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Should have been obvious, I know a fair number of people suggest this on every post about these auctions. But people just have such a hard time getting past the idea that a video game can be seen as a faceless commodity, and not Zelda, Mario, etc. Same reason why people struggle with the notion that Nintendo bigwigs and shareholders see them as products and faceless profit centers.

@valcoholic women have been making careers in video game music since the 80s though. Michiru Yamane, Yoko Shimomura, Tamayo Kawamoto, Kinuyo Yamashita, Manami Matsumae, Junko Tamiya, Harumi Fujita, Jun Chikuma. People might usually think of guys like Koji Kondo first but a huge number of classic video game soundtracks were done by female composers.

Impressive, but it's no Streets 1:12.

I enjoy roms and emulation, but I also enjoy stories of people getting smacked down when they think themselves invincible playing in the shadow of a notoriously litigious company. The overall net is that I enjoyed this story. Roms aren't going anywhere and so long as you don't get greedy like this guy you aren't going to get burned.

Kind of funny they're seeking such high damages for one of their worst ideas. That wrist strap virtual joystick thing was so awful. If some other company would potentially take credit for it, I'd say let them.

Wow, do you guys also think it's a slap in the face when games get a price cut after you paid full price? Or when game of the year editions are released with dlc you bought separately? By the way, every product ever is milking. They're enticing you to buy things, always.

@B_Lindz the inability or unwillingness to tinker with emulators is most likely why anyone who is aware of those options still bought a copy. I have so little time to game anymore I'd rather just spend a little cash to get a copy of an old title that I know will work out of the gate.

@drewber2635
"waiting for a sale" on a first party Nintendo game, and a Zelda title to boot - enjoy that 15% discount in five years.

I still carry mine every day. I might a hit or two every six months, and it's like two ships passing in the night. I finished all the puzzles long ago and I just hope whoever I pass with is someone still trying to get those pink pieces. Going to the Zelda, FF Distant Worlds, and Video Games Live concerts were the best for getting those pieces, I couldn't chew through all the passes fast enough.

So it's basically like that Simpsons where Bart, Martin, and Milhouse jointly buy a copy of Radioactive Man #1 except you don't get to touch it or have the fun of trying to kill your co-owners.

If nothing else this service must be setting a record for the volume of teeth gnashing & pointless list making relative to the cost. I spend more than the cost for a whole year of this service just getting a fast food dinner for my family. Maybe Nintendo knew people wouldn't be able to stop talking about it and is getting a cut of the ad revenue made on all these articles. That said, this was a nice article. Personally I tried Nightshade for the first time with NSO and it's a new favorite.

I love the polarized responses to this. Not much middle ground, it's either I love Reggie he was irreplaceable & amazing or I hate that meathead he exists for nothing.

This'll have its audience but outside of a negligible chunk of gamers it isn't competing with the Switch. Nintendo systems are vessels to deliver Nintendo games, everything else is window dressing. They operate on brand power not technical specs. They find success selling ports of their old games at full price on drastically underpowered hardware, the Steam deck outperforming the Switch and offering games that can be played anywhere else is not going to bite into the Nintendo market in any significant way.

I think I'm the only person in the world who genuinely prefers Metroid over Zero Mission. And that's not to say the first game is perfect, it has a lot of problems. But I'll take the repetitive corridors and obtuse layouts any day over the handholding and hamfisted elements of Zero Mission. ZM isn't bad but when comparing the two I'd always rather have the original - and most preferably the FDS version.

@HeadPirate just signal boosting your post because it's the most important points of this story. As usual everyone hyperfocuses on the game that happened to be in play and completely misses that Japanese law is very different compared to most countries.

Sometimes when you're a parent, 5 minutes of hallway or stairway gaming is all you get in a week. Someone there knows how perfect the Switch is for a gaming parent.

Lateral thinking with withered technology. A thought uttered by a key creator at Nintendo and later adopted by Iwata. That is Nintendo to a fault, sans GameCube. They specifically target cheap outdated hardware and flip it for a profit using gimmicks and games to entice players. So all this "in this year that hardware is unacceptable" talk clearly comes from people who haven't been paying attention.

It has little to do with gaming, despite being a cart. This is just another instance of rich people selling and buying trinkets in the hopes to get richer. It's one of my favorite games of all time, but what I care about is playing it, which can be done easily in so many ways. The box is a novelty to see in a picture.

Everyone focuses on the dollars, not much talk about the time. He's a kid, he has time to procure things. People who work a career and have kids don't have time, they'll use money instead. I didn't have the time to camp out for a Rosalina amiibo so I bought one at 3x markup from someone who did. Blame the world for everything not always being in stock at every corner, but the twerp is providing a service that essentially sells time, and the service costs money.

Also to those scratching their head at how he got started, it is more common than you think for white collar parents to try and teach their kids a business trade. I've seen plenty of people buy their teenager a property to manage, teach them how to hire workers to fix it up, and then rent or flip it. I'd guess his parents gave him a seed and a few products to start with.

Glad I kept my Wii Netflix disc.

Mostly inconsequential kid just using cheap tricks for attention, but I get annoyed every time he's in a headline because I always think for a moment the article is about Nas - that actual artist that this booger borrowed a namesake from as a "tribute".

@Anti-Matter doubtful the Legal team thinks they can end rom sharing forever. They're more like cutting down the weeds that get too big.

@shoeses not likely. People speculated endlessly this was why it never showed up on the Wii Virtual Console, and then it showed up on the Wii U and 3DS totally intact. Nintendo knows people want Earthbound. It's why they waited to put it on the VC & charged a premium for it, and sat on a fully translated rom of the first game for so long. They probably don't want to waste potential sales by tossing them onto the cheap online service.

Boney. The count of dogs in Smash's roster is ludicrously low.

Definitely feeling some schadenfreude due to the smug and self serving nature of leakers. I've no sympathy for people who do such silly things chasing worthless internet clout instead of contributing something worthwhile to the world. Also Sword and Shield was the same rickety mess that Pokemon has been since Gen 1. My kids and the kids at the bus stop loved it. The game is a thin vessel to deliver a kids show, that people insist on making more epic and deep. The games are awful, the company is no different than any other kids entertainment corporation, and they aren't going to suddenly change or repent for the egregious crime of making vapid content for the less discerning audience.

It's definitely subjective on how well these hold up. I can't get much out of Atari games beyond an appreciation of their influence, because the NES was my first console. Or in another medium I can appreciate Bob Dylan for the influence but his music is not that enjoyable. Nothing wrong with it, not everyone has to have the same exact love for older games. Anyway, here's my favorites that don't always get their place in the spotlight

Archon
Bucky O'Hare
Clash at Demonhead
Faxanadu
Guardian Legend
Isolated Warrior

Just going to throw another affirmative nod to Phoenotopia, it deserves more love. And also, Dust only belongs on the list if one enjoys a Metroidvania that never shuts the heck up. I can forgive the lame level designs, but loading a game in this genre with so much unnecessary cloying dialog & constantly interrupting the gameplay is a huge offense.

The Switch's tech is outdated and that's why a pro model will be coming, is still the funniest take on this. The company specializes in taking cheap outdated hardware and spinning it into a profitable product. It has literally been a motto of theirs to use withered technology. Most everything they've put out was technically inferior to the competition sometimes right out of the gate. A revision is possible and probable, but I'd be surprised if it's anything more than superficial upgrades.

Love these games, I have the originals and VC copies so I probably won't triple dip but they definitely need to be made available to a larger audience. And we can reignite the debate about whether Harmony of Dissonance has a good soundtrack (it does).

Cool if you enjoy that sort of thing. It looks unnatural to me, introducing too much empty space and undoing the tight design of the game.

The most practical is definitely a pair of the 3DS cartridge cases. They're absolutely perfect when traveling for work. Otherwise the 3-pack of large Smash 4 posters is probably my favorite, which are framed and hung in my game room. The print quality is stellar, especially the Galaxy themed Mario/Rosalina/Fox/trainer poster. I especially appreciate that they have no obtrusive logos. The pack of Mario posters they released on My Nintendo are a total joke by comparison.

Ratings are pointless; if anyone can rate it will be abused, and if a purchase is required these games will have barely any ratings. Just be diligent, do five minutes of research before buying something. This isn't the old days where magazines and word of mouth were the only ways to know if something was good. Don't rely on algorithms or God forbid Nintendo to tell you what is good. There's also a crapton of terrible and repurposed music out there, do people get overwhelmed with that too?

Never doubt the power branding has over the weak & simple minded.

No offense to anyone who enjoys this sort of game but that sounds like everything I don't enjoy in gaming compiled into a hot pile of garbage. So I very much appreciate this article's easing into the content because I was getting curious about the high scores.

It's kind of like the original Final Fantasy II. The ambition and creativity employed should absolutely be appreciated and remembered. But actually playing the game? Hard nah.

@Thisguyisabutthole I don't get it either, at least not the resounding praise. I kept falling asleep playing the XI demo. I hadn't played a game in the series since way back in the NES days (and also the first DQ Monsters if that counts), and it just felt like a very very pretty version of the old games with all the same trappings. I just can't tolerate that lack of concision anymore.

I'll be interested if they make a new Castlevania game with the characters from III. The show is alright, but I've really wanted another game with that cast that isn't Judgement, and Konami definitely isn't doing anything new with the property.

I'd be annoyed if the amiibo did something of real value, like muted Fi or allowed you to fly at night or skip those dreadful gathering segments. This is a tiny enhancement to an existing feature. It's not even in the same level as the swift sail in Wind Waker HD. Save that precious indignation.

Soundtrack seems alright based on the sample tracks but nowhere near worth the price of that vinyl. Which fits because the game looks okay but also not worth the asking price.

@Kaori-chan but trice as lame as watching an adult insinuating superiority whilst pointlessly commenting about an adult complainer complaining about adult complainers.

Adults.

This is annoying. Nintendo drip feeds an embarrassingly small amount of GB/A games on the Virtual console. Analogue makes what appears to be a great product but is unobtainable. Hyperkin makes their usual half baked crap with this. I don't have the time or inclination to fiddle with emulators anymore. I just want to easily buy something of good reliable quality to play my GB/A games on my TV.

The Switch has gotten novelty crap from failed systems like Night Trap, so the time is right for a Virtual Boy compilation. My library of VB games is Mario Tennis, Mario Clash, Wario Land, Teleroboxer, and 3D Tetris. Of those only Wario and Teleroboxer are worth playing today. But they're also short, black & red, and probably wouldn't sell super well unless Nintendo priced them at $5 or less which they surely would not.

Just think how wonderful miiverse would have been during all this. I never felt more connected to the heart of the gaming world than when starting up the Wii U and seeing all the random posts. I also really miss being able to flip the miiverse while playing a game and seeing what everyone else was experiencing at that moment. Think of how fun it would be to see people sharing reactions to the classics on the switch online apps or sending messages in bottles or balloons through asynchronous Animal Crossing.

Call me when they've got it working on the Virtual Boy.

Either they're holding it for a rainy day like Earthbound Beginnings, or they don't think it'll sell well. Guaranteed that if it costs anything more than free, people are going to whine it is too expensive. Doubtful it has to do with the content, there's nothing extreme in that game unless you're in the habit of splitting hairs. In typical Nintendo fashion this'll happen when it happens, unless it doesn't.

Cool trick, but you can also spend $7 for a shutter fob on Amazon and not risk a $40 fragile controller with stock issues.

@JasmineDragon people hold different celebrities in different regards depending on their contribution to pop culture. That should be obvious, do you really expect every celebrity article to be treated the exact same way? Contributions aside, Terry Crews was never filmed licking donuts at a bakery when the staff was turned, so he's already got a big leg up on public opinion over Ariana.

Most of these will probably go to people who have no interest in Pokemon, but see an investment opportunity to buy a set and resell the individual cards for a tidy profit.

We got the NES classic because they needed a stopgap between consoles and a quick boost in sales after the Wii U. So if we want the N64 Classic, people have to stop buying Switches. Seriously though, you have to stop thinking about them as games and cut out your nostalgia. These are just faceless products to Nintendo, they stopped the classic line for the same reason you sell your stocks when they're high. They made a tidy profit with minimal risk when they didn't have a money printing main line. Continuing the Classic line risks oversaturation and self competition. I'd like it to continue too, but from a business standpoint it makes more sense to put all resources with the sure bet of the Switch.

Eh, people blow this way out of proportion. I always set the expectation with my kids that you don't always get what you want, most parents I know do the same. It's not that big a deal that kids might not get these toys. I feel more bad for the idiots who are going to spend all that effort for a meager profit that is absolutely not worth the time investment.