They're as pretty as they are nostalgic, and somehow project Nintendo's recognizable warmth out of the most digital of synths. These little nuggets of synthwave goodness have racked up millions of views on YouTube. Props also have to go to Toshiyuki Sudo, for the ludicrously jazzy Everybody Votes Channel music.ĭon't think of me as weird for still listening to these themes-I'm honestly not the only person doing so. He's the man behind most of the channels, including the Wii Shop, Mii and Check Mii Out channels. Slider in Animal Crossing is based on him. On top of that, he's provided voices for Yoshi, Professor E. Classically trained at the Kunitachi College of Music, he joined Nintendo's R&D1 company in 1990 and has been working on soundtracking games ever since. Related, on Waypoint: check out the best video game music of 2016 Nintendo games have long had great tunes-that 1986 Zelda theme is pure 8-bit elegance-but these Wii ditties were so damn catchy that listening today takes you right back to the exact channel they soundtracked. Instead, it's the music that accompanied its various channels. So it didn't take long for people to realize they could win a game of Wii Sports tennis sitting down, but for all the small complaints that crawled out from the public, the system still sold upwards of 100 million units.Īnd now, the thing that makes me most nostalgic for the Wii, in its era of commercial dominance, isn't any of its many excellent games, nor its strange and pointless controller add-ons (come on, your dad can admit that golf club appendage was a waste of money, now).
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And it's crazy to think that it's now ten years since it found itself under Christmas trees across the globe, consequently whipping up a thousand horror stories of TV screens smashed by flying remotes. Undoubtedly, though, it's the Wii that represents Nintendo's commercial high point of the past decade.
It would seem that the only way is up, with the Wii U being left behind in the coming months. Much to players dismay, the less-than-fine-tuned control scheme offered a short list of attacks and allowed hordes of enemies to be slain with a few. The company's Super Mario Run was a surprisingly robust mobile title, the most-downloaded item of anything on the App Store on Christmas Day. Nintendo's incoming Switch is sold-out on Amazon pre-orders in the UK and US, and it tested pretty well once the press got its hands on it (check out our impressions and Switch-special podcast).
Now that the game is on PC, Mac, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo platforms, they’ve teased that “…only the 3DS will be missing, but maybe not for too long.Today, things are looking rather rosier. Being able to hold the screen right up to my face in order to inspect every pixel before trying to make a perfect jump is a real treat for a platformer over-thinker such as myself.Īccording to a press release from Team Meat and port-smiths at Blitworks, the Wii U may not be the only Nintendo platform to play host to this fleshy little fella’s adventures. I also love having the option to play on the Wii U GamePad. Depending on how you decide to approach the game, you could either have an exciting but relatively breezy time, a white-knuckle, molar-cracking, buckaroo daredevil ride of your life, or anything in between. I also don’t think I fully appreciated how tightly fine-tuned Super Meat Boy‘s difficulty scaling is until now. While I wish Team Meat was able to add some of the Nintendo-specific content it had originally planned, and I miss DannyB‘s original score (particularly this track), the new music works well in its own right, utilizing live instruments to evoke a more organic feel than Danny’s largely synth soundtrack. If anything, I think I love Super Meat Boy even more now than I did then. Thankfully, that hasn’t turned out to be the case. When our own Mike Cosimano announced that he thought we gave the game too much credit the first time around, it occurred to me that maybe I was wrong for seeing it as a work of genius back in 2010. I’ve been playing the game for a future Nintendo Force review, and though I loved it the first time, I’m still shocked by how much I still love it. They’ll have their chance to find out on May 12, when Super Meat Boy launches on the Wii U for a special two-week sale price of $14. Fetus even popped up in some DLC for Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2. Though these cameos may have helped Nintendo fans to learn about Meat Boy, many who don’t spend much time with non-Nintendo platforms might not know first hand what makes him special. He appears in a cut scene in Bit.Trip Runner, as a power up in Bit.Trip Fate, and as a playable character in Retro City Rampage. While the original launch build of Super Meat Boy for WiiWare was killed before it was born, the titular character still managed to make a few appearances on Nintendo consoles in the years that followed.
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