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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Donkey Kong Jungle Climber (DS) - Play Like Never Before

...Exploring new games with your PC is exciting. Especially when you have more advanced, sophisticated as well as familiar characters to add newness to your electronic gaming experience. Donkey Kong has returned! This Nintendo's brainchild is an all time favourite and still has a very good place among gamers. Alongside Mario and Pokemon, Donkey Kong is the most recognisable characters of this Japanese giant.

Donkey Kong Jungle Climber (DS) is back again for an amazing come back. This well-loved gorilla platform game. With more refreshing new ideas added, each new version of Donkey Kong generally comes with something full of vigour. Now the recent Donkey Kong Jungle Climber (DS) is also expected to come with full of exciting addition...more

Nintendo Wii Games

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The Nintendo Wii is a great games console. It is radically different from other game consoles available on the market. The games included with the Wii are excellent and introduce you to the Wii controller in a very appropriate manner. They all have the usual nintendo feel and stamp of family fun. The Wii remote and the Nunchuck controller feel a little different at first, but they are very intuitive to use because using body movements to play games is far easier than jus...more

Nintendo's Plumber Mario - A Short History of His Major Accomplishments

... story that the characters name was changed because of his similarity in appearance to nintendo of America acquaintance Mario Segale. Whatever route he took to his name, the Mario we see and love today is the same one from 1981, short overalled, Italian and mustachioed.

In 1983, Mario returned in his own adventure. After someone pointed out that he looked more like a plumber than a carpenter, his profession was accordingly changed and Mario as we know him today was born. luigi also made his first appearance here as Marios brother and rival in jumping dumping and taking out koopas, goombas, and other bad guys for maximum points. The original arcade Mario Bros. showed up in arcades hot off the heels of Donkey Kongs success, but didnt have quite the same success itself. It was in fact a stage in which video gaming itself was dying. Ataris home consoles were overpriced and not producing and the idea of arcade gaming was being segwayed in favor of these at home gaming attempts. Companies bankrupted and nothing was seen for almost 2 years as a result.

It was nintendo itself that would successfully breach the barrier between the arcade and the living room again, single handedly reviving the dying industry and saving video gaming as we know it.

With the launch of the Famicom in Japan in 1983, Nintendo executives decided that they needed a killer piece of software to sell consoles. They turned back to Miyamoto and his goofy plumber for a new start and he delivered. Released in 1985, Super Mario Bros. was a revolution in home gaming. It redefined the technology in home gaming at the time and created the mushroom Kingdom as we still know it. The goofy ideas that floated Donkey Kong and Mario Bros a few years before were released in earnest in Super Mario Bros and born was the mushroom chomping, pipe warping antics of Mario and his brother luigi. The invention of the platforming genre as well as the lengthy at home, sit down gamin console made Super Mario Bros one of the top selling games of all time, sending Japan and the US into Mario madness, creating an atmosphere willing to accept and support Nintendo no matter what. The video gaming age was not dead, it was just born. And Mario led the way.

Super Mario Bros 2 was born as a direct sequel to the first game with an entire new batch of levels, poison mushrooms and wind gusts. The game never saw release in the US though as ...more

Nintendo Releasing Highly Anticipated Titles for the Nintendo Wii Game Console

... adventures of Link, along with a strange creature named Midna, as they try and protect Hyrule from the encroaching of the Twilight Realm. The game utilizes a stylized form of art more like Ocarina of Time, but still retains a bit of the cel-shaded look of Wind Waker. Twilight princess features Link transforming into a wolf at times in the Twilight Realm, and combines these new elements of gameplay along with the new controller scheme of the Wii to provide in-depth interaction with the game, furthering the role-playing aspect of the game.

Metriod Prime 3 follows Samus yet again as she battles ...more

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