DS Adds 'Magnetic Fields' To List Of Superpowers?
Okay, I'm constantly underestimating Nintendo. While Sony and Microsoft continue their high-tech pissing contest, Ninty cruises by with an overwhelmingly popular handheld and an otherwise dinky-looking console that comes at a low, low price but does everything from tell you the weather and then use it in-game to making voting fun to helping you get off. Not to mention that iTunes thing I could never get to work.
The DS has been just as remarkable in its own special way. From a quietly robust set of wireless capabilities (game depending, I suppose) to some truly remarkable uses of its microphone, the DS is another Nintendo product that never ceases to both baffle and amaze me. Why, Nintendogs was such a magically functional game that I could never play it, because my real dog would get jealous, confused, or just too worked up.
But magnetic fields? For real? A new DS game, Treasure Gaust (Engrish for Gauss? Gaussed?), uses the same technology as the toys of the same name to challenge players to roam the real world searching for existing magnetic fields which cause the game to unlock or generate unique monsters. It sounds both awesome and potentially horrific...armies of Japanese young'uns wandering about high-voltage thingies... Anyway, I'm sure the technology behind this can't be that expensive, but it sure sounds impressive.
Any of you smarty pants out there care to explain how this shtick works? Don't make me get Mikey... tee hee...
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tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 18 February 2007
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Awesome! I can imagine more people getting magnets implanted in their fingertips (Google: magnet fingers)
And...you're dangling Mikey as punishment?
hehe...Mikey's nobody's punishment...he's just the ultimate smarty. So if anybody wants to show off their technowhizkid powers, best do it before I bring in the Big Guns!
It's interesting to note that this is one of the biggest strengths of remaining a cartridge media system. Game developers can build in additional technology like this.
Sounds awesome anyway.
Color me disappointed. By the headline I was hoping for a new game starring the awesome band 'The Magnetic Fields'!
My mind race with possible plots for the game! Ouendan-esque? Mario Bros-esque? Or perhaps Kirby-esque in that all the band members suddenly wake up without arms or legs and you have to draw awesome rainbow paths to get them around New York and find all of their missing limbs so they can create more awesome music to the tune of "69 Love Songs"?
PS: Yes I'm insane.
I second the motion for a game starring the band "The Magnetic Feilds" they rock my socks off.
Yeah, I totally want a game based on Stephin Merritt and the rest of the Magnetic Fields. Or at least for them to do the soundtrack to one.