Showing posts with label Nintendo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nintendo. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

PLAY: Nintendo on Facebook

The FreeNES app created by Lance Strish promises to provide hundreds of Nintendo games playable on your Facebook page.

If that's not a reason to leave behind MySpace I don't know what is. Except if all your friends are on MySpace -- then it's probably not such a great idea.

[FreeNES at allfacebook]

Sunday, July 8, 2007

MAKE: Beginner Nintendo papercrafts



Via Crafty Crafty comes these Nintendo papercraft print-outs. They look easier than, say, certain other papercrafts, and would be cute to have around the house. Next time you find yourself doing a jigsaw puzzle on a rainy day, how about you rustle up one of these instead?

[Nintendo papercrafts via Crafty Crafty]

Saturday, July 7, 2007

CULTURE: Wii'll not forget



This is the kind of advertising that makes you forget - just for a moment - that the company responsible just wants your money. First the advertisement team pushing Blue Dragon cast a shadow across the streets of Shubiya, and now Nintendo is getting creative, displaying these wall mosaics made out of colored posted notes in various locations around Italy. On the back of each individual note is a message encouraging the recipient to pay homage to the 80s by playing old-school favorites on the Wii.

Your move, Sony. Impress us, eh?

[Nintendo Wii: Wii'll not forget via The Cool Hunter]

Thursday, July 5, 2007

GET: Nintendosoup poster


Ben Fry has a unique game poster available for download. The images were created by extracting and rebuilding the code from a number of Nintendo titles.

This piece examines the unpacking of a Nintendo game cartridge, decoding the program as a four-color image, revealing a beautiful soup of the thousands of individual elements that make up the game screen.
The full poster is available as an 84 x 120cm .pdf and contains 4-color reconstructions of Contra Force, Double Dragon, Dr. Mario, Galaga, Galaxian, Bump n' Jump, Joust, Ninja Gaiden, Punch-Out, RBI Basketball, Burger Time, Super Mario, Yoshi, Super Mario 3, and Zelda II - Adventures of Link. The poster contains more than a hundred panels like the one pictured above, extracted from the Double Dragon cartridge.

[mariosoup, poster link at bottom]

Thursday, June 28, 2007

CULTURE: Nicole Kidman, playin' ur DS



That's Nicole Kidman fronting the latest DS ad campaign. I'm not sure which message Nintendo is trying to convey more: 'beautiful Hollywood actresses play DS so you should too', or 'Yes Nintendo makes that kind of money.'