Jasper

What in the name of god is Rapal Fishing Tournament? On the other hand, i don't care what it is - Fishing in Zelda will be fine for me. The Japanese Zelda boxart is prettier than the European or American if you ask me. Only the left-handed link is depicted, while in the game he should be right)handed. Mirror it, and it's okay, Nintendo. Mirror it.

All seven? I'de be throwing money out of the window (and let's hope it hits someone) - I suspect it to be more fun than actually playing through them all...

With NGC Magazine it happened, as far as I know, just three times, for Super Smash Bros. Melee, Luigi's Mansion and Wave Race - and those reviews were only because they became Player's Choice... And the scores went down a little bit. Although at the time, they did admit that they gave in to the launch hype and scored to high. As in 'Resident Evil 4 is better than Super Smash Bros. Melee, but Melee scores 97% - how can we honestly score Resident Evil 4 if it's not better than Ocarina of Time, wich scored 98%?' - Troubles in heaven...

Now you mention it, indeed. Bit funny that they're making you pay, huh. No? Not funny? Off course not, it makes business sense... Anyways, I think that's why they said you could use the GameCube controllers for it, too. However, users new to Wii will, one way, have to buy GameCube controllers, other ways three Wiimotes with Classic Attachment. Pretty Pricy stuff. Thank God I've got a GameCube...

After a while the game gets boring. The first Mario Party was great, so was the fourth (wich was the first on GameCube) and so will the eighth (being the first Wii party), but all the rest, well, they're just rehashes of the old game and never really inserted enough to be worth buying it for. If you never played four, however, playing five won't be the major problem, but don't bother buying six when you got five. One per console is enough to keep the most of us going, not?

That depends on how they program the game - but if I have to make a rough guess, it would be the Classic controller, because new gamers who just bought a Wii but never played or bought a GameCube can buy those controllers and use them with ease. I bet they'll opt for that, but maybe they'll throw in GameCube controller-use to.

I was right! No accounts for VC games, they're Wii-bound. Didn't know that Nintendo would provide service in case your Wii breaks... But anyway, looking good to be honest. Great service, great to not-so-great games... Let the retro love commence! Oh, and the article states we can't buy Japanese or American VC games, doesn't it?

Exactly, no hype, no game. Or something similair...

Jup, Game Pro Expo is a name that doesn't show professional. Everything with 'Pro' in it (and not 'professional') is not good as name. E3 sounded good, was simple and memorisable. Screw. Anyway, it can never get as big as E3 because E3 was carefully planned in the second quarter of the year so that developers could produce hype to their christmas products. Doubt it'll work if it's so close the the on-sale date - like we will have to see all new things launch apple-like (the day after it's announcement, that is).

That's why I've got NGamer. Never liked official :magazines, you're never sure if they're telling the thruth of not. With NGamer 720p would be the headliner ('W00000t 720p'). In ONM they call it a mistake. Yey.

I think releasing the Banjo games on Live Arcade makes much more sense than getting them released on Virtual Console; Xbox players are used to play Halo and games like Gears of War, but Banjo-Kazooie games are not known to them (mostly). So if they get the chance to check these incredible games out before Banjo-Threeie (admit it Rare, that's the title), it could boost sales for the game. Makes sense in a business-way.

It looks pretty! Second time Nintendo amazes me with a perfect box (micro being the first one) - and showing of that they can really finish of the details. The box is very apple-like. When I opened mt iBook I came to the same surprise as everything was in place. It's looking pretty hot, and the box itself is a pretty... God I love the designers at Nintendo. BTW, the DS Box was ugly in Europe (I got a japanese DS and that box was like seeing a gold piece evolve into an wedding ringà ...

Alttp has bein released on Game Boy, so I wouldn't hope for it. However, i'de like it myself since I never player it (all the other zelda were once touched by my hand, though). The VC line-up only misses some true Nintendo64 classics. The launch is great, because they promised '25 titles at GameCube European launch' - we got three. Now they're making up for it.

GameDailt (biz.gamedaily.com) has published a Nintendo statement that they probably won't meet the demand because it's so overwhelming. Retailers have being telling Nintendo they need more units. Factories are running overtime, apparently. Looking good!

If I paint something and sell it, than that person is not allowed to copy nit either. If I write something for a magazine and sell it to the magazine, the magazine can't publish it anywhere they want. The code is developed by rare, and is in that way property of Rare. Ever noticed the © Nintendo/Rare in the start screen? It means Rare has something to do with it. It's really the characters that are Nintendo's property. But I can be wrong, but I thought it was like I said. Prove me wrong. No really, prove me wrong, because I want to know now.

Is it? Is it? It is. Damn it. Well, you all know what I meant. Don't you? Don't .. you?

Yes, I meant rechargable. I found it sounding a bit strange, but I couldn't really point out what word it was. Where I come from loading is actually used for the charging your battery. Yes indeed, that is. It's dutch. As in 'I speak Dutch'. Anyway thanks for the comment on that and I've read the word like a bazillion times but just couldn't remember it at the time. Re-charg-a-ble - it's in my head from now on...

Donkey Kong is pretty much certain that it's possible, don't forget Nintendo brought the games to the Game Boy Advance, even though at the time Rare was already property of Microsoft. However, Rare gave permission for those, so if Microsoft denies permission, don't expect them... Nintendo owns rights to Donkey Kong as a franchise, not the games that were not developed by them.

Never thought the Megaton would be brought back, and for those who know that irony cannot be writen, I was being ironic. And off course, the same goes for those who don't know that irony can't be writen.

A WaveBird is a bliss, I can tell you. No cables stuck over the place (and no falling over them, either), no need for keeping within the three meters of your GameCube (and that's great if your GameCube and TV are three meters apart). I love the Wireless idea and I doubt anyone can denie it's a good idea if you're going to swing it and play it like a bavoon stuck in a briefcase. Okay, bad example. Anyway, AA batteries are all the same, no? Alkalines are not reloadable, not? And lithiums are the ones you can load again - but with little loss of power. I thought it was something like that, but don't shoot me if I'm wrong.

What's the purpose of talking about 'secrets' that Nintendo has yet to reveal (and let us guess about them), and we don't wait for Nintendo to reveal them and stop speculating. But. I'd like to know... Maybe it's the shop channel churning out more than just games - maybe, erm, music? videos? A collaboration with the Apple iTunes Music Store? A seperate channel for checking out your media (connect your SD filled with music and videos to the Wii and make it your Media Center!)? Oh, and a downloadable DVD Player (wich pays the license fee nicely, thank you). And here I went on speculating. Sigh.

Odd. Can't remember where I read it, but I was sure it worked this way because Nintendo doesn't work with accounts on the console as far as I know and only your Wii could validate your download. But who cares, my Wii won't be hit by a meteor and if it would be hit by one, chances are that I'm going down with it. But still...

I seriously love the apple white. The reason people are going for Apple White is to make the shape more visable, less then the color. The Black one will launch, just like every Nintendo console did in the past. As said before, it doesn't sound stupid to make one color because people can't chose that way and will probably go for a Wii rather thena Black Wii or a White Wii. I really do like the color and it's gone perfectly blend in with my sleek white iBook and iPod.

I do like the Wii interface, but it looks so gigantic to me. Anyone had the same feeling when Matt showed it off that it lacks 'details'? To me it felt like gigantic buttons (wich is obvious) lacking texture and true emboss. Have to see it with my own eyes and no internet between it to give the final opinion, though. And for those channels: each VC game appears as a channel, but you can delete and download them again. One thing, don't break your Wii because all your VC games will be lost and cannot be redownloaded (All payments are connected to your Wii Console, not your 'account). Why hasn't Nintendo gone for accounts + stars systems anyway? I liked the idea of using my worthless stars for something usefull...

Anti-aliasing is the fading of objects over enviromental colors. A good example: look at drop shadows of windows in operating systems. They fade into your background. Without anti-aliasing, he wouldn't make your background darker towards the win dow, he would make one line of black (check for old operation system to see that, wikipedia has good qstuff on old windows') Good article, though - but I don't think that anyone is able to say what will happen. And switching from buttons to flicks is a step in the good direction.