It’s right here. They missed some important ones, in my opinion… but it’s still a good article.
(no Videopac controller? Heresy!)
Archive for January, 2006
Source: Nintendorks.
The most amazing thing is that I can well believe it. In the 80s, they had the NES; later, with the GB, GBC, GBA and now the DS, they still sell more consoles than anyone else.
And they always make a profit, unlike Sony and MS, which usually sell their consoles below cost.
Jets’n'Guns is a shoot’em up. One of the best I’ve ever seen - I’d rather not say “the best” outright, but I sure can’t think of a better one right now.
It’s a mix between R-Type and Tyrian, being closer to the latter. Technically, it’s certainly the best I’ve seen, with fantastic graphics, sound, music (by Machinae Supremacy), and never slowing down in the slightest. It’s also extremely varied, with lots of different scenarios, levels, enemies, mission objectives, weapons, ship upgrades, and so on.
If you like shoot’em ups, you owe it to yourself to at least download the shareware version, from the official site. Me, I bought it in a second ($20), and I have zero regrets.
There will surely be one. But this time, it was just a rumor, it seems.
Source: Eurogamer
According to IGN, there are rumors that the Nintendo DS’s equivalent of the GBA SP in relation to the original GBA may be announced very soon - as in “this week”.
I don’t know if the “this week” part is true or not, but I predict that it will eventually happen - much like the SP, it won’t have more powerful hardware or anything, but it will be smaller, less heavy, and look better. I don’t know if they’ll change the screens’ size or not. And it may have a couple of extra features, though, again, there won’t be any “DS SP only” games - every single one will run on the original DS.
A rumble pack? I doubt it, since Metroid Pinball already includes one, which uses the GBA port (that port can be used for many things, other than GBA games, did you know?).
A better battery? It’s possible, although the original one is already very, very good.
IGN suggests stuff like image viewing and MP3 playing, to compete with the PSP, but I doubt that. It’s simply not Nintendo’s way.
Hmm, there surely have been a lot of “first impressions” recently… I really must get back to this blog’s original theme, “the games of my life”. I have a bunch of them in the queue, but with the new DS, then Christmas, then the New Year, I haven’t had any free time. 
Anyway, Konami’s Lost in Blue is a very unique experience. To put it simply: you end up on a deserted (so far, at least - I haven’t gone far in the game, yet) island, and you have to survive, and eventually escape. Of course, easier said than done, as you have to rest, eat, drink, take care of yourself, and those are certainly not easy. In fact, I bet that you’ll starve to death a lot, when first playing.
Eventually, you begin to get your bearings in the island, and learn some ways of improving your situation - for instance, it wasn’t until I used a stick and a sharpened rock to build a crude spear, to use for catching fish, that I stopped being almost starving all the time. Of course, the situation still isn’t great. Plus, on the second day a girl also washes up at the island - while she offers a few suggestions, and can cook (much of the food can’t be eaten raw), she also has quite poor eyesight, and has lost her glasses, so you have to take her by hand even just to go to the nearby river and let her drink some water. In short, you have to take care of her as well.
From the manual, I see that there are other things I can do, such as lay traps, or even hunt animals. But I haven’t done that yet.
Still, the game is quite intriguing. And it uses the DS’s capabilities well - for instance, you have to use the stylus to dig in the sand and look for clams, and to build a fire, after you use the L and R buttons to turn a stick around, you then have to blow into the microphone. It works better than it sounds, trust me.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to play it more, in the following days. But I got Nintendogs as a present, 2 days ago… and there’s still Mario 64, and Meteos, and Mario Kart, and Metroid Fusion, and Advance Wars, and… so many games, such little time. 
RSS feed
Recent Comments