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Who made it? Nintendo R&D1 and Intelligent Systems. What’s the premise? Originally, you would use the NES Zapper to shoot 8-bit ducks on your CRT television set as they flee from your hound. It was a pack-in title for many a NES console, and would get some callbacks in pointer-based shooting minigames in Wii Play — and the dog/duck duo would turn up in Smash Ultimate, of course — but Duck Hunt was officially re-released just once on non-8-bit hardware, for reasons we’ll get into below. Why should you play it? Because outside of OG NES/Famicom hardware connected to a…

Since its launch back in 2017, the amount of quality games that have come to Switch is simply staggering. Nintendo’s system has quite literally thousands of titles to enjoy, many of them absolutely free to download and play, and many of the others with free demos available on the Switch eShop, so you can try before you buy.Below we’ve collected together some of the best demos on the eShop. It’s a genre-spanning, motley mixture of AAA releases, indie gems, undeniably brilliant titles and others that may be more of an acquired taste — and therefore perfect fodder for a gameplay…

Image: NintendoWe’re now nearing the end of the month and that means we’re getting closer to the end of the 3DS and Wii U eShop service. If you haven’t got around to making any last-minute purchases just yet, and are wondering what’s hot on the 3DS eShop right now, the weekly sales chart for North America should help you out. As you can see below, the Pokémon Virtual Console games continue to dominate the charts – with the second generation title Pokémon Crystal in the lead. Just below this is Pokémon Red followed by Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon Gold, Pokémon Silver…

Not to say it’s cheap. Currently listed for $795 on Herman Miller’s website (£845 in the UK), this is hardly a ‘budget’ option, but at less than half the price of the Embody, it’s certainly more affordable and boasts the same attention to ergonomic detail you’d expect from a firm with a reputation for delivering the very best in the business when it comes to parking your derrière for prolonged durations. For your money, you get features such as ‘Enhanced Gamer Tilt’, ‘PosterFit Spinal Support’, and a thoratic support pad, as well as regular things you’d expect such as breathable…

Image: Nintendo LifeNintendo has made the fetching Game Boy poster set above available in European My Nintendo Stores. Featuring key art from three handheld classics — Super Mario Land 2, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and Metroid II: Return of Samus — these My Nintendo Store exclusives are available on the stores across the region for 600 Platinum Points, plus shipping. According to the webpage, these 70 x 50cm posters are “printed on 200g/m² glossy coated artpaper and will be shipped rolled up in a box.” You know, as opposed to folded up in an envelope or scrunched up…

Image: Nintendo It’s that time of year again when The Strong Museum announces its ‘World Video Game Hall of Fame’ finalists and for 2023 there’s been two Nintendo classics nominated. First up is the 2006 Wii launch title Wii Sports – featuring five motion controller sports in one collection, and next, we’ve got Rare’s licensed N64 shooter from 1997, GoldenEye 007. As amazing as both of these titles are, they’re also up against some serious competition. The other nominees include the following games: id Software’s influential FPS Quake, Microsoft’s legendary RTS Age of Empires, arguably the best CoD – Call…

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Atlus has revealed that it will be holding a Shin Megami Tensei concert as part of Anime Expo 2023 in July this year. The concert, which is exclusive to Anime Expo attendees, will be held at The Novo on 1st July and is one of many events across the year that the company is holding to celebrate the demonic RPG series’ 30th anniversary. This is also the first-ever official live anniversary concert for the series in the west. Partnering with the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, Shin Megami Tensei 30th LIVE: Band…

Let’s move on to what other critics thought, then. First up is GameSpot, who scored the prequel a 9/10. While they agreed with us on the controls, they had a huge amount of praise for the writing and story, particularly Cereza: “Cereza is every bit as charismatic as the older version of herself in this game. Her lines are delivered with sincerity, youthful joy, and emotion, and her moral compass and strength make her easy to love.” Matching GameSpot’s praise is IGN, who also awarded PlatinumGames’ newest title with 9/10. The outlet loved the charm, look, and feel of the…

Image: Nintendo LifePerhaps one of the hardest products to acquire for the Nintendo Switch is the wireless N64 controller. Not only is it an item exclusively available to Switch Online members, but there’s also incredibly limited stock. Fortunately, Nintendo has been doing its best to keep up with the demand, and it seems there’s a resupply coming to the Australian My Nintendo Store later this week. As highlighted by the Aussie Nintendo website Vooks.net, there’ll be a restock this Thursday on 16th March at 1pm AEDT. Customers are limited to a maximum of four controllers per My Nintendo account, and…

Elsewhere in the interview, when asked about what we might see from the Switch’s successor, Bowser was typically coy with his response, focusing instead on the success of Nintendo’s current console which he is “still feeling very bullish about” as he hinted towards “a very very strong lineup” coming to the Switch in the future. Seems like a pretty standard response, right? Well the NOA president followed it up by commenting on the uniqueness of the Switch, potentially hinting that its successor may take a similarly unique approach: one of the reasons that even going into year seven we feel…