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No thanks. Fair ask and all, and I think this will get funded and power to them, but there's no need to dig this little nugget out of the nose of the past.

Someone who is funding them should ask why they don't get the originals on the Virtual Console.

Nintendo only put these VC games out after last week to make Golf and Tennis look better.

Nintendo only put Clu Clu Land out with Urban Champion to make Clu Clu Land look good.

Ahh, Urban Champion. The absolute nadir of the Nintendo catalogue...

Even if you were obsessed with retro Nintendo golf games, this is a pass. NES Open is better in every way and will certainly show up sooner or later. Meanwhile, Kirby's Dream Course isn't anyone's idea of a golf simulation, but it is excellent and already released on the Wii U.

I was confused about how the Miiverse functionality would work before. I'm definitely more confused now.

Hate to be this guy because I think highly of the work of NintendoLife and Damien McFarren but this is nothing but the echo chamber of the Internet-bound gaming media. This is a total stretch, a handful of references to a previous game made in Pokemon X/Y, which makes several references to previous games in the series. That absolutely everyone is reporting this as having some sort of basis is ridiculous.

To say nothing of how little we need a Ruby/Sapphire port. Those games are compatible with all the other Pokemon games, straight through to X and Y.

@Mrclaycoat Yeah, me too. Plus having seen that one teaser trailer where a garbage truck murders Aisha Tyler (?!) this game could probably use a few more months of polish.

Still looking forward to this one!

This was the game that convinced me to get into Kickstarter. I certainly don't regret putting my money down on this one!

City Connection looks like a classic next to Clu Clu Land.

And Nintendo obviously dropped Clu Clu Land next to Urban Champion because there was no way anyone would buy Clu Clu Land unless it was next to the single biggest pile of crap on the NES.

Power to 'em, always glad to see another game make it to the Wii U, but it totally escapes me how this campaign snowballed and so many others over the last month or two just scraped together their minimum ask.

Not that any of you guys are going to get Golf, but worth remembering that the vastly-superior-but-still-really-dated-and-not-great NES Open will likely be along before too long.

Seems like they bit off more than they can chew. I recommend you look at the full post as they have quite a bit to say. Given how lazy some devs can be, I can't get angry at them for a lack of ambition.

This game never really interested me but I certainly think they're doing what they can here. Can't fault them for that!

@KingMike Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting this. Only scratches the surface of this mystery though. Who holds the BPS rights now anyway? I want a Spike McFang rerelease, dang it!

Give this guy the Nobel Prize for Not Being an Idiot in Video Game Publishing.

@Rief Ever see that roller-blading beat-em-up Hello Kitty game on GCN? It's not great but it's pretty darn playable if you're in the right mindset for it.

This was in the original Wii U Virtual Console promo reel (although I think that was the SNES version, not the NES). So perhaps this is a pretty sudden rights issue. I was somewhat surprised this didn't hit the Wii U VC already.

Too bad, as this game is pretty fun.

I want this game so much arrrrrgh hurry up Unity I wanna play it!!!

@Retro_on_theGo I like how the common consensus about Pikachu is "they should make him fatter." Who says that about anyone or anything else?

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you. It's just funny.

I am skeptical, but I won't go for the throat just yet.

What is the price on this crazy thing?

Might get it after Christmas. October is waaaaaay too busy as it is.

Sue sue sue!

I was going to get a Final Fight game and pick up SSF2, but I don't know Final Fight well (the only game I have played like, at all is Mighty Final Fight) and I wanted to know which one I should get. You've all made it clear to me! Thanks.

Put me down as a maybe. Possibly on Wii U. I played the Mutant Mudds demo and it didn't inspire me, but this is a... maybe.

I wish this and River City Ransom Underground didn't have to deal with the colossal money sponge that is Mighty No. 9.

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to Mighty No. 9 far more than those two, but they still deserved a fairer shake cashwise.

They're nice but I'll pass. I might get Wii U Party just for a black Wii Remote Plus if I see it on sale though.

JUSTICE!!!!!

Awesome! Looks like I'm getting that creepy Sonic chao, and also the pointless extra lives.

If this game is as awesome as its title I'd get it.

I suggest these guys sit down, put a lot more work into this, and maybe trot their project out again when there aren't so many awesome Kickstarters running and sucking up all the money.

Same goes for Citizens of Earth, by the way.

I think this game looks really cool, but if there's any Kickstarter going right now that I'm worried about being crushed by feature creep, it's easily this. I won't be backing, but I'd be thrilled for them to prove me wrong.

@NImH I think you're thinking of Ittle Dew.

I've told a few of you Europe guys how Nintendo was going to market themselves once they rolled out their push, and sure enough, this is it: get people on the streets, put games in the public's hands and ease off on TV ads and other traditional marketing ploys.

That's how they've done it in North America for a few years now, and with Europe so much more population-dense, it could work even better over there.

I want this to do well but as others have said, Mighty No. 9 is sucking up all the money! The Wii U stretch goal is pretty much unhittable but I think they should make the basic goal. Probably no stretch goals though.

Getting excited about a project with Denis Dyack attached to it is pointless. Do not mourn this loss.

So much available and yet so little I want. Gives me a chance to get through Wonderful 101 and Breath of Fire II, though!

@Angelic_Lapras_King Exactly what I was thinking.

@ednice What this guy says is legit. Just checked news.google.com, but I think all the stories are in Spanish or Portuguese? Anyone here able to translate and figure out what's up?

This guy is a disgrace. No wonder he's got such a fancy title at EA.

This is the quintessential SNES RPG. It certainly isn't the best out there — not even in the top five — but if you want to know what it was like to play RPGs on the SNES, this game will give you the experience. Play this and you can skip stuff like Tecmo Secret of the Stars, Paladin's Quest, Lufia and the like.

I do like this game, it has a lot of charming and touching moments, and the gameplay is a lot of fun, but the translation is awful, the progression isn't always clear and the difficulty is an issue. Viewed through the prism of 2013 the review and the score are both very fair.

@PvtOttobot Let me be the one who breaks your heart — TVii is stupid and pointless. I had such high hopes for it, but there's really nothing to it. If you love sports, it's not bad, although it still doesn't have NHL support. If you live in the States, and you subscribe to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video, and you have cable or satellite, and a PVR, and you watch a lot of TV, it might be worth it to consolidate all your browsing. But that isn't me.

If the Wii U got a bunch more video apps — stuff like MLB.TV and Crunchyroll are the easy candidates — it could really be something. Right now it's essentially Miiverse for TV shows and a pretty neat second screen for sports. (Well, three sports anyway.)

I only saw the GameCenter CX episode of Ninja Spirit after it was pulled from the Wii. Hopefully it makes it back over here in North America, and hopefully on Wii U to boot! The game looks really cool.

Nintendo needs to put MLB.TV on the Wii U already. There's only one console that doesn't have it, and it's the only one that belongs to a MLB franchise holder. Figure that one out.

@SparkOfSpirit Hear hear!

Already bought (and beat) Super Mario Bros. I'm getting Wind Waker at retail.

I'm not a big fighting guy but I liked this game and would get it on Wii U.

The GTA series really doesn't interest me much, but I did really dig Vice City. I dunno. I probably wouldn't get it, but I do think the Wii U hardware would be a good fit for it.

@Joshers744 Yeeeeeeep...

I love those Goemon games and it's too bad all we've got on Virtual Console thus far are the SNES classic Legend of the Mystical Ninja and the abhorrent Game Boy game. The two localized N64 games are absolute classics — Goemon's Great Adventure is hard but one of the best 2D platformers of its day, and Mystical Ninja starring Goemon is a flawed yet wholly brilliant adventure game.

I'd play through the untranslated SNES games. It'd be nuts but man do I ever love those games.

Not to be too hard on this guy — he seems like a good dude and they company seems like a bunch of good guys too — but whenever I hear people complain about how the eShop has too many steps to purchase a game or whatever, it's like part of my brain breaks.

I suppose they would prefer to have a one-touch system like you see on iOS, where kids mash the screen and make $100 purchases in a split second, but I'm OK with being asked if I really do want to part with my hard-earned money.

I put down my $20 for a Wii U copy a few days back. I'm very excited for this.

I don't care all that much about online but axing functionality is definitely disappointing.

Thought it was amazing for a $2 title. I don't know if I'd buy it again on Wii U but I'd be pumping its tires like nobody's business.