[Nintendo DS 48] In the Navy

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 16:28 schreef Xrenity het volgende:
volledig naar het Nederlands vertaald

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 16:29 schreef disjfa het volgende:

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Als ze dat hebben gedaan en alleen die versie hier in de winkels komt dan mogen ze m houden....

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 16:28 schreef Xrenity het volgende:
Brain Training komt op 19 mei, voor 30 euro, en de game is volledig naar het Nederlands vertaald

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 16:29 schreef disjfa het volgende:
Als ze dat hebben gedaan en alleen die versie hier in de winkels komt dan mogen ze m houden....

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 16:50 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
Vertaling is niet het probleem trouwens, zoals X al zegt is het de perfecte manier om een grote groep kids met ouders te lokken.

Ik vind alleen 30 euro veel geld.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 16:28 schreef Xrenity het volgende:
Brain Training komt op 19 mei, voor 30 euro, en de game is volledig naar het Nederlands vertaald

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 18:27 schreef RaymanNL het volgende:

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Dat vind i kjuist keigoed nieuws! Dat is 15 euro goedkoper dan een normaal DS spel! En helemaal nederlands! Dat is kei fijn spelen! Ik ga het spel halen

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To his fans he’s a knight in shining armour; a creator of fantastic worlds where plumbers rescue princesses and young boys become sword-wielding heroes. But now Shigeru Miyamoto has become a real life knight himself, of the ‘Order of Arts and Letters’.

The title (which doesn’t make him ‘Sir Shigeru’, sadly) was bestowed upon Mr Miyamoto in Paris this week by the French Ministry of Culture. Miyamoto, along with Michel ‘Rayman’ Ancel and Frederick ‘Alone in the Dark’ Raynal, became the first videogame designers in the world to receive such an award.

The accolade is further recognition for Miyamoto’s lifetime of work that has brought pleasure to millions (and led Time Magazine to call him “The Spielberg of Video Games”). Also, for a game designer to be honoured for his contribution to the arts is great news for the whole games industry.

We joined Miyamoto in Paris after the ceremony where we got a glimpse of his shiny new medal (check out the pics in the Images gallery), drooled over his Nintendo DS Lite, and played with his new Nintendog: a Dalmatian called Luigi.

Helped by his interpreter we first ask Miyamoto how it feels to be given such a prestigious award, and in his trademark style he remains as humble and down-to-earth as ever.

“My feeling is that I have received this on behalf of many other people who have been working together with me to create videogames,” he says. “And in a much broader sense I think it’s very important for the industry that we can receive this kind of award.”

So does Miyamoto think videogames are now becoming culturally acceptable, like movies and literature?

“Videogaming has only about 20-25 years of history; in comparison movies have over 100 years, and literature has a lot longer,” says Miyamoto. “We have just come to the stage where everybody recognises videogaming, so I think we have just passed the first phase. I think videogaming is going to go forward in an exciting way. We are expecting a number of different new technologies that affect our industry, and the ability of people to deal with new technologies is going to be a vital part of how the videogame industry is going to evolve."

Listening to Miyamoto speak in his easy-going way, we forget for a second that we’re sitting in a posh Paris hotel, surrounded by journalists from across Europe who are clamouring to interview the legend himself. There’s no doubt Miyamoto is a massive star – but does he feel like one?

“Well, you know I used to commute to work by bicycle until recently,” he says, laughing. “But because I am now one of the executive board members, the company ordered me not to, for the sake of ‘risk management’!”

So what is a typical ‘day in the life’ of Shigeru Miyamoto?

“As for the morning, I’m afraid to tell you that I am not a very punctual person,” he laughs. “But every day I have to work until very late at night. People report to me via email the progress of software in development and I am always looking into what’s happening with each game and sometimes, if it’s necessary, I add my own opinions and advice. That takes up about half of my working time and as for the remainder of the time I visit each developer to see what kind of progress they are making. I often become a tester myself so that I can touch and get a feel for the project they are working on.”

So what about his latest project, New Super Mario Bros. (coming to Europe this summer)? Why did he decide to bring back Mario in the classic side-scrolling style?

“We are always challenging ourselves to make something really new and this new Super Mario Bros. game is going to be very important. Nintendo DS has been hugely successful, especially in Japan, and we owe a big part of the success to a software line-up called ‘Touch Generations’. People who have never played videogames before are purchasing Nintendo DS as their very first game machine.

“When we launch New Super Mario Bros. for DS this could be the very first videogame these people play. Of course we already have Super Mario 64 DS but it is a more advanced version of Mario. With New Super Mario Bros. we are going back to the basics. It’s going to be simple enough to control but yet have sophisticated enough content. We have been working hard to make the best Super Mario game we can.”

We’re intrigued. Can he reveal what the game’s story will be, for instance?

“That’s rather interesting because a number of our staff members came up with a number of different stories,” says Miyamoto, smiling. “I told them that we really don’t need any story behind this new Super Mario Bros. at all. I have narrowed down the whole story to about half of what my team originally came up with. Peach is kidnapped, Mario has to go and rescue her from Bowser and the Koopa Kids. That’s about all you need to know for the story!” he laughs. “But what you really need to know is that in the quest you are going to encounter some unprecedented play ideas.”

'Can you give us some examples of these ideas?' we ask.

“Well, we have drawn everything from 3D graphics,” explains Miyamoto “so that from time to time you are going to encounter something really astonishing visually but as far as the gameplay and control is concerned, that is going to be very simple.

“When it comes to Mario, sometimes you may be able to do an ultra super jump and you are going to see a very unique and unprecedented jumping style. In terms of Super Mario, everybody already expects him to become bigger but this time, with the help of a Super Giant Mushroom, Super Mario can become gigantic, taking up almost all the screen, and he can destroy everything.”

‘And Mario can also become very small, by using another type of mushroom, right?’ we add.

“Right,” says Miyamoto “and that’s not all. For example, two players can play as Mario and Luigi at the same time, in the multiplayer mode. Sometimes you have to compete with each other to reach the goal, and sometimes they can fight against each other. You remember the game Mario Bros.? In that, Mario and Luigi could sometimes cooperate, sometimes compete. I think it’s more fun to have two players play simultaneously in this New Super Mario Bros.

“And you remember in Super Mario 64 DS we incorporated a number of minigames? Each of these minigames is going to be available in New Super Mario Bros. In each minigame both Mario and Luigi can compete against each other. Some you can play in two-player or four-player mode with one cartridge.”

Sounds great! But hang on, didn’t Miyamoto mention Koopa Kids a second ago? We haven’t heard from them in a while. We inquire if the new game has the same kind of ‘Level, World, Fortress, Boss’ structure as in Super Mario Bros. 3.

“Unfortunately I am not in a position to tell you anything further, sorry, but basically yes you are right!” says Miyamoto, chuckling.

OK, consider our appetites whetted! So New Mario Bros. is a classic style game, therefore, we want to know, are there going to be classic style cheats, like warp pipes and the old ‘walking along the top of the screen’ trick?

“Well, there will be many people who play New Super Mario Bros. that have never played a Mario Bros. game before," he tells us. "But at the same time we want to evoke a kind of nostalgic feeling in those people who used to play with the past series, so we are now trying to incorporate as many old tricks and tweaks as possible into this new DS version.”

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 18:29 schreef Xrenity het volgende:

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Same here. Krijg ik mn pa nog wel aan het brein trainen En aan de Sudoku natuurlijk

Interview over New Super mario bros
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Klinkt érg gaaf!

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Even with the evolution, Tetris DS is still Tetris at heart, and this dual screen portable version is a fantastic continuation of the classic puzzle game. The small evolutionary changes may be a turn-off to the stubborn purists out there that just want Tetris left alone, but most of the changes work to the benefit of the original game's design. And you haven't lived until you've played ten player Tetris complete with rotation-freezing lightning bolts and piece-shifting banana peels flying between the systems. And the addition of internet play, while nothing new to PC Netris gamers, is a fantastic option, even if it's just a little minimalist in options. Once again, Tetris, you do handheld gamers proud.

http://ds.ign.com/articles/696/696181p1.html

9.0

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 07:41 schreef Strolie75 het volgende:
IGN review van Tetris DS
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Ik wil hem

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 07:41 schreef Strolie75 het volgende:
IGN review van Tetris DS
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Ik wil hem

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 08:12 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:

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Beste Tetris sinds Tetris Ik wilde m eigenlijk niet halen, maar nu misschien toch maar wel...

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 08:20 schreef Strolie75 het volgende:
Tetris en Worms...mooie combo.

Ik heb sowieso een tik dat ik DS games per twee moet kopen

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 08:42 schreef Morthill het volgende:

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Bust-A-Move erbij, kost maar iets van 22E op dvdboxoffice

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 08:47 schreef RaymanNL het volgende:

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Nu ga je te ver

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 08:51 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
Hoe cool Bust a Move ook is... Ik ga m niet kopen. Als ik Bust a Move drang heb start ik dit wel op:

http://64.246.26.61/flash/bubbles.swf

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 09:28 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
Tetris is vele malen toffer dan Bust a Move. Bovendien heb ik die game ook op de GameBoy.


Tetris ook wel... maar dat is anders

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 09:32 schreef RaymanNL het volgende:

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Tetris Ds is gewoon ook cool door z'n nintendo dingetjes enzo

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 11:33 schreef Lexie het volgende:
Wat komen er ook ontzettend veel toffe games uit .

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 09:04 schreef Morthill het volgende:
Dat kan ook met Tetris

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 11:37 schreef BMH het volgende:

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Je statement komt een half jaar te laat. Maar toch heb je op dit moment ook gelijk.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 13:10 schreef __Saviour__ het volgende:
De DS heeft geen eigen opslagmedium zoals de memorystick op de PSP.
Wel zijn er flashcards van third parties te koop, daarop kun je homebrew spellen zetten.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 13:19 schreef outcast-within het volgende:
aha en op die flash cards kun je daar gekraakte spellen opzetten?

Ik weet niet of dat eigenlijk al gebeurd is. dat kraken

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 14:35 schreef P-Style het volgende:
Dat wordt hier niét besproken!

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 15:59 schreef outcast-within het volgende:
Ok Ok. Verkeerde forum om zulke vragen te stellen ^-^
Er zijn zeker geen forums waar je wel zulke vragen kan stellen?

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 15:59 schreef outcast-within het volgende:
Ok Ok. Verkeerde forum om zulke vragen te stellen ^-^
Er zijn zeker geen forums waar je wel zulke vragen kan stellen?

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 15:19 schreef Strolie75 het volgende:
Wanneer komt Children of Mana eigenlijk uit?