GamerZack87

I've eagerly been awaiting this game's release! Potential Day One download!

Game & Watch Gallery 3?!

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^Jaw-drop face

@Damo
1. Nice effort on the Home-Run Contest!
2. Now that's what I call Pika-Power!
3. Kinda reminds me of Grumpy Pigs or whatever the younger generation plays on their not-consoles nowadays.

Video: Here, Have A Generous Helpling Of Super Smash Bros. 3DS Minigame Mania

@Kimimi Just thought I should let you know^.

@Taceus Ah well, I can hold out another week to try the demo. I hope I don't use up all 30 available play sessions before I'm able to get the full game, which from what I've heard might be tricky!

"As a promotion it's particularly clever — target your most enthusiastic consumers and give them the means to share their excitement."

I wonder...did this promotion skip Australia entirely? If Nintendo really was targeting its elite CN members, then either they did skip Oceania (again) or I guess I'm not an elite (21,250 Stars and 116 registered items including one of each home console and two of each handheld console since CN's Aussie debut).

This behaviour is appalling. As much as I would like a copy of the demo with unlimited uses, I wouldn't accept an offer from anybody who tried to sell one to me, even if only for a few dollars. If I was one of the lucky few to receive four codes (which I doubt I would have anyway given that I'm an Aussie), I would have generously given my spares to anybody who wanted one.

Pikachu has never looked mousier.

Well, what do you know? There will be a Dedenne trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

The Yoshi fan in me just couldn't resist this adorable plush toy! I just redeemed 2800 of my hard-earned Stars in the Stars Catalogue. Now begins the 2-4 week wait for it to arrive!

@Kirk (#9) Well said. I have to agree whole-heartedly with every single point.

I remember back in the day, I couldn't quite figure out how to hold the N64 Controller; I spent years holding the left prong and stretching my thumb across to the Analog Stick before I thought to hold the centre prong!

"and we bet Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is occupying a few minds at present"

@ThomasBW84 Understatement much?

I'm not sure how many other people realise this, but I figured out that the consoles come with a set of plates pre-installed (plain white or plain black), so there are technically 40 different designs at launch!

As for which ones I'd pick...I guess I'd choose the plain ones: green, magenta, turquoise, yellow, purple, brown, red and blue. The cyan-coloured Mario-themed design is neat too, as is the metallic Mario one.

I'm not sure how many other people realise this, but I figured out that the consoles come with a set of plates pre-installed (plain white or plain black), so there are technically 40 different designs at launch!

As for which ones I'd pick...I guess I'd choose the plain ones: green, magenta, turquoise, yellow, purple, brown, red and blue. The cyan-coloured Mario-themed design is neat too, as is the metallic Mario one.

I'm not sure how many other people realise this, but I figured out that the consoles come with a set of plates pre-installed (plain white or plain black), so there are technically 40 different designs at launch!

As for which ones I'd pick...I guess I'd choose the plain ones: green, magenta, turquoise, yellow, purple, brown, red and blue. The cyan-coloured Mario-themed design is neat too, as is the metallic Mario one.

I'm not sure how many other people realise this, but I figured out that the consoles come with a set of plates pre-installed (plain white or plain black), so there are technically 40 different designs at launch!

As for which ones I'd pick...I guess I'd choose the plain ones: green, magenta, turquoise, yellow, purple, brown, red and blue. The cyan-coloured Mario-themed design is neat too, as is the metallic Mario one.

@Grumblevolcano @dinosauryoshi I've been wondering the same thing for a while, too. The way I see it, it'll be Green, Pink, Cyan, Yellow, Red and Blue, plus either Purple and Orange or Black and White. The latter two appear in so many Mario spin-off titles; for that reason, as well as a nod to the Yoshi's Island series and Super Mario Sunshine, I think Purple Yoshi and Orange Yoshi deserve a chance to shine...erm, excuse the pun.

Of course, the ultimate outcome would be Yoshi being a special case, receiving 12 colour variations (Green, Pink, Cyan, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Red, Blue, Black, White, Magenta and Brown): Every Yoshi in one game for the very first time!

I still remember that Christmas morning, all the way back in 1997, when my brother and I found a shiny new Nintendo 64 under the tree. It not only jump-started my love of gaming, but also caused me to bond with quite possibly my favourite Marioverse character(s), Yoshi.

"Kaabi! Kaabi!" o(-n,n-)o

"This offer is available to members in Europe and North America, but unfortunately is not currently available elsewhere."
@AlexOlney Does that mean Australia and New Zealand is missing out?

You had me at "SNES-inspired buttons", Nintendo. Kisekae is just the icing on top of a very exciting cake.

If the MK7 bundle makes it to Downunderland, I might consider it. The question is would I share my code with another gamer or keep it as a second copy of the game?

Bye-bye Skylanders, hello amiibo! I'm thinking of Yoshi as being one of my first characters.

By the way, who else thinks that this will be the initial roster of characters in the new games, with all the rest being unlockable?

Oh, by the way, I'm wondering if we'll see preliminary details for amiibo in relation to Nintendo 3DS.

@ikki5 @Aviator Thanks for the heads-up. So 7PM for Perth and 9PM for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra then...

Sigh And this will be broadcast in Australia and New Zealand at which time...?

Only eight Yoshis? I guess either Purple and Orange or Black and White are being ditched (my guess is the former). Still, it'll be awesome to race as eight kinds of Yoshi. That's one for every day of the week!

Mario Golf: Advance Tour?! I love that game! I used to play it all the time.

So...you can download Disney Infinity for free, but you still need to buy a Starter Pack if you want to play it...? That's about as logical as a Dodrio using Fly, and yet they both exist now.

I need to get back into the TCGO...

Despite the file size, I'm still gonna go digital.

Oh...I have no idea which roles to pick! They all look like so much fun!

@ThomasBW84 @Vhyper1985 Awesome!

@ThomasBW84 Cool. Just out of interest, how good is V?

Wow, that's not a bad price for WDC, and just when I was getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh! too!

"this fourth and final entry on the venerable portable"
@ThomasBW84 But...I thought they made five MM games for Game Boy. My collection plan is mapped out to accommodate five games!

"The yellow peril has played host to a number of games in the past such as Hey You, Pikachu on the N64, Pokémon Channel on the GameCube, and even its own virtual pet console, the aptly named Pokémon Pikachu."

@AlexOlney But aren't all those examples v-pets anyway?

For years I've thought a spiritual successor to Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Card GB 2: Here Comes Team GR! would be fantastic on the Nintendo DS or 3DS. It seems as though the closest we're likely to get to a new installment on DS is the Learn-to-Play software included in the Japanese BW Hajimete Set +.

As for the iPad software, if it really is a portable version of the TCGO, then awesome! I'm all for it!

"Please Understand."
@ThomasBW84 I see what you did there!

"For a number of years it was left ignored by Nintendo, airbrushed from history"

@ThomasBW84 It did make an appearance in Pokémon Gold and Silver as a hidden room decoration, however. The only way to get one is through Mystery Gift, so I imagine only a handful of lucky Trainers managed to get their hands on one.

"It doesn't have a European anniversary to celebrate, as it never had a release in the region."

That's why I'd never heard of it until the early 00's, when I was reading my bro's Pokémon Crystal strategy guide: I was reading up about all the goodies you could earn for your bedroom through Mystery Gift, and amongst the assortment of consoles from the venerable NES to the classic Nintendo 64, I saw the words "Virtual Boy". For a long time I wondered what these two words meant, only to eventually discover the truth.

Now I'd like to see these games released on 3DS as either VC titles or 3D Classics, possibly with optional full-colour mode.

I'm pumped for amiibo for sure! I'm even contemplating not getting the next Skylanders game so I can collect some of these instead.

For the Super Smash Bros. series of figures, I'll likely only get one character from each franchise, unless there are two in a franchise which I really like. If a franchise only has one representative, such as Yoshi or Villager, it makes my decision very easy. And as for Wii Fit Trainer...well, I'm currently undecided.

You'd think by now that Nintendo would have published a Legend of Zelda game in which you play as Princess Zelda herself and rescue Link. After all, that formula has been done before in another popular Nintendo franchise.

By the way, does anybody have any classic guides or manuals which specifically state that Bowser's Minions the Koopalings are Bowser's children?! From what I recall the most recent manuals to state this fact are the ones for SMA2 and SMA4, so just a decade ago they were, at least in the west, Bowser's kids. So:

Yoshi = Dinosaur? Yes.
Koopalings = Bowser's kids? Yes.
Waluigi = Related to Wario? Uh...I guess that one's still a mystery among mysteries.

The Japanese word for dinosaur is kyōryū, which can be read as "fear dragon"; therefore, dinosaurs are dragons anyway, meaning Yoshi could be considered both, either or neither, the latter because Yoshi generally isn't fearsome.

@Xilef Ah, you mean Katsuya Eguchi (Eguchi Katsuya if you want to get technical with the Last Name-First Name thing in the Japanese language).

Shibata-sama has such a superb singing voice, even better than my Mii singing his hit single "Cryokinesis".

@Damo You might want to warn the readers about the F-bomb at the end of the video.

From that list I'd choose: Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Pikachu, Kirby, Fox and Villager; the reason being that I'd only like one character from each franchise in amiibo form, and I've already ear-marked Toon Link as my representative for The Legend of Zelda. I did want Marth, but since Lucina and Robin were revealed I may change my mind.

What happened to the Luigi one? The product descriptions on the EB Games Australia website mention a Luigi-themed Controller as well, but it's not listed.

3D Classics versions of Super Mario Kart, Starwing (Star Fox) and F-Zero would be awesome in every definition of the word. I would also consider Super Metroid as a possibility. The tricky part would be deciding which of my consoles gets which games.

I received the newsletter, but my code isn't working at all. I contacted Nintendo about it and they're looking into it, but I don't like my chances...