You might have an Amazon Kindle e-reader, but chances are you probably don't: all that reading is understandably off-putting. You know what might brighten it up? Some Mario, of course.
That was seemingly the thought process over at Klab, a Japanese company behind a NES emulator for Kindle. Although it's perhaps best not to consider the usefulness of such a programme, stomping Goombas whilst pretending to read Jane Austen has a certain appeal to it.
If Mario isn't your kind of thing, you may want to check out the rather good Tetris clone available for the Kindle too, which may be a good deal easier to control.
We're now hoping for a revamped Kindle with speakers and a proper D-Pad.
[source kotaku.com]
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Cool! I still don't want a kindle but at least it's not mario-less.
the refresh rates would be horrible..... but at least it wouldn't strain your eyes
Now, if only Nintendo could come up with it's own NES emulator for the DSi, they could sell this game to me.
wow looking at the movie that seems rather unplayable
I bought my girlfriend a kindle and that mario looks awful. PASS
Yeah, I think I'll go for a DS and some actual books please.
So let me get this straight; an NES emulator on a E-book?...did I miss something this past year?
Hey look! it's Mario on the moon.
Did anyone else notice Mario running through the first goomba...?
So now you assume video gamers hate reading, huh?!! James Newton, you are working my last nerve!!!
Hey, for the past year I've read Don Quixote at least once a week, without fail.
I'm around 52 pages in now.
The HUD is invisible and everything looks dark. I'd rather have an AceKard 2i with an NES emulator for my DSi, thanks.
I'd still rather read physical copies of book and have a better emulation of SMB, but I guess this is neat for those that have Kindle.
I like playing video games, and I like reading.
Is this legal?
I will make it, legal.
first person to catch the reference gets cake...
Apparently James Newton thinks we hate RPGs that lack character voices.
@BlueFlameBat - I don't think Prosody thinks we don't like reading, and I don't think Prosody thinks we dislike role-playing games without voice acting.
I like reading, and playing video games, and RPGs whether or not there is voice acting in them.
I like cake.
This is great for me, because i'm illiterate.
@ Token Girl: Hahaha... perfect!
This falls under the category of "brilliantly pointless, but inevitable" I have a Kindle, and some of the author portraits it shows while resting are very pretty, and nicely shaded in black and white. Probably still better for books, though...
I don't even know what a Kindle is
According to my Franklin dictionary, to "kindle" means:
1. to set on fire or to start burning
2. to stir up
Now I have a reason to buy a kindle! Yes!!!
Note to self: make more jokes about gamers hating reading in future. Include Sagat where possible.
Is that C++ XD? Fan Made or real?
Goomba = cheat code One major caveat with Kindle is that it is black/white only. The "electronic ink" system that Kindle employs presumably isn't available in color, or perhaps Amazon decided to cheap out. A gameboy emulator would have been much more fitting. I hearKindle's "ink" screen is much easier on the eyes than backlit LCD. But Apple's new iPad can do everything Kindle can do, plus a lot more, and it's in color. Not to mention, it's inherently difficult enough to play console games using a computer's keyboard, I believe the Kindle's shrunken keypad will render many games unplayable.
@BlueFlameBat - see? Prosody doesn't really think that we don't like to read, he's just joking about it. Lighten up.
I own a Kindle, and while it's the best possible thing ever for reading books and magazines, I wouldn't want to use it for anything else.
It's the Game Boy all over again!
What is with your avatar dragoon?
@WarriorCat - oh, ryan's avatar is currently that of Cosmo from The Fairly Oddparents in a confused state. I like it, though. I remember watching the show a bit several years ago.
EDIT: Well, it was. Now it's Hanataro from Bleach.
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