Archive for December, 2006
Angry Nintendo Nerd reviews 3 more Bible NES & SNES Bible games (Christmas fun part 2)
Looking back at part 1 of Christmas fun cracked me up, so here’s part 2. This is the eighteenth in a series of bad video game reviews by the Angry Nintendo Nerd. “Bible Buffet†is an unlicensed Nintendo cartridge made by game developer Wisdom Tree released in 1993. Bible Buffet is a “video board game” with Bible quizzes.
The second part is Super Noah’s Ark 3D, which is the SNES’ only unlicensed game, of course put out by Wisdom Tree in 1994. This conversion of the Wolfenstein 3D engine & maps featured the player, as Noah, attempting to quell upset animals on the Ark by flinging sleep-inducing fruit at them.
The third part shows Wisdom Tree actually put out the somewhat decent NES Zelda ripoff game Spiritual Warfare in 1992, which the Nintendo Nerd of course hates with a passion.
The fourth part shows yet another Wisdom Tree 1991 NES release King of Kings, which is similar to last week’s Bible Adventures, but now featuring three events in the early life of Jesus Christ. Those being: The Wise Men, Flight to Egypt, and Jesus and the Temple, let the Angry Nintendo Nerd try and explain these abominations to you…
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A big thanks to all you regulars and new visitors for dropping by after we’ve been experiencing growing pains for half a week. We’re now on our own server, so that should be enough to keep VGB online now and in the future. As you can see from the last ten updates, expect lots of news this week!
Here’s a list of this weeks U.S. game releases.
Monday:
R-Type - $8 (Wii Virtual Console)
Street Figher II: The World Warrior - $8 (Wii Virtual Console)
Super Castlevania IV - $8 (Wii Virtual Console)
Super Mario Bros. - $5 (Wii Virtual Console)
ToeJam & Earl - $8 (Wii Virtual Console)
Wednesday:
Major League Baseball (DS)
New Rally-X - $5 (Xbox Live Arcade)
Rafa Nadal Tennis (DS)
Thursday:
Tenchu: Time of the Assasin (PSP)
And as there’s next to nothing coming out in stores at the end of the year, here are the European game releases.
Friday:
Free Running (PSP)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PSP)
Gran Turismo HD Concept free PS3 download this holiday season
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced that starting Christmas and lasting the entire holiday season North Americans (so not just Japanese GT fans) will be able to enjoy the release of Gran Turismo HD Concept for free! PS3 owners will be able to download it exclusively on the PlayStation Store.
Developed by Polyphony Digital, this driving game features an all-new Eiger Nordwand course for players to be the first to drive a Ferrari on a PS3, as well as having the option to select a car from nine other worldwide manufacturers that include Infiniti, Lotus, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Suzuki.
Available only for a limited time, Gran Turismo HD Concept takes full advantage of the PS3 hardware performance by providing full HD 1080p resolution and next-generation car physics ushering in a new era of racing for the gaming industry. No online multiplayer mode is included, Sony claims if you want that you’ll have to wait for GT5.
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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express game (behind the scenes with David Suchet)
I don’t know why, but at Christmas and during the entire Holiday Season it always seems like the perfect time to read, watch, or play a murder mystery. At least *I’m* NOT watching Home Alone on TV again! 
Climb aboard the luxurious train and become part of the famous murder mystery as you play the video game adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Famed game designer Lee Sheldon (previously of And Then There Were None) and AWE Games have teamed up once again to bring mystery adventure fans the second game in the Agatha Christie series.
Staying true to the novel, players will step on to the lavish, richly appointed train that departs Istanbul hurtling toward Paris. The train is filled with passengers, one of whom is the high profile Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. A passenger recognizes him, asks for protection, but is turned down. The next day that individual is found dead.
Players take on the role of Antoinette Marceau, a new character, who works alongside Poirot to investigate the savage murder. With a train filled of suspects, Antoinette will need every tip that she can garner from Poirot in order to pinpoint the killer.
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Poke Diamond and Pearl Pokemon with your pre-order limited edition stylus
On April 22, 2007, Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl become available in the Americas for Nintendo DS. Unique pre-sell styluses featuring new Pokémon from the new games will be available by reserving the game early at participating retailers. No more pre-order details were given yet.
Set in an entirely new region called “Sinnoh,†players can choose to begin their adventure as either a boy or girl Pokémon trainer on a path to becoming Pokémon League Champion. The adventure continues as players can bring Pokémon from their Game Boy Advance Pokémon games to Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl using the GBA game slot on their Nintendo DS.
As players trade and collect Pokémon to complete their Pokédex in this new challenge, for the first time they’ll have the chance to catch new Pokémon, Munchlax and Weavile. They also can play via local wireless with up to eight other trainers while new moves and abilities deepen strategy.
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Introversion announces fourth PC game Subversion
On Introversion’s blog, they announced their “fourth game is going to be called Subversion.” The new PC game idea started out in 2003, was then put on hold repeatedly during development of Darwinia and then Defcon, now their upcoming project has started development again, pre-production to be exact.
To quote Introversion staff member Chris: “It has changed and grown and solidified and matured into something quite beautiful, and we’re finally in a position to be able to do it justice. It’s going to take us a couple of years, but as a company we’re getting bored of keeping everything secret for so long, and the decision has been made to open the process up to the world. Our next game will be developed in the full glare of the general gaming public, and we hope you enjoy the process as much as we do.” Via Eurogamer
Data-Fly stealth-action title coming to Xbox 360 & PS3 in 2008
Data-Fly is a new upcoming game for the Xbox 360 and PS3, it’s in development at ORiGO Gaming Entertainment. ORiGO is aiming for a 2008 release on the Xbox 360, the game is not announced for PS3 yet, but a PS3 version apparently will be made.
Storyline: In a world and location unknown, an entity emerges from a capsule in the desert, a nanotech artificial intelligent lifeform called FLY. FLY is given orders through her internal programming and told she is to follow out a directive to release her creator “Azadeh” from confinement, deep within a military facility, located in a canyon side near her location. However, the expected activation time for FLY unit is found to be 2 decades late, and the location of Azadeh has changed. Now FLY must unravel the location of Azadeh, without being captured herself.
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PSone’s MediEvil now available for PSP at the PlayStation Store
Super, another game you can only download to your PSP if you have a 60GB PS3. The original PSone game MediEvil is now available for download to your PSP. The solid 1998 adventure has been available as a $5.99 download from SCEA since last Friday. Another new game in the series was released on PSP last year titled MediEvil Resurrection.
That PSone game becoming available in the American PlayStation Store might seem ok, until you see what Japan got in the same week: Dino Crisis, Mr. Driller, R-Type, Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. And some others we can’t make heads or toes from: Gekitotsu Toma L’Arc: L’Arc-en-Ciel vs Tomarunner, Global Force: Shin Sentou Kokka, Migi Hadari USA, “Taiyou no Shippo: Wild, Pure, Simple Life”, The Conveni: Anomachi o Dokusenseyo.
Halo Warthog or Peugeot Hoggar?
Resembling an imposing 2-seater buggy, the Peugeot Hoggar looks avant-garde and unreal at first sight. That is if you’ve never played Bungie’s Halo Xbox games. Vast open spaces spring to mind, easily accessible to judge from the Warthog’s robustness and latent power. Oops, that’s supposed to read “the Hoggar’s robustness”. This concept car relies on unique and proven HDi engineering solutions, enhanced by original technology, such as the adoption of two power trains and appropriate wheels and suspension. So it’s more than a model on a designer’s computer or in a videogame.
The Hoggar is a sports car for extreme conditions, with two seats and two up to the minute power trains deployed transversally, one at the front, the other at the rear, giving it the attributes of a 4-wheel drive vehicle. While the radiators are common to both engines, the one on the right features a low temperature loop to cool the intake air. Air from outside is captured at the front of the vehicle and is supplied to the radiators through a conduit incorporated in the bonnet lining. Picture via Ultimatecarpage.
The Peugeot Hoggar was a concept car before Halo was ever released, so who resembles who and who got the design first will always be open for debate.
Happy Holidays from VGB
While it’s nice to know you all cared enough to visit VGB half a million times over the course of the long Christmas weekend. All that attention melted our shared server, making us either hard to reach or unavailable, so as the Pikmin pictures hinted at we’re now getting a new server just for VGB on Wednesday. We’re hoping that will fix the problem, and if it does you should start seeing updates appear midway or at the end of the day. Fingers crossed! We hope you got lots of games for Christmas and had a fun time with family and friends. The Gears of War sure did with Alvin and the Chimpmunks! 
