I always felt like this was my least favorite... But I'm replaying the All Stars version and I gotta admit, it's pretty legit. This was the only one I didn't own growing up, and it's rockin' my world right now.

Awe no phantasy star gaiden... Shining force is awesome though - one of if not the strongest games on the console

That's pretty brilliant

is it just me or is durango literally the worst name ever chosen for a console? It sucked enough as the name of a truck.... Now it's just sad.

whatever your feelings on kickstarter, shovel knight is gonna be incredible. Virt AND manami matsumae making an NES soundtrack in tandem!?!?!?!? /salivates

only thing i remember about amiga games was them having good music... There can't be much of a market for this....

@Optimist_Prime - fair enough - sounds to me like Nintendo won't line up a contact and he can't get the info he/his team need to start work on a Wii U port/project/what have you.

@Optimist_Prime - turn the entitlement down a touch

Ill second kinect being utter garbage. Don't compare anything to it, ever.

none of the NES ones are nearly as challenging as I remember... I didn't realize how insane the hard difficulty modes of megaman 9 and 10 are compared to...every other entry in the series.

1 has the most bizarre spikes in difficulty for sure, and is also one of the harder games to beat w/o using any robot master subweapons

that was the highlight of my day. Is it wong that I kind of masochistically want to play this now? I have to see this to believe it.

Finishing Dragon Quest 2, then moving on to Rudra's Treasure. Nintendo system RPG weekend

aaawesome

well that's awfully nice looking. That price point is pretty nice... Did they specify GBA only - no GB / GBC support?

pass on picdun.

Biggest waste of money on the 3DS so far... One of those games that looks amazing from screens / videos, and bores to tears in minutes.

this isn't a shoot em up... It's an arena shooter.

It looks OK...but I feel duped.

if you play it without using the charge-up, it's actually one of the hardest in the series. Also the first NES series game I played... Rented this shortly after getting Megaman X on SNES (which was my intro to the entire series).

I agree Urban - much better than 6. Not that 6 is terrible.... But 7 and 8 both did unique, awesome things with the series, and 9 and 10 were infinitely more solid classic-style MM games. I still play 10 often.

i miss this game.... Like all DQM / Pokemon games, the pacing mid-game killed me (collection games always do this, even the lauded DQ 5), but it's one of the best monster collectors around. Slick music as I recall as well.

good call w/ the goals - I will definitely grab this assuming the gameplay is up to snuff

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this is one of the most insanely awesome uses of the fami / NES hardware ever. Shmupheads - play this one... It's insane. It'll have you convinced you're playing a TG 16 game - great Caravan shooter classic!

to be expected - 2 early-in-release pieces of hardware

this and the code to get directly to Tyson on punchout are 2 codes I'll never forget

love it

that was a pretty forthright interview by a PR guy. Well said too - the point about Fire Emblem's digital sales were really interesting to me.

1) Is the DLC what's driving users to purchase it digitally?
2) Is it just cause it's a huge game - and the core 3DS users, who are probably all connected, were interested enough to get it?
3) Is if the fact that the game is really long?

And on that topic, it gets me thinking about Etrian Odyssey IV digital. It's a really long game as well... BUT no DLC support.... BUUUUUT it had a crazy-limited physical release.

Oh adult world...what have you done to me?

@Philip_J_Reed best looking NES game ever. They're giving you real games now!?

@Moshugun - QA for one. And marketing / promo, and all the bells and whistles that go along with that.

@Toxor - why diss Bioshock?

i loved this game.

@JSuede - I think there are Etch-a-Sketches now that can play Fable

I just don't get the appeal...

It takes the fun of a dodge-and-counter encounter and MMOs the hell out of it... This type of mechanic works well as a boss encounter or highlight, but becomes a job when turned into an entire game. I tried the 3DS version - not for me. Too slow, too samey.

damn... this game's pretty fun

oh Nintendo.... Why must you be the last guy on the team? Literally every other device on the market w/ access to digital content gives permanent access to purchased content - normally on as many devices as can access it. In the 2 years I haven't bought any digital content from Nintendo, I've bought a cornucopia of Steam games, PSN games, iOS game / IAPs, and have said content on 3 or more devices. They're doing it cause the content is so legacy-style / exclusive that gamers will just suck it up and pay again. Gamers - please stop rebuying.

hey phil /wave

no mario or platformers on iphone pls--IP be damned, they're uncontrollable.

my Gyroman mix better make it

amazing game in an amazing series. The more Castlevania-themed articles, the merrier imo. Doing another run of CV Rebirth, Classic Control, on Hard mode in honor of last year's run. This year? 3 lives intead of 9

Like!

Fair and balanced. Gotta be nice when they give you a review of a game they expect to be bad that isn't bad.

@slap - dude. it's preserved in solid rock. Of course it'll last forever. Granted--the fact that said rocks insta-shatter the second your whip even touches them gives me cause for concern...

SO entertaining. TY phil--always a pleasure. First time I've actually been moved to comment on an "article" post in months

whoa........whoa.

Well played Nintendo. Huge, huge gesture. Very much like.

worst thing about this no-frills so far is for stuff like metroid. That game's such a pain to password-continue, so I tend to either play through the entire thing in one sitting or avoid it.

Also, we have all these games with "2 player" option...that isn't usable on 3DS. That's kinda frustrating....granted, a lot of work would've needed to be done to make online play work...but that work would've been really nice. Even an option to have player 1 and 2 controls mapped to the same buttons so trade-off 2-player games (Super Mario Bros. for example) could be played on one unit would've been nice.

No frills, in this case, just comes of as lazy...

there's a part of me that's kinda surprised by this...DQ has always migrated to the console that's the best selling/will sell the most copies. Given the numbers, it makes sense for them to bring a traditional DQ game to the Wii. If it's online-centered though, the decision is more confusing. Wouldn't more PS3-owners (who virtually all have reliable internet connections/more interest in this game type, I'd assume) be interested in this type of DQ game, regardless of the size of the console's install base? I dunno....after reading all these comments, it seems like a weird choice to bring it to Wii...

No one else is excited? I'm actually pretty pumped...I was hoping IX would be online but this totally works. I'll be getting the regular ol' Wii version, assuming it doesn't get all FF XIV crucified reviews/impressions-side. Normally I'll give any game a shot, but those scared me away from even considering it.

I'm on board. Haven't been steered wrong with a DQ game yet.

metroid down in just over an hour One of my faster victories...skipped some stuff, including the Varia Suit (that bomb-jump can take forever if you're unlucky) but got her done w/ 5 tanks

Such a great creation of a genre. Zelda/Zelda 2--you're next. Now to work for the next 28 straight hours... /groan

one of my favorite games of all time. I will buy this the day it comes out, despite owning it twice already (Megaman X Collection and the SNES cart). Too damn good--best music, best bosses, best Megaman X game.

would my American farm or my German farm sound worse? I dunno...it's odd...but I wouldn't say racist...

this visual style is weeeird. In a good way...kinda....I dunno I'm undecided but really, really interested. Don't remember the last time my eyes were this conflicted.

That suuucks. My favorite thing about GC controller functionality was that it allowed my X-arcade to hook up to the Wii. Playing VC games with that thing is a blast...granted--not gonna affect me at all, but it's sad to see the controller ports gone for new buyers (esp. for stuff like Smash Bros. Brawl...how's anyone gonna play it w/o one?)

spent almost an hour trying to get out of the trap when i bombed into the vertical chamber after the one that gives you the ice beam. I was 5 I think...the satisfaction of actually getting out and continuing to play was immense.

@Kid A - Almost agree with you about Zero Mission...my biggest problem is, barring a couple spots of creative sequence breaking (such as the early Norfair entrance break), it's really linear and guided compared to Super Metroid. They also nerfed the Speed Booster a bit...it was 98% amazing in my book though. Also can't say I'd put Prime 3 above Super given how boring it got at the halfway point. Massive, empty rooms all over the place. Almost didn't finish it. To each his own though

( 6/10 means slightly above average. This game is exactly that--better than average. I dunno when the world got so skewed in the overly-positive-review-scores direction....)