The Lost World: Sonic Park

Oh good, the return of the blob that eats babies and burps!

@rayword45

ClayFighter TE for the SNES made sense because it was a game made for a Blockbuster tournament, but not this game (from what I can remember).

Hope this one get released in North America.

One of the first games EU gets is Mario's Super Picross, a game that got passed over on the Wii in NA for some reason?
Strange choice. (I'd complain more if I didn't get a boxed physical copy at the same price.)

No more Nintendo press conference?
Iwata said enough last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bODn-q0g68

So few late-era PSP games, I ended up buying them all.
Except it seems I missed this one. (though I did get the even-later game that was released a couple months ago)
Oh well, now I guess it's better on 3DS anyways.

I know I've read about another (young) person doing the same thing years ago, and they also called in the bomb squad.

Ah, so she's YUUKICHAN'S (very womanly) PAPA!

I may have to download Indy.
Already downloaded Ghoul Patrol, have ZAMN on cart, and if anyone wants them, the Super Star Wars games are luckily only worth a few bucks each on cart.

Well, I'd imagine that part of the reason the 64DD failed is that it was only released in the 64's worst-performing territory.
(I hear the N64 was slightly more popular in Europe and sold A LOT better in North America.)
Supposedly it was also only sold online, and I remember reading at the time most Japanese weren't interested in doing online business (as strange as that seems ).

Also, they reportedly made 100k DDs but most of them were destroyed after the console was discontinued.

Not actually a Capcom franchise (they only published it in the arcades, SNES and PS1, Hudson released ports for TG16, Game Boy and announced a legit NES version that never came out, though a Sachen bootleg did.)
The original was developed by Mitchell, possibly better known for Puzz Loop/Magnetica.
But it is actually a good game, which is the important thing.

Can't forget the playground Nintendo vs. Sega arguments.

Lack of Menacer games? That's an understatement.
So I heard Terminator 2 Arcade was the only game aside from the pack-in to support it. And I only heard of one canceled game for it called Monster Hunter (not related to the Capcom franchise. Though I hear that franchise could save certain other dying consoles... )

I've thought the US console always looked like a Kleenex box.

I do remember some games referred to the buttons by color, which made that a bit confusing when they forgot to change it for the US (Breath of Fire II's music minigame).

@JogurtTheYogurt

It's actually a screenshot from F-Zero BS 2, a semi-sequel (only five tracks) released only on Satellaview (aka BS-X), a Japanese-exclusive online service.

@Tasuki
You could use the sword to kill the monster, it would just take many hits. I've heard the Famicom cartridge version (released as a launch game for the AV Famicom) changed it so you had to press Select (pause) several times in the same room.

Calm down, this is just typical Sony pre-console-launch trash-talk.
Yes, Sony. Mario can sell systems, even before the game library has time to grow.
Remember when they said the first DS buyers would just be kids? It took a few years for the PSP to start getting pretty respectable support. And it looks like the Vita is going to repeat that, at this rate.

I believe by 2010 it had become an exclusively machine service. The human service had been discontinued long before that.
Until 1995, it was "free", depending on whatever a standard phone call to the Seattle, Washington area costs you. It was then that they moved the machine respondents to the old number and put human respondents on the 900 number.

Nobody noticed Donkey Kong was probably specifically chosen because it goes on VC Trial in Japan on the exact 30th anniversary release date of the Famicom, and DK was one of the three launch games (along with DK Jr. and Popeye).

My guess is that "enhancements" means a dollar fifty for a savestate feature.

Author, this article is factually incorrect.
The original Atari didn't chance to a focus on software. They went out of business completely in 1996.
Their IP was sold off to toy company Hasbro, and then to Infogrammes. Who as you said, eventually just changed their corporate name to Atari.

I don't know what kind of fancy supermarkets you people go to, but when mine was selling video games in the early 2000s, the selection was more like what you'd find in a clearance bin at another store. (if that isn't just what happened. It wouldn't surprise me if there are resale dealers that buy out clearance bins.)

If this was Dragon Hopper, I might almost be willing to drop 100 to save it.
My guess would be that Bullet-Proof would be owned by the Tetris Company now, as both were created by the same guy.

@Groose_Lord
One is the original release (gold background), the other is the rarer Player's Choice release (rock background).

@warvad

He said that of the entire collection, only two games were different than what's already on the Internet. He already loaned those two to someone who doesn't care about the legal trouble with releasing them. So, the ROM set is preserved.

Even more successful than the NES?
The NES still got new games for a few years after the SNES came out. (not like the Wii, where they (at least NoA) practically gave up on it even before the Wii U was announced.)

Of course the SNES guy turned into a robot. Playing Contra 3 as a human wasn't allowed in PAL land.

Another year, another PETA complaint. These stopped being news awhile ago.

Am I the only one who looked at the Animal Crossing 3DS photo on top, and immediately thought someone made a Pop-Tarts 3DS?

I'm kind of interested in the story of that boxart image.
And why someone bothered to paste a Konami sticker over the Ultra Games (literally a fake brand of Konami, sharing the same address)?

@FyreeTSG

The DK from 1981 became Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country. The new DK is his grandson (or maybe it was his son, I forget).

Well, he was originally created as Mr. Video Game, so their names are Mario Video Game and Luigi Video Game.

Super Metroid was an awesome game, so how come there weren't any ripoffs for the SNES?

IT'S DANGEROUS TO SELL NINTENDO ALONE.

And Nintendo made two other "education" games, but one was only released in Japan (Popeye English, which was pretty much just an NES version of Hangman) and the other was completely canceled (Donkey Kong Music).

100 Nintendo coins for a game that isn't even selling on ebay for 100 real coins (pennies)?

FEFEA? That's actually the name of a former ROM release group that Frank Cifaldi was part of (though that was near the end of the NES ROM dumping era, so they most released redumps of games that lacked good dumps and ROMs of bootleg games), so there's a good chance this is the very cart the ROM on the Internet came from.
He is a well-known game historian and preservation and has paid a lot of money to obtain prototype carts and promotional material of canceled games.

And people thought US$64.99 was a lot to spend on a video game. £1 is at usually at least $1.50, so that's one expensive video game.

I'd agree it would be pretty bad if the games were destroyed in the process. I see a Conker's Bad Fur Day in there.
And I saw someone else make another N64 costume that included a gray Majora's Mask (I didn't even know they existed, so it's got to be worth something).

I agree 9 is pretty sad, though maybe not as much as the lady in the previous installment asking if she should trust her doctor or Wii Fit more.

LOOK FOR #2!
He's a maniac, he wants to saw us all!

You forgot one sort-of canceled game: Sister Sonic, the altered Sega CD version of Popful Mail. Sega canceled it after they got enough hate mail from fans, demanding the game remain as-is.

Things didn't work out too well for the last console to pull a surprise launch.
(the Saturn "it's actually out now" E3 speech)

What was good enough to release on the 3DO is good enough to release on the 3DS, apparently.

About the copy listed above... You know, putting that game in a plastic box to protect it doesn't really matter when they removed the labels from the EEPROMs.

@-Max-

So, I guess like the fan game Super Mario Bros. X, I think it was called?
It mixed SMB2, SMB3 and SMW elements (and I think I remember even cameos by Metroid, Mario 64 and StarFox )

But about Yoshi's Island, they called it SMW2 only for the western versions. The Japanese was actually "Super Mario: Yoshi Island" (well, misspelled Yossi Island )

Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. 4 in Japan already. The rest of the world calls it Super Mario World.

@LztheBlehBird
I was referring to them de-bundling items that were originally sold together and selling them in pieces.

Just one example I can think of: back when they were selling SNES games, it was pretty easy to find Lethal Enforcers carts, but where's the light gun you need to play the game? (even though the game and the gun were both useless without each other.)

Since when did GameStop care if lack of a peripheral stopped you from playing the game.
In the past they'd just try to sell the gun/mouse/dancepad/etc. separate. Why make a book any difference to their existing greedy way?

Hey, maybe now they'll reprint Metroid Prime Trilogy while they're at it.

Haven't played either of them, but I suppose I might as well pick it up to get a new copy for the price of a used Cube version.