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@Erigen I remember 10 years ago, I made an effort to play through the Famicom Megami Tensei. That game definitely has some crust to its gameplay.
You can't really "collect" them nor do the minions level. You use them until they're no longer good then fuse them with another minion that has outlived its usefulness hoping to get something better. It's still quite a thematic difference.
Even if the "negotiation" means of recruiting them turns out to be about as random in result and chucking balls. Something I've learned from playing the spinoff Last Bible. A pre-Pokemon original GB game (from 1992) that wasn't seen in North America until after Pokemon (its GBC upgrade was released in English as Revelations: The Demon Slayer in 1999).

No, bugger is very mild in the US. Most people here probably wouldn't think much.

@contractcooker I'm fairly certain they had to resubmit for rating anyways since the game is not on the same hardware it originally was.

@SillyG And the Gen 2 guy's name used up the entire width of the textbox as it was.

@Ooyah "Spanner"? That sounds like UK vulgarity. I bet the censorship list is based on what is offensive in US English.

So I imagine it'll probably allow Bugger.

@Nep-Nep-Freak Despite whatever filter was in Gen 6, I've still gotten a few Wonder Traded Pokemon with names that should've been filtered. Clearly the system somehow wasn't working anyways.

@UpsideDownRowlet I remember when I rented Chrono Trigger as a kid and someone had made a save file with only slurs for the character names.

@Uncle_Franklin I'm sure at that point, Zelda was established enough it didn't need an extravagant cover. We saw that name on the box, we were there. (I think GamePro even said as much in its review.)

I think on that note, how Yoshi's Island SNES became a well-played and enjoyed game despite an absolutely trashy USA TV commercial. We knew Yoshi, we could trust that even if he let us know it was out with a garbage commercial, his game was going to be great.
But EarthBound, it had less appalling marketing and it took a decade or two to become an appreciated game. It was unfamiliar.

@Grim Was directed primarily at the title (though I know the Super Famicom game did the same thing). "GAME BOY Zelda no Densetsu".
Though I do own one PSP game BECAUSE it had a redundant title. (Densetsu/legend was in its title three times, though I suppose it was at least explained by that it was probably a licensed IP)

Nostalgia wins this one.

Though I may need a bit of help. I'm looking at the Japanese cover and I'm having a hard time telling what console this game is for. Anyone got any ideas?

@DaveJaVu The only color Red & Blue had was Super Game Boy.
Japanese Yellow didn't have GBC support either.
And the GBC support in the western Yellow versions was a conversion of the SGB mode with the colors altered to compensate for GBC's dim LCD.

So, lack of color in Gen 1 wasn't really a problem since it was made for B&W GB.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Can Nintendo be trusted for "high effort, excellent new ports" at this point?
I can only imagine the result something worse than leaving well-enough alone.

@Dyna-Z When I finally got a Gengar after searching for hours, I have to say its Moon Dex entry had some unfortunate implications that shocked me. I can only imagine the Moon entries (as other second versions) are like, someone banging 400 lines of text in one of the days before release.

I can't say I even remember all of them.

Mudsdale the only one I needed.

Morelull and Buzzwole sure are Pokemon names. "I'm not a Buzzwole, you are!"

@Mana_Knight Well, you already can't complete the Dex unless RSE also get released and connection to Colosseum and XD on NSO is supported. Those were the means of getting the Gen 2 and 3 Pokemon.

@Eel Would the soundtracks be found under "Pokémon"? (on PC. holding the Alt key and type "0233" on the numpad to type the é correctly)

A little surprised to see this released, since unlike Nintendo, Game Freak sells the Pokemon soundtracks digitally internationally.

"It feels good to squish Mario's face."

Did anyone ever ask if Mario likes his face squished?
What if Mario wanted to squish and stretch YOUR face?

@Eel That makes the $20 APIECE price for these much less appealing. We can't collect them all, then.

$20 for each a bit steep. Maybe $20 for both.
But will it even have connectivity features?

@Uncle_Franklin Grant was the most difficult Gym Leader because I didn't know what Amaura's Ability was (I pick the jaw). He is the second Gym Leader.
I don't think the other Gym Leaders even tried to do anything tricky to the player. The generation where Game Freak went soft on the difficulty, and I know I've read players speculate that Game Freak was afraid of young players losing once and then quitting to play mobile games.

Oops, I voted one of my second picks Florges over my favorite Gogoat.
Pretty sure I have a plush of the latter (or maybe it was Skiddo) with a few others in a box somewhere.
I'm surprised something got a double digit percent on the vote, but this is where they started cutting down on the number of new Pokemon each gen.

Funny that I don't believe that Volcanion was even officially released until after Gen 7 came out.

Time to show some love for "EXP Punching Bag" Audino. I felt it was most deserving, next to Simipour, my favorite of the Monkey Trio.

But it's actually a selection of proper favorites. Emboar, Leavanny, Swanna, Excadrill, Scolipede, Klingklang, Galvantula, Sawsbuck.

I may have a Torterra plush but I have to go with Gastrodon as my Gen 4 choice.

@AlanaHagues Unfortunately my first encounter with Chatot was Pokemon Y where they made Chatter one of the most annoying things in existence to confront.
It was there they took out the microphone function (so I didn't know it existed until later) and made Chatter damage plus 100% confusion. Gee, why wouldn't that move get spammed?

The results are about as expected.

Though let us remember... was it Silcoon that was the one Pokemon that had zero votes on that official Pokemon Company poll in Japan about a decade ago for favorite Pokemon in Japan?

Going to have to pick the banana tree dinosaur.

I'll go with America because I like green more.
Why does Europe needs Ubi's name on the cover TWICE?

I have to go with Donphan. Such a powerful Pokemon it can make Mud Slap look good, even when it has what Gen 2's programming makes a misfortune of being female.

Girafarig is also a good one.

Meganium is my favorite starter, and I do not care if it is considered underpowered against Feraligatruh and especially Typhlosion.

Though Ampharos is also pretty good, if I were to pick favorite popular Pokemon.

Tough choice. Sandslash, Electrode, Ninetales, Nidoqueen, Lapras.
I guess Gyarados was my favorite the first time I played but that is such a common choice now.

I've heard the US version of Ghost Babel had some content cut that was in the Japanese and European versions.

(post game? I can imagine stuff getting cut from the US version due to ROM space, but Europe got a larger ROM size for multiple languages.)

@Dazman I played Gen 1 when it was new and it was the only Pokemon game I played until Gen 4.
I'm not going to ignore that it is jank. As time goes, we see more and more of what was cut. We now know it had lots of MASSIVE design changes throughout its development. You don't cut 40 Pokemon and however many Moves and expect everything will work out fine. Psychic was overpowered because both of its two weaknesses were severely underrepresented, one of them not even functioning properly. Dragon Type has no Moves which utilize its Typing. The AI can't tell attack moves from status moves, and that's just the first thing of AI flaws.
Gen 1 gave NO in-game information AT ALL about Moves. For a franchise where curated movesets is a major tactical element, that's a huge omission. Even Gen 2 only let you see Move information AFTER it's been taught, and you've possibly move a poor tactical decision.
Gen 1 also has NO repeatedly available non-Normal attack TMs. You waste your one-time TMs? Too bad.
No Move Relearner or even Move Deleter. HMs permanent.

It was a very serviceable and even enjoyable game when it launched (I finished it in 1999 and I was like "that's fine, I've had my fill") but to say these days it didn't have issues is to be in denial.
The first three Gens gave MANY Pokemon unviable level-up movesets (what's that, you got a Hoenn Tentacool at level 7 as your first Water Type? I hope you enjoy Poison Sting and don't mind not getting a Water Move until level 25, maybe after you finish the Fire Gym.) It wasn't until Gen 4 that they started to balance them out.
I'd say Gen 4 and 5 are tops but still after playing that, we can see things that COULD and probably SHOULD have been in old gens to not make them objectively jank.

@TitanSix I played only the demo of Mutant Mudds on 3DS, and immediately saw the Wario Land VB influence.

@HammerGalladeBro Indeed. The really infuriating thing is that Super Mario Bros. DX Japanese version (which reportedly has more content than the western version) was only released on the (Japanese) 3DS eShop as a promotion, along with the Japanese release of the second DS Advance Wars (which was never released there on the actual DS, despite most or all of its coding living inside one or both of the released localized versions). Very shameful that Nintendo complains about ROMs and such when they needlessly limit legitimate access to their own games like this.
I have a Japanese console and couldn't just buy them while the shop was open.

@Serpenterror Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru! was released in English, but only in a Europe-exclusive compilation.

@EarthboundBenjy Funny thing is that while both of the Game Boy Goemon games were released in English, one of those was exclusively in a compilation (Konami GB Collection Vol. 3 that was released only in Europe for GB/GBC).

@Bass_X0 Gigaleak gave us a monochrome Japanese version of Donkey Kong Land 3 (numbered 2 because of the original DKL).

The Hudson Soft Famicom Doraemon game is about as random as they come for console game rereleases.
I think we're well aware how much the comments complains every NSO update about obscure games.

@Olliemar28 All I've seen of Cool Boarders was watching a streamer play the sequel last year.
If that game comes, will it retain the Butterfinger billboards that I recall? (I mean, it did at least fit the streamer, The Simpsons is part of their stream branding)

@rvcolem1 I don't really see how making a compilation of NES and SNES Bomberman games on Switch 1 would be greatly disruptive to Switch 2 game development.

@Luffymcduck Even when I was collecting games (from GameStop in the early 2000s), I don't recall if I had seen a (US) Super Bomberman 2 cart or I'd have probably grabbed it (I only recall renting it once).
And then localized 3 was PAL-exclusive.

@shiningpikablu252 Europe, yes. Nintendo of America cheekily ran a poll on their website straight up asking users if they would buy Tingle's Rosey Rupeeland.

@AlienX It was never released in a box. It was sold through the equivalent of a digital release. It was a service called "Nintendo Power" in Japan. Over there, you could buy official flash carts known as Memory Cassettes and you could buy the ROM from kiosks in stores. However, there was no ownership so if you deleted in from the cartridge, you would have to pay again.
It was something they offered for both Game Boy and Super Famicom.
However, since the Game Boy cartridges had a 1MB capacity and retail GBC carts Nintendo made had a minimum of 1MB capacity, that meant that only 1MB GBC games could be offered on the service and they would use the full capacity of the GB cart.

Why not give everyone the choice to play either version of Balloon Kid? It's something they can easily do with NSO.

@Olliemar28 So this is $20 for just the upgrade? Or is it the whole game.
I was curious about that, after looking at the Game Profile and noticing the UK price is very shockingly higher than the US price.

Funny that Nickelodeon Splat Pack mentions a Music Player.
I have to think about Nickelodeon GUTS and the fact you can push buttons on the title or opening screens to beatbox the "Do you have it? GUTS!" announcer voice might be more fun the game.
I do recall the Rocko game allowing you to play the Mode 7 Nickelodeon logo. Though I liked the actual Rocko game as a kid. I had it, just finished it so fast that even I felt bad about how much my parents paid for it.

@Dazman Most of the SNES games are rather rare and a bit pricey these days.
Funny that one of the very few times (maybe three or four times out of many hundreds of orders) I ever had to report a seller for taking my money and running on eBay was over the most common (and low value) of these games.
Fire Dogs was reported even in magazines back in the day as one of the games planned as rental-only. I know it's debated in the retro game communities which of the games declared that were actually rental-only and which were just not easily spotted for retail purchase. (Eek! The Cat and 3 Ninjas Kick Back on SNES were listed in magazines. But I have a copy of Eek! with the manual which has a warranty which I don't think a rental game would have, and 3 Ninjas apparently came with a poster inside which again seems unneeded for a rental game.
I've even heard of people who said they bought a copy of ClayFighter Tournament Edition, which I thought was a special edition made for a Blockbuster Video-hosted competition, thus made for the chain.)

@foursider Metal Warriors was a LucasArts game, so it would probably depend on them. Like the two Zombie games were rereleased without the involvement of Konami or JVC.

@KayFiOS This collection is four SNES, one NES and two Game Boy games.

@SoIDecidedTo First time I have ever heard anyone ask to Ted Turnerize Virtual Boy games.