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@Suicune You can say that again! Jeez. I feel almost insulted by such a statement LOL. Crap Of Duty has nothing on Contra/Probotector...EVER!

Completed Low G Man at my best friend's home tonight. Been a while. Remains one of my favorite NES games of all-time.

@Relias You know what it's all about. Nothing more to add either.

@AlexSays I don't have to impress anybody, since I know I am a good player, others just confirmed that...Envious?

I am not planning to feed the trolling people, so. Have fun discussing this classic console!

There's tons of reasons AlexSays, things you will never understand.

Almost everything made today falls short in comparison to the NES games. Sad to consider myself almost a complete retro-gamer, I wish it wasn't that way. And believe me, it isn't -just- sentimentality. Games were genuinely better than today's trash generally speaking. You couldn't save in most games, so you were forced to play the game all over again. It forced you to develop a relationship with the game. It also made you develop your imagination about the "world of the game", since graphics didn't give that all away, unlike today where everything is explicitly "known", "seen". Limitations were better for videogames as it forced both developers and gamers to think creatively. Hence why the older games were far more creative than now. Sorry if it offends you, but it is my opinion.

Nintendo actually needs a guy like him.

Well, he was one of the very few people of a big company that you could interact with. And I don't think that such a stubborn company as Capcom ever contemplated "our" suggestions through his interaction with "us"...

Never seen that Mach Rider (PAL) box-art before. Very nice. And, I guess that this version was released earlier due to the "black Nintendo Seal of Quality"...

@StephenYap3 Of course! It's an ATLUS title!

Wow! Just WOW! I am gonna get this, by hook or by crook!

"Smiling faces make great games, it seems"

Pretty-looking women too I guess (Yes, I have a weak spot for Japanese women)

Best of luck to all these people making "X"!

I had many Japanese Game Boy games back in the day, that were never ever released in the West. Away with yer region-lock!

Talking about SEGA and Star Fox:

If i were to buy a console again it would be the Wii U. The less FIFA, Battlefield, Call of Duty and more of these generic multi-million dollar crap on a console, the better.

"Average" does not exist in nature.

Wow. You learn something new every day. Thanks!

There were games in the past scoring 6s and lower, while the gamers loved them. Another obsession nowadays; scores, and the stupid, mindless disregard for everything below a certain score.

Did you guys know, that in 1994, Final Fantasy III (VI) was given a 5.6 by Dutch magazine Power Unlimited? Glad I ignored it.

Develop your own taste.

@Pinkie_Pikpik Sad, but true.

Oh, and for those who don't know: they stopped with the "free" Club Nintendo's at one point. Then you'd had the "Club Nintendo Extra" magazines (like the Star Fox one above), which you could also purchase at the local magazine vendor. These were also smaller in format but also made of thinner pages, and had actually more content. They were cheap too.

It belongs on the Wii U, just like the first one did on the Gamecube!

Haha! Memories! Thanks for this great article. I had a huge stack of Club Nintendo's including the ones pictured. Short, but great magazines they were.

@gblock That's the whole point: you're not owning a game; you're owning a license (and you agreed with it when downloading it).

Isn't it funny, reading my previous commentary, that we can have a Super Mario All-Stars for Wii, selling out, while there's no demand of a new Mega Man compilation? Am I so passionate, or is the majority of gamers just plain lazy?

Who's for a 3DS compilation, retail, of Mega Man 9 + 10? Would you buy it? I would.

@Kodeen That's why it would be a great idea if the platform holders would make compilations of independent titles for example. SONY already does this with their 'The Best PlayStation Network' compilations.

@Kodeen Well, there were games made by 1 person back in the 80s and 90s. They got retail releases and some were even considered classics. If a game is classic it's classic, and it should be absolutely preserved and spread wide via retail.

@Kodeen By not buying into that crap, you're actually directing it's course. Developers will put more effort into titles, making them big enough and worthy enough for a retail release. Plus one could release several games on retail mediums. That's what they should do with the Oddworld titles for example.

That's why real gamers stay retail.

Already gave arguments here

@Newtwo Yep. The gaming "community" today. Spoiled brats! LOL

This looks so amazing.

ATLUS USA state that they're unaffected by the trouble at Index

Hopefully GungHo will help.

@Melkaticox

I see people on NeoGAF screaming for the acquisition by SONY or Nintendo all the time. Neither SONY nor Nintendo should buy them.

Worrying, since I pre-ordered Dragon's Crown for the PS Vita. I hope ATLUS remains completely intact (as it currently is). They remain one of Japan's finest developers.

I don't want to see Activision being successful anymore. Likewise, EA. Megacorporations without any love for enriching ART.

Let's convince Nintendo to go region-free!

@SCAR392

"A game that's imported will never sell as well as a game that has been properly localized."

The problem is that lots of classic games never get localized, hence the need to import. So, if there's many fans of a non-localized game, they will import them for their region-free console or handheld which ARE sales instead of NON-sales. Simple, isn't it?

There is simply no reason to region-lock... Sales of import titles are sales too.

"Node activated!"

I really don't know if a rushed sequel could ever surpass F-ZERO X and F-ZERO GX... Just more detailed graphics won't do. He's right I think.

Well, there's only one way to "fix" that problem...update and expand it!

People, please read this great article written by somebody at NeoGAF:

Trying to understand Nintendo's approach to the industry

Oh! It's him again. The only thing I agree on was the line "never underestimate Nintendo".

@Dezsi That's it. It's all done under the guise of "expansion". Why? Wasn't it complete the first time 'round? It's inexcusable in my opinion. That's why people should wait for the final editions of games (like Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate), instead of buying additional content all the time.

Yeah a REAL Cloud! LOL

This is really ruining games nowadays; DLC. I don't even have a internet-connection for it. Also, games should be perfect as they are: at the time of release not afterward.

"Even so, as gaming moves towards dropping physical games, can it ever be said that you truly own what you pay for, even with an account-based purchase system?"

Nope. And I refuse to buy games digitally. Death of retail = death of gaming. End of story.

Monolith Soft's X (No official title), though the rest were impressive as well.