“Now you’re playing with power; PORTABLE POWER!” In the third of our series of single format console special podcasts, Leon, James and Leah stock up on AA batteries and fire up their Nintendo Game Boy […]
Tag: Nintendo
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! – Cane and Rinse No.344
“Play nice! Play nice!” Leon, Brian, Darren and Michiel pair up for a frantic session of the fourth game in Nintendo’s cartoon racer series, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! The game launched to great anticipation but […]
Pikmin – Cane and Rinse No.321
“The Pikmin are as curious as children!” Leon, Darren, Leah and Michiel have finally recovered all 30 parts of their ship and succeeded in escaping this strange world! To think, all the times we almost […]
Mario Kart 64 – Cane and Rinse No.298
“Battle.” Cane and Rinse rejoins the race in 1996, as we review Mario Kart 64 – a wildly divisive entry in a much-loved but polarising series. Leon, Darren, Leah and Michiel discuss the transition from […]
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
I don’t review many games in the worded format, not because I don’t like to but more often than not I find it easier to verbalise my feelings during our podcast. However, some games are […]
Opinion: LEGO Dimensions
For the better part of two years, I have been catching up on Traveller’s Tales’ series of LEGO games. I was turned off by their simplistic and repetitive gameplay when I originally tried LEGO Star […]
Conker’s Big Reunion
E3 2014. Conker appears on stage, chopping a logo in half much like he did back in the N64 days. I literally threw my glasses off my face in excitement. “It’s here,” I thought, “the […]
“How do we get in?” The New Nintendo 3DS
I said I wouldn’t do it. I said to myself that the one I had was good enough. Yet here I am, February 12th at 11:29 pm and waiting in line – actually, first in […]
Music Monday: Metroid Prime
Last Thursday, 29th January 2015, was a day worthy of celebration. It was a red letter day for gamers, particularly those who hadn’t previously managed to buy a copy of the Metroid Prime Trilogy compilation […]
Music Monday: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
The original Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (or Circle of Blood if you’re in the US) is one of those games of which I retain immensely lucid memories. Almost as if the protagonist’s […]
Music Monday: Diddy Kong Racing
Issue 156 of the Cane and Rinse podcast is out now, and it’s all about the jolly japes of Rare’s 1997 kartie/kitey/kraftie klassic, Diddy Kong Racing. Much of our lingering affection for the game revolves […]
Diddy Kong Racing – Cane and Rinse No.156
“Select your vehicle.” Fond festive memories of Christmas ’97’s gleeful kart, hovercraft and plane adventure: Diddy Kong Racing. Leon, Darren, Karl and our community peer through a haze of Nintendo 64 fuzz to Rare’s candy […]