Some of our more regular guests will remember that on this day last year we merged our three Nintendo sites, Virtual Console Reviews, WiiWare World and the original Nintendo Life together to form what we now call "Nintendo Life". To celebrate we hope you enjoyed some "classic" themes across those sections of the site today.
It's been a fantastic first year for us and that's largely thanks to the dedicated team of writers we've managed to assemble. Whilst both Virtual Console Reviews and WiiWare World were successful in their own right, we've seen a massive increase in traffic since the merger, over 7 million visits - although some may disagree, it's proven to have been the right move to make.
We're now looking forward to our second year as one of the leading independently owned Nintendo-centric websites and we hope you all stay along for the ride. We've got a whole heap of features (some of which we've been promising for a long time) that should be ready soon, we'll be increasing our output across all formats, reviewing even more games and attending more top industry events - for example, Nintendo Life will be live from Nintendo's Media Briefing at E3.
Whilst we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal staff who write for us in their own free time we'd also like to thank you for visiting and reading what we have to say - without you we wouldn't be here.
Thanks for your continued support - Happy Anniversary!
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Woohoo! Now lets celebrate with new features this year!
Has it only been a year?! Good lord, it seems a lot longer than that...
In a good way, of course! Love the site, it really has become one of the biggest Nintendo sites there is - one of the world's leading ones, no doubt.
A year already! Seemed like yesterday when I had to go on 2 different web sites to get all Wii Shop Channel news. Good Times.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!1!!!!!!!
Thank you guys for reviewing Wiiware games for us. This site has great writers and a awesome community. I'm just glad to be apart of it.
Thanks guys, we hope to grow even bigger this year and finally get around to doing some of things we've been promising. It's going to be a great year!
Except for the xboxps3 trolls and pseudo Nintendo fans that abound here, this is a great place for everything Nintendo related. Congratulations!
Been visiting since the site was Virtual Console Reviews. Thank you and Happy Anniversary!
Oh it has been a year hasn't it? I remember all the "lol... April Fools?" comments. Happy Birthday NintendoLife!
Happy anniversary Nintendo Life.
Congratulations from Germany
Happy Anniversary from the UK!
Wahoo! Can we has reader reviews? =)
Happy Anniversary! I'm glad to be a part of this huge community!
@pixelman, yep you must certainly can
1 Year of lovely people to game with all over the world and new friends to. Thank you Nintendo life and crew. You are the awesomeness! CONGRATS!!!
Congrats! I've only been here for 2 or 3 months, but have lurked since the merge. I can't wait to see the new features!
@pHaT-aNT_: Hooray! Any idea when they'll be up and running? =)
Congrats!!!!!
Hate to spoil the party, but the cake looks barely edible.
Happy anniversary, chaps. I didn't realize it was this time already.
Happy Anniversary!! I literally go on your site at least 4-6 times a day to see what's new! Every morning as well with a bowl of cereal! Keep up with the good news!!
Wait, so YOU'RE the ones who did away with the old Virtual Console Reviews page! Oh well, it created something new and awesome, so I won't complain, lol. Happy Anniversary!
Pats self on the back.
One year already! Can't believe it. I do miss WiiWare World but Nintendo Life still was a great decision. Here's looking forward to another year!
Congrats! You're a reference and always a pleasure to browse. =)
Happy Anniversary, NintendoLife...
@Ant: Can't wait to see what new features you have in store for us, and I definitely can't wait for NL's coverage from E3...
This is an fantastic site and remains one of my favorite Internet sites to date. Let's keep this awesomeness up.
Congrats for being the best downloads site out there!
It feels much longer than that since I have started coming here. I wouldn't mind doing some reader reviews either.
The best Nintendo site byfar! Great job guys.
I want cake.
Happy Birthday to the longest running April Fool's Joke!
Okay, we get it, you can split back into VC:R and WWW now...
...guys?
/jk
@Zane
Good times my friend, good times.
Well done guys. As a former member of staff I can safely say you are some of the best people I have ever worked with. Great site, keep it up.
Now I'm hungry for cake!
Wow! Time really does fly by so FAST! It really doesn't seem like it has been a whole year since the merger of the websites.
Mmmmmmmmmm cake.....
Oh, happy birthday as well Nintendo Life!!!!!
Heres to celebrating many more with you guys and gais.
The VC Reviews site layout was a nice nostalgic touch.
Happy One-Year Anniversary, NL!
isnt the real anniversary of NL on November 9th?
and hasnt it been 4 years?
THIS HAS ONLY BEEN AROUND FOR A YEAR?!
Dang I thought it was here for MUCH longer than that.
But whatever. Happy Birthday, NL!
Happy Anniversary Nintendo Life and congratulations on being the best darn site for everything Nintendo related on the internets!
Happy 1st anniversary, NL! I was here before NL merged with VCR and WW, and it has grown!
I used VCR and WWW for some time, it was the only place on the web that had reliable and well written reviews on each. The same can still be said for Nintendo Life, but now it's even better. You guys rock!
Happy Anniversary Nintendo Life!
You guys are the best, talking points, news, reviews just name it, you own it . And thanks for helping me invest my valuable "wii"points since fhe days of WWW and VC-R .
@aNt New features are coming?! YAHOO! , thanks for working so hard on the site.
i can't believe it's already been a year since the merger. time sure flies :3
Yes the merger has been the best IMHO! Happy Birthday!
Happy B and A Day
Great job on the great site and looking forward to another great year!
Wow, happy 1st Birthday to Nintendo Life! I love your website! This is best thing for me! Unlike Nintendo Power that don't have video files or not free, but Nintendo Life has better features, video, and it's free!
Way to go, Nintendo Life even I love your April Fool's Day! It's best AF's day.
Great to be a part of the community. Thanks for the awesome work you guys/gals do.
Yay! Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations guys, this really is a very valuable site. You are the sole source of info on many Wiiware titles in particular. If it wasn't for you, people would have no idea what a lot of the Wiiware titles are about. You've made a substantial impact on that service, and done a better job promoting it than Nintendo themselves.
Happy Birthday NintendoLife.
This is my favorite site because its filled with people who love video games (esspecially Nintendo) as much as I do!
May the site grow even bigger and better.
Yaay! This calls for a celebration!
the cake is a lie
It was a happy day when I discovered this site. I've been checking it multiple times every day since. It's by far the best source of Nintendo news and reviews on the net, and just as importantly, the community is great too. Happy anniversary.
Congratulations on having such a great site!
Huzzah huzzah!
Congrats!
I joined the site last summer to discover the old VC Reviews site which I had visited occasionally for a few times wasn't there anymore.
I really liked the site so I signed up.
Congrats Nintendolife!
Happy times.
Congrats guys.
This site rocks.
I'll be here forever. lol
Happy Birthday guys.
Happy Anniversary!
I found you just by looking for a Nintendo site on google, yours was one of the first I tried and I never looked back.
The coverage is just excellent, keep it up.
CONGRATS!! ! You guys running the best Nintendo site so far. Content, design, update, sense of humour - everything is great here! Thank You and Happy Anniversary!
happy anniversery!!!!!
Has it really been a year since VC-Reviews unfortunately got merged? Wow. Time really does fly.
I'm glad last year's April fools joke turned out to be true. Unlike this year's joke...
Happy Anniversary Nintendo Life! I really love this site, although I am very much a newbie compared to many of you guys. I visited VC-Reviews and WiiWare-World for a long time, but I did not actually join them as a user. I only joined Nlife as a user in Aug. 2009. Compared to many of you, I am really quite quiet here. I have work and study reasons for that, but I can't wait to be more actively involved in a few Nlife shenanigans, when I have more time. I find the Nlife community to not only be knowledgeable, but they are super-friendly with it.
I love the extent of its merged coverage, from the old to the modern, the crusty carts to the shiny discs. There is so much to learn about gaming here. It is Nintendo-tastic! The extent of the Wii, WiiWare, DS and DSiWare cover is brilliant. Plus, because of the links to Virtual Console and retro, it also covers my fave old systems like SNES, Mega Drive, Neo Geo AES, N64 and PC Engine.
If anyone knows me, it will be clear that retro gaming is my main thing and I treat Nlife as being part of my education. There are honestly not that many places that you could find a dedicated retro review analysis of the likes of: Earthbound (SNES), Densetsu no Stafi 3 (GBA), DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure (SNES), Ironclad (Neo Geo), Jack Bros (VB), Ordyne (PCE) and Space Manbow (MSX). Talk about awesome! Nlife is a history lesson for me.
Cheers lots, to everyone at Nintendo Life. Roll on E3 '10! I am grateful, lucky and privileged to have taken my own (admittedly extremely small) part in this great site. Congratulations.
Happy birthday, NintendoLife! Really can't accurately describe how awesome this place is, but I guess the previous 73 comments of nothing but praise probably got that message across
Here's to more years of excellent Nintendo journalism.
It was thanks to people linking to WiiWare World and VC Reviews in the EG forums that I found this place and in the early days of Wii ownership was the definitive place to do reasearch on what classic games I could get for my PAL Wii.
I never would have dreamed I'd end up writing here, much less being a site admin - it's definitely been a lot of fun!
Those changes ultimately made this site better. Happy 1 year of happiness!
Happy Belated Yearniversary, NintendoLife!
You're the best website of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love participating in this site's forums.
Happy Birthday, but the [Virtual Console Reviews] was better alone.
Happy Birthday Folks. Thanks your commitment!
congrats! the site has become one of my favs. keep up the great work!
Happy Anniversary!
Here's hoping that the site won't be filled with stupid Wii-haters from IGN.
Happy NL!
Happy Birthday! Splats a Chocolate cake into my face! I, Snaffy, wish you many years of sucess!
Notes: My dream is to make a sucessful cartoon, 'Gator Down Under.' Snaffy will often do crazy things!
This calls for celebration XD! Happy birthday NL!
This is a really great site. I have enjoyed the news, reviews, and community. Keep up the great work and I hope you guys have many more!!!
Now go get some inside information on the Nintendo 3DS. (just kidding)
Happy Anniversary, I love this site. The days of buying magazines are well over, keep up the good work
Happy Birthday, NL!!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Boy, that's a cool looking cake.
Yep, that cake is awesome, luigiman.
Only 90 comments so far. I would have thought a Article like this one would have gotten far more. Hmmm.. wonder if it has anything to do with the DSiware prank ........
Even though I dont comment things too often, I like the warm and "familiar" feel of this site. Keep it up
Keep up the fine work on this, the finest gaming website on the internet.
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