Topic: Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online

@Yosheel Apparently it’s being attempted to turn it into the “I don’t like this Online Subscription” thread, instead of discussing the “NES games included in sub” thread

@HobbitGamer find the SNES games on 3DS thread.

Read it.

@FaeKnight
Those options are all extremely limited. If you were buying original carts you may not be able to come across a lot of them in the wild. The minis are limited to preloaded games so you are stuck. With the switch being portable much like the 3ds classic games would be ideal. (Heck the only reason I bought a switch in the first place was to get a large library of retro games and unlike how some argue the 3ds wasn't powerful enough is no excuse for the switch)

@Yosheel ....Wow. done.gif, indeed. Thanks for the heads up. I say we keep this thread on topic

I started stacking baddies inside Yoshi shells last night like y’all pointed out, and it made the game more fun (imagine that). I did fairly well, until a rogue Blooper took me down.

Also, enough with all this about the way the NES games are available. It is what it is, and this thread is for talking about the actual games and app.

Yup the game gets intense when you try to juggle one or two full stacks of enemies while you wait for the mystical top egg half.

Then you get 5 top halves in a row when you have nothing ready.

I can't wait to hear the discussions when they drop Milons Secret Castle or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Y'all would probably think "this for $20?"

Honestly, @GameOtaku Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde isn't that good of a game. And yet, I did enjoy playing it. By the way, I had paid $10 for Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde back in the day. Note that that was just for one single game that I'd never played before. I played it a lot. As I said, it's not a particularly good game, but I did find it to be kind of fun.

Na they haven’t addressed the friend/random thing that I’ve seen.
I’d say stick with Yoshi. I was awful the other day, but once I learned to breathe between speed ups it was better. It does throw me for a loop with the whole speed up, slow down shift
Getting all those top half’s when you don’t need them reminds me of the college humor Tetris vid.

Well, yeah. I played it a decent amount. One game I'm kind of hoping we get for the NES app is Frankenstein. Sure it was a rather forgettable side scrolling action game. But it was a fun forgettable side scrolling action game.

Another one I would appreciate is Silver Surfer. Yeah, it was brutally hard. But that didn't make it a bad game, just a brutally hard one. Which to be fair, describes many NES era games.

I think today's standards keep getting pushed onto older games And today's standards are that anyone can eventually manage to beat a game without having to start from scratch. But that wasn't true of NES era games. They were often short, so tended to be really difficult to extend play time. Many times this was done via the simple mechanic of "you die in one hit". Something that's mostly disappeared by now. Or the game would have relentless waves of enemies, so you had to carefully time your platforming. Add in the fact that you had limited lives and frequently had limited continues too, and you were not promised the ability to beat the game.

What makes Contra so hard? Enemies can quickly fill the screen with bullets if you give them a chance. And you'll die if you get hit. What makes Ghosts N Goblins so hard (aside from the near pixel perfect platforming later stages can require)? It's the fact enemies never stop coming, and can come from either direction. Plus you can only survive one hit, assuming you have armor. By today's standards these would be classified as "bad game design". After all, modern games are often trying to tell a story. And you can't really tell a story to the player if they can't get past the 3rd stage

They released a novelization of Ninja Gaiden so you could experience the full story that way. Plus the book included tips for the game as well.

To be fair, back in the day I couldn't beat Final Fantasy. I got to the final area, but I just couldn't beat the game. I had trouble reaching the first of the Four Fiends for the rematch even. It wasn't until the game was released on Playstation as part of the Final Fantasy Origins set that I managed to finally beat the game.

I had to start from scratch in Tecmo. My Bears got knocked out in Week 4

@FaeKnight
Don't get me wrong I love Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Milons not so much) but the popular opinion is the are horrible games. I was very surprised to see Milons on vc when other games line castlevania legends or star tropics could've been available. I get different spokes for different folks but if they could put something out as poorly received as it why not others?

And yes I never back down from what I feel is right. Never. From comments from some of y'all neither do you.

Hey, you ‘earned’ those restore points with real money made by an adult

Yoshi is so underappreciated. I feel like most people don't bother to learn how to play it and call it a bad game.

I definitely agree with you there. It certainly has a lasting appeal, though. I’m glad it’s one of the first 20!

Reading the book was not "the easy way out". It was not a good book. Very poorly written, and only loosely follows the plot of the game.

anyone know (not hopes, assumptions or rumors) what games will be added to the NES roster ??? so far it's pretty pathetic, not so much the number of titles (though only 20 is very disappointing) but rather the titles themselves, sure a couple of good ones, but 3/4 were never that popular, I know, I was there, how about all Square and Enix titles (they were separate and competing companies at the time) I'd love Simon's Quest and Master Blaster, Gargoyle's Quest, Battle of Olympus, 720, The Guardian Legend, Spy Hunter, ect

put the great games out and throw in 1 or 2 of the lesser titles as a bonus or something

@jhewitt3476 Dude... they gave us River City Ransom immediately. Asking for more than that you are outright crying.

I feel your pain mio amico, I tried reading those also, I was SUPER hopeful about Simon's Quest because how much i love it, but was so heart broken, I admit I did not try Blaster Master because even though an awesome game, I just could not see it as a novel

now I do love both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 1&2, they were done fantastically, the author must have played the game 5x each, he got it perfectly