FatherChesz

No way? No way!

I'd better be able to press ABC to at least play some blue spheres.

I have a decent collection of GB/GBC titles, a Galaxy S8+, and prior to the Switch I carried a GBC in my bag while flying. Seems like this would be a passable replacement, but knowing Hyperkin I fear there'd be some kind of ridiculous software patch process to get it working, and it'd hold on to my 20+ year old cartridges with the force of a hydraulic press. I think I'll wait on some reviews.

Mario Kart arcade does this too, actually. Watched a kid swipe his card, leave before the race even started, and still came in 1st.

At least on this version, that's likely only possible on 50cc, and even then on a simple course. Even the AI had trouble staying on the track period at 200cc on the Wii U.

Ugh, I completely forgot about Cryonis. I chopped down a tree and used it as a raft bridge to get the ball on to the northern-most pedestal. That took at least 15 minutes to orchestrate.

The original flash release didn't do much for me, but Rebirth was my jam. It actually inspired me to go back and play through the first Zelda, since there are a lot of parallels in gameplay. The manual turns this into a for-sure buy for me.

Nintendo is the Apple of video games, and Lego is the Apple of toys. Why was this not a perfect match? I should be grateful for the reprieve my wallet receives, I guess, because I would have bought every Lego Pokemon product sight unseen.

I agree somewhat, at higher levels of play it seriously does just come down to luck. Assuming both players know it's not typically smart to attack, you will move and counter your opponent's advances until there is no option but to press the attack, at which point the best laid plans simply fall apart from RNG. Or, you make quick safe moves to get your opponent's timer to run out first. Either way, it sucks.

Being a TFG vet it was fun storming across the board but it was a bit of a hollow victory, playing against people who obviously didn't know what was going on.

@AlexSora89 Surely you forget Diddy Kong Racing, which does pretty much all of that, and even offers a 2 player cooperative campaign (though it is gated behind a cheat code, JOINTVENTURE)

Motor Toon Grand Prix on the Playstation had the minds behind Gran Turismo and I remember it being OK but lacked the mascot factor.

The little cube that could was the first system I had for its entire lifespan, so it is a special piece of hardware to me. Four Swords Adventures needs more attention even if it was always difficult to get all the hardware in line, and god forbid anyone's GBA link or battery fails for any reason.

Twin Snakes is the best looking iteration of MGS, even if the character voices were homogenized, and the cutscenes were a bit overdone.

Rogue Squadron 2 though...has to be one of the most impressive launch titles ever. Then when RS3 came out, and was OK, but had ALL of RS2 in co-op as well? Craziness.

I would rather sit in a kiddy pool full of thumbtacks than play Mario Party or Double Dash, however. There's a Penny Arcade strip out there somewhere that sums up my experience pretty well.

What happened to the NA discounts on Wii releases? I might actually buy a few if they would offer some kind of launch discount, like with the Metroid set or Mario Galaxy 2. I have the discs for all of these, and at $20 I'm not tempted to buy again. At $10-15 I may rethink my stance.

I was pleasantly surprised with a birthday discount of 30%...which was only valid on 11 games I already own physically, and even some I had digitally as well. I'm certainly not paying $20 for Puzzle and Dragons either.

I redeemed a few gold on Wario Land 3, but I play Wario Land games for about 10 minutes and either get thwarted by difficulty, or the obtuse nature of the puzzles in the later games.

I piled on the platinum coins expecting another DS title or CN exclusive but I see now I should have just dumped them into WarioWare when I had the chance.

@Lizuka not to mention the REQUIRED motion plus, so you'll have to check those old Wiimotes if you have any early ones still hanging around.

I never did finish the game, complex motion stuff never worked right for me and it added an extra layer of frustration to the boss fights, especially.

I found Other M quite enjoyable when played on a traditional controller, with a bit of tweaking and some marine mammal assistance, I'll bet I'd enjoy myself more for Skyward Sword, too.

$62 USD? I guess it talks, but come on. Glad to see I'm not the only one wrestling with this conundrum.

There was a Kraid model at the show too, pretty impressive!

The biggest improvement is now once Pokemon disappear from the map or are over 200m away, they vanish from the Sightings. I spent a fair bit of time trying to find an Electabuzz this morning, and I at least had an idea of where he was, instead of being mocked by his shadow until resetting the app.

@BulkSlash I think future generations would be more impressed with a system that works to its fullest capability rather than a another box full of silicon that can only just display an SNES game. If Ben or others succeed, we will see a system that never received a full release actually working in its intended state.

Has to be a joint venture with Squeenix, Just Dance Cause. I think of it like a combination of Zumba and GTA 5.

@Lunarsickness Hate to burst your bubble, but it's a fake. Article up on SlashGear.

@KTT Pretty accurate! Though if my house was the Safari Zone everyone would demand a refund unless they are nuts for Pidgey and Weedle.

I echo the same sentiment. If tracking didn't stop working, I don't think there would be near as many 3rd party tools to restore (perhaps too effectively) the core tenet of the game. Some programmer-types already illustrated that tracking can be enabled and done on the client (your phone) with only some minor modifications.

On one hand, I want to see Sonic Mania as broadly available as possible so more people get to experience it.

On the other, the more platforms it is on means the more copies I need to purchase.

I've never seen a dream team like this assembled for any series, let alone people who straight up "get" classic Sonic. It deserves all the money.

People hear what they want to hear, it sounds like a generic Shadow grunt from SA2 to me.

I'm getting flashbacks to the Animal Crossing gyroid scandal where they were accused of looking too phallic. I'd never have made the connection on either were it not pointed out to me.

If you are training at a friendly gym, you get about 200 prestige for defeating each lower level pokemon, or about 500 for beating each higher level. Use those type advantages, or just Vaporeon.

It is completely impossible to hold a gym while under attack unless you outnumber them about 5 to 1 or outlevel them dramatically. Your best bet is to sadly wait for it to be conquered and then troll with Magikarp in the open gym until they leave in disgust.

For every 5 historic plaques I've encountered, there is a random playground fixture, or the big cow on the dairy case at the supermarket. The Ingress players here had a real random streak.

@flummerfelt Amazon.com had them up a few weeks ago, and it was in and out for about a day. They still don't have a release date even if you did order one.

@Pac-Fan But Conker's was the biggest N64 ROM, at 64 MB. I think Stadium 2 was also a 64 meg, but that was 8 times the size of early titles like Mario 64. If the DD used a similar format to ZIP or JAZ they could have gone up to a gig or 2 in size.

A local shop had a DD for sale years ago, I assume it was a dev unit. I couldn't stomach the $200 asking price at the time, but boy I wish i had now.

@sandman89 I've never seen anything more than 100 feet from a mapped road or trail. Walking in a new park netted me absolutely nothing.

Here's something I just found out last night. You can have a friend join the gym battle while you're fighting to topple it twice as fast. As long as they start the fight around the same time as you, you'll see them around the edge as well and it should be easier to take out those higher level gyms.

If you do manage to knock out a gym, you will need to heal a Pokemon before it can hold a spot in a neutral or friendly gym. This gives a window of time where a sneaky Instinct player could waltz in unopposed and set up shop. It may be worthwhile to leave a high level out of the fight so they're ready to take over immediately.

Lastly but MOST importantly, GO TEAM VALOR!