Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:59:30 GMT | 1 comment
So, last Friday I realized a long time dream I had. Going to a video game expo, in Japan. It's one of those reasons I'm in Japan, and Nagoya is only 1h15 and 1620 yen of train away, how could I not go.
The event was from 9am to 4pm and I was pretty excited so I took the train as early as possible. Going there was pretty easy, even though it was my first time visiting Nagoya. I got there around 9h30, had breakfast at the station and the first train on Aonami line was leaving at 10am. so It was a perfect timing. 10h30, I was sure inside. That's about the best I could do.
First thing I learned when I got inside... They were giving away 100 Wii to the visitors. We receive some kind of lottery number when we arrive and we can check if we have a winner number as we leaves. Now I was excited, hehe...
The new Nintendo Video Game console, previously codenamed Revolution and now called Wii is coming out very soon, around November 7th according to various rumors. And will most likely be a gaming revolution. Instead of just iterating on what is already known, the Wii promess a different style of gaming. Hell, it might even become healthy. What else could we ask for. With this new product they are targeting everyone, not only hardcore gamers or kids, but also parents, grand-parents and hell your dog might want to play.
There is various Nintendo convention announced around the world, This friday in America, Japan and Europe, not sure of the exact details at the moment, I can't find the link. And also the famous LEIPZIG GAMES CONVENTION 2006 and the exciting Tokyo Game Show from September 22nd to 24th.
As you might guess, I'm very excited. I could not exactly describe why as I have not been a big gamer, but like many of us, I start playing video games as I was kid and I always been very interrested looking at the newest stuff. Although I was not playing. Just following up with the news has been so far enough for my gaming needs. Until now, I thought everything was pretty redundant. Better graphics, faster game play, more AI, more stuff on the screen going at the same time. but overall, same games were just refactored and resold. The Wii changes that. It brings a whole new world of games into your living room. and as I said before, It might even be healthy. Fooling around with this Wiimote, standing up with your friends and family.
So for more excitement, I started looking at them game titles line-up to see what I might get. For more details about my choices, click on for reading.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:32:00 GMT | no comments
So I went to Joshin tonight as I needed a Air Duster for a long time to clean up my laptop keyboard. What I didn't see, the new Jet Black Nintendo DS Lite was coming out today. Yeah. I didn't even know about it. but I see this beautiful shiny black DS Lite stating its fresh from today. I thought "Ok, I'm gonna go crazy and buy it right now". So I did. I bought the New Super Mario Brothers, Indeed. and Project Hacker. Who changes, really? These are gonna be good for my japanese reading skills.
