Feature: The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi’s Core Principles

Don’t disrespect the door stop. It’s taken me thirteen years to realise that chunky plastic wedge wasn’t a joke. It was a milestone. I finally got my hands on a Nintendo 2DS this week – that slate-shaped, non-folding, non-3D thing everyone mocked when it launched in October 2013. Opinion remains fiercely split: people love it…

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A Obscure Piece Of Japanese Action-RPG History Has Just Dropped On The Nintendo Switch, In The Form Of ‘Courageous Perseus’

Next week’s EGGCONSOLE title has also been revealed. This week’s EGGCONSOLE release for the Nintendo Switch has been revealed to be the Greek-mythology-inspired action RPG, Courageous Perseus. Released for the PC-8801 home computer, back in 1984, the game is the work of the developer Cosmos Computer and is considered to be a “masterpiece” that pioneered…

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