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Super Mario Galaxy Enters the Twilight Zone |
Listed in: Wii Tags: Flash Memory, Jimmy Peterford, Nintendo Power, Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario
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Even though everyone up here at QJ has already read and re-read this December issue of Nintendo Power from 1991, we still couldn't quite believe what we were seeing. Jimmy Peterford of Glen Cove, NY, must have powers of divination when on his letter to the editor he wrote and nailed, "Super Mario Galaxy" as a future game for his dream console. As many of you know, Super Mario Galaxy is Shigeru Miyamoto's newest addition to the Super Mario Bros. franchise and is being developed for the Wii.
The hair-raising similarities doesn't end there. Even if he was way off the mark on the name of his dream console, it is uncanny that he gave it a price tag of $259.95 as the Wii's reported selling price would be $250.00. You can even go as far as saying that the 512-bit system he was referring to could be in future reference to the Wii's 512 MB built-in flash memory or that the miniature band is in relation to the remote being shaped like a conductor's baton. Eerie.
Because of the countless similarities, I think we pretty much can conclude that Peterford went down a green pipe as he survived an attack by a piranha plant in 1991 and was miraculously transported to 2006 for him to have had those kind of predictions.
Via gamersreports
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Making your own games for it? Nintendo plans to release a free development kit for the Wii, no?
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you can do all that in harvest moon, the only downside is that the work is not done is the real life :( . But it's a lot more fun then to do it for real lol.
Oh, and one question is important: "but does it do windows?" asked in the upper right corner, so I suppose the sony playstation 3 is a good choice folowing the question, lol.
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He talks about playing every game from every system that ever was and ever will be. In realistic terms, the idea of having such a back-log of games has evolved into the Virtual Console.
He also talks about the ability to buy a special chip to make games for it. In full, he expresses many gamers' want to build their own games. The nostalgic notion of indie game developers is apparent in the Wii with the much, MUCH cheaper price tag of the developer kits.
And he talks about Super Mario Galaxy.
No, the Wii doesn't have 27,876,992 color range, nor does it have a miniature band in it, and it doesn't come with six 27-button controllers. And it isn't Raw Power.
But the dreams of a child are the most pure. We as adults get so used to convention and limits that we forget what it means to dream of something so different, so utterly amazing.
If someone at Nintendo told me his letter influenced the idea of the Wii, a system with such in ingenuity, I would no doubt be surprised. But it is a surprise I would happily embrace. Because it tells us that it is a system from the fans, for the fans.
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