Friday, April 29, 2005

Time for a Puppy

I can not have a pet at home, if I could I would have a golden retriever. Anyway, Nintendogs comes out later this year and by all reports it looks to be a great game - fun for the inner child in each of us.

In the meantime here is a blog (Puppytimes) to read about the experiences that people are having with their puppies.

Oh puppy of mine. I can not wait.

Monday, April 25, 2005

the White DS

I really want the White DS, too bad it is only available in Japan. (HT: Portagame.) The original silver one is cool but this is different; clean, pure, stylish - iPodish.

So why does Japan get the cool colors (black, turquoise, white, and pink), while we only get a dark blue (coming in June. HT: Engadget)? I have no idea. I guess these types of things sell better overseas.

I sure hope Nintendo brings over these colors, or at least the white one, to the US. If they don't then I will have to import. This means extra shipping costs, waiting longer, but making me the only one (that I know of) in Santa Ana to have one.

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Gamer's Best Friend

I am so excited about Nintendogs, known as Puppy Times here in the states. It was just released in Japan and looks like it did pretty good sales wise. There are three versions of the game, each version includes different breeds of puppies to choose from. Here is a hands-on preview (CT: IGN).

It looks to be a fun, engaging, and enjoyable game. Since you can teach your puppy voice commands you will be able to teach your puppy to respond to "Sientate" (spanish for sit) as the cue to sit down. Everyone I have shown the game videos to has really become interested, even though most do not consider themselves gamers and do not even own a home console.

This seems to be good news for Nintendo. Looks like Iwata was right when speaking at the GDC, transcript can be found here (CT: Planetgamecube). He said that Nintendogs "will expand our audience to players who currently are not satisfied with what we’ve [Game Industry] been offering them."

Something new, something that is easily accessable, something that is fun. I can't wait to play it.

Friday, April 15, 2005

Nintendo DS

The Nintendo DS is the portable videogame equivalent of Cranium, it is a lot of unexpected fun: combining different types of games and making it easy to access and enjoy.
With the DS, not only do you have different kinds of genres to choose from, you also have different type of interfaces to choose from:

Traditional: D-Pad and A, B
Touch: Touch Screen
Voice: Microphone
Wireless: Wi-Fi and Nintendo's proprietary forma
All of the Above: Nintendo DS

So join me as I comment on this awesome system and other things Nintendo and video game related.