Nintendo Rocks My World Again
Last night I finally got my little claws on the special edition Nintendo DS w/ Mario Kart bundle. I've been wanting a DS for a while now so it was with much anticipation that I sped home from Fry's Electronics after purchasing it, carefully opened the box, cut out and applied screen protectors, then popped in Mario Kart and powered on the DS.First impressions: it's awesome. As if there was any doubt.
It's a Nintendo product, and they've never let me down (alright, the Virtual Boy was a bit of a disappointment). The DS is pretty big and hefty for a portable, especially since I'm used to playing my Gameboy SP, which is small and perfectly sized, but the button placement's good on the DS and the two backlit screens are sharp. Its form-factor isn't nearly as pretty as a PSP but once you're experiencing gaming bliss on it, you won't mind much.After some initial configuring (time, date, name, birthday, etc.) I was able to boot up Mario Kart and take it for some spins around the tracks. The game itself plays very smoothly (60fps, I've heard), looks very
similar to Mario Kart 64 and has the usual single player modes you'd expect from a kart game such as Grand Prix, Time Trial and Battle, but the game really shines when you're playing against human opponents, and since this game is the launch title for Nintendo's new Wi-Fi service, I was eager to try that aspect out. Getting the wi-fi enabled was fairly easy, even with the firewall and protection my internet connection has in place. Basically, I needed to input some WEPs and MACs and I was suddenly playing live people from around the world, wirelessly, in some 4-player karting action. Amazing and totally addictive. And did I mention Nintendo's wi-fi service is free?I have other games for the DS I've accumulated in anticipation of owning it but didn't get to them last night, I was so consumed with Mario Kart. It's really just a fun, perfect little racer, especially when playing live opponents. If I can tear myself away from it long enough, I'll try and take Nintendogs for a walk tonight.
6 Comments:
Did I mention that I like Mario Kart too.What is that Court?Yes Christmas is right around the corner...
Oh my God...
You need to send that picture of you in to Nintendo to use as an ad!
fig, don't wait 'til christmas - get it NOW!!!
not sure if that pic being used in a Nintendo ad would help or hinder my career in acting...
That pic is just frightening...plain frightening. Mario Kart is one of my favorite games ever. A homing missle turtle shell just as my jorful friend was about to cross the finish line (I've never seen the life actually leave a human being before) and me puttering by for the win in the background of his flipping kart are one of my fondest gaming memories ever. All he could utter was "in my own home..."
jk - i didn't know you were one of the mario kart faithful, too. you and fig both need to get the DS w/ mario kart and join in on the fun!
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