The Nintendo Brownie: Personal Snapshots with WarioWare D.I.Y.

Whoa shit. Didn’t know (until Duncan of Micorcartridge gave me a heads up) that Eric over at Tiny Cartridge did a great post about this very thing like four months ago!

Micorcartridge is a simple blog dedicated to WarioWare D.I.Y. MicroGames and has a brief description that calls the games - video game snapshots.

This is intriguing because the description links to an article by Ian Bogost, and in the write-up Bogost explains how the Kodak Brownie changed photography by making it simple, cheap, and more personal due to it’s accessibility.

The article was written before WarioWare D.I.Y. was even announced, but Micorcartridge is saying the Brownie for videogame snapshots has already been attempted!



Sadly WarioWare D.I.Y. has only developed cult status rather than the explosion that the real Kodak Brownie created.

Maybe Nintendo can try again with a 3DS release, or even a WarioWare D.I.Y. game developed for the Wii. Hell, maybe dropping the WarioWare name all together and possibly bringing a Mario name into the title, or even calling it Wii Create.

They can do it, they can inspire people with easy, and cheap tools to create and share amazing video game snapshots.

Nintendo just needs to do it right.

- Kyle