Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: Meta
Have you checked out our interview with Nintendo Wii development scene heartthrob Johnny Chung Lee? Dude, why not? Uh, it’s not a good enough reason. The man — how he speaks, how he thinks, it just makes us swoon. So pick apart the guy’s brain a bit in our extensive interview.
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Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: Fan stuff, Interviews
James Baker collects games, but probably not in the same way that any of us collect games. Baker recently coughed up $15,000 for one of the 26 gold-colored NES carts that were originally manufactured for the Nintendo World Championships in 1990 (only twelve are still accounted for) — in [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News, Imports
Wii Fit must be easier to produce than Wii consoles. Nintendo hasn’t been able to rectify the console shortage that has stretched since the Wii launch, but they have gotten their act together in terms of Wii Fit production.
Nintendo U.K. told GamesIndustry.biz that “stock is coming in all the time [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News
Apparently the report yesterday that Ghostbusters on the Wii would allow you to use your DS as a simulated PKE meter was in error. Terminal Reality’s Mark Randel (who is kind of a strange authority on this game since Red Fly Studio is developing the Wii and DS games, but who [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News, Imports
A new listing on Hudson’s website reveals a planned Japanese release of Mezase!! Tsuri Master Sekai ni Challenge!, which translates to Fishing Master World Challenge. This could mean that the sequel to Fishing Master challenges the player to hook the entire globe with his fishing line, reeling it in impossibly [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News
Europe, sad news: you’re getting Okami. No, no, that’s not the bad part, as the really horrible part of this news is just when you’re getting the game. That day is June 13th. It’s a tough wait, we know, but the critics seem to think it’s worth your time.
Europe, are [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: The VC Advantage
The VC Advantage is usually geared toward nostalgia — specifically, evoking the memories of a time gone by, when we were denied resources such as GameFAQs, we had to look up codes in magazines, and we had to walk two miles uphill to school (both ways!). Help was available [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News, Peripherals
Here’s something: despite our initial skepticism, we actually really like the Wii Wheel — in fact, it’s all we use now for Mario Kart Wii. The only downside? At $15 per wheel (or £7 in the UK), buying enough for four-player matches can get kind of pricey.
So the way we [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News, Screens, WiiWare
At a press event for Mastiff’s virtual maw-filler Major League Eating: The Game, professional eater Tim Janus (the guy with the face paint in the screenshots) broke the world record for sushi-eating, devouring 141 pieces of sushi in six minutes. Imagine being a hapless member of the gaming press, [...]
Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: News
For those of you who like to collect promotional DVDs, know that GameStop is giving away free DVDs that show off Wii Fit. Our best guess is that the footage on the DVD is things you’ve already seen (here at Wii Fanboy, we hope), so if you’re intending on picking it [...]