John Carmack taps DS for latest game
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
{ Jan 9th 2007 at 11:55AM }
In a brief interview with Game|Life's Chris Kohler, the lead ego at id Software (psychology joke!) expresses interest in porting one of his recent cellphone titles to Nintendo's touchy-feely portable. John Carmack explains that the potential port of Orcs and Elves (not to be confused with long-rumored comedy adventure, Orko and ALF) would be enhanced and would represent his first step back into the historically colorful lands of Nintendo. Carmack recalls that "we were always just kind of peeved at the whole Nickelodeon censor arrangement with Nintendo. So we've kept them at arm's length for many console generations now." Thankfully, Nintendo has long since embraced limb-severing violence and is unlikely to inject bizarre green blood into Carmack's tale of swords, sorcery and ... is that Smaug?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mandarin @ Jan 9th 2007 11:58AM
Must have finally found out that not many buy cell phone games...
Jonah Falcon @ Jan 9th 2007 12:07PM
John Carmack is a superego. :p
DrkMatter @ Jan 9th 2007 1:07PM
What exactly is the Nickelodeon censor arrangement with Nintendo Carmack is referring to?
benjamin @ Jan 9th 2007 2:18PM
Gaya? More like Gay-a, AMIR...er, wait...
rubaiyat @ Jan 9th 2007 2:49PM
What's with the terrible formatting for the dragon's text?
Those hyphens are unnecessary. I hope whatever game that is doesn't have that throughout.
PuniPuniSakura @ Jan 9th 2007 3:46PM
3: green/no blood, other censoring that was required in the NES days by Nintendo
Maniac Mansion had it worse :P
DrkMatter @ Jan 9th 2007 4:10PM
@6: What does this have to do with Nickelodeon? o_O
FSK405K @ Jan 9th 2007 4:33PM
"would represent his first step back into the historically colorful lands of Nintendo." The last step was, of course, that Super Mario Brothers was the inspiration of Commander Keen, and that the brothers Carmack/Romera REMADE SMB for PC as a test of how to develop a side-scroller without a NES.
Tom @ Jan 10th 2007 3:02AM
If you don't know that SNES famously censored red blood out of Mortal Kombat in the mid 90's then you need to learn a bit about the history of video games in general. Crack a book, FSK405K obviously did :) What does any of that have to do with Nickelodeon? Kids channel=censorship. Not a bad metaphor, I understood it right away.