There’s a dude on eBay — the programmer who created bsnes, FWIW — who claims to have every Super NES cartridge for sale (at a $24,999 bounty), but I did a check and I did not see Super 3D Noah’s Ark. What the hell? I want my unspent imaginary money back. (ht Polygon)
The sad part isn’t that he waited in line for a month to buy a video game console. (In the age of the iPhone, that’s allowed.) No, the sad part is that the man’s name is Triforce Johnson.
* — As the Engadget and Gizmodo reviews note, a key part of the Wii U’s play — a digital streaming package which includes Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and Amazon — wasn’t ready for them to review.
The effect of blowing on Nintendo cartridges: A) This is your NES cartridge. B) This is your NES cartridge on blowing. Any questions?
Nintendo fanatic mashes ‘Mario’ and ‘Zelda’ with ‘Risk’ in board game homage
Hyrule declares war with dream land
Wow. Can’t deny how neat this is.
So, according to former Nintendo employee Howard Phillips, Nintendo seriously considered selling a knitting add-on for the NES. “Now you’re knitting with power,” indeed. (ht Hacker News, where some suggest Nintendo should get into the 3D printing market)
Nintendo Power‘s last issue coming in December (update: Nintendo confirms)
I’ve gotta pick up the last issue.
Great magazine, but man, was it biased towards its creator.
The Birth of UNIVAC
UNIVAC I was the first commercial computer in the United States. Without it, we wouldn’t have our precious little MacBooks or iPads.
Well, now that I think about it, some other Americans surely would have built a commercial computer if they hadn’t. So we would still have our gadgets, but it would be in a parallel universe and maybe in that universe having a Dell is like the coolest thing you can have and there’s a Zune in every pocket of every pair of parachute pants.
Anyway, the first UNIVersal Automatic Computer was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau and dedicated on June 14, 1951. It’s the same computer later predicted the 1952 presidential election for Eisenhower.
It cost over $1 million, used 5,200 vacuum tubes, weighed 13 tons and could do a mere 1,905 operations per second.
Pictured above, Rear Admiral/Badass Grace Hopper at the controls of UNIVAC I.
Next time you complain about your laptop being slow, keep in mind how far we’ve come. Super-fascinating. Also, Grace Hopper is awesome.
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The Inside Story on the Making of Nintendo’s Wii U
Judging by the lines at Nintendo’s E3 booth, Nintendo’s Wii U is a hit, but the system could have been a lot different if Nintendo had listened to its inner demons. Global President Satoru Iwata says the idea of a two-screen, video game system was something the company went back and forth on—and didn’t finalize until nearly a year and a half into the development process.
Work on the Wii U began in 2008—one year after the Wii hit retail shelves and began to take over the videogame industry. But there was much internal debate before the schematics were finalized.
Photo: Nintendo
Hardcore gamers tend not to like gimmicky approaches like the original Wii or the Wii U, especially when the entire console is built around it, but think Nintendo has a hit on their hands here?
Click the link at 6 p.m. EST for a special announcement from Nintendo. The E3 conference isn’t until Tuesday, so they might be “unveiling a few tantalizing hints ahead of time.” We’ll update this post with information once the allegedly pre-taped video airs.
(Source: shortformblog.com)
» It’s been over 30 years since the company posted a loss, and the first such occurrence since the company began releasing earnings statements in 1981. Last year’s forty-percent price drop for the 3DS cost the company millions; however, Nintendo believes the portable gaming-system will become profitable again during 2012. It should also be noted that, prior to 2011, the Wii essentially acted as Nintendo’s license to print money. The ultra-popular gaming device has earned the company close to a billion dollars, annually, since its release in 2006. Now, all eyes are focused on the Wii U, the spiritual successor to the Wii, which is scheduled to launch later this year with an all-new touchscreen controller.
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