@WhoBeThat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0Wwc5Q6Yk

I got the both of them, but I already completed the Dilon's Rolling Western puzzle (therefore all of Puzzle Swap) when Iwata visited a few days ago. Plus, I completed Find Mii and Find Mii II a long time ago. Oh well, more people for my Plaza!

@br1an It's not my fault that they used that incarnation of Link in the video.

@Sjoerd @br1an Skyword Sword's version of Link, which the incarnation in the video is based off of, is canonically right handed instead of left handed.

@Five-seveN No problem.

@Five-seveN I said in my comment that I have both a 3DS and a 3DS XL. I got one pink piece for each of them, therefore I got two pink pieces overall.

I just got him a couple hours ago on my 3DS and my 3DS XL. I got two pink pieces for Dillon's Rolling Western from him, and I've just communicated with six other friends of mine and told them which pink piece they should get. Eventually, I'll have it completed, and all 24 puzzles will be complete once again! (I only need the pink pieces for Dillon's Rolling Western. I already got the pink pieces for everything else, including the recently released Animal Crossing: New Leaf puzzle.)

@MagicBox Did you get to see Chuggaaconroy?

This should help out all of those Melee purists once Super Smash Bros. U comes out.

It's not like anyone is in a rush to buy this.

It looks like we got a new collectors item!

I have a gut feeling that there will be a version on the Wii U at some point down the road, so I won't be downloading this game right away on the 3DS.

@tchaten It's not my idea to release it on a Sunday.

Then again, I'll be downloading it at 11:00 PM on Saturday night, so to me, it will come out a day early anyway.

WHY CAN'T SUNDAY COME HERE ANY FASTER!!!

I had enough coins for it, but I didn't get it anyway because it looked like a piece of junk to me. Hopefully this Club Nintendo year will have some cool prizes on offer!

The Virtual Boy is amazing. Those who say it's an abomination are usually the hypocrites that haven't tried out the Virtual Boy themselves, and they are just tagging along with what the press has to say about it.

The Virtual Boy has a decent library of games, even if it's small, since the only game that I really didn't like was Water World. Almost all 14 of the games that have been released for it are actually pretty great; Galactic Pinball, Jack Bros., Nester's Funky Bowling, Mario Clash, Mario's Tennis, Panic Bomber, 3D Tetris, Tetris-V, Red Alarm, Vertical Force, Teleroboxer, and of course Virtual Boy Wario Land are all great games, and they get smacked down just because the hardware that you play these games on is crap.

As for the hardware itself... I actually like to think of it as a unique specimen. The red and black is very straining and annoying, but the 3D effect is better here than it was on the 3DS. I don't really notice the 3D on my 3DS/3DS XL as much as I used to, but everytime that I crank out the Virtual Boy, the 3D always manages to impress me. The stand that the console comes with isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is, either; all I have to do to play comfortably is just lie down on my bed or any other flat surface.

All in all, the Virtual Boy is a very neat and misunderstood console, and it's probably my favorite handheld (if you want to call it that) right behind the 3DS/3DS XL. As a proud owner of all 14 U.S. released games in addition to the Japan-only V-Tetris game, the Virtual Boy is definitely an artifact that deserves to have a look, as there are some great games and 3D effects to be had here. Don't make your opinion on it just because it has a bad rep; I was one of them, thinking that the Virtual Boy is rubbish, but then I got one for $50 out of curiousity and I fell in love with it!

(However, if the Virtual Boy ever comes to the 3DS Virtual Console, then there should be an option to make the game either Red and Black or Black and White.)

There was a Best Buy that was about 2 miles away from me, but unfortunely, it closed down late last year.

I'll go to the one in Schaumburg then, since it's still decently close to where I live.

@Banjogeek I'm well aware of that, I was just joking. (Hence the "XD" face.)

@Crazybrain1 Yep. Gotta love Greg the Grim Reaper!

Conker's Other Bad Fur Day? XD

@Dr_42o Yeah, that's what I thought, too. The middle character clearly looks like a deformed Bowser!

The main reason why Microsoft claims that backwards compatibility on the Xbox 360 wasn't used all that much was probably because they usually never even bothered to advertise it in the first place, let alone mention it.

Xbox One is the most stupid name I've ever heard for a console, even more so than the Wii U and Gizmondo.

Also, they seem to be focusing on the social aspects, as always. yawn

Where's that "I plan to own the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox 720" option? I would've picked that, but I don't think I'll be picking up either system until later in their life cycles, unlike the Wii U which I got at launch.

Anyway, I'm not expecting much from Microsoft's conference today, but I'll watch it anyway because I'm curious on their next console, plus I support all three companies. I hope they don't brag about "social features" and make the Xbox 720 another entertainment-focused console, though.

@Sekuiya Dang, has it really been four years already? XD

@Steveovig This will be the fourth game, not the fifth.

Anyway, I won't be buying this. When the first game came out, I was really excited about the concept of Mario and Sonic being in a game together, but it just turned out to be a disappointing mini-game collection. I passed on the second and third game, and I'll definitely pass this installment as well as any future ones.

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Those five girls look nothing like a LEGO Minifigure!

This is very unlikely to come out of Japan, seeing as the Pokémon Tetra games are only in Japan as well. Why release the game here if we can't even use the accessory it comes with?

Patcher is probably just happy that Nintendo won't have a major presence. He probably wants Microsoft and Sony instead, regardless if Nintendo is having a big conference or not. He's just asking for our attention so he can share his biased opinion, there's nothing more to it.

@HeatBombastic What are you talking about? The original series might be great because of the nostalgia, but I've always felt that the original series had a lot of fun episodes in Kanto, filler or not. Plus, the whole dynamic between Ash, Misty, and Brock was a fun one, and they all had their own quirks to them. (The BW group of Ash, Iris, and Cilan comes close IMO.)

AG was good too, since Ash was still slightly acting like a newbie, yet he had a lot of experience and advice from his past adventures. Honestly, not too much of note happened during Hoenn and Battle Frontier, but I just feel that it was more enjoyable to watch overall than that chore called DP.

I already said why I didn't like DP above, so I won't repeat myself here.

BW is probably the worst. Not because it's the newest one and therefore must be critized just for being new, but it truly is the worst one yet. They threw all of Ash's experience out of the window, Team Rocket basically became cyborgs, they shoehorned too many rivals for me to care about, and they rushed it to the point where we are now at Orange Islands 2.0. I do like the dynamic between the BW group (like I said, Ash, Iris, and Cilan) and Episode N was pretty enjoyable, but other than those, the BW series is the absolute worst. No contest.

I still like to watch the show from time to time, but I don't watch it as often as I used to.

@HeatBombastic I might be in a minority here, but I thought that DP was really slow paced. There wasn't much that I could remember about it other than the Sinnoh League and the evil Togepi filler episode, and the Sinnoh League episodes were towards the end of DP, so that might not say much. Plus, Team Rocket were extremely annoying throughout DP, more so than any other series up to that point. I'm also probably in a minority here, but I didn't really care for Paul all that much, since he seemed like a typical atagonistic rival with little to no characterization along with a static personality. I never really cared to watch Dawn's contests, so I can't speak for that.

Overall, DP took itself too seriously, it dragged on for four years in one region, and there were a lot of things that I just didn't care for in it. AG and OS are just better to me.

@Haxonberik Nah, the worst saga of the show is definitely Best Wishes Season 2. The World Tournament Junior Cup was very rushed and pointless, and the Unova League sucked. No contest.

They should've put up the Kanto league episodes instead!

@nomeacuerdo What are you talking about? None of the games listed here are available on the Wii U eShop.

Anyway, I've gotten all of those already except for Maboshi’s Arcade. However, if you never got Super Mario RPG before, then I highly recommend it!

@AtariRainbow The article says that they did, but there were still copyright issues regardless.

Anyway, it's pretty cool that one of the writers managed to give the man himself that book!

Oh man, this is the 3DS all over again! Release a system, have the fanbase and critics claim that said system has no games, have Nintendo release a bad 3D Mario and mediocre Mario Kart the next year, and suddenly people trust Nintendo again and will say that "3DS/Wii U has strong support!" even though that "Strong Support" was from two mediocre Mario games.

Please don't rush this out Nintendo! I want a masterpiece like Galaxy, not a mess like 3D Land.

@FernandoMachado Yes, they are! I believe the patients for the NES, SNES, and Genesis hardware has expired, so other companies are able to use their hardware to make their own, IIRC. This is why small companies like Hyperkin still haven't used other systems in their consoles like the N64, as the patient for the N64 hasn't expired yet after all of this time.

As of this update, all NES Ambassador games can be updated!

Having a seperate GBA slot on the RetroN 5 is much better than having to use an inconvenient adapter that will take up a cartridge slot like in the Super Retro Trio. Plus, the Super Retro Trio just seems like it's a glorified RetroN 3. I'll probably pick up the RetroN 5 instead, but this still looks kind of interesting.

From everything that we have heard about this upcoming Sonic game, it sounds like it will be mostly a 2D Sonic game with some things taken from the Sonic Adventure games, such as multiple characters and city based levels. In other words, a Sonic Adventure game with 2D gameplay. Maybe this could finally turn out to be Sonic Adventure 3!

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EDIT: It's been bugging me for a while, but how do you embed pictures? XD

I'm glad that the end of the article didn't say something like "How do you feel about Monster Hunter 3 Tri's Servers going down? Is it time to move on to Ultimate, or should they have kept the servers up forvlonger? Sound off in the comments below to share your opinion." These are getting really annoying, and there needs to be more articles that don't have those questions at the end of freaking everything. It comes off as the writer being desperate for attention, when I know that they don't really have to do that, since this website is becoming more well known lately. It's great that this particular article doesn't have that, so keep it up!

I agree with him. I love my Wii U, but the main reason why people aren't buying it is because Nintendo never really put any effort on designing the Wii U itself. I think the name of the console is also a problem; if the Wii U console had an entirely different look and name yet the tablet controller was still the same thing, customers would know for sure that the Wii U is a completely different console than the Wii is.

"Quite a revelaiton"

BA DUM TISS!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...You may be wondering why I said "NO!", but I would hate Mario Kart Wii U to get released this year. I would rather see it come out in late 2014 instead, so that we could have a nice and polished game, but no, we have to get a rushed one instead. This is the 3DS all over again; release a bad 3D Mario and a mediocre Mario Kart game in order to boost sales of the system they're made for. I'll probably get Mario Kart U anyway, but if they're going to keep making half-bootied sequels, then I might as well just play the incredibly fun and well polished Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed instead.

@baba_944 No problem.

@TimLatshaw I don't think I've seen you on the site before. If you're new here, then welcome to Nintendo Life, and thanks for being a part of this community!

Not only can you use NES, SNES, and Genesis controllers along with the pack-in ones, you can also use any controller for any other console. For example, Genesis controller for Famicom games, NES controller for Gameboy Color games, SNES controller for Gameboy Advance games, etc.

Also, there have been people who have tried the new wireless controller and said that it was way more comfy than they thought it would be, so ugly design doesn't equal an ugly feel.

I have the RetroN 3, and I still use it every now and then, so I'll definitely upgrade to the RetroN 5! It looks very promising.

@baba_944 You can't use any Gameboy model for GBA games, so that's a no go.

Serebii.net talked about this a few days ago, and I'm interested in hearing more details about it!

I find it cute how he said "Potential!!"

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!

EARTHBOUND **** YEAH!!!!!!!