Features
Kazumi Totaka's Song Guide
For many years, a strange song appeared in games as diverse as Mario Paint, Yoshi's Story and Animal Crossing. NinDB discovered the connecting thread: Nintendo music composer (and voice of Yoshi) Kazumi Totaka. Discover all the games he has hidden this song in over the years.
Cancelled Nintendo Games
Some games get announced but are never released. Even Nintendo occasionally has to pull its support for a game – and occasionally may even release them much later.
Nintendo Hardware and Accessories
If you don't know your Famicom Network System from your Play-Yan, then here's where you need to be. Home consoles, portable systems, system upgrades and peripherals. Nintendo is as much in the business of making gaming hardware as they are making games.
Nintober Archive
An ongoing illustration project to create profiles for Nintendo's most gruesome and evil characters. Nintober started in 2008 and is still going (as of 2023), with over 160 grotesque and villainous beasts from everyone's favourite family-friendly publisher.
Nintendo All-Stars Archive
Between 2004 and 2007, NinDB ran a series of illustrated character profiles, telling the stories of obscure or lesser-known Nintendo characters. Some of these got a little long, and all are outdated now. But they have been restored along with the original artwork. We've even dug up some long-lost artwork that was planned but never used!
3rd Party Showcase Archive
Between 2006 and 2008, NinDB posted a series of articles written by John "Nester" Bennett, highlighting the very best third party games available on the Wii, DS and Virtual Console. All 50 articles have now been restored and archived for your pleasure. How many did you play?
A Brief History of Nintendo
Nintendo Koppai was established in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to manufacture Hanafuda playing cards. Read about the first 100 years of Nintendo before they made their break into videogames.
