6 posts tagged “nintendo”

I have subscribed to:

Electronic Gaming Monthly -- I have a mailbox subscription to this monthly Ziff Davis publication. I can confidently say EGM is the most well written, informative and entertaining magazine on the market today. EGM delivers indepth cross-platform gaming reviews, previews, and unprecedented news coverage. It also has a well done video podcast called the 1UP Show.

PC Magazine -- Ziff Davis Media. This is a monthly checkout in the library. I've been a regular reader since 2002. I'm confident PC Mag's software and hardware reviews are diverse and honest. PC Mag features a variety of well respected broadcasters, columnists, and writers such as chief editor Jim Louderback, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Bill Machrone, and much more.

Nintendo Power -- Nintendo. I occasionally read this magazine. NP's format has recently been redesigned and relifted. However, most Nintendo news, previews, and reviews can be found online instantly and without Nintendo bias ;-)

MacWorld -- My subscription expired this summer. I was a new subscriber and I very much enjoyed the Mac hardware reviews and software tips. Jason Snell is the well-known chief editor.

    Last week, I just finished playing Kingdom Hearts 2 for the PS2. The controls are intuitive, the graphics and design of the game are mindblowing, the dialogue, cinematics, and voiceovers are amazing. The difficulty level is just right. The Disney and SquareSoft characters bring a nostalgic experience to the gameplay. Whether you're young or old, you'll want to play this game.
  
    My favorite game growing up without hesitation was Legend of Zelda. The title of this post is almost misleading, because it seems to imply

arcade games. In my childhood, I enjoyed playing DDR at the arcade. Around six years ago, I bought an issue of Nintendo Power. Little did I know this special issue would change my life. There was an article written about a videogame masterpiece. It was a game that has changed my life forever. This game was Legend of Zelda. The reason I got Zelda in the first place was because of the article. I thought that it would be intriguing playing the characters that were celshaded (wait, no, that's Wind Waker-- 3D animation) when I played the game for the first time. I was enthused—I liked everything about it. I liked the battles, the story, the characters, the music, the scenery, and the graphics. It was a nostalgic experience from Ocarina of Time. I kept on playing the games, seeing the plot evolve. I didn't want to stop playing the game because I always wanted to see what would happen next. I kept on playing the game to see what would happen next. I kept on playing and playing taking an occasional break for sleeping and eating. Then something terrible happened. The game ended.

   

This pleasant Sunday morning I'm going to the Apple Store in 5th Ave. and the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center. I'm purchasing Legend of Zelda garb, and the new Super Mario DS.

It's usually surreal because you picture them differently than you would imagine. I'm meeting up with a podcaster on Sunday morning at a nearby restaurant for lunch with a friend. It'll cost me an arm and a leg.

    Nintendo has a marketing campaign, "Who are You?" I took an online quiz on a Nintendo fan website and this is what a JavaScript application said: If I would be a videogame character, I would be Mario. I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble. But, who am I? Genuinely, I really don't know- I can't say for sure. How do you define who am I?

    My goal is to topple the Microsoft Empire. I am conscientious but negligent, reticent but vociferous, open but deceitful, and assiduous but slothful (I happened to be peering into my thesaurus). I am a gamer, journalist, podcaster, a procrastinator, and a writer (and most recently, a blogger). My favorite television networks are Comedy Central, TechTV, and Cartoon Network. The world as it exists could be a synthetic matrix. I exist as a person, but I am tagged with an identification number at school. My preferred film is The Return of the King. It is too early to define who I am.

    How do people define the question, "Who am I?" I typed in the question, "Who are you" to Clippy (who was given the pink slip because offshoring), the annoying Office assistant. He replied, "I don't know what you mean. Please rephrase your question." The traits, hobbies I listed are meaningless—is this truly who I am? I think the world expects great things from me.

    I am like Samus Aran- a bounty hunter searching the galaxy for answers. I am all of the tribes in Final Fantasy- I believe in unity, resolutions, tranquility and mysterious. I am Bilbo Baggins—I proceed cautiously in the face of danger, explore new possibilities, and confront new challenges. I am Link, I set forth for an awe-inspiring adventure and courageously solve riddles. I am Gandalf, the advisor to the Fellowship. I am Kirby: the young star warrior who has neither knowledge nor identity.

Jack Thompson is an American attorney often cited in the media for his views on the effects of obscenity and violence in popular media. He's notorious for writing A Modest Videogame Proposal, a modest endeavor at emulating satirist Jonathan Swift.

In Grand Theft Auto or most videogames you're living yourself through a character and not yourself: similar to a film or a novel. If you can successfully hold Rock Star Games responsible when some kid shoots a policeman, then you've got to hold a thousand hack authors responsible when a serial killer turns up. Games aren't training people to kill. If anything, detailed instruction manuals at your local bookstore train your aggression.

            A video game cannot make someone do something they do not want to do. It can't control them or remove their free will. A video game can influence someone, but only someone with a tendency to be influenced because of some mental defect. The videogame is a supplement to the excessive reading of violent books, excessive watching of violent films. Parents have the responsibility to monitor videogames that their children play and shouldn't rely on ratings alone. The normal, average citizen won't slice off someone's head and kick it off to the curb just because they played GTA.

At early childhood games have a part in improving children's reading. At the older level videogames will impact on management, problem solving, and focus ability. Solving intricate puzzles, beating the toughest beasts and saving the town influences gamers positively. Building a world in Sim City builds confidence. I now have an astounding memory for details, names, and locations. Games—any games—are about 2 things, really: hope and joy. If you do well in a game, it gets you thinking, "Hey. I can learn to do things and improve myself." And that knowledge is powerful. All games are educational, whether they tout that fact or not. Just like a class in school, though, we get more from our education than facts or figures. If you have memory of videogames, then videogames make you human. Videogames are frustrating at times. They teach you if you work hard enough for something or have enough patience, you can build knowledge.

        When Jack Thompson crusades against violent video games, saying they cause violence and cause the breakdown of society, he crusades for censorship of all mediums. He should broaden his focus to books or films and learn that game playing is not real-- it influences people to a certain extent but usually in a beneficial way. Let's face it - video games don't kill people. Video games don't kill people: unhealthy minds and guns kill people.