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... three years before this article...

3DS page notes, "the use of the 3D feature by children aged six and under may cause vision damage."

The reason I say 3 years ago is looking at this article from 2011. "we do not know what happens to children, whose visual systems are still developing." I remember reading quite a few articles at the time where the press (multiple different reviews at the time) basically questioned Nintendo, indicating that Nintendo was probably over-estimating the potential risk. The American Optometric Association made a statement disagreeing with Nintendo. It was actually rather interesting (and pleasant) to see a company as large as Nintendo risking harm to sales on their latest product, by being more cautious than what seemed warranted.

there still isn't a Zelda-game

Yes there is.

There is also a Mario game. I don't know how it compares to Galaxy.

there still isn't a Zelda-game

Yes there is.

There is also a Mario game. I don't know how it compares to Galaxy.

The Wii Mini (slightly smaller Wii lacking wireless and USB) recently was released in the UK as well.

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Wii/Wii-mini/Overview/Overview-726559.html

At least with the Wii Mini they are actually announcing that it doesn't have any online functionality. After they take down the servers, Wiis with Internet capability will only be able to play certain online games and the only functional Internet enabled channels will be the browser and the shop.

Quite correct. The progressive solution to a fight is avoid punishment all together. Sit the involved children down, spend some time to find out what really happened in a calm non-confrontational manner. Attempt to find the root cause of the problem and threat the problem not punish the result of the problem.

So for school bullies, find whether the problem is as a result of parental abuse or an inherent psychological defect. In either case that child needs to be placed under greater supervision and their opportunities to act out against other students limited.

So rather the the victims requiring closer parent\ guardian supervision, being picked up and dropped off to school by a parent and remaining close to teachers during meal times, the opposite should be true. Troubled offenders should be forced to remain close to adult supervision during meal times and picked up and dropped off to school by a responsible adult.

All in all, of course video games remain the safest form of entertainment for children. Need exercise buy them a Wii http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2011/45337.html or the various other more exercise bound games and monitor their scores. Of course parents could also join in. Want them outside, point the TV screen out the back patio door (at least the screen will be protected from flying nunchuks).

I got a Wii Fit back in September and lost twenty pounds by New Year's Day. I was earning 30 Wii Fit points per day for most of that period, plus I was walking with my kids two miles every Saturday on a local nature trail.

Unfortunately, between the New Year's Eve party and a bunch of unhealthy left overs, I managed to put about a third of that back. Plus, bad weather has kept me off the nature trail, which certainly doesn't help. And all of that has hurt my motivation, so where before I'd done over 100 consecutive days of exercise, now I'm skipping more days than I'm doing. I've apparently fallen into the trap described in this article. Overall, though, I'm still doing better than most years, where I would put on ten pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's, and never take it off. Damn you, homemade English Toffee!

BTW, Nintendo has created a pedometer that talks to your DS. The cartridge allows you to download your Mii for an experience similar to Wii Fit. What's missing is apparently any way to upload data into Wii Fit, but that may show up in a future channel.

That's not entirely true. There are many interesting prizes, such as games, which are still available, but the problem is that they cost an awful lot of points. Here's the top items that you can buy at the moment in the European Club Nintendo 's Stars Catalogue with their sale price in points:

• Gold-like statuette of Link riding Epona [15.000]
• DS cases brown (sold out) / pink [5.500]
• Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising GBA (sold out) [5.000]
• Metroid: Zero Mission [5.000]
• DS Lite Value Pack (Super Mario) [5.000]
• Mario Power Tennis [5.000]
• Kirby and the Amazing Mirror (sold out) [5.000]
• Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack - platinum edition [4.850]

There are many fashion accessories and cute gadgets among the less expensive items; you can also turn your star points into Wii points.

I registered 10 GameCube games since I joined and barely earned 4000 points. I haven't bought games since then and Nintendo did something that is certainly not going to encourage me to change that: this year, they decided that some games people have registered are now too old! So they withdrew the points from our totals, just like that! For me that's 2800 points vaporized. And they plan to do that every year. Imagine if your banker decided that some of the money you have on your account come from salaries that go back too far in time and just took the money away. I feel that's what Nintendo did. You don't take back what you give, that's plain stealing. Besides, this new system favours kids who can spend a lot of money in games and doesn't reward other patient loyal fans. That really didn't help improve the rather negative image that I've been having of Nintendo lately.

So watch out for Nintendo's nasty tricks in the US too!

Don't worry - they're not trying to squeeze much text on it (if the graphic in the article is correct). Apparently, you change pages with the stylus, which will get annoying at 20 words per screen.

Additional tidbits: The software also offers an electronic bookmark so you can pick up right where you left off, as well as the option of adjusting text sizes to further enhance the reading experience. You can also download up to ten additional novels using Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service and store them on your DS. (via)

This looks like an enhanced version of the company history Nintendo gives to the press, the one you can see on the European site too:
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/service/corporate_2001.html

Much more interesting, at least if you speak French, is the "History of Nintendo", so far only one book has been published:
http://editionspixnlove.fr/collectiondetail.php?ID=6

The book is 228 pages long and showcases 500 Nintendo toys and games prior to 1980 (took them 6 years of research!). The whole series will have 6 volumes totalling more than 1400 pages. Flabbergasting I daresay.

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