Eurogamer.net Podcast: Nintendo Fanboy Special

By Oli Welsh Published 29 November, 2011

Mario! Zelda! Mario Kart! Animal Leader!

Hello! This week, the newly themed Eurogamer Podcast - the 92nd, if you're still counting - focuses on all things Nintendo. We gather our four soppiest Nintendo fanboys to celebrate the release of the Kyoto company's three best games in years.

Our four shameless boy-men are: Oli Welsh (that's me), Martin Robinson, Tom Phillips and Christian Donlan. And the games they're here to discuss are, of course, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7.

Debate covers the charms of Skyward Sword's Fi and whether Link is bit too much of a tart, whether Mario Kart is any fun in single-player (poor Tom P kind of walks into this one) and how Super Mario 3D Land is Nintendo's Avatar. In a good way.

Naturally, we also get carried away with ourselves and end up talking about past favourites like Pikmin, Wind Waker and WarioWare and speculating what Wii U can possibly launch with, and whether we'll ever see a new gaming series from Nintendo again (yes, apparently).

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The Eurogamer.net Podcast is published at 5pm each Tuesday. More or less.

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About Oli Welsh

Oli is Eurogamer's acting deputy editor and reviews editor and likes to take things one word at a time. He is among the best dressed people in South London.

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  • PinktotheLast #1 6 months ago

    Yay! Nintendo!
    After the sparse Wii launch software, and the wagglefest minigames from 3rd parties, I really went off Nintendo for a bit. I felt like they were abandoning their original fans. However Mario Galaxy 2 and Skyward Sword have converted me back to their cause.
    They just make really, really good - and pure - videogames. Gamers games.

  • spekkeh #2 6 months ago

    Hope there's nothing spoilery about Zelda. Even after all of the SD motion stuff, they're still the quintessential gaming company to me. Albeit slightly less essential than previously. Let's a go.
    Edited by spekkeh at 29/11/11 @ 18:10

  • Markusdragon #3 6 months ago

    @spekkeh Still quintessential but less essential? Does that mean that Nintendo are a bunch of quints?

  • King_of_Hyrule #4 6 months ago

    I understand the demand for new IP, but I wouldn't want nintendo to NOt have made a new zelda, mario, and mario kart, so I guess we just need more 1st party nintendo studios?
    Also, we're still missing some huge Nintendo portable games. It's been too long since the last blue-sky happy Advance Wars game!

  • knocker #5 6 months ago

    I didn't really realise I was a fanboy until the zelda concert. That's despite being thrilled from the moment I switched every console (from the nes onwards) on for the first time.

    @kingofhyrule +50

  • smelly #6 6 months ago

    Funny how if you're a fan of nintendo games (i.e. a fan of games) - it automatically makes you a fanboy...

  • Bradach #7 6 months ago

    EG you should get some outro music. it always ends so abruptly... like a phone call or something :)

  • TonyHarrison #8 6 months ago

    Nintendo have released plenty of smaller new IPs lately (Xenoblade sticks in the mind), they just haven't managed to turn any of them into the next mega series.

    I'm guessing that's a lot harder than it seems, even for Nintendo. But if EAD really are working on something new, then that probably has a better chance than anything else.

  • King_of_Hyrule #9 5 months ago

    What happened to the podcast? Nothing 2 weeks in a row? :(