Game Boy Vol.1, Mar. No.
www.smbhq.com /comics.htm   (482 words)

  
 IGN: Nintendo Boasts of Strong DS Sales
When Nintendo last spoke of Japanese DS sales, 2005 was coming to a close and the system had just reached the five million sold mark faster than any system before it.
Nintendo's Eigo Zuke English training software has shipped 570,000 units, but Nintendo has received orders for 920,000 units.
Nintendo's heavily marketing Jump crossover fighter has shipped 540,000 units since its release in August of last year.
ds.ign.com /articles/688/688914p1.html   (506 words)

  
 onNintendo.com
It now looks like Nintendo is planning their attack, starting with the DS and later the Wii.
Nintendo has taken the industry in a new direction, many Nintendo fans from the past have come back to join the revolution, and of course all of us are embracing the change as well.
Nintendo fans are no longer viable consumers for those companies, and the newcomers will know little of Sony and Microsoft in the gaming world.
www.onnintendo.com   (1686 words)

  
 The Desert Colossus
These comics were first published way back in 1990 as part of the Nintendo Comics System series.
The storyline of these comics occur after the events of Legend of Zelda and Adventure of Link whence Ganon has resurfaced in possession of the Triforce of Power and plots to capture the remaining two.
These comics were generously provided by Legends of Zelda so that we can offer them as downloads below.
www.desertcolossus.com /main.php?page=valiant   (135 words)

  
 ComicsPriceGuide.com - Who has the biggest Valiant Collection?
I have most of the pre-hero Valiant comics, but I am missing some of the $1.50 reprint Nintendo stuff.
I'm missing the Nintendo Action books or whatever they were called.
When the program was discontinued, there is an indication that some of the embossing tools might not have made it to the trash can.
www.comicspriceguide.com /forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15238   (2447 words)

  
 Nintendo Adventure Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are formatted like the popular Choose Your Own Adventure books, where the reader makes decisions that change the outcome of the story.
Ten of the books are about the Mario Bros. ' adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom and are based primarily off of Valiant's comic books published for the Nintendo Comics System.
There is an inventory system where the player collects items to solve puzzles (shown in a collage of pictures on the last page of the book), and scoring system where the player can judge how well they did on a scale at the end of the book.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nintendo_Adventure_Books   (219 words)

  
 I-Mockery.com | Nintendo - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Not only did you get the classic Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and Gyromite, but you also got the Zapper gun and ROB the Robot.
And the styrofoam this system came with was nothing to laugh at either.
Styrofoam aside, the system really was the most important thing in life when it came out, and I'll be covering both the Zapper gun and ROB the Robot later on in this piece.
www.i-mockery.com /minimocks/nes/default.php   (450 words)

  
 Hylian Help Desk
The Valiant comics are from the early 90's and were published with the "Nintendo Comics System" series.
This comic came out in 1992 in Nintendo Power.
The Nintendo Adventure Books were make your own quest books featuring Nintendo characters.
hylianhd.rpgplanet.gamespy.com /comics.php   (69 words)

  
 Nintendo GamingWorld X - The Latest GameCube and GameBoy Advance Coverage
2/11/2004 Nintendo Sells Over 20 Million GBAs in U.S. Nintendo proves with numbers that their portable system is as popular as ever.
The reassuring Nintendo denies reports that the successor to the GameCube has been delayed.
Nintendo could tell you, in more ways than one, that size doesn't matter.
www.gamingworldx.com /gcn/index.shtml   (268 words)

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