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It depends on the gaming experience of the player. About a year ago, I watched my nephew, who was 4 years old at the time, struggle tremendously with dual analog sticks and the sheer number of inputs on Super Mario Odyssey and figuring out where he was in the stage but he was able to at least control Link, make some reasonable progress and recognize where he was at with Link’s Awakening on the Switch. Which one do you think he plays more now? 3D games are not always the best place to start.

Can anyone on here confirm what the new Version number is?

How you unlock these items probably should have been included in the article.

I can't seem to get this update to show up for me. I've updated multiple games, my system software is on the most recent version, restarted my Switch...but neither this one nor the Shredder's Revenge updates show up.

I'm not sure why but this download doesn't show up for me as available. Neither does the most recent update for the Cowabunga Collection.

After all these years, I still can’t figure out what a torrent is, how it works, and now this talk of magnets makes no sense either.

Can't get any of it to download. The torrent does nothing for me and the regular download is showing 1 day 14 hours to complete.

...anything from the first three Metroid games.

@KramersMrMarbles I feel exactly the same way. And by backward compatible, I mean backward compatible with physical switch carts.

My favorite 2600 games were:

River Raid
Moon Patrol
Pitfall
Jungle Hunt

They should have hired real voice actors like Frank Welker.

I just want the original arcade versions of MK, MK2, and MK3.

Be patient everyone. Once we finally hear Chris Pratt's voice, this isn't the a** everyone will be flipping out over.

Kid Niki: Radical Ninja on the NES.

Terrible game but it was the first game I ever bought with my own money.

Has anyone figured out what the best carrying case for the Analogue Pocket is?

Looks to be pointing in the direction of the Zonai.

What we really need is a Contra game with pandas and online play and trophies and achievements and leader boards and swear words all over the place...

...said no one ever.

Contra III: The Alien Wars
Contra (NES)

Nothing else comes close for me.

I wish it had Haunting starring Polterguy. I always wanted to give that game a try.

CASTLEVANIA 64 would be awesome!

I know it’s been critically panned but it’s actually one of my favorite early 3D action games.

...and yet...no news about the Amiibo that are supposedly coming out in 14 days.

The turtles look spot on with the squatty aesthetic but applying it to all of the other characters makes them look…off? Outside of that, it’s a really enjoyable game!

The generic hip-hop track in almost everything is getting extremely tiring to me.

What about the Amiibo?

P.N.03 on modern consoles could be amazing.

I liked the aesthetics of the character design in Xenoblade Chronicles X a lot better than the Xenoblade games since. I don't like the cartoony visual of the mains.

@xmkbest @Kidfunkadelic83 I’ve had to unplug my Samsung 4K TV for a while after turning off HDMI-CEC. According to Samsung, it clears some sort of settings retention bug. All of my devices (PS4/5, Switch, AppleTV, etc.) go haywire with flashing blackouts when it gets stuck in the weird HDMI-CEC loop. Unplugging the TV for 10 minutes or so usually does the trick.

Just give me The Goonies 2 and I'll be a happy boy.

Could someone please tell me how say “Majora’s Mask X TNG”? How do you say the “X” on all of these things? I’m honestly not sure if it is “cross” or “crossed with” or “ex” or “cross over” or…?

The words “turn-based RPG” are an instant turn off for me. I never could get into that genre no matter how many times I tried.

@legend_of_zaleda I have physical copies of all four of those games.

@Hikingguy I completely understand where you’re coming from.

I think we should all be fair and realistic. If the store costs more to keep open than the sales warrant, why would Nintendo keep it going? Also, say the companies that made the games signed a 10 year contract with Nintendo to allow their game(s) on the eShop. If that contract has expired, it’s not really up to Nintendo to beg them to stay on the storefront. (Full disclosure that I have no knowledge that anything in that scenario is true, but it would make perfect business sense).

Games have been delisted for various reasons in the past due to rights changing hands (think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being bought by Nickelodeon and getting removed from the Wii Virtual Console as a result). That had NOTHING to do with Nintendo, yet people complained that it was Nintendo’s screw up at the time.

This situation is exactly 100% the reason that physical is better than digital. Now, get off my lawn you young punks!

Looks like they are just applying Mario Kart and Smash Bros. quirks to soccer. Also looks like the new Kirby game is an extension of Mario Odyssey.

I had this on PS3 and really enjoyed. For some reason, however, I don't remember it looking as bad as it does in the Direct trailer.

His pronunciation of Ocarina is quite different from what I'm used to. Always interesting to hear differences in dialects from around the world.

Ziggurat Interactive should work with Limited Run Games to make a physical SNES version of Rendering Ranger.

I have never played a Pokemon game. I never caught my attention when the first ones came out on Gameboy.

I swear I remember playing a game in the arcades when I was a kid but cannot find any proof that it existed:

Super Ms. Pac-man

Did I dream that game up?

Never played Chrono Trigger. Turn-based RPGs have never been enjoyable to me.

The video game industry as a whole was down big time this year (as far as my interests are concerned). With that said, Metroid Dread was absolutely fantastic and by far the most memorable gaming experience of the year for me.

2021 is Metroid Dread.
2022 is The Legend of Zelda fill in the blank
2023 is Metroid Prime 4
2025 is Super Mario fill in the blank

There. I finished my voting for the next few years.

A better question (referring to the article title) is if Nintendo should allow us to purchase the games outright a la Virtual Console.

@victordamazio if I write an article/column/essay/song/review/etc., then someone else copies it and submits it elsewhere as something they did, it is plagiarism/theft. The code for a game is written thus I consider breaking down the coding and copying it theft.

I hate this. It seems like it's blatant theft.

I would 100% buy a North American physical re-release of Battletoads for NES…or a physical release on Switch.

Got my email this morning. They are stating that systems will be delivered between December 14 and December 30 with an option for people to hold off until January 3 to have theirs ship if they will be gone during the initial delivery window.

The Taito game I want the most - in original form and also a modern 2D (NOT 2.5D) update - is Rastan.

Will there be a physical release of this for Switch?

I just played through Other M again last week and enjoyed it.