Nintendo’s history with online gaming is like a mail-in rebate. You get your product at a value (in this case, free), but have to put in some cumbersome time to reap the benefits. I’m talking about friend codes, Nintendo ‘s numerical code that players must swap with each other to do battle online. Oh, and they have to do a different code for each and every game.
But according to IGN’s Nintendo Podcast, that could soon end. They claim a “major” upcoming game will go live sans the codes, thus ending the need to pencil and pad your way into online battles. Yet “major” doesn’t necessarily mean “first party,” so perhaps this is just a Third-party title going against the Big N’s muddled standard.
(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted [...]
What if a deranged Santa Robot decided we all didn’t deserve gifts this year? Mega Man would come and bust ‘em up, that’s what! AceSparks of Sprite Inc. has re-imagined Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol into a Mega Man game where the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Jacob Marley are evil robots [...]
Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario [...]
