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Nintendo Announces Western DS Game Line-Up
Thanks to Nintendo's press site for a release listing the Nintendo DS dual-screen handheld titles currently in development for a Western release. Although sharing many games with a recently announced Japanese listing, it's explained: "Many of the industry's biggest software companies confirm that they will deliver names like Madden NFL, Viewtiful Joe, Rayman and SpongeBob SquarePants to the Nintendo DS", and other new/surprising DS titles include GoldenEye from EA, an Atari Classics pack from Atari, and a Western release of the previously mentioned Caduceus surgery game from Atlus.
Nice to see Viewtiful Joe, Bomberman, and Castlevania on there. Too bad Goldeneye will probably be a simple port of GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.
Oh, and 'Project Rub' just sounds dirty, Sega.
Hey where's Mavis Beacon Teaches Hand Writing? With the touch screen, a good edutainment writing title should be a snap!
Okay, just kidding, but it still concerns me that there's little in that list of games that introduces new and innovative gameplay. Sega's Project Rub sounds potentially interesting given Sega's history of unusual games, Seaman for instance. Hmmm maybe Project Rub is a follow up to Seaman wherein tactile interaction with the creature is included... A lot of potential for "echi" titles there if Nintendo gets desperate!
Anyway, the biggest concern with the second screen is that so far the most interesting uses I can think of are for things that are hardly games. If Nintendo were trying to make a new PDA, then I can think of lots of things to do with a touch sensitive screen. But gaming uses are a bit of a stretch. I'm also concerned about how this screen is going to wear over time. That will probably have the effect of suppressing the used market or eliminating it altogether. Any way you slice it, Nintendo is taking a big risk here.
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
SNES - exceptionally durable console. I don't know of many broken ones, even this many years later.
Well, now you know of two broken ones. I had one die of apparant old age not long ago, but it got played very hard, though - once, I went through Chrono Trigger five times without turning the console off because the save battery in the cart was dead and I wanted to get a few endings I hadn't seen yet.
I also destroyed one shortly after the release, but you know, that giant worm in the Tower of Hera in Link to the Past was a bitch and a half, and the thirtieth time he knocks you down to the fifth floor, you've gotta let off some steam.
"because the save battery in the cart"
If you've had it long enough for the battery to die, I'd say the warranty is already expired. Just open it up and replace the battery.
"you've gotta let off some steam."
Ya know, the controller is right there in your hands and much cheaper. I remember way back when a friend of mine had teeth marks in his NES controllers...