![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, for all our spleen venting fury, here we are getting excited over a blatant, cynical rehash of an eight year-old platform game, released to shift Nintendo's first truly 3D-capable handheld, the chunky, but loveable DS. Those beliefs that game developers and console manufacturers can invent new and exciting ways of entertaining us are all too regularly chipped away by the mass production ethos, and the constant recycling of old ideas on an annual basis, until we explode with righteous indignation at the cynical profiteering nature of certain corporate entities with both eyes, hands and feet, hopefully nailed painfully, to the bottom line. And yet, 22 years after our first encounter with the tubby moustachioed plumber Nintendo is still capable of flushing out cynicism, eradicating boredom and making us believe in the possibilities of gaming again. The transition from a fanatical comic reading pre-teen youth hung up on Dennis The Menace and Bananaman to hopelessly addicted Crash-reading computer gaming aficionado was all but assured from the moment Donkey Kong took its arcade bow. ![]()
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