I've never played any of the new NSO games and was hyped to try Earthworm. Jim.for the first time but to my surprise I've taken more to Mappy-Land! Surprisingly charming and fun.
I haven't gotten around to playing the other two yet, but I was playing Dig-Dug 2 on a trip there today and it was far more fun than I expected. I really like how you have the option of either taking out all of the enemies one by one or setting up the stage so you can kill them all in one fell swoop. It's a surprising amount of complexity for a NES game and I've been enjoying it a lot so far as a result.
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@Fizza Yeah it's really good and the pumping up and exploding of the enemies is just plain satisfying, as in the original. These games are getting me hyped for the upcoming Pac-Man Collection. Namco are really good at creating ageless fun.
@Clyde_Radcliffe be better if they released GAME BOY ADVANCE games than what is on NSO
I have a feeling in time they'll add the original GameBoy to the basic package and GameBoy Advance to the Expansion Pack... I would love to replay Kuru Kuru Kuruin on Switch <3
be better if they released GAME BOY ADVANCE games than what is on NSO
What are you talking about? Mario 2, Mario 3, Mario World 1 and 2, Metroid, Zelda 1, LTTP, Kirby's Adventure, Breath of Fire, DKC 1-3, both Earthbound games, Earthworm Jim 2, Prehistorik Man, SMT 1 and 2 (in Japan), Super Ghouls n Ghosts, Ice Climber are all already on NSO! Already a decent chunk of GBA games.
(I'm kidding, but seriously, like 1/3 of GBA games are just ports or remakes from older consoles)
@kkslider5552000 there is still some brilliant games on it I could count 2 or 3 hundred games I'd like to play on GBA . I have all gameboy and gameboy advance games in physical. But I really like to play something that iS not too old as I played snes,N64, mega drive games alot. Maybe they will do something instead of GBA OR GB.
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This is honestly why the idea of GBA on NSO doesn't really excite me much. It was very much a SNES/NES port machine which at the time was pretty cool but not particularly exciting given NSO already has SNES/NES games. Also the novelty of a portable SNES isn't really that compelling 20 years after the GBA.......
Once you go past Pokemon, Advance Wars, Metriod, Zelda and then exclude all of the licenced games that are unlikely to come to NSO? There isn't that much else on GBA other than ports of SNES titles. At least with GB(C) the limitations were significant enough that ports really weren't an option. So there were a lot more games on the GB(C) that were only ever on GB(C)
Also helps that the GB(C) was Nintendo's portable platform for over a decade while the GBA was only relevant for just over three years before the DS took over
@skywake Adding any of the GB consoles (GB, GBC, GBA) to NSO would clash with Switch remakes, let's not forget that Nintendo delisted 3D All Stars because Mario 64 was coming to NSO Expansion Pack. So I think it's more likely instead gaps are filled with porting 3DS remakes (e.g. ORAS, Samus Returns, Superstar Saga) and natural progressions of already existing remake lines (e.g. Minish Cap remake in the Link's Awakening engine, the GBA FE games following the Echoes branding, Let's Go Johto).
Once you go past Pokemon, Advance Wars, Metriod, Zelda and then exclude all of the licenced games that are unlikely to come to NSO? There isn't that much else on GBA other than ports of SNES titles.
On top of that, you look at the 3rd party games when GBA was on Wii U VC...most of them wouldn't be on this because Capcom and Konami and SE are generally selling those games their own way instead (I'm surprised Genesis NSO even got the single Castlevania game tbh). Sega seems pretty on board so maybe their games (and Atlus games for that matter) would show up. But if you want to see the issues with getting a large quantity of old games on this service, the GBA is maybe the best example. And I don't think getting different versions of older games on the same service is bad at all, but it wouldn't make up for those other games either.
@skywake Adding any of the GB consoles (GB, GBC, GBA) to NSO would clash with Switch remakes, let's not forget that Nintendo delisted 3D All Stars because Mario 64 was coming to NSO Expansion Pack. So I think it's more likely instead gaps are filled with porting 3DS remakes (e.g. ORAS, Samus Returns, Superstar Saga) and natural progressions of already existing remake lines (e.g. Minish Cap remake in the Link's Awakening engine, the GBA FE games following the Echoes branding, Let's Go Johto).
I think that's a bit of a stretch. Firstly I don't think that's the reason 3D All Stars was limited run, it was limited run to try and boost sales which it did. It was on shelves for a limited time but 9mill isn't a limited volume....
Secondly and probably more importantly, even if your conspiracy theory is correct 3D All Stars had a direct ports. Certainly the inclusion of Mario 64 in NSO did nothing for me given I already had it in 3D All Stars. But as someone who has a copy of Link's Awakening I got Link's Awakening HD day 1. Because visually it's a significantly different game. I know for some reason people like to try and argue that it's not on here but, they're wrong, it's a significantly different game
And in any case, even if full HD remasters of GB games becomes a significant trend. The well isn't THAT deep. Looking at the small collections of GB(C) games I had as a kid there are plenty of games I'd like to see on NSO but not many that would fit a remasters. Few examples, Donkey Kong Land, Mario Tennis, Super Mario Land 2, Wario Land 3, Gameboy Gallery. All of these were worth revisiting but also, nobody is going to play this:
And think "man, I don't need to buy Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze now!"
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I did not like that the Link's Awakening remake was 60 bucks, and waited to find it at 40 bucks, despite the GBC version being one of my favorite Zelda games. But its clear from sales that the fact that it was a remake of an old gameboy game that you could download for a few bucks on 3DS didn't matter much to people so...yeah.
Though even if people did mind or if Nintendo did consider that a concern, I still think there's a distinct possibility all the new systems will be on the Expansion Pass anyway, even regular Gameboy. Because regular NSO will be massively successful regardless, because you need it to play first party Switch games online.
@skywake I'm looking at the reverse, Nintendo fans still value ownership massively so rather than NSO Expansion Pack devaluing $60 remasters I think it's more that $60 remasters devalues NSO Expansion Pack.
New games always just slot in from the top left, pushing everything back one (this is the case for all NSO apps). Hope this helps and I'll try and add the rest in due time!
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