Not much value in revisiting such memories in digital form? Think again. Nintendo's 42 All-Time Classics is a refreshing antidote to stodgy big-budget titles and as perfect a portable compilation as one could imagine.
It's got to the point now where there aren't enough numbers left in the universe to count how many games are available for Nintendo's remarkably successful DS. And an awful lot of those games are good 'uns, too – games that, regardless of your tastes or predilections, you really should play, just because they're brilliant.
But where do you start?
Thomcult: The biggest pitfall of celebrity endorsement, making it something of a wild card, is that it is very easy to alienate consumers when they are being sold a product by someone that they do not like, respect or even know about. Furthermore, as soon as that celebrity becomes a spokesperson for your brand they need to keep up their good (or atleast current) behaviour to keep in line with the rest of the comms strategy. It's no use hiring a teen pop star to push the next Nintendogs game only for her to be found with an ounce of cocaine and ruined by an unwanted pregnancy. As she plummets from stardom into notoriety she will undoubtedly drag any communications strategy she is attached to with her.
With Mothering Sunday just around the corner, HEXUS,gaming take a look at 10 Nintendo titles that may make the ideal present for your mother.
Quotes from the author's mom, make it a funny read.
"What game do you buy your mom? Is it patronising to buy her Cooking Mama 2, just because she spends a lot of time in the kitchen? Should I buy her Baby Pals, just because I know she's got child rearing experience? Or maybe she'd secretly like to blow the heads of some zombies?"
