@RainbowGazelle @ULTRA-64 I say computer games too and I'm English also. Maybe the name video games comes from America because I don't think I've ever heard an American say computer games. It would be an interesting piece of trivia to know! I loooooove trivia, there's nothing like a bit of useless information to make life more interesting I say.
I'm also terribly sad to hear this. He was and is one of my favourite actors, I only watched Mrs. Doubtfire recently, such a classic! I'll have a look at Zelda's fundraiser that you mentioned, I would be more than happy to donate to both support a great cause and to honour her fantastic father
@antdickens @ThomasBW84 Hope you had fun and got a good amount of time on the games!
If one of you happen to see this, could you tell me whether they have air conditioning there? I'm hoping to go to the event either tomorrow or Sunday but I'm in the odd predicament where my parents will only take me if there's air con! (Yeah it's really that critical to them haha)
@Damo Oh I see, I know about them being famously secretive, but I didn't realise that photos of them are that scarce! Speaking of Free Radical, do you know if any of the Free Radical guys are still there at Crytek UK out of interest?
@b_willers It's 02 under the logo so that picture must have been taken when Rare were bought by Microsoft in 2002.
@ecco6t9 Wouldn't it be great if all the old Rare talent now joins this company and they team up with Nintendo to buy back Rare, therefore kicking all the Microsoft riff raff out of the Rare headquarters and moving back in to make brilliant games again and live happily ever after! Ahh, a wonderful thing that would be, just like a gaming fairytale hehe.
@midnafanboy Don't worry, be pleased cos you've just learned about the importance of one of the most legendary development studios ever, I seriously recommend you read about their story and general brilliantness! You can stop when you get to the Microsoft part though, that's when it gets sad, basically Microsoft forcibly bought Rare and destroyed them, but while they were with Nintendo they were wonderful so check them out.
@ThomasBW84 Are there any pictures of the Stamper Bros during the Nintendo era you could use in the article instead? Seeing them next to the Xbox logo brings back bad memories and makes me cry inside
Wow exciting news, great to see that his son (presumably) is taking after his Dad, it's just a shame that they're making games for pooey mobile phones instead of real consoles. Although hopefully it's just a temporary thing to get going and then they'll make games for consoles.
@randomous No need to apologise, your skills were a lot of fun to try and compete with! Thanks for the info, I could see my pipe frame and normal wheels were a lot slower than your setup (racing drivers excuses haha) but I love the original style karts so I always choose them!
Finished! 370 points puts me in 7th at the moment, so close to beating my pal @Bulbousaur for the title of best non American lol.
@randomous Hello you must be CJ! Thanks for the compliment but you were unbeatable, you're absolutely brilliant! What bike and tyres were you using with Iggy by the way?
Wow that last guy was a misery! In case you haven't noticed, you're a shareholder of a games company, of course everybody's gonna talk about games!! As for what he said about Iwata, if only he had been there to bust out his Super Smash Bros moves from E3 on him!
@ULTRA-64 Gosh that's a shocking story, so the GAME staff actually told a potential customer that the Wii U had been discontinued!? GAME's treatment of Nintendo is despicable, it's like they're trying to sabotage the Wii U, what did Nintendo ever do to them?
@Peach64 Like @Grumblevolcano said, the New Super Mario Bros U + New Super Luigi U Premium Pack is perfect for going with this deal, 4 great games and a Wii U at the best possible price!
@Pinemeowth Sorry I didn't mean to direct that first line of my post to you, I must have accidentally clicked the reply button on your post somehow. Darn touch screen accidental clicks!
@Pinemeowth This is a rather exciting find for that guy, what a cool thing to own!
@Zombie_Barioth and @FragRed I've never heard of the PS2 being difficult to develop for, for some reason I was always under the impression that it's easy but I know the PS3 is complicated to work with.
Anyway something I do know is that N64 DD disks are 64MB, and N64 cartridges come in several sizes. For example Super Mario 64 is a 64Mbit (8MB) cartridge, quite a lot of games are 128Mbit, and then the big size cartridge is 256Mbit (so 32MB). Ocarina Of Time was the first 256Mbit game, making it the biggest ever cart at the time of release and 4 times the size of Super Mario 64!
Later on in the N64's life however, the cost of making cartridges came down enough for a whopping (for a cartridge at the time) 512Mbit (64MB) to be possible, and that's what Resident Evil 2 and Conker's Bad Fur Day are. It did mean of course that the memory advantage offered by DD disks no longer mattered because a cart the same size as the disks was now possible.
Happy Birthday to one of the best consoles ever!!! My Nintendo 64 was the first console I ever had bought brand new for me, I love it to bits! The N64 really is a golden era for me
@FragRed What a bargain!
@GuSolarFlare Nice I wish I still had the TV my N64 was first set up on.
@dinosauryoshi My Dad and I have had the best of times playing Mario Kart 64 too!
@FalconPunch You have to get one you owe it to yourself as a Nintendo fan!
@DarthPraxis That's a cracking bit of kit as Jason Plato (English racing driver) would say! Maybe you could sell your design to Sega or Namco for their arcade machines haha, I also love the carbon fibre effect on the steering column, nice touch!
@Blue-Thunder Legend has it that the clip on the Classic Controller is for a Rumble Pak that was going to be released for it, which sadly never came to be...
@Grumblevolcano #116 Nice! I was still playing Mario Kart an hour after the shut down, but stupidly I thought the fact it was still working meant that it hadn't been shut off yet so I quit the game to switch to Smash Bros and then of course I was stuffed! So were there still lots of people playing when you got disconnected just now?
@Bulbousaur and @Blue-Thunder I just had the idea to go on Nintendo's Japanese website to see if that had the exact details and great news, it does! Even better news though it that the Wi-Fi doesn't go off until on the 20th itself so we still have tomorrow to play!
We don't have all of tomorrow though, it states that it goes off at 23:00 which converted to England time is 3PM so bear that in mind.
What a brilliant idea, I'm looking forward to this!!! I own every Mario Kart too (which I'm very proud of!) so it'll be really fun to watch you chaps play 7 games I love back to back!
How sad, 71 is far too young for anybody to go. He was a very talanted actor so at least he'll never be forgotten and will continue to entertain forever.
@Gobelee Yeah Hook he was the perfect Smee!
@AlexSora89 Haha quite right, what more do you need to do?
@Bulbousaur Apart from the Character selection I thought everything was spectacular, what did you find disappointing? One thing I'm sure we can all agree on, it looks absolutely gorgeous!
@bagszi O right I see, I stupidly just assumed that you were from England as well, apologies if I came across a bit rude. That sounds like a bizarre situation for Hungarian Nintendo players, so if you go into a games shop in Hungary, are all the Nintendo consoles and games UK versions?
@bagszi Why do you want to do that? Stones and pounds are where it's at! It always gets on my nerves when we have to have kph in racing games instead of mph because of the rest of Europe. Darn foreigners trying to force their metric system on us lol.
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Re: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Coming To Blu-ray In The UK This November
Brilliant I can ask for it for Christmas! He he
@antdickens This film gets everything wrong so don't be surprised!
@Phle Yep you're bang on
Re: Video: This is a Video Game
@RainbowGazelle @ULTRA-64 I say computer games too and I'm English also. Maybe the name video games comes from America because I don't think I've ever heard an American say computer games. It would be an interesting piece of trivia to know! I loooooove trivia, there's nothing like a bit of useless information to make life more interesting I say.
Re: Video: Turns Out Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan Isn't Very Good At GoldenEye 007
This is so enormously cool!
Re: The Virtual Boy is 19 Years Old, Probably Hasn't Received a Celebratory Cake
Happy Birthday Virtual Boy! I love mine and it's never hurt my eyes!
Re: The Hyrule Warriors Artbook Catches The Eye With 'Female Link'
That is a nice design, we'll have to see what that says to know whether it's meant to be a girl Link I suppose!
@Azooooz Oh really? Do you speak/read Japanese?
Re: Skylanders Trap Team Tablet Starter Pack Poses a Fresh Challenge to Consoles
Err yuck (not the most detailed comment, but exactly what I think!)
Re: Legendary Actor and Comedian Robin Williams Has Died at 63
I'm also terribly sad to hear this. He was and is one of my favourite actors, I only watched Mrs. Doubtfire recently, such a classic! I'll have a look at Zelda's fundraiser that you mentioned, I would be more than happy to donate to both support a great cause and to honour her fantastic father
Re: Weirdness: A Resident Evil TV Show Has Been Proposed
It's so crazy it might work!
Re: Video: Hyperkin RetroN 5 Review - King Of The Clone Consoles?
@WiiULoveSquid That's how Sean Connery says it
Re: Play & Win: Join the UK Mario Kart 8 Tournament Rematch - Today!
Let's a go! Good luck to everybody
Re: Live: Nintendo Life Plays Mario Kart 8 on Twitch
@antdickens @ThomasBW84 Thanks for the races, that was great getting to race with you both!
Re: Live: Nintendo Life Plays Mario Kart 8 on Twitch
Hi guys having fun racing with you! I just got a communication error but should be back next race
Re: Events: If You're Attending Hyper Japan 2014, Don't Forget To Say Hello
@antdickens Thanks for the reply Anthony, much appreciated!
Re: Events: If You're Attending Hyper Japan 2014, Don't Forget To Say Hello
@antdickens @ThomasBW84 Hope you had fun and got a good amount of time on the games!
If one of you happen to see this, could you tell me whether they have air conditioning there? I'm hoping to go to the event either tomorrow or Sunday but I'm in the odd predicament where my parents will only take me if there's air con! (Yeah it's really that critical to them haha)
Thanks very much!
Re: Video: This Cool Slow-Mo Mario Kart 8 Japanese TV Advert Even Features Luigi's Death Stare
You raise me UUUUUUUUUUP!
It reminded me of that song
Re: Rare Co-Founder Tim Stamper Is Back In The Games Industry
@Damo Oh I see, I know about them being famously secretive, but I didn't realise that photos of them are that scarce! Speaking of Free Radical, do you know if any of the Free Radical guys are still there at Crytek UK out of interest?
Re: Rare Co-Founder Tim Stamper Is Back In The Games Industry
@b_willers It's 02 under the logo so that picture must have been taken when Rare were bought by Microsoft in 2002.
@ecco6t9 Wouldn't it be great if all the old Rare talent now joins this company and they team up with Nintendo to buy back Rare, therefore kicking all the Microsoft riff raff out of the Rare headquarters and moving back in to make brilliant games again and live happily ever after! Ahh, a wonderful thing that would be, just like a gaming fairytale hehe.
Re: Rare Co-Founder Tim Stamper Is Back In The Games Industry
@midnafanboy Don't worry, be pleased cos you've just learned about the importance of one of the most legendary development studios ever, I seriously recommend you read about their story and general brilliantness! You can stop when you get to the Microsoft part though, that's when it gets sad, basically Microsoft forcibly bought Rare and destroyed them, but while they were with Nintendo they were wonderful so check them out.
@ThomasBW84 Are there any pictures of the Stamper Bros during the Nintendo era you could use in the article instead? Seeing them next to the Xbox logo brings back bad memories and makes me cry inside
Re: Rare Co-Founder Tim Stamper Is Back In The Games Industry
Wow exciting news, great to see that his son (presumably) is taking after his Dad, it's just a shame that they're making games for pooey mobile phones instead of real consoles. Although hopefully it's just a temporary thing to get going and then they'll make games for consoles.
Re: Play: It's The Second Nintendo Life Community GP in Mario Kart 8 - Live!
@randomous No need to apologise, your skills were a lot of fun to try and compete with! Thanks for the info, I could see my pipe frame and normal wheels were a lot slower than your setup (racing drivers excuses haha) but I love the original style karts so I always choose them!
Re: Play: It's The Second Nintendo Life Community GP in Mario Kart 8 - Live!
Finished! 370 points puts me in 7th at the moment, so close to beating my pal @Bulbousaur for the title of best non American lol.
@randomous Hello you must be CJ! Thanks for the compliment but you were unbeatable, you're absolutely brilliant! What bike and tyres were you using with Iggy by the way?
Re: Kotaku Says YES to the Wii U - Rejoicing Begins
Yay great to hear! Go Wii U!
Re: GAME's One Day Mario Kart 8 Deal, for £29.99, is a Must Buy for UK Racers
@Peach64 Oh ok thanks for the info, you're clearly up to the minute on all the latest deals!
@unrandomsam Yeah good point Nintendo actually give GAME special treatment, but it's all one way they get nothing back!
Re: Weirdness: The Peculiar Questions of a Typical Nintendo AGM
Wow that last guy was a misery! In case you haven't noticed, you're a shareholder of a games company, of course everybody's gonna talk about games!! As for what he said about Iwata, if only he had been there to bust out his Super Smash Bros moves from E3 on him!
Re: GAME's One Day Mario Kart 8 Deal, for £29.99, is a Must Buy for UK Racers
@ULTRA-64 Gosh that's a shocking story, so the GAME staff actually told a potential customer that the Wii U had been discontinued!? GAME's treatment of Nintendo is despicable, it's like they're trying to sabotage the Wii U, what did Nintendo ever do to them?
Re: GAME's One Day Mario Kart 8 Deal, for £29.99, is a Must Buy for UK Racers
Wow brilliant deal!
@Peach64 Like @Grumblevolcano said, the New Super Mario Bros U + New Super Luigi U Premium Pack is perfect for going with this deal, 4 great games and a Wii U at the best possible price!
Re: The Unreleased Super Mario 64 DD Edition Appears to Have Been Uncovered
@Pinemeowth Sorry I didn't mean to direct that first line of my post to you, I must have accidentally clicked the reply button on your post somehow. Darn touch screen accidental clicks!
Re: The Unreleased Super Mario 64 DD Edition Appears to Have Been Uncovered
@Pinemeowth This is a rather exciting find for that guy, what a cool thing to own!
@Zombie_Barioth and @FragRed I've never heard of the PS2 being difficult to develop for, for some reason I was always under the impression that it's easy but I know the PS3 is complicated to work with.
Anyway something I do know is that N64 DD disks are 64MB, and N64 cartridges come in several sizes. For example Super Mario 64 is a 64Mbit (8MB) cartridge, quite a lot of games are 128Mbit, and then the big size cartridge is 256Mbit (so 32MB). Ocarina Of Time was the first 256Mbit game, making it the biggest ever cart at the time of release and 4 times the size of Super Mario 64!
Later on in the N64's life however, the cost of making cartridges came down enough for a whopping (for a cartridge at the time) 512Mbit (64MB) to be possible, and that's what Resident Evil 2 and Conker's Bad Fur Day are. It did mean of course that the memory advantage offered by DD disks no longer mattered because a cart the same size as the disks was now possible.
Re: The Nintendo 64 is Now 18 Years Old in Japan
Happy Birthday to one of the best consoles ever!!! My Nintendo 64 was the first console I ever had bought brand new for me, I love it to bits! The N64 really is a golden era for me
@FragRed What a bargain!
@GuSolarFlare Nice I wish I still had the TV my N64 was first set up on.
@dinosauryoshi My Dad and I have had the best of times playing Mario Kart 64 too!
@FalconPunch You have to get one you owe it to yourself as a Nintendo fan!
Re: Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (3DS)
@Philip_J_Reed Congratulations! Hold your head high!
Re: Grezzo Seeks New Employees Asking If They Want to Create a 'Legend'
It's gotta be Majora's Mask 3D! It simply has to be! Squeeeeeeee!
Re: Handle Stand Adds Steering Wheelosity to Your Wii U GamePad
@DarthPraxis That's a cracking bit of kit as Jason Plato (English racing driver) would say! Maybe you could sell your design to Sega or Namco for their arcade machines haha, I also love the carbon fibre effect on the steering column, nice touch!
@Blue-Thunder Legend has it that the clip on the Classic Controller is for a Rumble Pak that was going to be released for it, which sadly never came to be...
Re: Video: This Minish Cap Trailer is as Cinematic as Game Boy Advance Gets
This is a wonderful game, lots of good memories of Christmas 2004!
Re: Video: The Latest Mario Kart 8 Commercial is Possibly the Strangest Yet
Yay! I'm enjoying these adverts a lot, I hope we get some like this in England!
Re: Reminder: Nintendo's Wi-Fi Service on Wii and DS Closes on 20th May
@Grumblevolcano #116 Nice! I was still playing Mario Kart an hour after the shut down, but stupidly I thought the fact it was still working meant that it hadn't been shut off yet so I quit the game to switch to Smash Bros and then of course I was stuffed! So were there still lots of people playing when you got disconnected just now?
Re: Reminder: Nintendo's Wi-Fi Service on Wii and DS Closes on 20th May
I've just thought, 3PM in England is in the morning in America so attention all Americans make sure you get your last games in in the morning!
Re: Reminder: Nintendo's Wi-Fi Service on Wii and DS Closes on 20th May
@Bulbousaur and @Blue-Thunder I just had the idea to go on Nintendo's Japanese website to see if that had the exact details and great news, it does! Even better news though it that the Wi-Fi doesn't go off until on the 20th itself so we still have tomorrow to play!
We don't have all of tomorrow though, it states that it goes off at 23:00 which converted to England time is 3PM so bear that in mind.
Here's the link to the page: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2014/0227.html
You'll need Google Translate to make any sense of it of course unless you can read Japanese!
Re: Mario Golf: World Tour Hits a Bogey in UK Charts
@TwilightV Usually I'm proud to be British, but that's just deeply embarrasing.
Re: EA Releases Lengthy List of Online Services to be Shut Down on DS and Wii
@Hordak and @jc3bull I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way!
@Caryslan So does this mean Goldeneye's online multiplayer will carry on!? Whoppie!!
@unrandomsam Quite right, if a publisher doesn't want to run servers anymore they should let people who do take it over!
Re: Play: We'll Be Blasting Through Mario Kart 1-7 in a Twitch Marathon
@unrandomsam What's wrong with the PAL version? Isn't it optimised?
Re: Play: We'll Be Blasting Through Mario Kart 1-7 in a Twitch Marathon
What a brilliant idea, I'm looking forward to this!!! I own every Mario Kart too (which I'm very proud of!) so it'll be really fun to watch you chaps play 7 games I love back to back!
Re: Super Mario Bros. Movie Actor Bob Hoskins Passes Away Aged 71
How sad, 71 is far too young for anybody to go. He was a very talanted actor so at least he'll never be forgotten and will continue to entertain forever.
@Gobelee Yeah Hook he was the perfect Smee!
@AlexSora89 Haha quite right, what more do you need to do?
Re: Feature: All the Important Details From the Mario Kart 8 Nintendo Direct Broadcasts
@Bulbousaur Apart from the Character selection I thought everything was spectacular, what did you find disappointing? One thing I'm sure we can all agree on, it looks absolutely gorgeous!
Re: The 3DS is Now Three Years Old in Europe
Happy Birthday 3DS! Hugs and kisses for the best handheld console ever!
Re: Wii Fit U Update 1.2.0 Trims And Slims for a Better U
@bagszi O right I see, I stupidly just assumed that you were from England as well, apologies if I came across a bit rude. That sounds like a bizarre situation for Hungarian Nintendo players, so if you go into a games shop in Hungary, are all the Nintendo consoles and games UK versions?
Re: Play: Mario Kart 7 with Nintendo Life
That was a lot of fun thanks for the races everybody and thanks Tom for organising it!
@Knuckles Hi there we had a couple of good races!
@BenAV You and Peach make a fearsome team haha
Re: Play: Mario Kart 7 with Nintendo Life
Very pleased to have won on Airship Fortress! Love that track
Re: Play: Mario Kart 7 with Nintendo Life
Darn you with that star Knuckles haha
Re: Play: Mario Kart 7 with Nintendo Life
Wow tight race!
Re: Wii Fit U Update 1.2.0 Trims And Slims for a Better U
@bagszi Why do you want to do that? Stones and pounds are where it's at! It always gets on my nerves when we have to have kph in racing games instead of mph because of the rest of Europe. Darn foreigners trying to force their metric system on us lol.