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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 7:25PM (Unverified) said

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Donkey kong ?

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 7:38PM (Unverified) said

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No, it's not going to be Donkey Kong. It's going to be a franchise that hasn't had a game in a long time. While DK hasn't had a Wii game yet, he's had games on every other system.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:08PM kamanashi said

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Donkey Kong was on Wii. It was Bongo Blast, one of the most horrible games ever.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:21PM (Unverified) said

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Ah, that's true. I forgot about Bongo Blast.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 9:58PM (Unverified) said

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Barrel Blast. I wish it was Bongo Blast...
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:09PM Snowman said

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I'd love to see a real Donkey kong Country game made for the wii....side scroller for sure.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 7:41PM (Unverified) said

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The three most obvious choices would be:

Kid Icarus
PilotWings
Punch Out!!

(If true) I wonder if it would be one of them or something completely unexpected.

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 7:49PM (Unverified) said

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I know you do good work here Chris Greenough, but....are you thanking yourself?

"[Thanks, Chris!]"

:P

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:16PM Dave Hinkle said

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Chris talks to himself a lot, actually. We try to pretend it's what normal people do. :D
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 9:12PM (Unverified) said

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Somebody here needs to appreciate me.

* sob *
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 11:16PM (Unverified) said

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Ah, that's what I get for submitting tips under my real name.

Or am I Chris Greenhough in disguise???
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 7:59PM OMGITSJAD said

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Probably Kid Icarus. If IGN's Matt C. is to be believed, then Nintendo probably decided that they could announce Kid Icarus at a later time. Thus brings us to Thursday.

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:01PM (Unverified) said

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Hmm, I wonder if it's maybe Balloon Fighter? or Maybe Kid Icarus, or Ice Climber? Maybe Clu Clu Land will be revived!
This is exciting!

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:07PM Mr Khan said

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I ABSOLUTELY refuse to get hyped this time.

All i expect from this is a US date for Disaster. All else will simply be a pleasant surprise

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:09PM kamanashi said

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I know what you mean. All the excitement followed by dissapointment at E3 made me lose faith in Nintendo.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 9:11PM Mr Khan said

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Ehh, that whole "we will be announcing core stuff at E3" was incorrectly paraphrased

But still, if you look at that BINGO card they had, what we were expecting was more than they ever have given us in one sitting
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:35PM 8bitartist said

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a few pikmin 3 screens would be cool as well.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:14PM (Unverified) said

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I know what it is. They’re going to make a new Mega Man game.

….What’s that? They what? Last week?

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 8:22PM (Unverified) said

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Eh, an undocumented source may just mean someone off record who would lose their job if they were found out.


Like deep throat from Watergate, but only much less important in the grand scheme of things.

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 9:02PM ripvanwinkle said

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Remember what happened at E3. Let's not let that happened again.

Don't get any hopes up.

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 9:26PM (Unverified) said

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I remember E3...that's where they announced a bunch of cool new games, that they were making Pikmin 3, voice chat (Wii Speak), and superior new control functionality (MotionPlus)....

Let's hope they don't announce anything Thursday and Friday because I certainly don't want a repeat of E3 either.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:06PM ripvanwinkle said

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Read my comment again. I'm not saying anything about what Nintendo should do.

People were disappointed by E3, and no argument can change that. Sure, they did announce some cool stuff, but most of the things that people were hyped up for did not appear at Nintendo's conference.

Plus, you can never be certain about Pikmin 3. We have no launch window whatsoever, and we have no idea of the nature of the title. It's good news, but no reason for joy.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:21PM (Unverified) said

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how can we not be certain about a new pikmin installment when it's already been anounced?

stop being such a debbie downer
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:29PM (Unverified) said

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You're right. I did misread and misinterpret your comment. Sorry.

I read so many comments (here and otherwise) about people saying nothing good came of E3, so I kinda jumped right on that when you weren't actually talking about that.


People's hypes do ruin things. People expect such outlandish things sometimes that when they are not announced, people get downright ticked off.

Everyone would be better off if they didn't have high hopes as you said, and just let the conference happen (and hopefully be surprised and excited for what is announced).

Just look at the E3 bingo card we had here. 24 spaces. Even at the best conferences, 24 things won't be announced. Now the options presented on the card were admittedly reasonable (as opposed to some predictions I saw), but even by merely presenting 24 options is going to leave more than a few people disappointed.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:38PM 8bitartist said

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what cool new games did they announce at e3? wii sports 2? wii music? animal crossing? fuck outta here. pikmin 3 was announced and thats it. wii speak is going to be lame and not many people care about motion plus.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:49PM ripvanwinkle said

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I was guilty of getting hyped up for E3 as well. I'm trying not to get hyped for this too, but I'm sorta failing. These news stories get me too excited :P

And about Pikmin not being certain: I used weird wording for that. I know we're getting a new Pikmin, but it's not certain that it's good news. We don't know anything about the game other than that it's a part of the Pikmin franchise.

Voted up for debbie downer.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 10:52PM JoshMilewski said

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Nintendo's Media Summit in Japan is Wednesday and Thursday, no? And it's already Wendesday ~noon in Japan...Maybe we'll be hearing some good news during this North American night?

Or will we have to wait until Thursday for some simultaneous Japan and North America announcements? (Thursday being the second and last day of the Japanese Nintendo Media Summit, and the first day of the two-day North American Nintendo Media Summit)

I just want to know when I can expect all this Media. ^_^

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 12:55AM (Unverified) said

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The Media Summit will be taking place on October 2nd and 3rd (Thursday and Friday).

Japan is 13 hours ahead of EST, so if Nintendo kicks things off at 9am on Thursday, the earliest we'll hear stuff is by 8pm EST on Wednesday. Naturally, we'll be waiting to blog anything juicy as soon as the event starts!
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Posted: Oct 1st 2008 4:45PM (Unverified) said

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I believe I read somewhere that the summit starts at 1:30pm in Japan, so the earliest we'll hear stuff is about 12:30am EST.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2008 4:50PM JoshMilewski said

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Ugh, I have classes tomorrow, so I can't stay up late. :(
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Posted: Oct 1st 2008 4:55PM JoshMilewski said

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Nevermind, this sounds very convincing:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/01/report-new-multimedia-ds-announced-tonight/

So I'm going to stay up to see the new DS model. Joystiq, DO NOT be late in your blogging tonight.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2008 11:26PM (Unverified) said

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I think we are long overdue for a Pilotwings game.

Posted: Sep 30th 2008 11:28PM (Unverified) said

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Please be Ice Climbers! Hmmm 3D no handpainted wait 8-bit perhaps. Who cares it would be great! But i thought it was gonna be announced at this thing. . . Its a letter then a Number like K7. I guess the event was cancelled, because I Googled exciting new Nintendo game nothing came up except for this thing. . . DUCK WALKING!! no wait it was called Animal Crossing

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 12:51AM phenylketonurics said

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Man, it's all business being a video game consumer. NO JOKES GUYS.

Um, let's go Adventure Island! Wait, it's about a Nintendo franchise ...

Let's go Mario Paint!

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 12:55AM beez1717 said

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i want an F-Zero GX style game

oh I'd also like to see kid icarus

but f zero gx is my top game that i'm looking forward to if it exists

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 1:30AM SisypheanLife said

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Probably Star Fox.

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 1:44AM (Unverified) said

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A few months back I attempted to pre-order Pilot Wings Wii from Gamestop.com and was never able to complete my order.

I just now googled it, just for the heck of it, and it still shows up, but no longer on the GS webpage itself. I don't know what the deal is.


Anyway, if we're getting anything 'classic', I want Punch-Out!!. Bad.

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 4:58AM Bakeriffic said

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Rad Racer Rebirth!

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 8:36AM (Unverified) said

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My bet's on Kirby. While we're speculating on old franchises, let's not forget about the ones that weren't on a twenty-year hiatus, and which we knew were in development.

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 9:30AM Hoosier812 said

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I would love to see a new Pilotwings, Star Fox, or F-Zero game. I have spent countless hours playing all three.

Posted: Oct 1st 2008 9:53AM (Unverified) said

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The fact that it's an "old" franchise being "revived" makes me think it won't be the Wii F-Zero I so desperately crave. Last F-Zero was on the GameCube, after all.

So I'm betting Kid Icarus.

...maybe Clu Clu Land lololololololololololol

Posted: Oct 2nd 2008 2:01AM (Unverified) said

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This wouldn't exactly be a revival but...F-Zero? =D

Posted: Oct 2nd 2008 3:03PM ethd said

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STARTROPICS! WHO'S WITH ME?!

...

Um... I'm gonna go dig out my old NES, mmkay?

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