Samrat Sharma

gamer/geek/dreamer

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Archive for the 'Nintendo DS' Category

Miyamoto Army FTW!

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

So the gamers of the world are at least a more concentrated bunch than Korean pop fanboys. And thank your Mario stars for that, because it was neck and neck, really.

Image courtesy Businessweek.
See, Time just release their most influential person of the year poll results, and from when I voted, Shigeru Miyamoto was at 58, [...]

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A whole lot of people like to recap their year and tell everyone what they thought of it, and I guess I am that sort of person too, but these are not borrowed thoughts like most. Though talking about 2007 does seem kinda moldy and I even thought I almost found a reason to not [...]

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Yay, Nintendo DS Top Game System Of 2007

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

This little system saved my gaming soul last year:

And this year, it is the single largest selling videogame console.
Via Game|Life:

Nintendo of America says that it has sold over 6 million of the systems through November 30, at a rate of one every five seconds.
Four DS games, all from Nintendo, have sold over 2 million units [...]

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Face Training!

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

So Nintendo has announced Face Training and a camera attachment for the DS. Otona No DS Kao Training, or Face Training, includes a camera that plugs into the Game Boy Advance slot on the Nintendo DS and takes a video of your face as you play the game. This is what the Japanese call “facening,” [...]

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Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Call me a slave to my DS, but the announcement that Dragon Quest IX will appear on Nintendo DS has sent feelings of plusgood joy in me. It’s a bad day to be a Sony fan right now, which I am, to an extent, but an awesome day to be a Ninty dude.
In Japan, [...]

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