its already out on wii, however i hope the vc arcade picks up. tons of good beat em ups...
the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)
That is a good sign. The biggest question I have is why Nintendo has never released the arcade versions of their games on any platform. Considering how much arcade content was on the Wii, having to resort to MAME to play these games as I remember them is just silly. I'm talking Mario Bros. and the Donkey Kong games primarily since I never played Balloon Fight or Ice Climber in the arcade and Super Mario Bros. on the NES was identical to the arcade version from what I remember, which was one of the selling points of the console.
I don't really care for Solomon's Key (the NES version is, imo, better than it's arcade original) but I am dying to see arcade games on Wii U. The arcade games on Wii's VC are pretty awesome but Nintendo needs waaaaaaay more of them!
I really hope if arcade games are coming that we won't be stuck with the same early 80s games and nothing else that get constantly re-released. Late 80s and early 90s arcade games are what I want to see the most.
“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”
― G.K. Chesterton
I really hope if arcade games are coming that we won't be stuck with the same early 80s games and nothing else that get constantly re-released. Late 80s and early 90s arcade games are what I want to see the most.
Seriously. It was bad enough when Capcom made Capcom Arcade Cabinet but merely regurgitated titles already found on their Capcom Classics Collection titles.
Super Mario Bros. on the NES was identical to the arcade version from what I remember, which was one of the selling points of the console.
You may have missed it because you'd need to know the game REALLY well to notice but VS. Super Mario Bros. (the arcade version, which actually came after the NES version) is not identical to the NES. The VS. version has more enemies and pits, some blocks are changed, and they even swapped in a few of the Lost Levels.
Also, the machine owner could change it so you need (I think) between 50 and 200 coins for an extra life.
(the other VS. series games, NES games ported to the arcade, also had subtle changes from the console version.
Most surprising is the real of Gradius: an arcade game originally, ported to the NES, and then the NES version was ported back to the arcade. I think they reduced the auto-fire rate to make you have to hit the button manually over just holding it.)
Super Mario Bros. on the NES was identical to the arcade version from what I remember, which was one of the selling points of the console.
You may have missed it because you'd need to know the game REALLY well to notice but VS. Super Mario Bros. (the arcade version, which actually came after the NES version) is not identical to the NES. The VS. version has more enemies and pits, some blocks are changed, and they even swapped in a few of the Lost Levels.
The game I played was in a single cabinet - not one of the two-screen Vs ones - I suppose it could have been a bootleg, unless Nintendo didn't exclusively sell those games in the massive two-screen cabs. Anyway I saw that before I laid eyes on a NES in 1984-85, but I'm prepared to believe it was the other way around in terms of release.
Konami was big into Microsoft's Game Room and almost got Sunset Riders out there. If only they could do the same here.
“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Fantastic game. If we can't have the Arcade Version, at least let us have the SNES Version, not the Megadrive Version.
I wish Atari would start doing VC Arcade Games. So many classics. Star Wars, Badlands, APB, Stunrunner, Hard Drivin, Road Blasters, Rampage.........But more importantly, Sega, pull your finger out!
Super Mario Bros. on the NES was identical to the arcade version from what I remember, which was one of the selling points of the console.
You may have missed it because you'd need to know the game REALLY well to notice but VS. Super Mario Bros. (the arcade version, which actually came after the NES version) is not identical to the NES. The VS. version has more enemies and pits, some blocks are changed, and they even swapped in a few of the Lost Levels.
The game I played was in a single cabinet - not one of the two-screen Vs ones - I suppose it could have been a bootleg, unless Nintendo didn't exclusively sell those games in the massive two-screen cabs. Anyway I saw that before I laid eyes on a NES in 1984-85, but I'm prepared to believe it was the other way around in terms of release.
Nintendo made both one-screen ("VS. Unisystem") and two-screen ("Vs. Dualsystem") cabinets. I know there's one retro store somewhat near me that had a SMB single-screen cabinet set up when I went a couple years ago (offering it for sale or to play until then).
The only time I've seen the dual-screen (just the version with two consoles placed back to back, Battleship style) was once as a kid at a bowling alley, running SMB and Ice Climber.
I will keep my fingers crossed that Arcade games make it to Wii U's Virtual Console service. Every time I fill out one of those Club Nintendo surveys, for VC games, I always request Arcade games.
I see they had no problem releasing Raiden III as a PS2 Classic on PS3 (I didn't even know that game got released outside Japan, Raiden seemed like a dead franchise since when Raiden Project was a launch game on PS1 and people were probably like "WTF that's not 3D so it's already old and therefore must suck"), so yeah why not release the older games on other consoles?
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