Video game article dump thread

[flojocabron]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/m ... interview/

According to Wired magazine, it looks like Mr. Miyamoto is going to focus on other properties and relax on future major projects for Nintendo?

My question is will this affect the quality of Wii U and 3DS first party titles?

[flojocabron]

here's another strange controller article!

http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/12/th ... ers#page/1

Do any of you guys here have these things? I have the Steel Battalion kit and the finger DDR pad.

[Hobie-wan]

http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/12/th ... ers#page/1

That was an incredibly lame article. They basically just typed "weird controller" into GIS and posted 20 of them or something. It isn't that hard to find out that the one is a Famicom pachinko controller and the N64 Super Pad? Best replacement for a N64 controller I've used. Real potentiometer analog and no hand shuffle to switch analog to D-pad.

[flojocabron]

Heres a better article from the one I posted before, its on the history of Space War and Nolan Bushnell.

http://technologizer.com/2011/12/11/com ... ideo-game/

[flojocabron]

one more for the fans of failed systems.

press the buttons has an article that links to 1up that talks about some of our fave failed systems of the late 80's and 90's.

http://www.pressthebuttons.com/2011/12/ ... stems.html

Its an article that can generate lots of talk here about where the specific system went wrong. Whether lack of mascot, support or failed timing.

go ahead and have a read

[o.pwuaioc]

You really end up feeling sorry for NEC, Atari, and Sega for what could have been and laughing at Nintendo through that article. Of all the "failed systems", I would really have liked to see Saturn and Dreamcast succeed, but I wouldn't ever want a Virtual Boy, not even for the nostalgia factor (I had one back the day).

[Hobie-wan]

This is um, related because people might be buying games there. Yeah, that's it.

Man, I stopped there the other weekend and it was pretty nutty, but damn. Open until Christmas!

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/19/pf/holi ... d=HP_River

[noiseredux]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/28/edito ... the-world/

[flojocabron]

the rarest(?) dreamcast you'll probably never own

http://www.gamesniped.com/2012/01/03/se ... 2000-cx-1/

http://youtu.be/r_8rVJ1Qz8o

http://driph.com/words/2009/09/divers-2 ... dreamcast/

[flojocabron]

dont know if any of you still check this thread?

but heres another article.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/01/06/ni ... e-spinoff/

fatal frame for the 3DS!

do you guys think it will reach our western shores?