With the passing of Hiroshi Yamauchi last Thursday, Japan and video games as a whole lost a pioneering legend the likes of which will never be seen again. He was 85 and left an indelible legacy on the industry as a whole. Assuming control of Nintendo at the age of 22 in 1949 and serving as its President until 2002, Yamauchi took a small playing card manufacturer and eventually transformed it into a massive force in video games in the 80’s and 90’s. Although he...
This quick look at Duck Hunt is part of Review A Great Game Day. Visit 1 More Castle or the official website for lots of reviews of great games! Duck Hunt is the second game I played on my trusty old NES. Of course I booted up Super Mario Bros. on my dual cartridge first and played that until my fingers bled, but after flipping the coin and delving into the never ending fowl slaughter that is Duck Hunt, I was addicted to light gun shooters. It wasn’t the first, or even...
In the video games industry, launching a new console is one of the trickiest things imaginable. To be honest, there really have been no outstanding console launches to date. What does a perfect console launch mean? It means that on the first day the console is out, all of the console’s major features are up and running, there are plenty of games with both quantity and quality mattering, the hardware is in good shape with little to no bugs or defects, and there is...
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