New DS attachment announced

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 7th June 2007
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New DS attachment announced

Nintendo have released a lot of crazy devices of the years, such as the Power Glove and Virtual Boy.

Nintendo is the undisputed overlord of innovative inputs, something it has proved time and time again. Not only did it bring us the motion-sensing Wii and the touch-sensitive DS, but also the headache-inducing Virtual Boy and the light-sensitive Boktai game.

Still, contentment is the enemy of invention and Nintendo is keen to push on to sensors new with its new game, Slide Adventure Magkid for the DS.

Built on a new DS attachment called the 'Slide Controller', the game is said to be similar to the Kirby series and will have an emphasis on action. The player character, called Magkid, will acquire special powers throughout the game by attaching himself to new baddies, forcing players to use different powers on different levels.

The new attachment will connect to the DS by plugging into the GBA (Slot-2) port. Players will then have to hold the DS up so that the slide controller is in contact with a flat surface such as a tabletop. Magkid is then moved around in game by players sliding the DS across their desks.

No North American or European release has been announced just yet, but the game will be launching in Japan on the 2nd of August this year, so DS-aholics can always import it if they feel the need to beat the rush. And can speak Japanese.

What do you think to Nintendo and its attempts to experiment with game design over the years? Tired of the Japanese getting everything first? Let us know what you think in the forums.
Quote mclean007 7th June 2007, 11:09
So it's a peripheral you connect via a cable and then it acts as an input device that is used by sliding it around on a flat surface. Sounds a lot like a revolutionary idea from 1964 called the "mouse"!

It'll never catch on, I tell thee!
Quote CardJoe 7th June 2007, 11:11
No, I don't think it has a cable. Details are sketchy though.
Quote FooSai 7th June 2007, 11:31
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Originally Posted by CardJoe
No, I don't think it has a cable. Details are sketchy though.

A wireless mouse!!!!
It's science fiction I tell thee.
Quote teamtd11 7th June 2007, 11:36
lol, how i read it, its a gba cartrage which you put on a table or something, and rool the ds around while playing. so the ds would be flat to the table with the screens up.
Quote DXR_13KE 7th June 2007, 11:45
remember those game boy cartridges that had rumble? imagine the rumple part having some kind of surface that is movable and sensitive and you put it on the table and play with it like a joystick.
Quote CardJoe 7th June 2007, 12:29
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Originally Posted by teamtd11
lol, how i read it, its a gba cartrage which you put on a table or something, and rool the ds around while playing. so the ds would be flat to the table with the screens up.

Thats how I understand it from what I've read. Nintendo should let us have some more details soon though.
Quote Jamie 7th June 2007, 12:39
Great idea, make a game handheld portable gaming platform that requires a flat surface such as a desk!
Quote mikeuk2004 7th June 2007, 12:40
Ok, so you end up scratching your DS and table by sliding it around and then when you get a bit too aggresive it slides too far and off the end of table and smashes into bits :)

Then end of your DS and a ruined table. sweet :)
Quote kenco_uk 7th June 2007, 12:45
Cracked LCDs and Scratched Tables - new album from the Nintendo-ites.
Quote mikeuk2004 7th June 2007, 13:02
I guess we need to see it to fully understand it.
Quote riggs 7th June 2007, 13:18
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Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
Ok, so you end up scratching your DS and table by sliding it around and then when you get a bit too aggresive it slides too far and off the end of table and smashes into bits :)

Then end of your DS and a ruined table. sweet :)
Hehe, do you think the game will come supplied with a wrist-strap?!
Quote Ghys 8th June 2007, 01:32
hahahaha speak of the devil ! Look what i found today ! :D

http://membres.lycos.fr/sifer1/Picture%206.jpg

this is why they say I h4x
Quote benjamyn 8th June 2007, 17:16
Here you go, courtesy of Go Nintendo!

http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/13109_slide_adventure_magkid_122_345lo.jpg
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