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January, 2000
1/28 Update Link's Awakening DX Named Greatest Game Boy Game of the Century by IGN! During the month of January, IGN has conducted a series of polls to determine the greatest videogames of the 20th century. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX was named the greatest Game Boy game of the 20th century today. The Nintendo 64 poll is not over yet, so head over to IGN64 to vote in it. At this time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time holds a commanding lead in the greatest RPG / Adventure title category with nearly 90% of the vote, guaranteeing it a spot in the poll for the overall greatest N64 game. Ganon's Tower will have the final results of the Nintendo 64 poll when they become available. 1/21 Update Dolphin DVD information! British Broadcasting Corporation runs a show called Newsround that did a preview of all three of the next generation consoles. Although very little Dolphin information was revealed, it appears that at least the Japanese version of Dolphin will be able to play DVD movies! Presumably the U.S. version will be able to also, but we'll have to wait for an announcement from Nintendo on that. Click here to view the show. You will need Realplayer in order to watch it, click here to download Realplayer if you don't already have it. Please note that the video is not on the same server as this site, so it may not always be working properly. More Mask of Mujula Release Date Info! Videogames.com reported that Zelda: Mask of Mujula will be released on April 27 in Japan and will be released in Fall of 2000 in the United States. 1/18 Update Possible Dolphin Delay A report has surfaced that Project: Dolphin may be delayed until 2001. It is still unknown whether this is the announcement that Nintendo will be making in just over a week or not.Wall Street on Dolphin The chief bit of information revealed in the report is the firm's belief --remember they tell a lot of people how to spend their money and can't afford to be too wrong too often-- that the Dolphin console will launch "around next spring." On the positive side, however, Nintendo of America (NOA) suggested in the report that 1-2 million pieces of Dolphin hardware would be available by March of 2001, along with 3-4 million pieces of software. This strongly suggests a Christmas 2000 launch for the system because actually selling that many Dolphin products takes a certain amount of time no matter how conservative Nintendo's projections may be. For the pessimistic Nintendo console fans, MSDW posed a worst case scenario question to NOA about what would happen if Dolphin was delayed a year from its proposed launch date (as the N64 was). Morgan Stanley Dean Witter paraphrased NOA's response by saying: …the company's response was that experienced indicated that the market would be stimulated and revitalized by the competition and there was no cause for concern, and that it could reap some latecomer benefits (in terms of price and software). Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's report also revealed that development tools for Dolphin are still scarce with only first and second party companies receiving them so far. The firm's research also suggested that production kits for Dolphin will be made available to third party companies sometime this spring which means specs of the system will be made public in the process. This information is the basis (assuming it takes a year to develop games for the console) for the firm's assertion that the console will come out in Spring of 2001. The final bit of speculation on the part of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is that the Dolphin could possibly launch in the US before Japan. While Nintendo admits that their products aren't very strong in Japan, the company didn't offer any proof of which part(s) of the world would be receiving the Dolphin first. IGN64 will certainly have more on Nintendo's next generation console and all of its games as soon as we have relevant information. The report provided by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is based on information available to the public and no representation is made that it is accurate or complete. Source: IGN 1/17 Update Game Boy Advance Release Date! Nintendo has announced the release date for their upcoming handheld system, Game Boy Advance. The system is scheduled for an August release in Japan, and has a November 1 release date in the United States. Nintendo will ship one million Game Boy Advance systems on that day, and two million games at the same time as well. No games for the upcoming system have been announced, but expect to see some games at the E3 show in May, and an even larger showing of the system at the Spaceworld show in Japan which will take place in August. 1/14 Update Dolphin Announcement in 10-15 Days!!! Peter Main, Nintendo's Vice President of Sales and Marketing has said that Nintendo will make a Project Dolphin announcement in approximately 10-15 days! It is not known whether this announcement will contain the final specifications of Dolphin or not, although I believe it will either contain the final specs or some very important information about the upcoming system. Ganon's Tower will have the final specs when they are available. More Game Boy Zelda Information! Zelda
Every Six Weeks Tentatively titled Legend of Zelda:
Tri-Force Series, this adventure will span three games for the Game Boy
Color, with the first game (announced in Japan as Legend of Zelda: The
Mysterious Acorn: The Tale of Power) set for release in late summer. Six
weeks after this release, we will see the release of the second game,
tentatively titled The Tale of Wisdom (release in early Fall), and the
final game in the series, The Tale of Courage, should make it to market
six weeks after that, just in time for Christmas. The games of the Tri-Force Series have
been reported to interact with each other in a way that some things you do in
one edition of the adventure will affect the world in another edition through
some means of data exchange between the games. But it has also been reported
that the games are being designed in such a way that you could play the three
adventures out of order and still complete the entire story. Source: IGN 1/10 Update First Dolphin Screenshots? Ign wrote an article today that had possibly the first screenshots from Project Dolphin. To view the article, click HERE. The screenshots are below. Keep in mind that these might not be actual Dolphin screenshots although it will be capable of displaying images of this quality or better, and also that the game is in development, which means that the graphics will improve as the game is closer to completion. Click on a picture to view it in full size.
1/4 Update Name of Next Zelda Game Changed! It has been announced that the name of the next Zelda game for Nintendo 64, previously called The Legend of Zelda: The Continuing Saga or Zelda: Gaiden has had it's name changed to The Legend of Zelda: Mask of Mujula. 1/2 Update Zelda Secret A Hoax! As much as I hate to report this, it turns out that the Zelda: Ocarina of Time secret that was reported on this site as well as many others is a hoax. Zelda Power, the site that first reported the secret found out that the e-mail they received from the person who worked on Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a fake. The interview in Famitsu Magazine that they said contained Miyamoto's hints about the secret did take place, but nothing was said about Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The interview was instead about Ura-Zelda, the 64DD only game that will unfortunately not be released in the United States. I'm sorry if I got anybody's hopes up about the secret, next time something like this comes up I will be more careful to check on the authenticity of the news, as I do not want Ganon's Tower to become a rumors site, but rather a reliable source of news on the Zelda series and Nintendo in general. |
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