The funniest thing about Conker’s Bad Fur Day isn’t the boozing, sexual situations, drug use or foul language. It’s not even the boss fight against a living mound of feces with teeth made of corn kernels. It’s the fact that this Nintendo 64 classic started out a kid’s game.
Earlier this week, we published an intelligent takedown of the beloved Nintendo 64 James Bond first-person shooter GoldenEye. Maybe, our guest writer wrote, this game was a little bit flawed. Maybe the campaign was monotonous and the multiplayer map design was weird. Maybe we can still love the game despite or because of its flaws.
Rare’s Conker used to be a nice little squirrel. He was cute, he had polite friends, and he was going to be starring in a very Nintendo platformer for a Nintendo console.
The most outrageous game Nintendo ever published could have been more outrageous if Nintendo hadn’t nixed a couple of jokes, the game’s creator, Chris Seavor, said in a recent interview.
And that music, ungh! If you’ve ever wanted to see Japanese people playing Kinect in a large living room, here’s your chance. Enjoy.
Before the infamous crash of console gaming in the early 1980s, third-party cartridge development was somewhat a wild-west affair. Development costs were negligible compared to present times and, without the need for a presence in online distribution channels, a garage-built game might actually turn a profit on door-to-door sales. Thus Extra-Terrestrials was born.
As we discussed last week, Australia is yet to receive voice control for Kinect, despite the fact it was one of the major selling points of the device. Now, Rare is looking set to demo some new games that utilises that very function.