Category: games + diversions

For all us Wii/Nintendo nerds out there… The killer app for the Wii? You know it will never be as fun as you hope but… “… Wii remote lightsaber dueling….

Umm. this could take some time

After causally asking about them in multiple stores downtown over the past 8 months (once a month) only to be told they were completely sold out making it one of…

Rosemarie Fiore has taken some beautiful time lapse shots of a couple 80’s video games. Here’s hoping she does some more. She has another series that I like a lot…

If you liked 80’s video games, if you ever had a pad of graph paper, and if you ever drew a spaceship… well this is the game for you. I…

A fun quick read; Business Week asking Miyamoto and another Wi team member about the big ideas behind the Wii. I really do think they got it right. This is…

I have a brand-new, decked-out, pimped up Nintendo Wii for a couple days on loan from a very nice friend. I’ll be posting some impressions and be personally deciding when/if…

We went over to one of Linda’s friends place the other night for dinner. We had an awesome time hanging out in their loft in the village – heated stone…

Over the weekend I tried the Nintendo WFC service. I had tried to connect when I first got my DS but my old wireless router just wouldn’t give me an…

For anyone who’s fallen asleep after a “bout of Tetris” and still watched the blocks fall, turn and snap into place… this is a great little piece. “Tetris – From…

I’m a big fan of Nintendo. I always have been. I’m pretty picky about any games I play – partly cause I feel some kind of guilt about playing games…

I’ve been playing with Brain Age for the DS Lite. It’s an educational game that’s designed to be played a little each day “Each session includes such brain-training activities as…

Bought myself a silly birthday present yesterday. A shiny new white Nintendo DS Lite. Grabbed New Super Mario Bro’s and Brain Age with it. It’s a slick little machine –…

“Q. How do you make these maps? A. For many I use an emulator and take screenshots of the game and then piece them together into one big map in…

“Remember those super-cool space ships you doodled on graph paper, waging massive intergalactic battles in History class with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance? Well they have sprung…