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Geekolinks: 12/19

Super Smash Land: Playable Game Boy De-Make of Super Smash Bros.

Dan Fornance created Super Smash Land, a Game Boy de-make of the family-friendly party fighting game Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Land was created with Game Maker 8, and looks and sounds exactly like an old Game Boy game, sending this gamer into a weird nostalgia of playing Game Boy games in the backseat of his parents’ cars on long drives to other states.

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Nintendo Thinking of Making Us Pay for Online Games

In an interview with Edge Magazine yesterday, Shigeru Miyamoto made something of an alarming pronouncement.

Probably the other thing that we are desperate to realise is the core [online] business structure… Do we need to demand customers pay monthly fees to enjoy online activities? Or give an online subscription that is free of charge, but then offer something extra for people that pay, so that they get some extra value? With these core business strategies I think we are less active than we should be.

Does this mean that the free online gaming of the Wii and DS will go the way of the dodo?

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EarthBound Composer Hirokazu Tanaka Gathers Other Hirokazu Tanakas, Has Them Sing About Being Named Hirokazu Tanaka

EarthBound, the SNES game that brought us Super Smash Bros.Ness, was one of the great console RPGs of the ’90s: it was funny, self-aware, and also had great gameplay. It also had a kickin’ soundtrack, composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, who also composed soundtracks for Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, and a number of other classic games. Tanaka even got a credit on Buckner & Garcia’s classic 1982 arcade game rock album Pac-Man Fever for providing some of the sounds behind “Do the Donkey Kong.”

Recently, Tanaka gathered together ten other random people also named Hirokazu Tanaka and had them sing a song of his composition called the “Hirokazu Tanaka Song” (“Tanaka Hirokazu no Uta”), the moral of which is that even though they didn’t choose to be called Hirokazu Tanaka, they’ve all come together for the sake of a name, and “there’s only one of me in the whole wide world.” Not only is it a strange novelty single, it’s also really, really catchy:

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