Posts Tagged ‘Nintendo DS’

DateDec 1, 2006
Chicken Little: Ace in Action DS

If you watched Walt Disney Pictures’ movie Chicken Little, you may remember the “movie within a movie” finale. Drawing inspiration from that scene, Disney’s Chicken Little: Ace in Action becomes a mission-based shooter featuring the alter egos from the film. And just when you think that you’ve got kid-friendly movie licensed videogames figured out, Ace [...]

DateNov 12, 2006
Elite Beat Agents

Rhythm games generally bring to mind expensive peripherals that send an otherwise normal game into the $80 or even $100 price range. Ouch. What’s nice about the DS is its touch-based technology that has rhythm potential already built in. Unfortunately, this has never been used to any great advantage– until now. So if you’ve been [...]

DateNov 11, 2006
Clubhouse Games

For as far as computers have advanced these days, every PC still comes with those standard renditions of Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Backgammon. People love these games. So it seems so obvious to take a huge collection of such gems, wrap them up in a spiffy Nintendo DS cartridge, slap online multiplayer in there, and call [...]

DateOct 17, 2006
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime

Chocobos. Moogles. Neither is a very crucial part of any Final Fantasy game, and yet their popularity is quite abundant. There’s even a series of Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon video games (Wait a minute… Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon? I sense a trend…). So for those of you not familiar with Dragon Quest, just know that the slime, [...]

DateOct 4, 2006
Final Fantasy III

Once upon a time there was a company called Squaresoft and they made a very well known game called Final Fantasy. That game became so popular all over the world that it spawned many sequels. Many of them were then ported to other systems, both home consoles as well as portables, but one of those [...]

DateOct 4, 2006
Mario Hoops 3-on-3

SquareEnix, the company that has brought us some of the most memorable RPGs known to man, has unfortunately never had much success with other genres. They of course succeeded when it came to storytelling, but when it comes to pure gameplay, most of their efforts were actually never quite up to par with their competitor’s [...]

DateOct 3, 2006
Nintendo ups forecast on strong DS hand-held sales

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nintendo Co. on Tuesday raised its 2006/07 net profit forecast by 20.5 percent, beating market expectations, thanks to strong sales of its DS hand-held video game player and a weaker-than-expected yen. The company lifted its sales forecast for the Nintendo DS device by 18 percent and said the revision also includes [...]

DateOct 3, 2006
Proporta Aluminum DS Lite Case Reviewed.

Ten years ago, I owned one game system that my parents didn’t pay for. I had saved up allowance and lawn mowing money for months to be able to afford it, and when I finally went to Target to claim my Game Boy Pocket, I was utterly ecstatic. I played Super Mario Land obsessively, and [...]

DateSep 20, 2006
Don’t collect them….BE them!

Players Chat and Make Friends with more than 380 other Pokémon Pokémon fans have dreamed of this moment, and now Nintendo is making it a reality. Starting Sept. 20, players who pick up a copy of the new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team for Nintendo DS or Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team for [...]

DateSep 18, 2006
The Game Cases Case

I am ever protective of my games. They were, after all, an expensive investment, and I’ll go to great measures to ensure they remain in like new condition. As such, I spend a great deal of money on game cases. Nintendo 64. Game Boy. Game Boy Advance. As long as they were available, I bought [...]