Yes we all want a puff-puff!

I played this when it originally came out in the arcades in 1978.
I was 7.

Man, I'm old.

The lines were huge and it was only in black and white but man, I loved every second.
After that, I was hooked and I have literally grown up alongside the videogame industry.

@Don
Metroid only had a very short window in wich eshop sales were possible.
It's also pretty niche.
My guess is it probably would have hit spot 18-20 or something if it had more time to sell.

@nhSnork thank you, I was not seeing the link also. It should've been hyperlinked in the main article.

So awesome! Good for them, wow.

What we need is a NieR Automata Seitch 2 upgrade, and having a port of NieR Gestalt's remake really wouldn't hurt either.

It was a nice surprise while setting up my Switch 2. I haven't tried the update for myself. I'll probably wait for the problems to get fixed before I do so though.

Haven’t seen the console sales charts on here yet? Been available since a few days on other sites.

@SuperWeird
Dread's OST is underrated, but it's art direction, enemy design & Cutscenes are ammeture compared to what Retro Studios is capable.

Dread is still the best controlling 2D Metroid to date, but the clinical bland envrionments and lack luster art direction & enemies always left a bitter taste in my mouth. It's technically proficient, but sigh. What could of been. I'm still enjoying it a heck of a lot more than Prime 1: Remastered though.

@HammerGalladeBro Space Invaders is arguably one of the most important milestones in arcade history. The Outfoxies is certainly a very cool game for the handful of people who know this obscure gem, but such a deep cut is not #500 material.

Comparing AI to a knife reminds me of the part of Jurassic Park where Hammond tries to minimize the danger of the incident by saying Disneyland experienced technical difficulties at its opening.

It's a fundamentally different scenario to a few bad apples deciding to misuse AI. The end goal of AI is to allow corporations to own creativity and to replace as many artists as possible.

@FortniteJ
Agreed. I think Nintendo was scared of pushing for quality motion controls by including a sensor bar since it may of scared off the motion control haters, or slightly added to the cost? Maybe they just didn't want to include more stuff in the box and wanted NS & NS2 to be as simple & fuss free as possible. So they instead just snuck that Gyro-tech inside their controllers and called it a wrap.

Either way, they messed up hard. Wii Remote Plus, Nunchuck & SensorBar set up(Under controlled lighting conditions obviously) smoke the deteched Joy-con 2's. Sure with the latter you get HD Rumble 2, the left joy-con isn't tethered and you have more buttons to work with which are all great additions that push & move things forward(Although I miss the Wii Remotes Big A Button), but the ergonomics aren't there(You need backside grips to compensate like with Dbrand Killlswitch), the analog sticks are terrible and none-traditional and as you pointed out there's no reference/sensor bar for pointer aiming, which completely destroys everything.

It's impossible to recreate Prime 3 Wii's(When set to advanced) amazing control scheme, just like it's impossible to use the right Joy-Con 2 for any on-rails shooter. Think Hosue of the Dead 1&2 Remake, or even a potential port for Sin & Punishment: Star Successor. Won't work properly.

The lack of a sensor bar always gets tossed under the rug and brushed over. Can't stand the pointer cross hair drifting either. I was playing the recent HD port of Super Mario Galaxy, which hasn't stood the test of time imo(Clunky cumbersome unintuitive platforming and mostly shoe horned motion controls etc), and my gyro pointer cross hair would always drift here and there, and wind up being inches away from where i was actually pointing, forcing me to pessing R1 to recenter the cross hair in the middle of the screen.

That's the definition of broken. Was never an issue at all for me on Wii. I could play House of the Dead 2&3 with ease using the Wii Remote + Nyko Perfect shot(Just one example). yet HOTD Remake has been a nightmare using the right joy-con. Completely pointless. And who in their right melon wants to play a light gun game using an analog stick to aim in 2025? That genre is pointless on modern consoles.

Only work around, which I've mentioned before is if Nintendo Released an NSO Wii Remote, Nunchuck & Sensor Bar(Wired USB) and allowed that control scheme to be used outside the NSO service for certain NS2 games like Metroid Prime 4, Super Mario Galaxy 1+2, Pikmin 1,2&3 etc.

But who knows, Nintendo may very well flub that as well, by ditching the sensor bar and instead sticking Gyro inside the Wii remote. sigh* Also, games that all play better on Wii & Wii U thanks to the Wii remote, N & SB > PIkmin 1,2,3, Skyward Sword, Galaxy 1&2. Toad Treasure Tracker is another that's a lot more enjoyable to play with the Wii U game pad, because it was built and designed around that thing.

Wii to NS/NS2 ports are typically never a good idea, unless they're games using traditional controls like Kirby's Return to Dreamland, or DKC Returns HD which has actually been saved on NS thanks to not forcing in those shoe horned motion controls which broke the Wii original.

@Ham-n-jam the 8bitdo pro 3 has a clicky dpad! i recently got it and i believe that underneath the dpad its just buttons. I use it to play a lot of fighters because misinputs are almost impossible with it.

@OldManHermit Samus has never had dialogue in the Metroid Prime games.

As long as they keep making quality games like they did with XI; I have no complaints.

Feel like this is the gamer version of sitting on Santa's lap. It's either going to happen, or isn't.

I got it, don't see myself using the mouse mode and playing local wireless with my sister on switch 1 was crashing for her after a bit

Once the bugs are fixed it'll be fine but honestly i would have been better off not upgrading for now considering my experience does not benefit from the upgrades

Please let it be DQ VIII remake / remaster announcement.

Its a great game that is 100 percent not for me. Love the art, love the idea, hate how it feels.

@PinderSchloss I think what you’re saying makes perfect sense. The thing is, that AI-generated reference of a fighter drains our drinkable water, raises our electricity bills, and contributes to global climate change. Maybe just stick with the human-made ones we have?

@riki_sidekicks Prove it.

I could see Nier Automata getting a "Next Gen Upgrade" more or less. I'd be shocked if DQ got anything substantial considering it's getting two releases within a few months. Maybe 12 gets announced? I'd ideally like to see 4-6 remade to fill the gap in.

That FF statement is so filled with buzzwords that I don't know what'd going on lmao

I remember finishing Metroid Dread, going back into the menu, and immediately restarting on the higher difficulty. The thought of ever playing MP4 again just fills me with… well, dread.

I think studios need to be more transparent about the ways they are using AI, because there is a very broad range of potential uses, not nearly all of which are as harmful as the average person believes.

Bought it. Enjoying some moderate online high score list success until those with magical powers take it over with impossibly high scores.

Nier Automata Switch 2 Edition? I already played it on PS4 but I would be glad to play it again.

Not sure if we should be glad or disappointed that modern Square-Enix has said nothing about Chrono Trigger during its 30th anniversary year.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance + A2 Remastered for modern console, please.

Dragon Quest 12 or Bust!

@KayFiOS Also the Taito Milestones releases are just bundled arcade archives games

@KayFiOS they sell bundles of their ACA NeoGeo games in Japan at least

please don’t get too excited with anticipation

500 games, they sell around $8 each... $4,000?!?! Yeah, they should probably sell collections/bundles of games from the same publisher at this point holy moly!

@AllBLK same here. Thank blob I’m an old soul who has more classics and indie games than insufferable modern AAA slop!

@FlyingDunsparce : Had they issued a bunch of physical compilations, I'd have been more tempted. NEOGEO have done a bunch, and I intend to get them eventually, but I think they've gone completely overboard with the compilations considering the high cumulative cost, and the relatively low number of enticing games.

Also, <3 to my homeboy Dunsparce.

Still no sign on the UK & EU store. Considering I own the Switch version, this would be an easy download.
I assume the usual tighter standards means we’re probably waiting for that patch here.

@Lizuka : If Space Invaders Forever is still available, then I would highly recommend that over the Invincible Collection if the price is cheaper. It's basically a budget-priced "abridged" version of the Invincible Collection, containing only the very best games.

The older games and oddities included in the Invincible Collection haven't aged well at all, and aren't worth the premium. Had it been a more comprehensive collection and included stuff like the home console releases from the late 80s and 90s (including Game Boy variants and such), then it would have been an easy recommendation, but considering how disappointingly barebones the Invincible Collection is, I say stick with Forever to scratch that Space Invaders itch.

I remember playing Space Invaders on my calculator in school.

Honestly pricing is an issue with all of these ACA games. There's so many games I'd like but can't justify spending 8 bucks on. I think I bought 5 total with 4 of those being on sale. If it were 2 or 3 bucks per game it would be so much more affordable and I would go on massive buying spree. But as it is they're all just passing me by.

Now they have reached 500, perhaps they sell one cartridge with them all on?

Free upgrade dropped on Christmas, we've all been good boys and girls it seems.

The switch 2 library is growing every week with new titles and upgraded switch 1 software, animal crossing next week is gonna be another few hundred hours pumped into the switch 2

500 games and not one tumble pop. I own a ton of these, they're really great on switch but just wish so much my childhood game would be on the system, would legit never stop playing switch if it was there.

With the current direction of gaming my backlog is looking very good.😐

@PigmaskFan It apparently does. There's a screenshot on the Arcade Archives official site that shows the background variation, as well as one for a variation that applies colored "fields" to it too. These are both probably graphic and/or preference options for the B&W version of the game — they included both the B&W and Color versions of the game in this release, apparently.

Apart from programmed color in-game, I think the only major difference in the Color version is that the score has five digits instead of the B&W version's four.

I was going to credit Kirby's merchandising presence for why Air Riders is such a big hit in Japan... but it's not like Forgotten Land is appearing on either of these lists. The GameCube sold very poorly there, so it's not affinity for the original game. And there's probably a Sakurai bump, but idk if casuals were watching his two 45 minute presentations. And all this as a "racing" game launching a few months after Mario Kart World.

It seems like just a runaway success marketing this specific game.

@PikminMarioKirby You still had to pay extra for the bundled games, so people chose to buy those (unless for some reason they couldn’t find the standalone console pack)

Please consider this:
Before, any artist used references taken from magazines, books, etc. If you needed to draw someone doing jiu-jitsu, there's no way any artist would have drawn that without a reference.
But these images are all copyrighted works by other photographers.
Now copyright law says you can use something as long as it's completely transformed, and this illustrations of jiu-jitsu fighters will always fall under that.

But if you ask A.I. to generate you a reference of a fighter, you're actually doing less stealing than when you're tracing that image from the newspaper. It won't look like anyone else's work, and the illustrator in question will have to do just as much work to transform it.

Bottom line:
brainstorming, references = ok
Using generated images as they are and making a profit = not ok

@EarthboundBenjy tetris effect connect has a toggle thankfully to keep this from happening. I have the same happen to me.

The thing is, CEOs and bigwigs would rather use that knife as a weapon.