Off-beat gaming news: Nintendo's new x-rated game, and Walmart's smart!

[DeadlyNinja]

Captain Rainbow just came out in Japan. It's a wacky game about a Super Hero named Captain Rainbow who goes to this island to have his wishes granted. On this island are obscure Nintendo characters he must help out... Sounds normal and harmless enough, right?

Captain Rainbow finds proof of Birdo's Vagina

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/08/captain-rainb-1.html

Video: http://www.wipido.com/video/6vQWLdwGZsEq

NES Golfer plays with his balls...

http://www.wipido.com/video/m6WL9SF5sBVo

Walmart is so smart.

http://checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/8/28/green_gaming__yup.aspx

Developing software and hardware that allows us to save the game so we do not have to leave it on would allow us to turn it off during a meal break or overnight without loosing our place. Additionally, come clever programming would allow the console to go into a lower power, standby mode when not in use.

That there will revolutionize gaming, I tell you.

 

[cthellis42]

Walmart is so smart.

http://checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/8/28/green_gaming__yup.aspx



That there will revolutionize gaming, I tell you.

The Kotaku article about this was pretty hilarious.

Holy shit that's brilliant! If only every game that's come out over the past 12 years had had some sort of save function...why just think about what a better place the world would be! We'd be able to leave our games and come back to them, and power outages would no longer cause us to lose hours and hours of progress. Seriously Walmart, you're starting a revolution here.

I hereby urge all game developers to work some kind of save function into their games, if not for us, then for our planet. And while I'm at it, if the console makers could create some sort of screen dimmer for their systems in case we leave the game alone for while, that would be amazing too.

 

[Brad Grenz]

I think Walmart is talking about a suspend type feature. Doesn't the PSP have that kind of mode? I think it's a good idea for consoles.

 

[Npl]

I think Walmart is talking about a suspend type feature. Doesn't the PSP have that kind of mode? I think it's a good idea for consoles.

Yep, and most ppl dont know you have to hold the Powerswitch for a few seconds to turn it totally off (its drawing some power to keep the content of the RAM in standby )