Tag Archives: Nintendo
Short Post on the Early History of Console Cloning
I wanted to share a guest blog post I did for the Strong Museum of Play’s Play Stuff Blog during my summer fellowship there last year. The post entitled, Clones in the Archives: Console and Software Cloning Practices in the … Continue reading
Splatoon 2 Players Fight Hate with LGBT Pride
There’s been an interesting development going on in the Splatoon 2 community. Players can interact with their fellow peers via shared in-game pictures and messages. For anyone familiar with Mii-verse, these messages are more or less mii-verse posts in game … Continue reading
Can the Nintendo Switch Create Physical Gaming Spaces?
I recently did a pilot study of physical gaming spaces and why individuals choose to attend gaming events. I’m currently looking to extend the pilot study to a fully realized research project, and will hopefully share it when it is … Continue reading
Pokemon Go: A Bizarre Social Experiment
I don’t need to tell you that Pokemon Go released this week for IOS and Android in the U.S, you already know this because of the numerous grown adults who have stopped right in front of you while walking. The … Continue reading
This Day in Gaming History: A Wild Pokemon Appears
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, with February 27th 1996 being the Japanese release date of Pocket Monsters Red and Green on the Nintendo Gameboy. To say the original Pokemon games were a momentous release is an … Continue reading
This Day in Gaming History: Nintendo’s Legend
30 years ago on February 21st 1986, The Legend of Zelda released on the Nintendo Famicom Disk System in Japan. This original title in the long running Legend of Zelda franchise has had tremendous effect on shaping our modern day gaming … Continue reading
This Day in Gaming History: Nintendo’s Revolution
This is a new feature on the blog in which we look back at some of the important landmarks of video game history and explore how they changed the video game landscape. Today we take you back to the futuristic … Continue reading
Nintendo Celebrates Women’s History Month
Nintendo’s been making some headlines this week with their announcement that they’ll soon be entering the smartphone app world, but they’ve also been hard at work highlighting some of their memorable female characters in honor of Women’s History month. Here … Continue reading
Book Review: “Console Wars” by Blake J. Harris
We’re back in July with a new type of post! A book review! Wow! Due to my slovenly nature and general disdain for sitting around and reading, I’ve never had the chance to share my thoughts and opinions on a … Continue reading
Nintendo at E3: More Gender inclusion (Is that a female Link!?)
Nintendo’s digital event went live this morning, and they showed off an array of games including the first footage of the upcoming Zelda game, Smash Brothers, and Yoshi title. As we discussed during last year’s E3, Nintendo has really been … Continue reading
