Korgoth

My earliest gaming memory is asking my dad to get the Atari 400 out of the attic so I could play Pac-Man, and being devastated over him lending it to a guy at work who got transfered.

Now as a parent myself, I’m starting to understand why our Atari was in the attic in the first place. A lot harder for me to just go into the livingroom and turn it on when it’s not hooked up or even physically accessible to my 3 year old self.

Mario Kart without Items would be like playing Smash Bros without Items. If you don’t like the randomness that items inject into the gameplay, perhaps you’d have more fun playing a more serious racing game like Forza.

I remember growing up my cousin’s NES had it’s door busted off. I in my youthful exuberance thought it looked cooler that way.

Curious if one of these had existed in their household and just busting the door off was the simplest way they thought of to get around it.

Perhaps they even kept the broken door to keep up appearances that the lock was still fully functioning.

@fluggy @fluggy @Grubdog I disagree. Prime holds up far better than the original Metroid. It's method of grinding for health really is unbearable.

@Aviator The lock on option is a simple means of keeping the gameplay the same for vets to the series, while lowering the entry level for new players. I tried to get a quite a few of my friends into Monster Hunter over the years, and the camera controls were always the top of their lists of why not. My friend John's complaint was that there was no lock on. This was when Tri launched!

Even playing on my Wii U, (sorry, I'm still dragging my feet on a 3DS) this is a useful feature that I find myself using surprisingly often.

The gathering of dust by any system bought by casual gamers is the norm. The only exceptional thing the Wii did was collect such a large following of casual gamers. That said, many of those casual gamers actually play their Wii's far more often, even over 2 months later, than any other system they may buy.

I'm so sad. I hope to hop on tonight after work for one last hurrah.

Duck Tales meets Castlevaina!

I'm excited for the off screen play option only since that means my wife can enjoy the living room while I still enjoy Monster Hunter... might never stop now.

@Mk_II I agree that the demo feels funny. Mostly for me since I'm used to style 2 controls, but also the Wii Classic Controller had notches at the 8 primary angles to help you keep pressing the analog stick in the proper direction. Didin't realize how much I used them till they were taken away on a game I'm used to having them.

I've grown soft over the years. F-Zero is too hard for me anymore.
Modern racers baby the player too much to prepare us for such brutal games as the SNES offered.

The funny thing is that despite the recent Rayman news, they are also teaming up with Nintendo to release a ZombiU bundle. If they had that on launch night I would have gladly gotten that bundle. Lots of mixed messages coming from Ubisoft relating to the Wii U.

Meh, EA has lost my money when they started talking about console generations and the upcoming 4th gen. Here's a news flash guys, the 4th generation was the SNES and Genesis. We are starting gen 8 now.

@Furealz PS4 may not come out that quickly after the announcement, but the 720 may. Microsoft doesn't do things like the rest of the industry. They released the 360 about 6 months after it was unveiled at E3 2006. Personally I think that rush may have been part of what lead to the RROD though, so perhaps they may learn from their mistakes.

Then again, last rumor I heard about the Oban chip they are using has a failure rate of over 90%.

My qualm with the World Heroes series is that it just simply lacks the depth of other Neo Geo fighters like Art of Fighting. It's a great way to introduce a new gamer to the fighting genre, but outside of that it doesn't really compare to some of it's siblings.

I first started playing many of the popular fighters of the early 90's, but never really got into fighters till really cutting my teeth on World Heroes.

@kelsey4884
You and I are on the same page. I am enjoying little inferno and ZombiU in the meantime though. Once MH3U comes, I may not have time for anything else.

I am waiting for the following:
1. Super Base Wars
2. Earthbound
3. Any of the Rare games (Battletoads, Banjo, Super Off-Road, etc)
4. Tiny Toon Adventures (1, 2, & Buster Busts Loose)
5. Any of the Capcom Disney games (especially Ducktales 1 or 2)
6. Double Dragon 2 and 3
7. Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2 (perhaps connectivity with a 3DS remake of R,B,Y,G,&S)

Unrelated, another Eternal Darkenss game would make for a sweet 2012!