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If only the upcoming movie would respect the 80s as much as this game does.

@Bobb I feel like I reached the end of the game too quickly. I would have welcomed the missing islands remaining in the game.

I’d have been interested if it had Capcom’s Super Nintendo Marvel games; X-Men Mutant Apocalypse and Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems.

@DangoTown Fifteen years from now if the NSO is not carried over to the next console. You don’t actually absolutely NEED the headset to play the games; you can still play them undocked without it.

@Markatron84 Nine further games will be added during 2026. Exact dates unknown.

@SuperEndriu so do I, and on 3DS. I don’t play my Wii U or 3DS anymore though.

@RoboCube It’s Pokemon and Nintendo knows people will pay.

Added it to my Pokemon folder as soon as I saw it.

But people wanted Virtual Console to return do they didn’t have to subscribe to NSO. This is the price of Virtual Console.

@Kiyata but you don’t get only these Pokemon games if they were on NSO. You get all the other games too.

@Ironcore will people even care 15 years from now? The Switch 2 has only just started and even at the end of a console’s lifespan they keep the servers active for ten years afterwards. And that’s if the NSO isn’t carried forward to the next console.

The only trouble I foresee will be when support for the NSO concludes and you are left paying for the service with no upcoming games to be added. But that’s too will be years from now and by then the NSO will have a much larger library.

@notreallyhere also push in the right analogue trigger during a game to bring up the option to enlarge the screen a little on Switch 2.

I’ll play it without a headset until I get bored, frustrated or feel ill.

@Agent_P actually you can play without them. But it’s not ideal. The screen is too tiny.

Less desirable than a signed photo of Mr. Hankey from South Park.

@Moroboshi876 That “some day” will be another ten to fifteen years from now when the Switch 2 servers are turned off. Even longer than that if the NSO carries over to the next console. I don’t think retro games on Nintendo consoles are going to end with the Switch 2’s lifespan.

It doesn’t actually look that special for a new 2026 game. Until you compare it to the PlayStation 1 original and you can see how much of a makeover it recieved. Then it looks amazing.

I suppose a nitpick is that there isn’t that much exploring. I’m only on the Roamers island right now and it feels like I’m being shuffled from one story to the next without much in the way of wandering around and fighting, trying to get to the next story point. I’m playing on standard difficulty settings.

@The-Chosen-one They won’t do that. They will have release dates worked out for low profile games and high profile games. They will want high profile games to release in 2027, 2028 and 2029.

What I would like is to see an interview with whoever chooses the games to be released. I’d like to hear the process of third party support.

@johnedwin that would be during the night in Japan so they won’t do that

Game Boy Yoshi looks better than NES Yoshi.

@BoFiS They have yet to release Japanese games on the Game Boy app for some reason and clearly aren’t going to start today. I think they prefer to release the original American version instead of a Japanese GB Color version. Donkey Kong Land 3 and Balloon Kid weren’t released in Japan originally, but were released in color on GBC.

There are games on Game Boy worthy of being a poor 4/10, but Balloon Kid is much better than those. Of course I am going to rate an early Game Boy game differently to a later similar game. I’d rate it 6/10 for a product of its era. “Not bad” is a fair judgement for Balloon Kid.

@Moroboshi876 I did just that for the N64 and GameCube controllers.

I’d have preferred more than this, even if it was only GB Tennis and Golf in addition.

Which is like remaking Super Mario Bros with only five worlds to streamline the experience and calling it better than the original that had eight worlds.

Doesn’t mean it won’t ever come. Just not right now.

@charliecarrot not really. Not when there are players who have been demanding Nintendo to make the NSO games available separately. If you don’t want to subscribe, there’s the remaster. If you don’t want to buy that and it does come to NSO, you can play it on NSO.

And I would like most of the first party Nintendo games to eventually come to NSO if they do not have licensing issues. Of course, I know some never will no matter how long the service is supported for.

Meanwhile Capcom is still making actual Mega Man games. Not as often as they used to, but new games are still being made.

@The_Nintendo_Expat localised refers to the translation. Locally released refers to when the game was available in the writer’s country at retail - as in they didn’t have to import it from another country that it was released in earlier.

@vitaminj but who in their right mind would still be playing a Wii?

@RazzBerryPie and doesn’t have the GameCube logo at the top

@Mana_Knight They did. No announcement or anything. We were lead to believe that the ten announced at launch would be the only ten until they were all added.

I’ll pay 35 toenail clippings for it and not a toenail more.

(toenail clippings being what the monsters use as currency among themselves)

@Zuljaras I see AI as using a car to travel to a destination, and not using AI is walking to the same destination on your own feet. It takes effort and time to do it yourself and much quicker to use a machine to reach your destination.

People in the 80s called videogames a passing fad.

@SuperBro64 required to play in 3D. We still don’t know if they can be played on TV in 2D without the headset

@TripleJump I agree that the Metroid Prime games should come to NSO, but Nintendo have demonstrated that they won’t release associated games on NSO alongside new releases. They didn’t release Donkey Kong 64 alongside Bananza.

@Vyacheslav333 it’s his fate to be dead before Street Fighter II.

@RoboCube

“ put some actual GameCube games people want”

People do want Fire Emblem. It’s quite a rare expensive game to buy the disc now so not feasible for players other than the most hardcore of collectors

“ put some of the better multiplayer ones I mean the whole point to this is playing it online with others”

It’s actually not in regards to NSO. There have been no emphasis for multi player games on NSO since it started.

“ Prime 4 just came out why not Prime 2?”

They would prefer you buy Prime 4.

“ You got goldeneye on n64 why not add Nightfire?”

Gearbox developed Nightfire and EA published it so no relation to Rare’s GoldenEye on N64. Nintendo pushed to get Goldeneye on NSO because it was one of their big name games. Nightfire wasn’t. EA hasn’t shown any interest in supporting the NSO and Nintendo can’t make them or release games on their behalf. Nightfire would fall under regular licensing issues. Nintendo was willing to pay the license fee for GoldenEye but that doesn’t open up the license to everyone else.

“ The GameCube always had a small library but it's ridiculous how little content Switch 2 offers for it”

It’s still relatively a new addition and they aren’t going to drop a lot of games in rapid succession due to how large the games are. The NES has had seven games in one day, but don’t expect the same for Gamecube which is about one a month.

“ my phone can play GC fine”

Publishers need to go through official channels to release games on NSO, not resort to an illegal ROM site. Each game added costs the publisher money to do so and GameCube games require extra attention to make the emulation is up to standard, and even then some players are still finding flaws with the emulation.

“ are they really gonna wait till Summer just to add Sunshine to Switch 2”

It’s expected to be released on Mario Day, March 10 (MAR 10)

@AverageGamer I would think more female players enjoy the gameplay of the Mario games than those who would refuse to play or don’t enjoy Mario games because they don’t like Mario being the character they play as.

@Pillowpants if you’ve never played a Dragon Quest game before, I’ll assume you have no interest in retro RPGs. While there are many improvements over the original NES games, I feel like you would think the HD-2D remakes to be outdated.

So perhaps play Dragon Quest XI.

I would use a Game Genie for my NES when I was young to make them easier and more fun for me.

So a lot more black bars in the Nintendo version?

@AStupidID “ It also STEALS art from artists to 'create' stuff, with no payment, citation or anything.”

And you think humans don’t steal / plagiarise from other artists?

All developers will be using AI eventually. It’s like how CGI surpassed traditional hand drawn animation.

@wiiwouldliketoplay AI is still in its infancy. CGI looked very rough back in the 80s and 90s too but now look at it.

The pixel art boxes looked good back in the mid 80s when you were first being introduced to videogames. Of course now we prefer full artwork

@mjhopkins81 but NSO games aren’t streamed. They have to be downloaded fully to be able to play them. And there would be no difference with lag if they were Virtual Console games instead.

@HammerGalladeBro I was wondering what Japan was getting this week

@Peach64 they’ve not outright said, but they seem to be going for a dumb meme movie

@PinderSchloss seriously. The games pronounce Ryu’s name in almost every game after Street Fighter II.

Game: “Re’yu”
Momoa: “I hear Raiyu”

@Markatron84 there are far worse games on GameCube than Wario World that make Wario World look like a masterpiece

@JayJ Have you forgotten Wario Land Shake on Wii?