Nintendo as a company has existed since 1889 and has celebrated a number of milestones on its way to becoming the richest company in Japan. This past year marked the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. which made the portly plumber Mario the most significant character in video game history. Nintendo, for whatever the reason, … Continue reading 2021 Nintendo Anniversary Challenge
About a month ago DanamesX from Tales From the Backlog introduced a new monthly collaboration post in which fellow gaming bloggers can share their stories and experiences, with a different topic question each month(which I'm completing just short of the deadline, per usual). Having spent the past 30 years of my life playing video games, … Continue reading EXP Share #1 – The Beginning of it all…
F-Zero was released in North America in August 1991 as one of five launch titles for the brand-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System, alongside other titles - Pilotwings, Gradius III, SimCity, and Super Mario World. With the release of F-Zero, Nintendo reinvigorated the racing game genre and created a franchise whose presence(or absence) can still be … Continue reading F-Zero
Yoshi’s New Island was released in 2013 for the Nintendo 3DS as a follow-up to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island for the Super Nintendo and Yoshi’s Island DS, though the story this time around is a prequel to the DS version. Our story begins with the stork delivering Baby Mario and Luigi to their … Continue reading Super Mario Multiverse – Yoshi’s New Island
The Game Since the mid 90's, Nintendo hasn't always had the strongest support of third-party publishers and developers as the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube both suffered from vastly limited catalogs of titles to choose from in comparison to competitors like Sony and Microsoft. Things seemed to turn around a bit with the success of the … Continue reading Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
We are in the final stages of 2019 and are nearing the end of another decade in video games. Yes, I know it's "not actually the end of the decade" and all that, but for convenience I'm going to make up this list a year "early". The past decade has been great for gaming; our … Continue reading Games of the Decade
On November 17, 2002 Nintendo did something unique - releasing a pair of Metroid titles simultaneously with Metroid Prime being released on Gamecube and Metroid Fusion for the Game Boy Advance. While Prime went on to revolutionize the franchise, Metroid Fusion it seems has always been overlooked as the little brother to its Gamecube counterpart, … Continue reading Metroid Fusion
Yesterday, I finally completed my quest to play through Breath of the Wild, completing every shrine and finding every. single. Korok seed along the way. I just happened to sit down to play some Switch and felt like playing Breath of the Wild. I had been meaning to play the game some more as, there … Continue reading My Hylian Summer Vacation
Today, I thought it would be fun to share some of my created courses on Super Mario Maker 2( The tutorials insisting they be called "courses" and not "levels" ). Mario Maker 2 has been out for a month now and was one of this summer's Nintendo games I was looking forward to as I … Continue reading My Mario Maker 2 Courses
Due to being out of town for most of the weekend, today's post will be a summary of whatever games I was able to play over the weekend and any general video games related thoughts I had the urge to discuss. I also have included a few photos of some older games I happened to … Continue reading Weekend Gaming Review – Small Retro Game Haul
