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Nintendo - Kirby, LAN, Paper Mario, Pikmin 2 23

Posted by simoniker from the tightly-packed-nintendo-nuggets dept.
Thanks to several sources for illuminating Nintendo's first-party software plans for the next few months. There's a preview of Kirby's Air Ride over at GameSpy, discussing the "very odd" GameCube racer which only uses "...the analog control stick for steering, and the A-button... for everything else." Nintendo has also confirmed Paper Mario for a GameCube release, say IGN Cube, following on from the excellent N64 version. Also, Nintendojo has news that 1080 Avalanche and StarFox 2 will also feature multiplayer LAN gameplay, as well as the already-confirmed Kirby and Mario Kart - the site suggests elsewhere that "GameSpy promised to enable Internet play for any Nintendo LAN games to be released via GameSpy Arcade", so... fingers crossed? Finally, IGN has a hands-on preview of Pikmin 2 - go, go Captain Olimar!
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  • Paper Mario !!! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by JensR ( 12975 ) on Sunday August 24, 2003 @11:32AM (#6777629) Homepage
    I really liked Paper Mario. It's really a pity that it arrived so late in the N64's lifespan, it really deserves a bigger audience.
    It would be nice if more games would be re-released on Gamecube. What about Sin & Punishment?

    • Re:Paper Mario !!! (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Radix37 ( 670836 )
      To me it seems dumb that they would simply port the game to gamecube. I just bought the thing off ebay three weeks ago and got thorougly addicted to it. After eight days I finished it and my play time was 37 hours and 37 minutes... a nice coincedence for me. I'm replaying it now to try to find the rest of the items and do other challenges. But why release a game only three years old for a new system? A sequel would be a lot better.

      • Re:Paper Mario !!! (Score:2, Informative)

        by dragonsapp ( 307227 )
        where does it say it's a port?

        It might just be hopefullness but while reading I asssumed they are talking about an un-named sequel.
    • Sin & Punishment would be a good addition, but personally I'd rather see a bunch of underappreciated N64 games lumped together on a disc. Stuff like Mischief Makers... uh... and really just Mischief Makers.
      • Mischief Makers was a great game. Some magazine (EGM, I think, but don't remember) reviewed it as, basically, "you're a maid with a vacuum cleaner. Oh boy." From that point forward, I've put absolutely no stock in what a reviewer says about a game.

        --Jeremy

  • Mario Tennis (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Hedonist123 ( 681091 )
    Tell me when that game is coming out!!!! Too bad tennis is so limiting that you can't really justify getting it LAN functional. Mario tennis is so much fun that even those that have never touched a tennis racket love it, especially multi-player. Great college drinking game, the big N can't release it fast enough. Hed.

  • whew! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Enrico Pulatzo ( 536675 ) on Sunday August 24, 2003 @02:26PM (#6778458)
    I was afraid that Olimar crashed again. It's good to hear that he landed his ship safely this time :)

  • huzzah! duh! and fallout (Score:4, Interesting)

    by MORTAR_COMBAT! ( 589963 ) on Sunday August 24, 2003 @04:05PM (#6778903)
    huzzah: It's about time I found a use for my broadband adapter. With 5 games now (PSO, Kirby, Mario Kart, 1080, Star Fox) it looks like I'll be interested in at least a couple of them.

    duh: from the article: you will need another copy of these respective games for each extra GameCube

    fallout: expect even more work to be poured into the efforts for creating "backup" copies of GameCube games now. For one, people want to do it anyway, and now, they'll feel morally OK with it because hey, they've already shelled out $200 for the Cube and LAN setup to Nintendo, why shouldn't they copy the game?

  • Just wanted to add a game to the list (Score:4, Interesting)

    by PaleZer0 ( 632282 ) on Sunday August 24, 2003 @11:27PM (#6781354) Homepage
    I remember hearing the Monkey Ball 3 would also have lan capabilities sometime next marchish when it is launched. Can't find a link for it though.
  • Is it me, or was Kirby originally white in his first game on the Game Boy- obviously, the game was in black and white, but I thought he was white on the box as well.

    Why the switch to PINK??? I liked him white.


    • Is it me, or was Kirby originally white in his first game on the Game Boy- obviously, the game was in black and white, but I thought he was white on the box as well.

      Why the switch to PINK??? I liked him white.

      He was pink in the first game (in Europe) on the NES. Kirby's Adventures in Dreamland, or whatever it was called.
    • Apparently he was white on the box art [classicgaming.com] and cartrige label [classicgaming.com] in the U.S. (and presumably Europe) for Kirby's Dream Land [classicgaming.com].

      However, in Japan (where I assume the game was released first) the box art [classicgaming.com] showed Kirby as pink.

      I have no idea what was up with the change, since Kirby didn't have his shape shifting abilities until the NES game, which was released a year later.

      My only guess is that it was a marketing decision.

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