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Super Mario Galaxy, Wii details predicted in ’91 by modern day Nostradamus

Nintendo Power, December 1991; 'Player's Pulse' excerptafter reading this joystiq article yesterday, i decided to unearth my old issues of Nintendo Power to see for myself whether this was true, or a photoshop phabrication. as it turns out, jimmy peterford DID predict the near-future state of nintendo back in december of 1991.

among the almost creepy parallels are the name of nintendo’s next mario flagship platformer, super mario galaxy; and also information about their “virtual console” feature of their next console, Wii. One thing this article doesn’t mention is the inclusion of “six” controllers…though it draws lines between the predicted number of “buttons” the wii-mote could be said to have. as it turns out, the wii’s wireless controller uses the bluetooth standard, which limits device-to-device connectivity to 7 per base unit… so little jimmy was close on that count as well.

it’s my bet that today he either works at nintendo, or for miss cleo and her bevy of 900 numbers.