Quote:Nintendo Plans Stuff
New trademarks hint at fun stuff down the road.
June 01, 2004 - One of the biggest crazes amongst Japanese fan sites is to keep track of trademark filings from your favorite game companies. This practice has resulted in numerous finds for game-related products prior to official announcement. Notables include Sega's Shining Tears trademark, which turned into the Game Boy Advance game of the same name, and Nintendo's Origin Of Our TV Games, which, while a total mystery at first, turned into the catch copy for the Famicom Mini series of titles and is stamped onto every game in the series over in Japan.
Nintendo's latest filings have people even more confused (and intrigued) than the "Origin Of Our TV Games" trademark. Registered recently in Japan were the following: "COMMANDERPACK," "COMMANDER," "MISSION," "Manebito/Camera," "Ningen-Copy/Manebito," and "Peach Hime."
The last trademark is the easiest one to explain. Hime is Japanese for Princess, making the trademark read "Princess Peach" in English. We're not sure why Nintendo has chosen to patent the name of Mario's favorite princess-in-distress now, but perhaps an all-girl platformer is in the works.
The first three trademarks seem to be connected to one another and are so mysterious that we can't even conjecture what they could be. The first two are written both in English and in Japanese Katakana characters while the third is just in English.
The remaining two would be just as mysterious had Nintendo not provided images with their registration. Ningen Copy translates to "Person Copy," with Manebito translating to "Someone who imitates." Given that the word "Camera" appears along side that, one gets the feeling that Nintendo may be planning a camera peripheral of some form. Perhaps this is the big GameCube peripheral that the company has been speaking about.
For now, we can do nothing but speculate. The two pictures for "Manebito/Camera" and "Ningen-Copy/Manebito" can be seen below. Look closely at the bottom picture and you'll note what seems to be a GameCube inside the second kanji that forms the word for "Person." Hmm...
A camera is attached to the
"Ka" character in "Camera."
"Ningen" (person) is written with a camera
attached to the first character and a GameCube
forming the center part of the second character.
Quote:As memories of this year's E3 begin to fade, we bring you some good news from Nintendo on the DS and its lineup at launch!
Multi-platformers may take interest that the Nintendo DS is now scheduled for a supposed March 18th launch in the European region - which will put it head to head against the PSP if true.
Furthermore, the following first party titles will supposedly be available at launch, no surprises here as they were mostly the Demo games at E3.
Animal Crossing DS
Mario Kart DS
Metroid: Hunters
Super Mario Bros. Game
Nintendogs
Pictochat
Super Mario 64x4
WarioWare DS
European release date. Blah.
That's a pretty good first-party lineup, but what exactly is "Nintendogs"?
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/anpj/index.html This Napoleon game looks interesting, and it seems to be rather deep... *Darunia suddenly walks to Japan, through the oceans, and demands that Nintendo release this game, the Japanese, being 3 inches high, try to ride Darunia like a horsey*
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/cero.html So THIS is Japan's new rating system... Alright then... in other news it seems that Zero Mission was JUST released yesterday in Japan. Yay them!
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/software/bhtj/index.html Japan, this is a formal apology from these United States... This attack of karp games from our homeland to yours was unwarrented and unjust. May our packages of Blizzard games (via Capcom) help in the rebuilding...
I like that new show that's all detectivy! Yes, it's rather cliche and it's not exactly deep or anything, but it brings me back to my childhood when I read things like Encyclopedia Brown and Sherlock Holmes short stories. I LOVED solving mysteries like that! So, it's fun to see a series where it's all just finding clues and puzzle solving, even if it's just a simple little thing. Ah the naustalgia... oh no... it's swarming over me aaaaaahhh!
I think we should all get together in some summer cottage and do the thing where someone dies and we all have to find out who did it before that person kills... you know again...
Since I started the original, now infamous Goron Front thread to explain my absence, I'll start the sequel (hopefully less violent and ominous) to explain my newer absence: internet explorer keeps crashing when I open it recently. AIM and e-mail work fine, but not IE. Thusly, once more, my presence here is strained. Don't cry for me; for I'll be back again someday.
Okay, NOW begin with all the crazy fighting!!! :shiggy2:
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