@Oddy i tried transferring games from my 3ds to my brothers and it didn't work. i was scared when we did it because i thought it was formatting my sd card! i would be so pissed if it did that. but it didn't and i dont feel like risking it again

it`s because it is not possible yet. if you look on the nintendo website under support, it says that once a future update becomes available then you will be able to transfer between 3DS

trust me i looked it up because i want to get the flare red 3DS but i don`t want to miss the free games

I really hope the GBA games will be released to the public sometime down the road. I could not afford one in time to get the free games.

Advance Wars
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Aero the Acrobat
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Metroid: Zero Mission

i didn't get one either in time so i hope that the GBA games come out on the Eshop too

I was just looking over at 3ds blog, there's a rumour saying that these are the games.

NES
Super Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong Jr.
Balloon Fight
Ice Climber
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Super Mario Bros. 2
Kid Icarus
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Kirby’s Adventure

GBA
Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Metroid Fusion
WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Pokemon Emerald
The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Kirby And The Amazing Mirror
Super Mario Ball
WarioWare Twisted (Up To Date 3DS Motion Controls)

I'm on the fence with this at the moment. Pokemon Emerald would be awesome....and I wouldn't be MAD surprised if it was one of the games....I mean it doesn't exactly feign belief. On the other hand that WarioWare Twisted looks a bit shifty. Plus the fact that it would be two warioware games for the gba.

Aside from that it looks fairly believable. To be fair often times it can be the unbelievable list that turns out to be true though. It's a similar case when the full lineup of brawl was released. We'll have to wait and see though.

For GBA, I just hope for Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen and/or Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. Also perhaps Advance Wars.
As for the NES, any of the Donkey Kong titles (beside the math one, ha). Super Mario and Kid Icarus would be pretty neat.

i was always saying "minish cap" and i realized that i forgot two crucial games, legend of zelda: oracle of ages/seasons!!
i never played either one but i really want the chance.

@dizzard why would they have super mario bros 2 and not 3? SMB3 is one of the best mario games and nintendo isn't going to let us have it? i think not. and for the GBA games theres a rumor that kirby is not going to be one of the ten gba games, and many people doubt that a pokemon game is going to be one of the ten, but i really hope it does make it
EDIT: i know these are rumors, not your idea of the game list

That rumored list would be an ideal one. Lots of good games with an ideal variety.

I'd be happy with 6/10 of the rumoured games, which is at least as good as the 6/10 announced ones I want. Somehow I don't believe the rumour though: the NES games seem too good compared with the announced ones, and some of the GBA ones seem like strange choices.

@Dizzard - Source please. Also, what's Super Mario Ball? Is that Mario Pinball Land's EU title?

I would love to see Donkey Kong: King of Swing. I've heard that was great, but I never got a chance to play it...

I was very close on my GBA list!

"Metroid Fusion
Mario Kart super Circuit
Yoshi's Island
Warioware inc
Mario Vs Donkey Kong
Mario and Luigi super circuit
Pokemon Emerald
Zelda Minish cap
Kirby: Amazing mirror
Golden Sun"

Would of preferred the two RPGs to Super Mario Ball and Warioware Twisted but oh well.
I hope they add some sort of multiplayer to pokemon emerald

Fixed. XD

Here you go:
http://nintendo3dsblog.com/nintendo-confirms-all-nes-and-gba-...

Yeah I think Mario Pinball Land was the name for the US release....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Ball

Limiting myself to picking one Nintendo-published game I do not own per series per system (i.e. no Mega Man 2 or Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, no Super Mario Bros. 3 or Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga [I own them], no Zelda II or Zero Mission):

NES:
Kid Icarus (Uprising tie-in obvious!)
Metroid (everybody loves Metroid, especially on its birthday)
StarTropics (it's published by Nintendo and Zelda-ish, so it's gotta be good)
Punch-Out!! (Punch-Out!! on Wii is one of my all-time favorites; gotta see where it all began, 3D Classic or no)
Kirby's Adventure (Kirby Kirby Kirby he's the name you should know, Kirby Kirby Kirby he's the star of the show)

GBA:
Advance Wars (just wanna try this one out)
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald (just give me one of them and I'll be entertained for months, multiplayer or no)
The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap (I might go for A Link to the Past/Four Swords if we weren't already getting the latter half)
Golden Sun (just to satisfy Feenie/Iz, or as I like to call them, Fiz )
Fire Emblem (Marth is my favorite Smash Bros. character, so anything Fire Emblem is on my radar)

Wait, so it's not just the NES games that are free?

10 NES and 10 GBA games.