Results tagged “nintendo”

Mario and Luigi seem to be having a tough economic level to get through, as their coin count and the rest of U.S. video game industry sales have been slipping. The beginning of 2009 looked promising, until March when sales were down 17 percent from last year--which happened to be a big year for local game companies--proving the once booming game world is not immune to the recession or those sneaky Goombas. Eyes are on the falling shares, but no reset button needed--just yet--for local companies, as Nintendo's Wii leads console sales with 601,000 units sold, while Capcom's horror shooter "Resident Evil 5" is a best-selling game for the Xbox 360.

It's official, Seattlest has a new love: The Georgetown Liquor Company. The draw? Well it's got the words "liquor company" right there in the name which should be enough, but we know that you, our dear readers, demand more substance to make a recommendation valid. Thankfully, when we showed up we found that it's got a well-tended, full bar, all the excellent food is vegetarian and it has old-school console video games like the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo NES hooked up to TVs (not to mention a big red octopus on the wall). Perfect.

Tuesday night Seattlest won $35 playing pub trivia at the Boxcar Ale House in Magnolia. And we earned every goddamn penny -- it was a brutal slog of an evening. "I'm about to get stabby," said one of our teammates at about 9:50, when it was clear that we weren't getting out of there anytime soon.

This week's Stranger news section contains an article about a Nintendo contractor who was fired for her blog. "Not work appropriate" said Nintendo, although, what the hell does that have to do with anything? The blogger Jessica Zenner blogged anonymously and without naming her employer or her coworkers. It sounds like her blog was known among her coworkers, though, and according to the article she used "hormonal, facial-hair-growing, frumpy" to describe a female boss. It's not exactly as if you'd written it on the white board in the conference room along with a paste-up laser print of your boss's face, but if your coworkers read your blog and you refer to your female higher-up's mustache... You could be fired. The article concludes with a quote from the now unemployed blogger in question: "Ten years ago, someone would never get fired for their blog. This is such a sign of the times."

You may not agree with his conservative politics, but if you like the Mariners, you owe an elaborate tip of the cap to ex-U.S. Senator Slade Gorton.

Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Nintendo, The Robot Co-Op; the list of big name tech companies in the Puget Sound region includes some of the biggest, which is why we were surprised by the recent bandwidth report that ranked Washington 18th among U.S. states in high-speed internet access. Illinois is 17th, Michigan is 19th. Two fine states but what tech shops do they have? Rhode Island is number one, Kansas 2 and Jersey 3. Apparently the presence of large technology companies has shit to do with the speed of the general interweb in a region. California is 38th (phbbbbttt!) and South Dakota is dead 50th, which should be a warning to us all. Don't be like SD. We take it on faith that a slow internet leads directly to things like full-on abortion bans, although when we tried making a Red State vs Blue State map with these speed rankings it didn't pan out.

--Got some loonies lying around? They may be spying on you.

--There's a Nintendo video game based on the paintings of Bob Ross that was getting developed in Seattle, but it looks like it got yanked. Damn, damn, damn that would have been awesome.

8bitjoystick called Seattlest out yesterday (which we love, btw, whether you do it on your random blog you expect us to magically find, or you have at us in the comments or you send us email. Please, tell us what we're missing and we'll consider it internally and then publicly enumerate the reasons why you're wrong.), and, befitting a blog about video games, 8bitjoystick is all over us for our lack of video game coverage.

Seattlest survived Mindcamp yet again. This installment, the third, ran with a familiar form of organized mayhem, and that familiarity removed a lot of our enthusiasm for the event. While we still met a few interesting individuals and heard some interesting talks, we couldn't help but to spend far too much of our time at Mindcamp wondering if we should have joined one of three different caravans of friends in going up to Vancouver for some Canadian shenanigans.

Poor porn. It's like the creative and hilarious ugly kid who kinda smells in high school. Behind closed doors it's fine to let him bring his zine collection and some records over to your mom's house and you can kick it with him in the basement for hours even though he sucks at Nintendo, but he's never going to get invited to the table in the cafeteria or shown any similar public displays of acceptance. Sorry, smelly kid - That's just the way it is. We'll check you after college when you can have us over to your quirky but expensive house once and then never invite us back. "Sorry, man, but I got some record industry people coming over so...you gotta jet."

Seattlest heard a rumor that its neighbor to the east, Redmond, is home to one of the most profitable 7-Elevens in the entire USofA.