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This Week’s Japanese VC Releases

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Super Famicom – Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shougun Magginesu (Konami)

PC-Engine – Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout (Spike)

NeoGeo – Ninja Combat (D4)

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Defend Your Castle: Round 300

Holy Crap!!! That is insane, and it keeps going too. Man this is going to give me nightmares!!

Final Fantasy IV English Trailers

I am sorry for using JeunxFrance, there video streams are down right horrible. If I find these videos some were else. I will differently post them up.


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NY Times: Video Gamers are “niche fetishists” and Wii saved us all

Pretty long article but a good and interesting read. Just to give you something to read over the Memorial day weekend.

Resistance Is Futile

By SETH SCHIESEL
IT’S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney.

When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher’s son living near Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters. When he wasn’t drawing, he made his own toys, carving wooden puppets with his grandfathers’ tools or devising a car race from a spare motor, string and tin cans.

Even as he has become the world’s most famous and influential video-game designer — the father of Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda and, most recently, the Wii — Mr. Miyamoto still approaches his work like a humble craftsman, not as the celebrity he is to gamers around the world.

Perched on the end of a chair in a hotel suite a few dozen stories above Midtown Manhattan, the preternaturally cherubic 55-year-old Mr. Miyamoto radiated the contentment of someone who has always wanted to make fun. And he has. As the creative mastermind at Nintendo for almost three decades, Mr. Miyamoto has unleashed mass entertainment with a global breadth, cultural endurance and financial success unsurpassed since Disney’s fabled career.

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