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The Nintendo Famicom All Pulled Apart [Teardowns]
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Before there was the NES, there was the Nintendo Family Computer AKA Famicom, an early version of the ultra-popular console sold in Asian markets starting in 1983. So, wanna see what the center of a online game revolution appear like? These shots from iFixit and Wired ...
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Nintendo Dropping DSi and DSi XL Prices [Nintendo]
Nintendo has announced they're preparing for just a little price cutting earlier than the 3DS launch. Starting September 12th, you'll be capable of pick up a DSi for $129 (down from $149), and an XL for $169 (formerly $189). [ CrunchGear ]Source
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The Wii Gets a Golden Classic Controller for GoldenEye [Nintendo]
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Nintendo is bringing back GoldenEye, the classic first-person shooter from the N64 days. So it\'s only natural that they create a golden controller with it. Of course, just what number persons are going to wish to play a SD FPS on the Wii once they could play, you know, good FPSes like Modern Warfare 2 has ...
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Gorilla goes hands-on with Nintendo DSi XL at the San Francisco Zoo
Looks like Nintendo\'s DSi XL has finally found its target market. Video after the break. [Due to everyone who sent this in] Source
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Real Life Donkey Kong Playing With His Nintendo DS [Image Cache]
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Donkey Kong plays Donkey Kong while Donkey Kong Jr. watches. OK, maybe he\'s not playing DK, however\'s just nearly as good. The story involves a kid, a number of real gorillas at the San Francisco Zoo and a contented ending. On August 6, amateur photographer Chris Spicuzza was spending her day at the San Francisco Zoo, ...
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Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes, Poorly [Gaming]
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Here's both completely cool and totally useless: a collection of engineers going by Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas created a manner of controlling an original NES by simply moving your eyes. By using electrodes placed around the eyes to track the movement of a players eyeballs, they were ready to jury rig a Nintendo to simply ...
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Nintendo issues a 3DS release date date
Find the headline confusing? Well, the rationale won\'t help to soothe the muddle much. A Nintendo spokesman told Bloomberg Japan that Ninty plans to announce the Nintendo 3DS price and release date on September 29th. So far, we\'ve only seen speculation about pricing (between $249 and $299) and release dates (between October and March, 2011). ...
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Nintendo Will Reveal 3DS Launch Date On September 29th [Nintendo]
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Nintendo works in strange ways. They first announced in March that they\'d be announcing the 3DS (which we saw in June), and today they announced they\'ll announce the release date on September 29th. Got it? Phew. [Bloomberg via Kotaku]Source
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Nintendo posts Q1 loss on strong Yen and lower DS prices
Although foreshadowed, it\'s hard to believe but that the once mighty Ninty, a firm with unshakable profits even during last year\'s global economic downturn, just recorded a Q1 net loss of ¥25.22 billion ($288 million) compared to a net profit of ¥42.32 billion in the course of the same 3-month period a year earlier. Revenues ...
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UK bans R4 cards, makes Nintendo DS pirating ‘double illegal’
While us Yankees are celebrating the single small victory for all that\'s right and good represented by the new DMCA jailbreak exception, things are looking a touch bleaker for UK gadget-heads this afternoon. London\'s High Court has ruled that R4 cards, which might be used by homebrewers and the occasional no-goodnik game pirate to bypass ...
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EA calls Nintendo 3DS ‘magical’ & says it will sell ‘like hotcakes’
And now EA has said what we\'ve all been saying: the Nintendo 3DS is incredibly the piece of apparatus. Granted, EA doesn\'t used a similar bit of forced Briticism that I just did, but the sentiments are a similar: Nintendo has successful on its hands. It\'s one who when one of us say it, but ...
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Nintendo unlikely to significantly alter 3DS design before release
In an interview from this year's E3 that's only just been published, Nintendo 3DS platform producer Hideo Konno says that the upcoming handheld is in its " final shape." Reggie Fils-Aime, the company's leading North American voice, has more recently told us that, au contraire, the E3 consoles are not the final design, though ...
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Walkman Outsold iPod in Japan During August [Apple]It's party time for Sony, as the planets of consumerism aligned to earn it a unprecedented win over Apple's iPod music-playing range. It's the first time Walkman has outsold Apple's music players inside the region since iPod arrived in 2001. Sony had to make a number of sacrifices with the intention to win back musical market share, though, aggressively under-cutting the cost of its rival.![A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]](http://nexgadget.com/images/A-DualBooting-Tablet-Running-Android-Sounds-Barmy-Viewsonic-Tablets_tuTo-_0.jpg)
A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 's specs. I don't think anyone shall be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even supposing Windows 7 's also there too. I can't consider many the explanation why someone would need a dual-booting tablet, but obviously dual-booting laptops (running something like