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pressthebuttons.com - 10 hours ago
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I've spent the past few days plowing through
Nintendo's latest triumph — New Super Mario Bros. Wii
— and while I haven't visited every level, collected all of the Star Coins, on blasted out of every cannon, I have made the trek through World 8 and stomped my way through Bowser's castle all ...
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Bowser's Big Revenge
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pressthebuttons.com - 41 hours ago
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Before I slipped out for abdominal surgery last
week, I filed a review of the recently released
A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Wii over at Kombo . A Boy and His Blob 's most impressive attribute is its heartwarmingly adorable art direction. Everything in the boy's world is ...
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A Boy and His Blob Review At Kombo
pressthebuttons.com - 44 hours ago
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Sega has learned that their collection of classic
Sonic the Hedgehog titles from the Sega Genesis era
are still the strongest parts of their hedgehog-related catalog, so it's hard to blame the company for taking those games and running with them forever and ever . The latest rumor ...
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Another Sonic Compilation Waiting In The Wings?
pressthebuttons.com - 2 days ago
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Back after a week away , I'm out
of the hospital and working through the recovery phase
of my surgery. Everything went well during the operation and I'm at home for a month of rest. I wasn't up to tackling Mother 3 during my six days in the hospital (which ended up being for the ...
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pressthebuttons.com - 2 days ago
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Now that Majesco and WayForward Technologies have finally managed
to revive the mostly forgotten Nintendo Entertainment System adventure
A Boy and His Blob for Nintendo's Wii in a way befitting the potential of the characters, there's a press push in progress to get the word out ...
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A Boy, His Blob, And You
pressthebuttons.com - 3 days ago
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There's a reason why players continue to sing
the praises of games like Super Mario Bros. 3
, Super Mario 64 , and Super Mario Galaxy long after competing games are bought, consumed, and tossed into the dust bin of history. Mario's adventures often set the gold standard, but sometimes ...
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Mario's Less Than Super Adventures
pressthebuttons.com - 4 days ago
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For every groundbreaking video game controller that reaches
the market, there are about a dozen really baffling
controllers shoved into the world of retail in the pitiful hope that curious players and unaware parents will buy, say, a Power Glove before words spreads too far that said ...
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Your Hands Will Scream: Six Bizarre Game Controllers
pressthebuttons.com - 5 days ago
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After Nintendo released Super Mario Kart in 1993,
publishers around the world took a spin through Mario
Circuit 1 and said (in unison, I bet) "Me too!", giving rise to a new genre destined to be milked dry: the mascot kart racer. Characters such as Crash Bandicoot, Jak, Mega ...
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Woody Woodpecker Claims Continued Relevancy
pressthebuttons.com - 7 days ago
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Wander through the world of Nintendo's EarthBound for
the Super NES and you'll end up talking to
hundreds of people. Every city, village, and dark underworld is packed with folks all too eager to speak with hero Ness and his band of adventurers. Some of these talkative ...
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Lost EarthBound Characters Have Something To Say
pressthebuttons.com - 8 days ago
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was one of the
most highly anticipated titles of its day back in
the era of the Sega Genesis, and the release of sequel/second half Sonic & Knuckles half a year later only raised the blue blur to new heights. Some people, however, were skeptical of what the ...
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Something Rotten In The State Of Sonic & Knuckles
pressthebuttons.com - 9 days ago
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Exploring the galaxy in Ratchet and Clank: A
Crack in Time has left me thinking back at
the previous games in the franchise, particularly the third Sony PlayStation 2 title, Up Your Arsenal , in which robotic Crack villain Dr. Nefarious first appears. His plan? Transform the entire ...
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Robot Pop Star Calls For Extermination Of Squishies
pressthebuttons.com - 10 days ago
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Unfortunately, today is the day that I must
hang a "be right back" sign on my virtual
door, as I will be away from PTB for a week or two. I've been dealing with ongoing digestive health issues for years, but back in 2007 things went especially wrong and I've been trying ...
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Pause
pressthebuttons.com - 10 days ago
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In the beginning (well, my beginning) there was
Super Mario Kart , and it was fun. My
hunger for more speed led me up the ranks over the years intro increasingly serious titles such as Crusin' USA , F-Zero GX , and into this generation with Burnout Paradise . Now I've moved ...
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Mini-Review: Need For Speed: Shift
pressthebuttons.com - 11 days ago
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Ever since the good old days of his
second adventure, Capcom's Mega Man has been able to
recharge his energy with the aid of special blue E-tanks, and now you too can power yourself up just like the blue bomber. Available in Japan for a while now, North America will soon get a taste of ...
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You Too Can Drink Like The Blue Bomber
pressthebuttons.com - 11 days ago
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Everybody likes to get something for nothing, but
leave it to the software pirates to cross the
line into unacceptable territory. Japan has become something of a haven for the R4 , a little unauthorized Nintendo DS MicroSD-equipped game card that allows players to ...
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Nintendo Mobilizes Fans In Fight Against R4 Retailers
pressthebuttons.com - 12 days ago
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Nintendo's recently announced DSi XL isn't winning many
fans right out of the gate, but there does
seem to be enough interest in the product to make it worthwhile for Nintendo to produce. As for me, I'm going to need more information about it before I put down my $220, but considering ...
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Weekly Poll: Snecessities
pressthebuttons.com - 15 days ago
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If you go out of your way to
collect every last wayward Zoni scattered throughout the latest
adventure from Insomniac Games, Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time for the Sony PlayStation 3, you'll eventually be able to unlock a final destination to explore: the Insomniac Moon, a 3D ...
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Fly Me To The Insomniac Moon
pressthebuttons.com - 15 days ago
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This week on Kombo Breaker we're celebrating our
fiftieth episode which means that we're pulling out all
the stops. First we check in with John Davison to discuss how he plans to relaunch the GamePro magazine and website brand early next year and how gaming journalism as a whole is ...
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Kombo Breaker - Episode 50: We Celebrate 50 Episodes ...
pressthebuttons.com - 15 days ago
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The gaming community just can't stop anticipating a
new updated iteration of Nintendo's successful Wii, and Kombo's
Brain Langlois is the latest editorialist to take a whack at the hypothetical console of tomorrow . There's a general wish list of upgrades that most people in the core ...
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Proposed "Wii 2" Splits Opinions
pressthebuttons.com - 16 days ago
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Where were you on November 5, 1955 ?
That was the day that "Doc" Emmett L. Brown
slipped on the toilet while hanging a picture in the bathroom, hit his head on the sink, and had a vision, a picture in his head, of the flux capacitor which is, of course, what makes time travel ...
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PTB Celebrates Anniversary Of Invention Of Time Travel
