In 1996, Nintendo released their third home console to the market, the Nintendo 64, a system four times more powerful than the measly 16-bit Super Nintendo. We argued a lot about numbers a lot back in the day like we knew what we were talking about or it actually meant something. “The PlayStation’s only 32-bit,…
Nintendo’s got a lot of problems: Their new hardware, the Wii U, is bleeding money due largely in part to launching extremely close to more powerful hardware from Sony and Microsoft, a lack of third-party support (a Nintendo staple) and a lack of steady, must have releases. I can’t really think of ways in which…
If you look at console based games going back to the NES forwards, you can almost see trends in what genres were the most desired. In the 8-16 bit era it was all about having a mascot: Nintendo had Mario, Sega had Sonic, Capcom had MegaMan, and this spawned many wannabes like your Bubsy the Cat…
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