February 2009
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Preorder Rhythm Heaven for $24.99 →
Amazon has this great preorder deal for Rhythm Heaven (Rhythm Tengoku Gold), the revered rhythm title from the studio behind Nintendo’s WarioWare games.
If you manage to find something cheap to tack on and push your order total to $25 — like this tiny $0.69 flag — you can even get free shipping. Compare this discounted price to the exorbitant $35 GameStop is currently asking...
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“Starcrossed” from Scottish chiptune...
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Muramasa features kite ninjas, booty butt →
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Oboro Muramasa) looks more and more marvelous each time I see it. Ninjas flying over rooftops, attached to kites? Sign me up for that shit. Kite ninjas were the only reason I even bothered playing through Taito’s terrible Wrath of the Black Manta.
This Vanillaware title is slated to ship sometime in 2009, though I expect it will be late in the year, considering...
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Taito Happy Station's Space Invaders/Game Center... →
Taito is holding some kind of Space Invaders x Game Center CX at the Akihabara UDX event space on March 26, the Japanese release date of Space Invaders Extreme 2. The event will include (as far as I can tell) free-play Night Striker, Ninja Warriors, and Space Invaders CX machines, as well as Taito’s new games Hopping Road and Senor Nippon. Whatever the “No Thinking” game that...
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“Hacolife Theme”
See also: Tiny...
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WatchGrand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars trailer. Not bad!
Remember how I was bitching over the weekend that Rockstar employed some Ghostface Killah soundalike for its GameStop commercial? Well, it turns out that really is Wu-tang Clansmen Ghostface (a.k.a. Tony Starks), as pointed out by Tiny Cartridge reader Mr. Reader.
Hearing more of the song now, it’s not nearly as butt as I initially...
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Tiny Preview: Art Style: HacoLife (and DSiWare to...
DSiWare is enabling Nintendo to not only live up to the brilliant legacy left by bit Generations, but even surpass the acclaimed GBA series with its Art Style line.
Though Art Style titles have appeared on WiiWare, it’s on the DSi where Skip Ltd. reached for the stars and captured in its grip that same magic that compels those distant, fixed points of light in the sky to twinkle on clear...
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Twenty Famicom-to-NES adapters →
I’ve been idly pricing Famicoms and related stuff on eBay, trying to figure out how much of my (nonexistent) disposable income I’d have to lay out to play Japanese games. While browsing, I came across one of my favorite kinds of eBay auctions: the lot of multiples of one random item, in this case Famicom/adapters.
The seller is also offering single units and bundles of ten, but...
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Speculation: the new Nintendo DSi colors and...
Two weeks One week after unveiling an exclusive DSi color for North America, one that somewhat resembles the Dragon Quest Slime blue, Nintendo revealed three other exclusive colors for Japan. Right before either of those two announcements, Square Enix delayed Dragon Quest IX.
The original shipping date for DQIX in Japan, March 28th, is very close to the March 20th release for the Pink, Lime...
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Adventure game sequel, daily challenges revealed...
Accompanying Game Center CX 2’s release in Japan this week, publisher Namco Bandai revealed the last new game apprearing in its collection of “retro” titles — Kacho wa Meitantei (The Chief is a Great Detective) Part II, a sequel to the previously announced “Game Computer Floppy Drive System” adventure release.
With an RPG and now two full adventure games in...
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Cursor*10 2nd Session! →
Yay! Yoshio Ishii’s Cursor*10 is one of my favorite Flash games, and now there’s a sequel! It’s the same kind of time-loop gameplay as the previous game, but it seems just a bit more difficult.
I guess it’s appropriate that I keep making the same stupid mistake over and over in this game.
[Via Offworld]
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“Talking To Animals” by Swampyboy.
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Wrestle Game Challenge →
I haven’t seen The Wrestler, but I understand it’s a very sad movie about a washed-up pro wrestler. For me, though, it’s always going to be a very sad movie about the washed-up NES Pro Wrestling, thanks to the appearance of this lookalike game.
Surprisingly, motion graphics artist Kristyn Hume and programmer Randall Furino created a real game for the movie’s video game...
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That Was Then, This Is Now: Galactrix DS
Despite its nonexistent online features, less graphical flare, and possible touchscreen/interface issues, the DS edition of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix has a major advantage over the sci-fi puzzle/RPG’s other versions — portability.
With the handheld game releasing this week, I thought it might be interesting to compare what the game looks like now to screenshots from early 2007, when...
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WatchMeggy Jr. roguelike demonstrated.
I’ve meant to talk about the Meggy Jr. — Evil Mad Scientists’ fully programmable handheld console featuring an 8x8 RGB LED matrix display — for some time now, but it keeps slipping my mind.
Offworld, however, jogged my memory with this in-progress roguelike project from Darius Kazemi. It’s impressive how much he was able to...
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“…The difference, just like in real life, between a croissant and a Danish...”
– 5TH Cell’s Jeremiah Slaczka discussing item properties in Scribblenauts, in an interview I posted yesterday. I’m thrilled basically whenever I get to talk about this game, so I was suitably hella jazzed to get to talk to one of the dudes making it.
See also: Our interview with 5TH...
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“Zelda Medley” an Ocarina of Time and...
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“There was a lot of ad-libbing, and the thing that stands out in my mind the most...”
– Comedian Greg Proops, on his work with John “Bender Bending Rodriguez” DiMaggio as MadWorld’s announcers. I am a lot more interested in the game after reading this interview.
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More Art Style games, Nintendo-themed calculators... →
Nintendo announced this month’s round of downloadable titles for DSiWare! Two more Art Style titles from Skip! And Mr. Driller! The games won’t release until Wednesday next week, but you can check out some videos, screens, and descriptions below:
Art Style Series: Nalaku (500 Nintendo Points) - A puzzle game in which you climb onto and step over cubes to change their color as more...
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99DS (NSFW) →
The 99DS exhibit in Wellington, New Zealand brings together an unlikely combination of prints from local artists Christian Pearce and Greg Broadmore — 99 pieces featuring hot rods (Deadly Sleds), and 99 illustrations of nude women slipping on banana peels (Dodgy Slips).
The two collections share a common bond, though, as every image in both groups was created using Colors, a homebrew...
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“Overture” sample from...
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“What remains here, seventeen years after its first release, is a game...”
– — Simon Parkin in his review for Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride. As much as I want to pick up this remake today, I’m passing on the purchase to focus on some long put-off work; I also still need to finish Guadia Quest and a few books I’ve been meaning to read.
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“Will Smith Is A Great Actor, But...
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Cho Aniki concept art →
To promote the PSP release of Rei Cho Aniki, Famitsu put up a special page for the game — basically a big ad. It’s loaded with fairly amazing concept art for the new shooter, including the above excerpt. Where does one arrive at the kind of ‘concepts’ from which Cho Aniki bosses arise? I’m not just talking about the ‘manly’ component — I get the...
