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Nintendo Voice Chat

Nintendo Voice Chat: Donkey Kong, Pokemon, and the Death of Nintendo Wi-fi

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Video Games, Leisure

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, NVC #LetTimHost. Join Tim Gettys, Brian Altano, Peer Schneider, and Greg Miller as they talk about the challenging platforming of Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, the weird world of Twitch Plays Pokemon, and the Shutdown of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Intendo!

4:30.0

A lot of the sort of pre-rendered digitized games that happen back then.

4:35.0

If you look at Street Fighter 2 vs. Mortal Kombat 2,

4:39.0

put those games side-by-side, Street Fighter 2 looks so much better.

4:42.0

Even today.

4:43.0

And Mortal Kombat 2 just looks like a much failed background act.

4:46.0

And then it looked amazing.

4:48.0

I know, that's so real.

4:50.0

That's sort of a testament to the realistic graphics war that still happens now.

4:55.0

But I like what they're doing with the art in the game.

4:59.0

I think the level design is beautiful.

5:01.0

It's all over the map.

5:02.0

Even though it's not really frozen, it's called tropical freezing.

5:06.0

You don't get to ice until World 7.

5:08.0

Yeah.

5:09.0

But they're like, you know, it's the penguins and the walrus and everything.

5:13.0

Like the enemies are like, they're cross-thiends, they got that big horn.

5:17.0

They're kind of at a place though. They're like at a beach.

5:19.0

Well, that's the whole point, right?

5:21.0

You know what? You don't understand the story.

5:24.0

You see the whole point is that they freeze the tropics.

5:27.0

No, I saw this story.

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