Tip lord BlindsideDork sent us a link to this Famitsu page with details of a brand new Nintendo DS game that very well may be the greatest artistic triumph known to modern mankind.
A GAME ABOUT AN ABACUS!
For years we dreamed about it, never daring to entertain the thought that it might just be possible. Only with the kind of innovation that the DS can bring have our hopes and deepest desires been realised. Let me put this into perspective, if you are yet to grasp the true magnitutde of the news: It is a GAME about an ABACUS!
There's plenty of Japanese on that page, none of which I can understand. However, I know human nature, and such knowledge has given me the ability to deduce what the most likely translation could be. By my estimates, the full translation of all that text is thus:
"IT IS A GAME ABOUT AN ABACUS FOR THE SAKE OF GOD! YOU MUST MAKE A PURCHASE OF WILDEST FANTASY GIVEN FORM! THIS IS WHY YOU MUST BUY EVERYTHING! ABACUUUUUUS!"
Halo can sod off for all I care. That's it. Nintendo have won at videogames forever.
An abacus.
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2:25 PM on 05.16.2007
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@ Toneman, I think it asplodes when you divide by 0.
And youre to blame
You give math a bad name
I play my part and you play your abacus
You give math a bad name
You give math a bad name
Jesus, Bon Jovi? Have we all sunk that low?
Will this use the GBA rumblepak?
Is there an option to customize the beads used during counting?
Bucket Of Water
Rake
and, Paper Clip
they shoudnt have used calcu-puters, abacus woulda seen this coming!
Abacuses?
Abacai?
Sorry, I'm french.
Can't wait for Abacus 2: The Recounting.
Just an observation.
btw...
Abacus II: Abackus In The Habit.
Abacus II: The sliding priest Pandemic
Parabacus The Rappicus.
now thats what im talking about!
Abacus II: Abatacle Abortions
BAD
Look I drink