Block Ball deserves better. Outside of an occasional tedious moment of chasing a single block in a weird spot it's about as crisply solid as a GB experience gets.

Nice to see Tennis included. To this day I still enjoy it's cute little characters and awesome soundtrack

@Jamie64326 Have you played them both? They're very similar.

About as new as people discovering that crazy new Continue cheat in Super Mario Brothers. I remember showing my friends how to do this.

lol someone's just a little full of themselves with that statement. Hopefully that bravado lasts if Nintendo's long legal arm comes a knocking. Double lol at using an iphone of all devices for emulation. Between the Vita, Analogue Pocket, Steam Deck, and a billion cheap chinese devices there's no reason to fumble around with a phone emulator.

@CaleBoi25 lol that would be so so funny
i hope so

Kirby's Block Ball is criminally underrated, it's probably the best Arkanoid clone I've ever played. It's got copy abilities, boss fights, level gimmicks, varied layouts, minigames, and one of the best soundtracks on the system. It's definitely better than at least Tennis and Golf.

They would never call it Banjo Threeie out of respect for Nuts and Bolts.

Given the break-down on hardware, if anyone is expecting multiple SKUs of Switch 2, I wouldn't hold your breath.

Pretty wild that the 7+ year old Switch can still pull in 70k+ while the PS5 can barely inch past 20k.

Because of course it does?

What does that even mean? I know you guys are the biggest lickers of the big N boot online, but why are you also against game preservation? RENTING your old Nintendo games for $60 a year through NSO isn't really ideal.

I never understood the love for GB Tetris. The controls aren't as good as they need to be. NES Tetris is the Tetris for me.

Unless they plan on ever putting such an old game on a worthwhile sale, my excitement remains at 0.

I'd like Fallout 3 on Switch but I'd LOVE New Vegas

Bunch of nothing here for me as usual. Back to clapping cheeks in Overwatch with gyro.

@Yalloo Yeah, very poor layout. Just a wall of text to scroll through. Need some sort of visual cue to put the game name to an image.

If only game companies had 1/100th the passion for gaming as the players do.

Nope. They're all just soulless corporations now out to make their shareholders richer so they can build bomb shelters before we get Fallout irl.

Omg it makes even more sense. Not only did Jack voice the Minecraft novel audiobook, Minecraft also just collaborated with Kung Fu Panda. Everything is connected.

I had this exact same thought when watching the Fallout show.

Then I realized it would never go on a decent sale and I'd never pay $60 for a nearly 20 year old game.

It makes sense, I recently learned that he did the Minecraft: The Island novel audiobook

@Manguy888A That was last week. This is the second week they aren't tracking them. They basically tracked them up until March 31st.

@Danondorf Steamworld Heist Miiverse page was also pretty popular back then.

And I mean, Steamworld Heist is a 3DS game from 2015, Steamworld Dig 2 is from 2017, when every eShop launch were big. It makes no sense to talk about Heist in 2017 though.

I still use the Steamworld Heist theme in one of my 3DS.

But in the end, all of these games are (will be) on Switch now, so let us rejoice.

They were restocked in select stores in Holland about a month or two back, where you would get one when you bought 25 bucks worth of cards.

I didn't even bother.

For a while I thought I wouldn't make it out of the pandemic alive to see my Kickstarter pledge for Eiyuuden come to life, but unless I crash my car on my way home it looks like I made it.

@johnedwin
Thats one of my hopes for switch 2, there was a decent amount of games which missed out on the original switch over the past couple of years especially which are hopefully viable to port to a theoretical "switch 2", even some of the ones i played i would be okay with double dipping since i generally prefer playing handheld.

again this is under the assumption the next system will be another switch, while i wouldnt be surprised if it was im still waiting for official confirmation before getting hopes up.

if it is another switch im hoping its backwards compatible.

How does Metroid II end up at 19?!
Headline says we have only the readers to blame!

Oh yes! Link's Awakening is my number one too. I think the game aged really well.

@Samalik Gaslighting does not make your point valid.

I think I had played one of those games back on the Wii, but I can't really remember. It certainly didn't leave a strong impression on me. But that's fine. I like having a sort of screensaver on my TV once in a while.

The design of the fishes look quite good (for a Nintendo game), but the animations look pretty off. Especially when the camera is turning 180° and the diver stays in the same exact position.

Hope everyone will find what they're looking for with this game in anyways.

Got my eyes on Eiyuden Chronicle, though it'll probably have to wait until I'm done with Unicorn Overlord, which at this rate won't be until Paper Mario TTYD.
Quite a number of the other games seem like real titles this week--not just shovelware--so maybe there'll be something for everyone. A channel that highlights upcoming indie games has been touting Dream Tactics, for example, so maybe check and see if that's your cup of tea.

@sketchturner They are probably excluded since they were developed by Rare. I think they are only counting Nintendo developed games.

@ShinEric yeah I just noticed. Already had stuff in the basket and all. It amuses me how far behind some companies are in terms of payment and shipment.

I was in the KS for Eiyuden Chronicle. Just got my Switch code today and set it to download ... that's as far as I've gotten so far.

I think it all comes down to that there isn't a PS4/XB1 remaster. That's generally what happens, PS3/360 games get remastered for PS4/XB1 and a Switch version either gets released at the same time or later on. Fallout 3 and New Vegas currently don't have PS4/XB1 remasters (you can play the originals on XB1/Series X|S via backwards compatibility).

This feature would highly benefit from screenshots/game covers imo (one per game). Just like the "related games" section makes no sense on this page since each game title is already linked to the game page.

Aside from that, no games grabbed my interest in this selection.

Bethesda should start selling aged milk because that’s all they’re good at, aged milk made using some awful janky machine everyone has been begging them to replace for years.

A little late for a April Fool's day joke but this looks great!

@dcon_dot_exe you COULD. However, majority of people don't go through that process, and instead just take someone else's illegal mod, and try justifying it because they 'still own a copy' or whatever.

Don’t wait too long, as we will have all migrated to the ‘new’ Switch (2) and sold our old Switch to pay for it.

Nuts & Bolts is my Threeie. It's the most inventive bit of game design Rare has ever put out to the world. Do I want another platformer collectathon? Of course, but I still love what we got a whole lot.

Very surprised with the peach numbers. Seem especially low for the country of cuteness!

This makes me cry .... Ive been wanting a Banjo sequel since I was a kid during the 64 days ..... I loathe Microsoft for just buying Rare and throwing its IPs into the dump

Right now this makes zero sense, but I really hope Nintendo knows what they're doing for the next months, I mean, what are they really planning to do with their schedule? Stop testing everybody's patience!

Where are the Donkey Kong Land games? Particularly 2 and 3 are the best games on the system IMO.

A Fallout 3 Remaster was/is allegedly in the works according to the Microsoft-Bethesda leaks. But since everything was pushed back, it might not release before the next Nintendo console.

Nothing for me this week. Continuing to work on my fourth playthrough of Fire Emblem Three House and Splat Festing this weekend! Go Team Baby Chick!

I hope the robo-voice doesn't autoplay, because it's horrible lol. I miss when robo-voices sounded like the Pokedex, and not like Siri.

I'm a little more interested in the game after seeing the lobster hitch a ride. I don't expect it will be excellent, but I like to support Nintendo whenever they branch out a little from their standard IP fare. Even if they've taken away a LOT of the shine with their inexpensive but ultimately uninviting design choices (including but not limited to procedurally-generated environments).

It's impossible not to compare Endless Ocean: Luminous to Fashion Dreamers, seeing as they both have mostly ditched the crafted story content for a multiplayer focus. Friends, I LOVE multiplayer. I'm all about multiplayer. I live and breathe multiplayer. But developers need to stop emptying games of worthwhile content to add it. Someone mentioned Mario sports games above, and they're also the perfect illustration of this problem.
After Fashion Dreamers, I am desperate for a proper Style Savvy, but I am also desperate for it to keep Fashion Dreamers' multiplayer. Just...add it to the real content. Don't replace it.
And I expect the same will be true after this game. I'll want a new, proper Endless Ocean, hand-crafted and content rich...but yeah, with multiplayer diving with my friends, so I can share my sense of awe and wonder.
And show off my lobster friend.

@Rozetta we must exist in different online bubbles then. The podcasts & media outlets I frequent rarely mention Heist while they tend to fawn over Dig 2.

Admittedly I’m not on Reddit like ever.

It saddens me to see this, of all things, be called 'preachy'. Glad to see this coming to Switch and that there are game devs out there that care enough about building a better world that they make a game about it.

What better way to make a difference than doing what they do best - making great games?

Fully agree with the no. 1.
Also, the GB version of Yoshi’s Cookie was fantastic, and never gets much love.
It would definitely belong on this list.
Ditto for Game & Watch Gallery 1-3!