When Pokémon Snap launched in 1999, it wasn’t exactly the console Pokémon game that people wanted. However, it has garnered a positive reputation and a large fanbase, all of whom are surely clamouring for a sequel. In the latest Pokémon Sun and Moon news, the games will be getting a minigame called Poké Finder, which looks fairly close to a new Snap title.
Pokémon Go fever is still gripping the world, and more and more countries are getting hooked on the game. Japan issued public safety warnings and the game already has a healthy following here, despite not having been officially released. A little while ago I compared Pokémon Go to a bunch of other popular Google searches to demonstrate exactly how popular it is. Let’s revisit that.
Nintendo’s NES home console was probably one of its most memorable, and to this day some gamers still make a huge effort to recapture that feeling when they first powered on the system and played games on it in their youth by building their own replicas. Nintendo’s offering of its take on the retro NES love with the NES Classic is a great move, and with a $60 price tag it will literally fly off the shelves. However, there’a a catch – the system can’t be updated with new games. There’s no SD card slot or service port exposed to take advantage of, and Nintendo stores all games locally and provides save locations for them, but there’s no way to back those up or to transfer them.
Nintendo clearly intends on making mini versions of its other consoles, and selling them with games as a standalone package. It’s a bit weird in the information age where we expect firmware updates and DLC, but that’s the whole point of retro gaming. However, this isn’t the end for the NES Classic – once enthusiasts get to taking it apart, they’ll probably start by trying to find a service port to hack into the device. There already is a USB port at the rear which is apparently for power. If you can slap a USB drive in there somehow with literally every NES game known to man, that would be amazing.
Source: Techspot
Nintendo has just revealed the NES Classic Edition, a “near-identical, mini replica” of the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. The revamped console features an HDMI port and comes bundled with a controller and 30 retro-nostalgic games, so you know what? You know it’s on. Like Donkey Kong. Z-SNAPS. Actually, that is one of the games.
The world’s infatuated with Pokémon Go. There’s been so much Pokémon-related news that it makes me think we’re in the early 2000s all over again (South Africa was late to the PokéParty), and it’s amazing seeing millions of people rediscover their love for the franchise.
But really, how popular is it? Is it more popular than Twitter? How about Donald Trump? These are questions I’ve asked myself, so I turned to Google Trends for the answers.
