The Mario Party franchise kicked off on the Nintendo 64, debuting in Japan in 1998 and reaching North American shelves the following year. Nintendo built the game around the N64’s four controller ports, leaning into the console’s natural strength as a couch multiplayer machine. For a console party game of its era, the title’s library…
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Things I Hate: Game & Watch Gallery 3 (GBC)
Game & Watch Gallery 3 is not a game I had back in the day. I did not really own a Game Boy Color, and by the time I had a Game Boy Advance, this was an afterthought. I actually had the very first game on the Nintendo Game Boy and liked it okay. But…
Things I Like: Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo Switch 2)
Donkey Kong Bananza impressed a lot of people last year when it premiered and eventually released in the summer for the Nintendo Switch 2. I was one of many people who had a lot of interest in it, although I did not actually get it until Christmas. I also waited until I finished Metroid Prime…
Things I Like: Mario Kart World (Nintendo Switch 2)
I think a lot of gamers don’t realize that the best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch wasn’t a Legend of Zelda title, nor was it Super Mario Odyssey or any of the other fantastic games on the platform—it was Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I wasn’t shocked at all to see it chosen as the launch…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Video Game Yoshi’s Story
Yoshi’s Story was released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. It was eventually re-released digitally on the Nintendo Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. In 2004, China received a version for the iQue Player. This was the first Yoshi game not directed or produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, although he did provide some designs and supervised…