Retro Gamer issue 87

*Drool!*

There is some juicy tasty N64 stuff in there, including pictures of obscure peripherals and a checklist for all the PAL releases! It's a lovely lovely issue!

Iwata's concerns about smartphone and social network games

Another thing Satoru Iwata mentioned in his speech was about these games that sell extremely cheaply. Apparently there's a worry that people might think that all games should cost this much. I guess it's food for thought. What I should be thinking about is how these issues affect a games player like me.

Wow, that was quick about the Master Quest

Rumour has it that Ocarina of Time 3DS is going to have the master quest built into it. Funny how I was just talking about it yesterday! This does make the 3DS a bit more tempting to me.

Zelda stuff from Satoru Iwata's GDC 2011 keynote

Here's the other exciting stuff that felt like it was shown especially for game bloggers. There was a new trailer for Skyward Sword which doesn't psyche me out insanely but I do see that it's coming along nicely.

The real excitement though was seeing the special 25th anniversary logo for the Zelda series. I wonder what they're gonna do for it? Maybe they'll do something like release the Ocarina of Time Master Quest perhaps? If it's a compilation of stuff it really should aim to better the Gamecube collector's edition disk. Let's watch this space over the coming year and see what'll happen!

Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 100 with ROB the robot!

This video came out today and I actually learned a lot more about ROB than I ever knew. It was quite funny too when the nerd was mocking it! Very interesting to see Gyromite and Stack-Up in action and it was great to see the nerd as some kind of zany scientist in some parts! Go watch it!

Satoru Iwata gets me excited about Raccoon Mario in his GDC 2011 keynote speech

Satoru Iwata showed screenshots of a new Super Mario game for the 3DS during his speech and then ended on a big cliffhanger! He showed the tentative logo for the game and asked us to note the tail-like shadow at the end. Then he told us to wait until E3 to find out what it's all about! The big tease!!!

I'm dying for Raccoon/Tanuki Mario from Super Mario Bros 3 to come back so this is very exciting for me!

I'm so glad I caught that part of Iwata's speech. I knew I was going to miss the first half of it and luckily I just caught the news about the new Mario as soon as I started watching the stream from Nintendo's site. Now I'll wait for the whole thing to be uploaded somewhere so I can watch it from the beginning.

Iwata of course talked about game industry issues but that's not what's exciting right now. That Mario announcement was a kind of 'gameblogger' 'fanservice' so I intend to blog about that for now! :)

Bomberman Hero is coming to the European Virtual Console

We don't get many N64 VC releases so this is a nice treat. It's only set for Europe too at the moment. It's of particular interest to me because I'm trying to play the 1-player mode of as many Bomberman games as I can get my hands on for fun. I haven't done it in a while, maybe I should make some more progress on it and record my experiences here. I have the first Bomberman 64 cartridge already so this will be handy since I won't have to hunt this cartridge down.