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@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.

@Late @ear_wig @Spider-Kev Sega published the two Sega console games.

@KayFiOS The two Sega console games were published by Sega (though not developed by them, I don't think).
All of the Nintendo-console games were published by THQ (which if you know your gaming era, do not expect high quality gameplay from them here).

So glad to see Dragon Hopper finally get out.
There has been a review on Planet VB, as we know at least one collector has been hoarding a copy.
It's good that people outside that one cart owner will finally be able to play it.

@PJOReilly Xenoblade came to North America through a deal with GameStop. It ended up with a lot of complaining about that, first people whining about having to go to GameStop to buy the game, then the resulting scalper pricing. Then a couple years later, GameStop suddenly has a surplus of "used" copies which is highly suspicious they ordered a reprint but sold as "used" so they'd look nice charging just half of the reseller markup (the thing was at the same time they also had copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy, another game that had been going for high prices for North American copies without Nintendo supplying more. That was the giveaway it was a reprint: it had previously non-existent standard packaging.)
It was also revealed, through a Nintendo Treehouse member who got fired for NDA violation after, that Nintendo Europe spent A LOT of money on the PAL localization, so I suppose it was natural the entire company wanted to do what they could to get it back.

When I saw mention of FF4 The After Years, and mention of value for its price... did they remember that was one of the more expensive WiiWare games since like each character (chapter) was DLC. I forget how much exactly it cost but I'm pretty it was over $30 to get the entire game (when you could).
I guess you can say at least the PSP version gave it all in one package (with the original game).

@rjejr Well, FF15 was a game that had already been announced many years ago (but under a different name).
So how bad could another delay have been?
I mean, I recall like four years before its original announcement they even showed gameplay footage (not just cutscene stills).

I know Australian Target is a different company that American Target, but I don't know how related Australian K-mart is to the American company. Do those still even exist anymore? I know they were bought out by Sears so many years and even they have closed rapidly in the past decade or so.

@Kilamanjaro Buying more physical games so they can be shared easily.
Sounds like what gamers had been doing for decades.

@PanAndrzej YouTube clickbaiters want it.

@LikelySatan I do remember the touch screen support was odd. From what I remember, each tap on the touch screen would only direct a member to take a step towards that point during direction. They wouldn't do the natural thing and move to that spot.
Not a surprise that the first DS Fire Emblem got that part down when it launched half a year after FFTA2.

@RadioDog Consider where the Game Boy software catalog was in 1990.
A lot of puzzle games and rather simple arcade ports (I mean, like the Japanese version of Space Invaders. The one had just the core SI gameplay without the frills they added to the western version four years later.)

It certainly wasn't a "simple concept" by 1990 standards.

What I remember about that launch was, one of the message boards I had visited regularly to discuss fan translation, the language side (with an interest in Japanese of course). Like much of the scene, it wanted to emphasize fan translation of video games unlikely to receive a Western release officially. That was summed up in one rule "No Pokemon" (as it was said at that time to be the franchise with the most requests to try to beat out the official localizations, which was not what most scene members wanted to do).
So one or more people, like a week before the US launch, spammed the crap out of the board with requests for Ruby and Sapphire. (especially given it was one of the REALLY old message forums with very little security. Web 1.0 infrastructure.)
Both funny and sad to see someone go after such an obscure forum. Enough that the owner took the forum down.

@Tyranexx "It definitely shows the characters and text better." One of them shows the characters better, you don't say?

The North American cover is dark and sinister. And nostalgic.

But as soon as I saw the comparison, I knew where the results were going. People are going to choose the cover where they can actually see the art.