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...least one of every two game consoles gift-wrapped under Christmas trees to have been manufactured by the firm. And each of those game boxes would generate revenue streams that trickled well into the new year, as customers became addicted to Nintendo-owned franchises such as Super Mario and Zelda and bought more titles. In the game business, as Nintendo proved so well for nearly two decades, software is the gift that keeps on giving...
...cannot hope to win a technological arms race against deep-pocketed Sony and Microsoft, he says that his company's salvation is its in-house creative team and the firm's ability to launch groundbreaking games that spawn blockbuster franchises such as the hugely popular Mario Brothers and Zelda series. "Nintendo's basic strategy is to do things differently," he says. "The key lies in developing games that customers have never come across...
...company whose executives claim a Disney-like imaginative edge as its most important asset, the place seems to be suffering from game-development gridlock. Not even Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary creative director and gaming deity?Miyamoto created Mario and Zelda?has been able to break the slump. Miyamoto's latest attempt to launch a revolutionary franchise was a bizarre entry called Pikmin, in which users play an astronaut stranded on a remote planet who must enlist the aid of the local aliens (who look like ambulatory onion sprouts) to rebuild his ship?all set to a country-and-western...
...worth the wait. Though Soul Calibur II (all consoles, $49.99) doesn't tinker with the first game's look and feel, it adds a cast of characters that varies depending on your machine. Got a GameCube? You'll love playing as Link, the hero of Legend of Zelda. Xbox owners, who skew older, get Todd McFarlane's Spawn. Nobody gets cheeseburger...
...pursuit of their goals, the members of Windward Mark grow tense when asked who is the best video game player. Most members demur, insisting that it “depends on the game,” and their favorites range from Privateer Wing Commando to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. At gunpoint, however, most admit that Truelson, when motivated, is always capable of being the best at a game. By contrast, they speak loudly and in unison about their least skilled member. “Aaron [Siegel] is the worst,” they...