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Future Dragalia Lost x Wanted Crossovers

02/25/202002/23/2020 Luigi Kawasaki

Gaming Again

Dragalia Lost became the first original franchise for mobile gaming that Nintendo game even if it was pretty much a Cygames game, but this is a big deal and even though it hasn’t been a huge success, it’s been relatively profitable and more than most other Nintendo Mobile games. The game had a crossover with … Read More “Future Dragalia Lost x Wanted Crossovers” »

The Legend of Zelda 80s Cartoon is faithful to the franchise

09/26/201802/04/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Looking back on..

The Super Mario Super Show had an episode of Zelda on their Friday shows and in their 52 episode run meant we got a 13 episode The Legend of Zelda animated short. While it was part of the Mario cartoon its normally packaged as its own series and I think that’s fine, now these are not full episodes as it’s only 11 minute shorts since it shared the airtime with Mario but it was still pretty cool that they sneaked a Zelda cartoon in an unrelated one. The show is rather infamous for being bad but is it really? Let’s take a look back

This show as made with a lot of love and I think in some cases more thought was put in it than the Super Mario Cartoon, you have to remember that this show started production before even Zelda II came out so all it had to base itself off was from the first game. That first game doesn’t have much of a story or characters to work with and even the Super Mario cartoon had at least two games to work with. Many of the things they made up for the show such as using magic, partner fairy, horses among others were all eventually featured in future Zelda games so you can even say that they were visionaries for the franchise. Granted you can argue these are all Fantasy tropes but they’re all a big part of what Zelda is now and they weren’t in the first game.

French Zelda Songs with Lyrics to practice and learn

02/02/201801/28/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Le Coin Français

While searching for some French content on youtube I found some Song lyrics of video game music, specifically for The Legend of Zelda series. I’m usually not a huge fan of theme songs with fandubbed lyrics anymore since it’s been overdone for at least a decade now but these ones were impressive. They’re in French … Read More “French Zelda Songs with Lyrics to practice and learn” »

Nintendo Concerts: The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses & Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions

09/25/201701/25/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Gaming Again

For the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo brought a symphony to their E3 conference and annouced that it would tour world wide which The Symphony of the Goddesses has done ever since. Thanks to its success Pokemon followed not long after with Symphonic Evolutions. As a big fan of both franchises and … Read More “Nintendo Concerts: The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses & Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions” »

Nintendo Tribute Songs Music Match V5

06/12/201701/15/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Music Match

This week on Music Match, we’ll be doing something a little bit different and will feature songs related to Nintendo. I don’t really want this to become a thing but thought I’d do it today mainly because these songs were written before geek culture became cool and everyone and their mother wanted a piece of it. These songs have unique music videos and were written during a more innocent time of the internet. They’re great songs and not that easy to find and they really aren’t parodies either. Enjoy! Lyrics for all songs can be found at the bottom.

Saint Dragon – Nintendo

Captain N: The Game Master is the greatest nintendo cartoon

06/10/201701/15/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Looking back on..

While playing videogames Kevin gets zapped and travels to Videoland! He was chosen as the Gamemaster who must travel to different video games and save Videoland. I don’t know about you but the concept of this cartoon is awesome. I have vague memories of Captain N: The Game Master as a kid but not many since I was very young when it aired so it was mostly like watching the it for the first time for me since all I recognized was a little bit of the character models. Let’s not forget that Captain N is part of the Nintendo Animated Universe. So lets take a look at the show.

The show is from 1989 so its plagued with a lot of the stuff that makes 80s shows inferior to ones from say the 90s or 00s. That will probably tick off fans of 80s shows but its the truth even if I do enjoy some 80s animation. Its not a bad show but it really isn’t anything special either that I could recommend to any normal person. Its also hard to recommend to say all video game fans or fans of the franchises that are shown such as Castlevania or Mega Man since fans will no doubt be angry at the portrayal of the characters they like. But I really can’t blame the show too much, I mean this was during the time when videogames had very basic storylines not to mention artwork wasn’t stellar either so of course they took their own liberties, especially when being inspired by 8 bit models.

The Legend of Zelda movie pitch Imagi 2007

03/24/201701/08/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Video Classic

Nintendo might be license happy now granting many of their properties to different companies to develop shows, toys and movies but before they were so liberal with their IP’s after the failure of the Wii U they had actually been extremely strict with them after the early 90’s.

We’ve recently read rumors of Nintendo looking to license The Legend of Zelda for a movie but this isn’t the first time studios have been interested. Back in 2007 there was a failed pitch by Imagi, the studio that brought us the fourth Ninja Turtles movie. Unlike the Gatchaman CG movie which never got made this one never actually even began official production but we can take a look at the video that was used to pitch the movie.