Awesoman

Nintendo, quite notoriously, is known for stubbornly marching to the beat of their own drum. And here's hoping that this is what we're witnessing with this subpar mini-Direct. I imagine they have some impressive 1st-party titles waiting in the wings to be announced in the near future. If this mini-Direct served as a stopgap then so be it, but Nintendo really needs to step things up soon.

Eh. All the 4k in the world isn't going to drastically improve something that is of low resolution. If Nintendo does bring an HD version of this game to Switch as rumors suggest, here's hoping the game enjoys a graphical overhaul à la Super Mario All-Stars.

Maybe we'll get another 2D Metroid in the meantime!

I'd welcome a release with a larger hard drive.

@Melkac Despite an excellent overall presentation, I agree with you that this game hasn't aged terribly well. While the level themes are cool, the level design itself is fairly bland.

@Snow-Dust

Please tell me you can name your campsite...

Can we give our campsites a name?

I mainly use the Animal Crossing games to teach my villagers dirty things to say and chop down the trees in my friends' villages. If I can't do that with this game then I won't play it!!!!

@MasterGraveheart Seconded.

M. Byson...? Who the hell is that?!

I'm wondering if Shovel Knight was the character that was voted on to appear in Smash Bros. Would find that hard to believe...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Super Mario Land 2 wasn't particularly that great a game either. Yes, I said it. Oh sure, as a kid I marveled at how they made a Mario game with a "Super Mario World" style fit on a tiny GameBoy cartridge. But today, this game is an example of style over substance. Looking past the grand monochrome graphics, you've got a decent Mario game with subpar level structure. Sure, the Mario tower and space levels were neat, but they just don't match up with the level design of the console games. I don't dislike the game, just feel it hasn't aged well.

Link's Awakening on the other hand - now that sucker holds up!

This was a pretty solid Mega Man game. I liked how the graphics were directly ripped from the 32-bit Mega Man 8 game. Collecting all those discs added to the replay factor. That all being said, it would be nice if they released the Super Famicom version. At least there was a little more screen space on that one.

This would have made more sense to be featured on the Wii U. All six games are already on 3DS.

@geordie I guess we're stupid then. No clue what that is.

Well that was a waste of 5 minutes. I much prefer the "Mario 3 is a stage play" theory over this babbling doofus.

@gatorboi352 Not sure that it was Reggie's decision not to show the new Zelda game.

While the series gets an "A" in presentation, the gameplay was rather bland. I had the original game, but never really played it that much.

This game was fun to play at the time, but was not as memorable as the other Zelda games.

C'mon Nintendo. Get the rights back for this game and do another Tetris DS. That was hella addicting.

I'm happy to see the Wii U gaining momentum. No, it's not a perfect system but Nintendo is sure blowing it up with great games.

I'm still failing to see the appeal of this amiibo thing. Basically you scan a toy and let the computer play for you? Is that an accurate assessment? If so, exactly how is that fun? What is the player supposed to do in the meantime, read a book?

I'm hoping this stage builder is more robust than the one in Brawl. What would be awesome is if you could import your own custom graphics into these stages. That would never fly with Nintendo; at least they would probably prohibit sharing these online. Still, if there is room for a lot creativity to be had.

The recent announcement that Mario Kart 8 will be receiving significant DLC content leaves me hopeful that Smash will get some down the road as well.

I just don't see the appeal in these things.

Whilst Zelda looked good, there wasn't enough information on it to form any real opinion, other than the "Grand Theft Zelda" approach. The game I'm actually really excited about is Mario Maker. I will spend countless hours building unfair levels and use the blocks to spell words that will mock the player. It'll be great.

Darn that Soundwave. EEEEUUUAAAAAAGH!

I think the most important question we should be asking here is exactly how is a magazine like Game Informer still in print where other mags like Nintendo Power and EGM have bit the dust??

I thought this was a pretty cool conversion of the game at the time. The Boo races in particular were a blast. All the bonus features were quite well done.

Mega Man 2 is the definite classic. This one is pretty good too but it hasn't aged quite as well. The slowdown is annoying and the weapons aren't as interesting. Proto Man was a cool character; I remember wanting to finish this game desparately to find out what his secret was.

Brawl's online system was about as impersonal as you could get. At no point did I even feel like I was playing online...well except for the lag.

The Wii U is probably Nintendo's first console system I have had little to no interest in purchasing. I may pick one up when some good games come along, but it sounds like this system will probably be dead in the water hardware-wise once Sony and Microsoft unveil their new systems, which will be soon.

I don't believe there is anything to worry about here. Of course GBA games will eventually find their way to the 3DS. In fact, there are at least 10 GBA games they've already made available for download (for those on the Ambassador program). Nintendo may be stubborn, but they're not stupid. The GBA had a good life cycle with memorable games and it would be completely foolish for the company to ignore them. Besides, if they can make Commadore 64 games available on the Wii, what's stopping them from putting GBA games on the 3DS?

Probably best. Whilst Brawl was great, it wasn't quite the jump from Melee that Melee was to the original. A few extra years could help make the next game truly worth the wait.

The rap was better. But I like the cute gal in this video. Hooray for cute girls!

I can live with the service being "toned down" but would be quite disappointed if they completely discontinued it. There are still quite a few games I'd like to see added to the VC. Among them: Rock & Roll Racing (SNES), The Simpsons (Arcade), TMNT (Arcade), Road Runner's Death Valley Ralley (SNES), etc. The fact that Super Star Wars showed up this week is a good sign.