You have probably gone to a hotel where you see a PS1 controller or N64 controller dangling out of the television so you cna play some old games while on the road. Well looks like Marriott is teaming up with Nintendo to bring some Wii action to your hotel room. You can get a Wii Room in 6 locations and get packages that allow you unlimited play during your stay, of course at a premium rate.
Interesting that these Wiis will have 20 pre-loaded games in them, do I smell hard drive here? This is a cool idea to have new games in the rooms, but if you are a traveler on business chances are that you are not willing to pay more to play some games right before bed. This will be fantastic for those travelers with kids that want to keep them occupied.
Hit the jump to read the official press release and what 6 hotels have these packages.
CHeck out the Nintendo lineup in this video, there are a lot of usual suspects but there is really one big stand out for me. At about 2:30 into the video you will see a clip of Punch Out! Not sure if they are alluding to a whole new game or perhaps a re-hashed version on the WiiWare but it is about time we get some Punch Out love on the Wii.
I can remember back before there were fancy controllers that could simulate button mashing, the good old days. I used to be pretty good at mashing the A button on my classic NES controller or at least I thought I was good until I saw this guy. Watch as he hits the button 130 times in 10 seconds! It is pretty amazing and a lost art, I still smile when I see games build that into the gameplay.
You can try to beat his record here.
My personal best was 95 hits in 10 seconds.
What is yours?
This game is just looking worse and worse! Wii Music is making a mockery of itself by making probably the stupidest things into instruments, the latest bit of stupidity is the Famicom? Since when does the Japanese Famicom constitute as an instrument? Why is the Mii holding the Famicom and blowing into it? We can only hope that this flops something fierce, but something tells me people will buy this piece of crud.
Ok I have to say that I am almost ashamed to like this, perhaps its my love for games and hearing them spit in some lyrics, but I rather enjoyed this. Typically video game songs, especially a rap version are destined for epic fails, this one makes me smile and bob my head.
There are some great lines in there like:
I break bricks like Luigi.
I grab my nuts and scream for the horde!
Mega Man 9 of course! Have you guys seen this packaging, it makes me smile just looking at it. I am a huge old school NES player and regret getting rid of my original NES and all my games. Look at that sexy case! Ok it isn’t exactly sexy, actually its blocky and gray, but that is exactly what makes it so great! It looks just like and old NES cartridge but opens up to house the CD.
What do you think - masterful piece of art or old piece crap? I will hunt you down if you vote for old piece of crap!
Hit the jump to see this masterpiece in its open glory. Read More »
What do you get when you cross a toaster with an old school NES console? One might think jelly in your console but alas you would be wrong. You get a Nintoaster of course. A classic gaming console that can play Super Mario Brothers 3 and unfortunately can’t toast bread anymore. The funny thing is this guy chose a white toaster so that if you glance quickly at it you might think your playing a Wii. Although this does look pretty damn cool there really isn’t any advantage of having your NES in toaster form, one upgrade would have been if you could eject your games using the toaster lever on the side, flying cartridges FTW.
All I can say is that I need this now! This guy took an orignal NES shell and made it into a full PC with Wifi, an HDD, USB hub and you can even use the original controllers on it. This makes me want to go onto Ebay and grab an old NES for nostalgic reasons. If this guy goes into business he could be rich pretty fast. Great skills, check it out!
This is an interesting compilation of the top 10 hardest games, I cant help but notice that many of them were on the classic systems, especially the NES. I have to say that I agree with almost all of them although I played enough Contra that I could run through the entire game with three lives no problem. I was surprised by the number one spot but probably because I never really played that title. What would you have added?
Bionic Commando for the NES (also known as Top Secret: Hitlers Revival in Japan) was a sequel to the popular arcade game of the same name in Japan (Top Secret). Not too many people remember that. What they do remember is the blistering difficulty the game was known for. Now I’m sure some of you were thinking “Hey, I’ve played that and it wasn’t too hard…pussy”. Those people can bite me. As I played through a couple of days ago, I’ll admit it wasn’t as hard as it used to be. But it was still goddamn hard. Remember, at the time, lots of us were used to Mario-esque platformers. And seeing as how Bionic Commando had no jump button, you can imagine the frustration. It wasn’t unlike ripping out one of our thumbs. But at the same time, we were introduced to the joys of killing Nazis in video games.
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