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Written by Phil
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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When you point your Wii Remote at the sensor bar on your television and press the power button to start it up the first thing you see on your TV screen is the Wii Menu. The Wii menu is that grid of 12 rectangles which appear on your TV screen. It's like the operating system for the Wii. Just like the screen you see when you switch on your computer or your mobile phone, the Wii Menu is the framework which controls everything else that happens when your Wii is running. Makes you feel kinda safe, doesn't it? |
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Written by Rancour
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
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Bonanza Bros is an old Sega game, back from the Sega Genesis days in 1991, that was re-released on the Wii on January 29 2007 for the price of 800 Wii points, allowing new gamers to experience its odd mix of stealth and platforming. |
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Written by Rancour
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
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First released in the first days of 1990 for the incredibly diverse Sega Genesis system, Sword of Vermillion was an early 16 bit RPG release from Sega that’s finding new life on the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console. A more or less typical hack and slash, dungeon crawling RPG, Sword of Vermillion was at the time of its initial release something new and interesting, one of the first 16 bit RPG options on the market. |
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Written by Rancour
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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Sega’s 1991 beat ‘em up brawler, Streets of Rage has returned in downloadable form via the Nintendo Wii’s virtual console service on February 19 and it brings with it classic side scrolling beat em up action, a genre that has sadly gone the way of the rail shooter and platformer. |
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Written by Rancour
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
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The Nintendo Wii has an interesting advantage over every other console and that’s the necessity of designers and publishers to cater their games to fit the Wii’s hardware, no matter how many consoles they plan on releasing their game for. The SSX franchise has long been a major brand with amazing levels and stellar snowboarding game play and now with the release of the Nintendo Wii, EA Big brings us an entirely new way of playing it as well with SSX Blur. |
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Written by Rancour
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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When the Nintendo Wii first launched, it came packaged with the brilliant Wii Sports, an outing that showed off the ability of the console’s motion detection as well as the ability of Nintendo to get you up and moving with your gaming. The extremely simple design led to hours of gameplay, all with a free game, probably one of the best pack-in demos ever released with a console. |
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Written by Rancour
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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There are few that remember the short lived glory days of the Turbo Grafx 16, a onetime competitor to the NES and Genesis consoles. However, with the release of some of the system’s classic games on the Wii’s Virtual Console, millions can discover what they were missing when it died an early death. One of those games, the early strategy simulation game Military Madness, released by Hudson in 1989 was one of the earliest and, at its time, best simulation games on the market. |
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Written by Rancour
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
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Admittedly, I’d never heard of Ice Climber before Super Smash Bros was released. I had my NES, and I played most of the classic titles, but it just never crossed my path until it was rereleased over 20 years later via the Wii’s Virtual Console on February 12. Originally released in 1985 as one of the first games for the NES, Ice Climber is a classic bottom to top, enemy bashing hurry up game. |
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Written by Rancour
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
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Video games have always been directly associated with sitting on your couch, slumped into a day old spot on your favorite cushion and idly pushing buttons on a blocky controller. But Nintendo has changed the face of gaming by introducing their stand up and swing format with the Wii and its famous Wii Remote. |
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Written by Rancour
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
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The Nintendo Wii is one of the most popular gaming consoles around. Since its release late last year, it has been incredibly hard to find and purchase one as each new shipment sells out almost immediately, the demand still outweighing the supply four months later. For those still without a Wii, finding a good source of information on the next major shipments and availability is key. |
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Written by Rancour
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
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When you first get your Nintendo Wii console home and open that rather small, compact box, you might find that there are entirely too many pieces for your liking, and that setting up is suddenly a little more daunting than it should be. In all reality, it’s an easy matter, and once you get the wires in place, Nintendo makes it a matter of a few quick and easy points of the cursor to get playing. |
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Written by Rancour
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
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Your parents are not out to get you. It may seem, at times, as though every aspect of their existence is devoted to making yours horrible. But the odds are strongly against it and because of that, there are some things you can do to get that very precious Nintendo Wii from them as a gift. |
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