The Wii and Game Cube are different

The Wii was lumped in with the Game Cube with this following statement and this blogger is not pleased:

‘The hardware is basically a GC. We’ve upgraded our development tools to new versions but, you can still use GC programs as they are. With that in mind, I thought we could remake GC titles for the Wii and modify them to work with the Wii remote so that they’re more fun to play.’ 

Wii Is Not Game Cube

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The Evolution of the Video Game Console 1972-Present

Magnavox Odyssey (1972-1973)

Atari PONG (1975)

Coleco Telstar (1976-1979)

APF TV Fun (1976)

Fairchild Channel F (1976-1977)

RCA Studio II (1976)

1292 Advanced Programmable Video System (1976)

Color TV Game(Nintendo, 1977)

Atari 2600 (1977-1989)

Bally Astrocade (1977-1985)

Magnavox Odyssey² (1978-1984)

APF Imagination Machine (1979)

Mattel Intellivision (1980-1984)

Epoch Cassette Vision (1981)

Atari 5200 (1982-1984)

Milton Bradley Vectrex (1982-1984)

Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982-1983)

ColecoVision (1982-1984)

Sega SG-1000 (1983)

Nintendo Entertainment System
and the Nintendo Famicom
1985-1995: U.S. 1987-1996: Europe 1983-2003: Japan 1990-present: Nigeria

Sega Master System
1986-1992: US 1987-1989: Japan 1987-1996: Europe 1989-present: Brazil

Atari 7800 1986-1991: U.S

Amstrad GX4000 1990-1991: Europe

Commodore C64 Games System

NEC PC Engine / TurboGrafx 16
1987-1996: Japan 1989-1994: U.S.

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
1988-1996: Japan 1989-1998: U.S.
1990-1998: Europe

SNK Neo-Geo
1989-2004: Japan 1990-2003: U.S.
1991-1996: Europe

Super Famicom / Super Nintendo

Commodore Amiga CD32
1993-1994: U.S., Europe

Laseractive
1993-1996

FM Towns Marty
1993-199?: Japan

3DO Interactive Multiplayer
1993-1995

Atari Jaguar and Atari Jaguar CD (add-on)
1993-1996: Japan, U.S., Europe

Sega 32x (add-on)
1994-1995: Japan, U.S. 1995-1996: Europe

Sega Saturn
1994-1999: Japan 1994-1998 U.S., Europe

Sony PlayStation
1994-2006: Japan 1995-2006: U.S., Europe

PC FX
1994-1997: Japan

Bandai Pippin
1995-1997: Japan 1996-1997: U.S.

Nintendo 64
1996-2002: Japan, U.S, Australia. 1997-2001: Europe

Sega Dreamcast
1998-2002

Sony PlayStation 2
2000-present

Nintendo GameCube
2001-present

Microsoft Xbox
2001-present

Xbox 360 (Microsoft)
2005–Present

Wii (Nintendo)
Fourth Quarter 2006

PlayStation 3 (Sony)
November 2006

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Get Nintendo GameCube and Games Cheap

Have you been into an Electronics Boutique lately? They’re selling used (but certified) GameCubes for around $79 bucks. They have games for as cheap as $10.

Why is this cool? Because you can buy these as a second box for kids (to keep them off your shiny new XBox 360), or as a second setup for people who have LOTS of friends over to the house to play games all at once (they can use the second console on another TV while waiting for their turn at the big system).

Or, if you’re a huge GameCube fan, you can get another box and inexpensive games to augment your collection.

In any case, it’s a win.

(No, I don’t work for EB or any of their affiliates. I saw this at the mall and was impressed).

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Game Controller Family tree

Want to learn when the analog stick’s speciation from its ancestor the d-pad? or how about where the mutation known as shoulder buttons came from? Well, fear not, all your game controller evolution questions are answered in Sock Master’s Game Console Controller Family Tree. Starting with the classic Atari joystick, and Nintendo’s Game and Watch (alright I admit it, the only reason I know what that is, is Mr. Game and Watch and his flipping bacon from Super Smash Brothers) it covers everything up to the just released PS3, 360, and Revolution controllers, clearly illustrating the Nintendo, Sony, and Sega/XBox lineages along the way.

I was also glad to see that I’m not the only one that finds the original XBox controllers less intiutive and more badly mishappen than I’d hope. Fun fact for the day:

In what has perhaps become an industry first, the original Xbox controller has largely been abandoned in favor of the Controller S, which has now been adopted as the controller of choice.

I’ll just pretend that they left all these original controllers in the stores, and thats what I keep getting stuck with whenever I play the demo for five minutes, succeed in shooting everything but the alien, throwing a grenade not quite three feet, killing myself, and in short realizing I still don’t quite feel the need to buy an XBox just yet.

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We Need Another Portable Nintendo Like We Need Another Law & Order

Looky here. Nintendo might be making a GameCube even easier to carry into Gamespot to exchange for gamebucks. Awesome! [engadget]

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Big Apple, Meet The Big N

Just when you thought Times Square had rid itself of freaks and losers, Nintendo comes along and builds its “World Store” in midtown, guaranteed to bring them back.

Planned for a spring opening in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, the two-story mega-complex will showcase the best of Nintendo, the worldwide leader in interactive entertainment. [It] will be a place where visitors can check out the best new and unreleased games for Nintendo DS(TM), Nintendo GameCube(TM) and Game Boy(R) Advance SP at high-end sampling bars and interactive stations.

Upcoming Nintendo World Store in NYC Gives Nintendo and Pokemon Fans a New Home [WarCry Network]

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‘Sin City’ or ‘Killer 7′ Trailer? You Decide.

It’s got more personalities than Roseanne and more stylish anime weirdness than Super Milk Chan. Now the GameCube’s other game for grown-ups, Killer 7, has a new trailer. And damn, that paraplegic has skills! [GameInformer]

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Spittin’ Game(cube)

*EXCLUSIVE*

In light of yesterday’s disturbing article that McDonald’s is paying rap/hip-hop artists to mention its, er, cuisine in their songs, we have to wonder, is Nintendo doing the same thing?

We give you exhibit A: Lyrics from Mike Jones‘ Still Tippin’, courtesy of A-Z Lyrics.

“Blowing on the endo Game Cube Nintendo/
Five percent tint so you can’t see up in my window”

Funny, most gangsta’ rappers prefer Xbox or Playstation 2 for their mature games like GTA and Narc instead of the G-rated ‘Cube. Hanging around all of those white rappers must be making Mike Jones soft.

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Pac-Man Chompin’ At the Bit To Make Come Back

Since freebasing crack on The Bloodhound Gang‘s hit song “Mope” in 2000, reports of Pac-Man’s whereabouts have been sparse.

Good news: The famous yellow mouth is back to celebrate an amazing quater-century of life, clean and sober — or so Namco would have us believe:

Leading video games developer and publisher Namco Hometek Inc. announced today that it is celebrating Pac-Man’s 25th birthday with the release of Pac-Man World 3 this fall. … Shaped like a pizza missing a slice and making a wocka wocka wocka sound, Pac-Man exploded onto the video game scene and never looked back. 25 years later, Pac-Man has starred in dozens of games and has been the inspiration for more than 400 different products from cereal to watches to air fresheners and even a cartoon.

Ms. Pac-Man, on the other hand, hasn’t aged so gracefully turning $5 tricks in Jersey.

NAMCO CELEBRATES PAC-MAN’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH PAC-MAN WORLD™ 3 [Namco]

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