Posts tagged super-guide

Super Guide returns in Donkey Kong Country Returns

by JC Fletcher (Nov 8th 2010 7:00PM)

Last year, New Super Mario Bros. Wii introduced the "Super Guide" -- if you died eight times in one level, you'd get the option to have Luigi play through it for you (and you could take back control at any time) -- and gaming was ruined forever. (Not really.) Nintendo has since included the Super ...

Patent details Xbox 360 hint system

by David Hinkle (Nov 25th 2009 8:00PM)

Microsoft must like Nintendo's new Super Guide system, because a patent has recently popped up online detailing a similar system for the Xbox 360. The core difference between Microsoft's proposed system and Nintendo's comes from community input; the patent not only touches on a way for users to ...

Miyamoto: Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be 'really difficult'

by JC Fletcher (Nov 16th 2009 1:00PM)

Much like he did for the just-launched New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Shigeru Miyamoto has announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be "really difficult." But will it be so difficult as to require Nintendo's new in-game life preserver, the Super Guide? Miyamoto isn't so sure yet. "In general," Miyamoto ...