Hordak

**Sarcasm on**
Great! Now I can turn my $200 Super NT into my $80 SNES Classic.
**Sarcasm off**

All I want are Mega Man X, X2, and X3.

I would love some "XL" or "Pro" Joy-cons since my hands are too big to actually use the Switch comfortably in handheld mode.

@Shiryu It's Rad Racer

Metroid Dread, perhaps??

Dang it. I guess I'll have to choose from the other 273 devices that I already have that are capable of playing Netflix 🙄

"Where should I start if I have absolutely ZERO coding experience?" has been a question I've pondered for quite a few years. Maybe this is the answer?

I never could get into any of the Smash Bros. games. I tried every one of them but they all just seemed clunky and unintuitive to me.

Take from this what you wish, but I say it with a slightly guilty conscience. I coach athletics...football, basketball, track & field, and baseball. Watch the way fans in a crowd react to a play or a call from an official that they disagree with. Watch the way coaches on the sideline act when they feel a referee has missed or made a bad call. Watch how soccer/football/basketball/baseball/etc. players act out when calls don’t go their way or even when they are flopping to get a call. What about riots when someone’s team loses?

People call sports fans, coaches, and players/athletes “passionate” when we should all really look at it for what it is a large majority of the time = disturbing. Try to act that way in any other setting. Act that way ALL of the time in another setting...professional, social, in a military setting, as a babysitter, etc., etc., etc. What would be considered acceptable behavior or acceptable reactions when things don’t go your way at work, in school, at your grandparents’ house, in church, and so on?

I see frightening things on an almost daily basis as a coach and I make a very concerted effort to disallow my athletes from having ANY disrespectful or violently emotional reactions by modeling controlled behavior myself. Sometimes I feel like the culture of sports is too much and out of control, but I still want to make a difference. I try. I try my hardest, but the fight is getting more and more difficult in recent years. There is more finger point, more social media vitriol, more disrespectful comments from parents, kids, even people I don’t know. The strangest thing is, even when we are successful, people are still overreacting irrationally. Again, I find it...disturbing.

Saying video game addiction is a mental illness is sad. Although I agree that we should all turn off the games, go outside, and get some fresh air from time to time, I’m no authority on the subject. I will say one last thing, however.

Does the type of behavior in athletics seem a little too close to home? Was that type of general behavior something that was as prevalent before online gaming became the norm (perhaps forced upon us??)? It’s all a reflection of the world we live in, but man...typical behavior seems like it’s getting more and more out of control.

Goonies II ReBirth

I would pay a king's ransom for that!

As quoted from the article: "The game was also tested and it is fully working on real hardware if you fancy giving that a try."

Is anyone nice enough to explain this little tidbit?

One thing that I think industry presictors failed to foresee when saying console gaming was going by the wayside is...

...smartphone and tablet fatigue. Many, many people I talk to simply don’t want to continuously upgrade, have turned their iPads/tablets into coffee table music players, and generally don’t find the next model to be necessary and exciting and are becoming more apathetic about playing games or whatever on those devices.

Console gaming, on the other hand...

Will the SNES30 (previous model) work with the SNES Classic?
Also, can a Dual Shock 4 be used with the SNES Classic?

Slain!!!! I don't care what the reviews say, I enjoy this game. I would also go for 80's Overdrive if it were on Switch. I don't even want to touch my 3DS anymore.

I would personally give it a 7/10 or somewhere close to that. To me, it's better than the reviewer leads on. Yes, it's difficult, but learn to adapt to the quirks (which is required in almost EVERY GAME) and you'll have fun with it.

The soundtrack, atmosphere, and character designs are the best qualities of the game. Versatility in controls is a little ho-hum, but it’s still just good old fashioned fun to play. for those who complain about the brutally hard difficulty, to me it feels...nostalgic? Reminds of my childhood when games made you earn success.

His prediction basically went “If it starts off good it will do good. If it starts bad it will do bad.” Not really a prediction. That’s the equivalent of saying “If it’s extremely hot today, I’ll be hot. If it’s extremely cold today, I’ll be cold.”

I wonder what Michael Pachter has to say about this 🙄

So...basically...it's a soccer game?

Where is the list I've heard of that has the NeoGeo releases for the next few weeks? I'd like to know if I need I should buy this or keep my current eShop balance to get something better coming up.

For the Wolf Link Amiibo (from Gamefaqs):
Start new game in TP. Save immediately. Quit to Wii U menu. Boot up the game. Should see the Amiibo logo on the title screen.

Press start and it should ask for you to register your Amiibo ( may have to erase the amiibo data first ). Do that and once done quit the game and boot up BotW. Scan the wolf link amiibo.

He now has 20 hearts.

Just give me some PRO JOYCONs that are ergonomical and feel like the grips on a real controller. I essentially can’t even use the Switch in handheld mode because it’s just too small, the joycons are too flat, and the button/stick placement is just all wrong for large hands.

I had this and the SNES visual compendiums both preordered through Amazon.com and both orders were cancelled.

Thank goodness this isn't going the Limited Run Games route. That has to be one of the most stressful shopping experiences I've ever had just to buy a physical copy of a game.

@Hrimfaksi I just want you to know I’m buying Doom on Switch because I want to. Your own personal reasoning doesn’t apply to me.

Let me give my top 5 a try:

1. Thimbleweed Park
2. Thimbleweed Park
3. Thimbleweed Park
4. Thimbleweed Park
5. Thimbleweed Park

Just beat this without losing a life and not using the rewind feature once on my SNES Classic. I guess I don't understand why everyone feels this game is so difficult.

It needs Hagane and Rendering Rangers.

Just give me Hagane.

I generally don’t like the way these sound. I guess my nostalgia takes over and makes me feel like it’s somehow blasphemous.

I just call it the Super Nintendo, since that’s what it actually says on the hardware. No need to add the Entertainment System part as that’s relatively useless, in my opinion.

I guess I don’t understand. Is the D2 thing the new logo or the old logo. If it’s the new one, what did the old one look like? If it’s the old one, what does the new one look like? To me, the D2 looks cheap and lazy. I simple comparison shot would have been extremely useful to this article.

@Shiryu I like it too. I returned me to a time in my childhood when I actually had to work to get better at games.

Any idea when I can purchase issue 172?

I have a feeling that the SNES Classic will actually be substantially easier to get ahold of than the NES Classic. Maybe it isn't RIGHT NOW, but with Star Fox 2 included, it will most definitely have a massively increased production run. Just hang tight, everyone.

Why on Earth can't companies just simply have a made-to-order open pre-order that lasts a week or two about 3-5 months out and say "If you want one, pre-order it during these days. If you don't, tough luck." Allow people to order from the 6-10 major retailers of their choice and poof! Printed money, happy customers, happy retailers who don't have over stock clogging shelves, etc. it's simple. People who legitimately want one get one for a reasonable price. Scalpers will still buy a ton anyway in hopes people forget or miss the open order period, and most importantly, Nintendo knows exactly how many to produce months in advance allowing them time to manufacture and sort out all of the regulations on electronics, imports, shipping, etc.

This is in my top 3 games of the past few years with Axiom Verge and Breath of the Wild.

One of the best games in the last 5-10 years, period. I've already played it several times through on PS4 and Vita and preordered the Switch version a week or two ago.

I can see how this would be a problem, but considering I almost exclusively play single player or local multi games, this issue isn't one I'm likely to ever have to deal with.

I am 100% using this for Halloween this year. I'm going to go as a retro-future Captain N.

Regardless of how we feel about the show, it going over big with fans may be the only chance we have of getting a proper Castlevania game again.

@macaron75 that's the point. Thimbleweed park looks exactly like it should! This need for HD everything doesn't interest me. It's a throwback and does so perfectly.

Man, one day I would love to be able to play Hagane

Seeing Bonk 3 up for Wii U really makes me want the Turbo Grafx 16 games on my Switch!

I just don't understand why companies cannot do a "Pre-order Subscription" where they say: "Look, if you want to guarantee yourself a unit, you can pre-order during the dates of XX and YY."

At least Nintendo would know they NEED to manufacture that many units to fulfill pre-order demand. Even if they take those orders 6-8 months in advance, at least it would prevent angering many potential customers. Any numbers beyond that are on retailer orders and Nintendo themselves to gauge interest. Toy companies as crappy as Matty Collector were able to achieve something similar, so why isn't someone as wealthy as Nintendo able to?

@dumedum I got the Amazon Prime 20% pre-order discount, but I'm paying 22 pounds shipping. I honestly like the Famicom version better (even though I grew up with the US version) so that's why I ordered it. I won't really have a retail option for that one where I live otherwise.

Does this open the door for Nintendo to emulate and release other Super FX chip games?!?!

Already got my pre-order in to have it shipped to the US. I had to create an Amazon UK account, but it gave me the Prime Discount so hopefully it all works out!

@mariol66 cue someone posting that you could have solved your problem by turning off Match TV State in 3...2...1...

It's been almost as infuriating to have people who don't have the issue or cannot replicate it telling me I can fix even though I couldn't. Oh well.
Seriously though. I have a Samsung KS8000 and it was/is the MOST annoying thing I have ever experienced with regards to technology. Well, maybe second, right behind the sound of my alarm clock in the early mornings haha

@bluesdance that never actually worked for some people, myself included. Turning it on or off literally made no difference as far as input switching. Hopefully this update actually makes that feature useful. I'll have to test it this weekend, but I won't hold my breath.