Tag Archives: Nintendo
Real Doctors, Console Chow & Arcade Dreamscapes – Culture Collection #23
It’s been a good long while since the last instalment of Culture Collection, our regular round-up of the best gaming-themed cultural offerings from around the web. You can read a little bit about Minus World’s recent radio silence here, but … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Collection, Features, Games Culture, Posts
Tagged Arcade, Art, Culture Collection, Famicom, Features, Food, Game Boy, Games Culture, Mario, Nintendo, Pokémon
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Unique 16-Bit Apparel Celebrates an Obscure Chapter in Nintendo’s Hardware History
From Elude Visibility (the online store of the archive of prototype and unreleased game ROMs of the same name, curated by Matthew Callis of superfamicom.org) comes some video game-inspired apparel that pays homage to Nintendo’s fascinating hardware history, reaching into … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Games Culture, Merchandise, Posts
Tagged BS-X, Fan Works, Fashion, Games Culture, Merchandise, Nintendo, Satellaview, SNES, St.GIGA, Super Famicom
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Splatoon 2’s Music Scene Comes to Life with New Shirts from THE KING OF GAMES
EDITMODE is expanding its range of Splatoon 2 apparel with a new line of six graphic t-shirts, inspired by in-game merchandise for the Splatoon universe’s most popular fictional bands. If you’ve spent any of the last few weeks indulging in Splatoon 2‘s fiercely competitive multiplayer … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Games Culture, Merchandise, Posts
Tagged EDITMODE, Fashion, Games Culture, Merchandise, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Splatoon, Splatoon 2, THE KING OF GAMES
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Super Deluxe Style with Gray Parka Service’s Kirby 25th Anniversary Souvenir Jacket
Gray Parka Service have teamed up with HAL Laboratory to produce a special souvenir jacket (or ‘sukajan’) in celebration of the Kirby series’s 25th anniversary this year. The back of the jacket is proudly emblazoned with the stylised title logo of … Continue reading
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Tagged Fashion, Games Culture, Gray Parka Service, HAL Laboratory, Japan, Kirby, Merchandise, Nintendo
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Bold Controllers, Forgotten Worlds and Taking out the Trash – Culture Collection #22
This amazing shot was taken by ethnographer and photographer Laura de Reynal. In her photographs, de Reynal has worked to capture the impact of projects run by companies that aim to introduce the internet and other technology into communities where it … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Collection, Features, Games Culture
Tagged 3DS, Arcade, Culture Collection, Features, Game Boy, Games Culture, Mario, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Splatoon
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Fresh New Threads from EDITMODE’s Splatoon 2 Collection
Kyoto-based EDITMODE have given us a glimpse of their fresh new line-up of officially licensed Splatoon-themed apparel, to coincide with the release of Splatoon 2 next month. This follows a successful line based on the first game, which featured clothing items from … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Merchandise
Tagged EDITMODE, Fashion, Japan, Merchandise, Nintendo, Splatoon, Splatoon 2, THE KING OF GAMES
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Uniqlo X BoxBoy Apparel Line Serves up an Unexpectedly Adorable Collaboration
Following on from their partnership with Nintendo for the UTGP t-shirt design competition, Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo have announced a collaborative apparel and merchandise line featuring characters from HAL Laboratory‘s puzzle platformer gem BoxBoy. The line is fronted by a pair … Continue reading
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Tagged 3DS, BoxBoy!, Fashion, HAL Laboratory, Japan, Kirby, Merchandise, Nintendo, Uniqlo
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Masahiro Sakurai’s Exhaustive Smash Bros. Blog Gave Me a Year of Joy and Agony
Between New Super Mario Bros. turning ten last May and the recent discovery that the Smash Bros. DOJO!! – a website used by Super Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai to promote the then upcoming release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl – began updating ten … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Musings, Opinion Piece, Posts, Retrospective
Tagged Features, Masahiro Sakurai, Musings, Nintendo, Opinion Piece, Retrospective, Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wii, Writing
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Musings on Life and Culture from the Contemplative Mind Behind Doshin the Giant
Toco Toco‘s latest Japanese cultural showcase focuses on Kazutoshi Iida, the creative mind behind Aquanaut’s Holiday, Tail of the Sun and Doshin the Giant – minimalistic, pensive experiences that blend the traditional hallmarks of game design with distinctly human elements aimed at encouraging thought … Continue reading
Posted in Games Culture, People, Posts, Video
Tagged Aquanaut's Holiday, Art Games, Artdink, Doshin the Giant, Japan, Kazutoshi Iida, Nintendo, People, PlayStation, PS1, Tail of the Sun, Toco Toco, Video
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Highlights from the 2017 My Famicase Exhibition
We introduced this year’s My Famicase Exhibition, an art show consisting entirely of creative designs for make-believe Famicom games, at the end of last month. Hosts METEOR have now uploaded their full online gallery of every cartridge on display. After … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Cartridge, Famicase, Famicom, Games Culture, Japan, Meteor, My Famicase Exhibition, NES, Nintendo
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