BionicDodo

@SuperWeird Wow, you are unnecessarily rude. Which games are you referring to that I haven't played? I own many Hamster Switch releases and various other retro collections, as well as almost all 80s and 90s game consoles and an Open Source Scan Converter. The point I made was that everything shown on an HDTV is being displayed in HD (or it wouldn't fill the height of the screen). All content that wasn't captured or created in HD is being upscaled. Is it possible to mess up the displaying, upscaling or formatting of this material? Yes. There are many retro collection releases that do this, and the Wii Samsho games may well be among them. But the fact remains that a game made at a 330x224 resolution being sclaed to output at an HD resolution does not an HD game make. It may look great with nice sharp 'pixels', but it still isn't truly HD content. Again this doesn't mean there aren't ways to make these games look bad, as this obviously happens a lot, but these games also look great on an HDTV via a good RGB output and an OSSC. I know, as I've played the original Neo Geo hardware that way.

I find it difficult to understand why you'd remake a Wii game and have it dropping to 378p in handheld mode. I would personally much rather cuts were made to other graphical effects to keep a nice sharp image on screen at all times. I generally tend to favour good resolution and frame rate over other graphics effects, so may struggle with this one.

@SuperWeird I haven't played the Wii versions, so made no mention of them in my comment. I merely stated that calling 240p type games 'HD' because they've been upscaled for an HD video output does not an HD game make. Putting a decent video out on an old console through something like an OSSC can yield very similar results.

All the talk of 'HD' versions of old pixel art games makes me chuckle. Yes, a modern console may have a better quality video output than an old console, meaning the games may appear better on your TV, but the games themselves were drawn at the original resolution and all an HD output is doing is rendering each of the square pixels as a large cluster of pixels forming an equally square shape. The games aren't suddenly drawn in HD.

There is something truly beautiful about low-poly/high-res racing games. Cannot wait for this one.

Now can someone convince Namco to release a Ridge Racer collection please?

This game looks wonderful. Will definitely pick it up soon.

@Glitchling78 I'm sorry, but that's not the eShop's fault. You don't need to follow gaming news to know how to use Google. Even if they can't work out how to search for which Switch games are good, they must be capable of looking up the game they're considering buying to see what it's like. Back in the old days if you didn't follow reviews in magazines then you had to make your decisions based on the covers and screenshots on the boxes in the shops. Now we have Google, YouTube and a thousand online resources to find out whatever you want to know about a game. No console or handheld has ever had an exclusively good library of games. People shouldn't blame Nintendo for their own laziness.

I love my NGPC. I'd kill for a Switch JoyCon with a little digital stick, like the NGPC's, where the analogue stick usually is.

Wish someone wanted to come round and pick weeds from my actual garden for free.

The North American box is one of the greatest in game history. Any other choice is ridiculous.

@BanjoPickles I'm surprised we haven't seen Smash TV already. It's a game that is crying out for a twin stick home conversion. Forgotten Worlds is another one that would be great to get.

@BulbasaurusRex Really? I completed the SFV arcade mode on the normal difficulty in SFII, SFIII, SFIV and SFV modes losing about 5 rounds total and I am far from an elite player. I have to turn some of the older Capcom and SNK arcade games down to level 2 (or even 1 in the case of SSF2T) to be able to get through to the end. SFV may prove hard to master, but it is certainly accessible to newcomers.

I don't think people here actually read the comments in the interview, just looked at the article headline and made their own conclusions. One guy is being interviewed (not a whole company speaking under a single voice) and he says that if the Ages line does well he'd like to get the opportunity to work on some more obscure titles like SegaSonic. That's it. And this is a translation too. No one is being blackmailed.

Really excited for this game and I would have picked it up immediately for Switch, but as it's coming day 1 to Xbox Game Pass, I can't justify a purchase right now. I will definitely pick it up in a Switch sale at some point though.

Bring them on! I'm always happy to have more shmups on Switch.

@nessisonett Every time I play Astro Bot I find myself thinking "Nintendo could do some wonderful things with tech like this".

@Not_Soos @BENDsli You can find some good info on Switch bricking here:

https://switchchargers.com/nintendo-switch-bricking-faq/

@TheWingedAvenger Yeah, I'm with @Damo here... Revenge of Death Adder is a scrolling beat 'em up classic!

@andykara2003 To me the original looks like a load of small pieces of charcoal are falling out of the back of him! The 'fixed' version doesn't look great either (too much like bubbles), but then this is the N64.

@Kriven

I wasn't sure I liked the new smoke, but I watched a video showing this on YouTube and the fixed smoke looks much better in motion.

@shaneoh I don't recall that and always assumed they were friends or a couple. Someone asked one of the animators, Sam Deats, on Twitter and he confirmed that they are not siblings.

@shaneoh Sumi and Taka aren't supposed to be siblings, just two people from the same kingdom.

I have enjoyed all three seasons so far. The third was a little slow at times, but the last two episodes were epic.

This practice looked ridiculous enough before the pandemic, but now people will be going to houses to deliver packages, that will be handled by the occupants, for literally no logical reason. Madness.

It would be simpler for NintendoLife to post articles saying when Mario + Rabbids is at full price. That game is always on sale!

Absolutely loving The Messenger right now and will be all over this when it comes out.

I recently discovered psprices.com. It's a great website that allows you to add Switch, PS4, Xbox One, 3DS, PS3 and Vita games to a wishlist and get email notifications for each game that goes on sale. It also charts price changes, so you can see if the deal is a good one or not.

Never played the arcade version. Interesting.

@Burning_Spear Thanks for the info and much respect for the username/photo!

I guess this series will never be for me as family life these days means I have to play games when I get the opportunity, not at specific times.

Is everything in Animal Crossing tied to real world time? I tried the game on 3DS but it seemed like I could never go into shops as my game playing is limited to very early in the mornings and late in the evening. I never looked much further into it, but it did mean I drifted away from the game quite quickly as I had other things to play. Was I missing something?

I really want one of these but I don't want the grey model that will eventually be for sale in the UK. The original white one is the one I used to see in Mean Machines and desperately want as a kid. Importing won't be an issue, the only annoying thing is that they're not packing the Japanese model with a turbo pad. I see they are selling white turbo pads separately though, so I guess I'll get a white one with one normal pad and one turbo.

@Moistnado I love pixel art and am a huge fan of the 16-bit generation, but I don't personally mind them changing the visuals as this is a sequel made in 2020, not in the 1990s for the Mega Drive. That said, the artwork doesn't feel like a modern updating of the old style, it looks more like a Final Fantasy cover.

@SilentHunter382 Or at least just go for the black cover look that SoR 1&2 had on both Mega Drive and Genesis.

Not a fan of the cover artwork at all. Would have expected the Genesis style case to have artwork that resembled the original games.

Fabulous game that may finally get the recognition it deserves.

I absolutely love NFL Blitz and NHL Hitz and would gladly see proper new entries in those franchises. That said, like many others, I am kinda sick of the current attitude to sports games where the focus of 2K and EA seems to be more on microtransactions than the sports themselves.

I am picturing a group of friends, some frantic multiplayer action, someone pulling their controller a bit too far away from the dock, a dock falling, a Switch hitting the floor...

So...

"Aussie band have ingenious idea for publicity stunt"

or

"Aussie band have tracks removed from video game after breaking NDA"

@Damo Well, for starters Famitsu scores are kinda all over the place. Beyond that, 'Famitsu' didn't actually score it anything out of 40. Four different reviewers gave it scores out of 10: two of them gave it 10 and two gave it 9. If Famitsu used one reviewer for their scores then it would have been possible for the new game to have got 10/10 and New Leaf 9/10, it doesnt really mean much. To say it is surprising that a game got a score other than 39/40 or 40/40 feels a stretch.

If we're going to treat a site's scores like they're all from one person and can be directly compared, then I'd say it is more surprising that NintendoLife scored many of the individual Psikyo Shooters on the eShop an 8/10 or 9/10 and then the two compilations of the exact same games 5/10...

The headline of this article reads like one of those click-bait adverts you get on sites that say things like "You'll never believe what Marsha Brady looks like now" or "The value of homes in your area might surprise you". What about Famitsu giving a major Nintendo game 38/40 is likely to surprise exactly?

I love me a 90s arcade racing game, so I am 100% the target audience of this one. This video has me convinced that the game is indeed worthy of its inspirations, so I will be picking it up day 1.

I get that something like input lag will bother some more than others, but it seems pretty ridiculous to use 'we/our' in this review, rather than 'I/my', when another reviewer on this site gave most of the individual games in this set 8 or 9/10. Clearly this review isn't a site opinion but one individual's, which is fine, but phrasing it like that is confusing as the old reviews are still available to read on here.

Nearly bought this for 3DS a few times but hesitated as I play the thing so infrequently these days. Guess I'll get it for Switch instead!

M2's Sega 3D Classics releases on 3DS were done so well that taking up so many Sega Ages spots with arguably inferior versions of those games is getting a little annoying.

That reminds me, I want a new Ganbare Goemon game.

@NEStalgia I dunno, their announcement today that owners of the current gen version of Cyberpunk will get a free downloadable upgrade to the next gen version when they play it on Xbox Series X or PS5, should buy them a lot of online goodwill.

@Beermonkey Haha, that sounds familiar to me! I played through Sengoku 3 a while back with my wife. It would have been fun if it weren't for the fact that she kept saying "Why are we doing this? Are we near the end of the game yet?".

@Vriess You can get it for Xbox One. It's technically the Xbox 360 version, but it is backwards compatible and can still be purchased from the Xbox store.

For any lengthy game, like an adventure or RPG, I would definitely pickup a PC copy in a Steam sale if it had cross save. A lot of 3rd party Switch games like The Witcher 3, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Baldur's Gate can be had for under £10 on PC in a sale. I'd love PS4/Xbone/Switch cross save too!