Awesome Nintendo

WiiWare gets another retro-reboot with Mega Man 10, which continues 9’s 8-bit style; it’ll feature 8 Robot Master bosses along with Proto Man and a secret playable third character.

Konami takes Silent Hill back to its roots with Shattered Memories, due out on the PS2, PSP, and Wii 12/8/09; this Memories Montage trailer is a music video with monstrous overtones.

Alright, so it’s not an official HD version of New Super Mario Bros Wii, but a plumber can dream: the video above was shot running the Dolphin emulator on a PC at 1080p at 60 fps.

Nintendo Monopoly is worth it just for the player tokens (Koopa Shells FTW!); it also swaps characters for properties (Mario for Boardwalk) and includes 60 minute speed play rules.

In dark contrast to the original hoodie, Enclothe’s Marioflage 1-2 Hoodie is a dungeon shawl with 8-bit touches everywhere; it sports a mushroom zipper and a WarpZone iPod pocket.

Avoid getting a Wiimote into the TV whenever you get into the game: the Wiitality Armband secures your Wii controller either to your forearm or bicep for fling-free fitness.

“But officer, I thought you were a red and blue shell!” Mario finally gets pulled over after one rocket start too many in this 80 MPH t-shirt; if only he had a few banana peels to spare…

Slightly NSFW: Jeremie Duval’s Pulp Fiction and Mario mashup does Tarantino proud with guns and gasoline in place of fireballs; who needs Luigi when you have Travolta in overalls?

I sense a disturbance in your signal: we have a bad feeling about this Darth Vader Wii Sensor Bar Holder, if only because he just might Force Choke us for one Wii Fit workout too many.

America may have healthcare issues, but thank Miyamato that you’re not being pilled and probed by Nintendo: Dr. Mario with Lyrics is a NSFW musical skit about STDs in the ER.

Dave Sterling’s NES (and TV and controllers) are crafted out of LEGOs, but we’re most impressed by the NES itself: it sports spring loaded buttons and a push-down cartridge loading system.

Nintendo’s super-sized DSi LL will be available in Japan 11/21; it features a larger 4.2″ screen, 13-17 hours of battery life, and two touch pens, but is otherwise internally like the DSi.

Available 10/27/09: epic launch trailer aside, we have high hopes for Nostalgia, a steampunk RPG for the DS; it’s developed by the same team that brought us FF III and IV for the DS.

It uses NESp, a Chinese PMP, but this hacked NES Cartridge still rocks our plumber’s socks: it plays NES/GB games and sports a 2.8″ TFT LCD, 4GB storage, FM radio, and TV out.

It’s no Hollywood blockbuster, but what Hive Division lacks in budget they make up for with passion in Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy; this first part of three runs just under an hour.

You’ll need 350 Club Nintendo coins to afford it, but The Legend of Zelda 3-poster set calls out to Link fans; it includes History of Link, Phantom Hourglass and Twilight Princess prints.

They say you should bring a gun to a knife fight, but Contra Duck Hunt really puts the O in overkill; thanks to a bit of creative napalming, the laughing dog is conspicuously absent.

No, you’re not hallucinating spread guns and powerup blimps: Contra Rebirth sports 16-bit graphics and is the 12th game to bear the Contra name; it’s now available on WiiWare.

Logitech finally rolls out its Wireless Guitar Controller to the Wii; it’ll work with both Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero and features a maple neck, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets.

This campy gameplay trailer for No More Heroes 2 shows off news ways to slice-up enemies, beam katana dual-wielding, 8-bit jobs and improved AI; the game is due out 1/2010.

Dead Space: Extraction’s devs give us the lowdown: bolder colors and silhouettes highlight its focus on action, while vanishing enemies and environments keep you off guard.

Mario Kart: The Movie has the makings of an epic movie: it’s got deaths (Luigi gets done in by Wario), births (Peach + Mario = Baby Mario) and a truly epic go-kart battle at the end.

Video game consoles killed the arcade star: this 8-Bit Stickup t-shirt gets metaphorical with upstart gunmen (Nintendo, Sony, Sega, etc.) wiping out the establishment (coin-op arcades).