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Heck yeah. Hotel Dusk was awesome, and I never did play Last Window. Would love to see this happen.

I have no interest in the camera or screen share features, but I'd certainly rather use this than dumb Discord to talk to friends while playing.

I don't really care about this, but this game was awesome. I'm all for anything that gets more people to play it.

Kinda disappointed to not see Yars Recharged on here.

Eh, I took this game out of the library and decided after about 5 minutes I didn’t want to play. It was already getting on my nerves. Maybe it gets better, but I’ll never know.

Nah. I don't mind digital games, but I have a problem with digital AND inconvenient.

Good news for Nintendo. They had the right analysts working on this. Can you imagine if they announced lower prices and then had to bump everything up before the thing even released or right after launch? Better to just shock everybody then have the rest of the market catch up-and the more that that happens before 6/5, the better.

I'm trying to understand all of this, and I'm a bit confused about this online license thing.

Right now, I have 3 Switches in my house. I have my primary console, my second console (which will soon be my son's console), and my wife's console. I am logged into all 3 consoles, and we play my games on all 3 (using the online "check" on the 2 non-primaries).

I've read this over and over again, and it sounds like you can use the virtual cartridges between two systems AND continue to play on additional consoles using the online check in if you turn on online licensing. Is that correct? Or is that only between the same two consoles you do the virtual cartridges with? Because I was under the impression it was one or the other, but this new language makes it sound like it'll continue to work the same way.

I'm like a Xenoblade theme away from buying one of these things.

Got an email from Target this morning saying that the copy I preordered in November is delayed until April 4th. Pretty bogus. They gave me $10 off, though, so whatever. I'm still working on Ace Attorney Investigations anyway.

@Toastmaster not all of them (for example, I don’t think this one is coming to VCS, unfortunately), but many are there. Can’t wait to play that new Breakout on my VCS-gonna be great with that controller!)

Personally, I think this is ridiculous. 2 and 3 are two of my favorite games of all time. I dropped XCDE after like ten hours. I just thought it was boring and unfun. But hey-that’s me.

Looking forward to X next week! I only played like half an hour of it on Wii U.

I'm a 2 guy, but, I mean...3 is pretty much just as good. Really looking forward to X next week! I've never played it, even though I had a Wii U.

@N00BiSH but if you bought a game before they removed it from the shop, you can still play it. That’s a big difference!

@N00BiSH sure, I’m just saying, there’s a pretty big difference between delisting a game and removing a game from a subscription service.

@N00BiSH yeah, but if you bought them, you could still download them/play them. Still can.

I'm really excited for this one. Will probably pick it up on my VCS, though. Sorry, Switch!

Who am I kidding? I'll get both.

I like the online subscription stuff, but like so many other people, I’d love to have the option to give them a few bucks to permanently own games from the collections. At the very least, it’d be nice if they said “if a game is ever about to get delisted, or the service is about to shut down, we’ll let you buy the games.”

Don’t really expect that to happen though.

@Teksette I'm referring to the "modern" console that came out within the last 5 years or so. This thing:

https://atari.com/pages/atari-vcs?srsltid=AfmBOoqAgT5rlFQUEbHVVSxVrT62CAokW_RGFn804LQjZ2un3zf1zMKo

I'm sure it's on its way out in the next year or two, and it's kind of a hard thing to recommend for a ton of reasons, but I love mine. Granted, I got it dirt cheap around the holidays. But the controller is basically a typical Atari joystick, but with twist controls (you twist the stick). All of the Recharged games and most of the other modern Atari games are available on the shop. I especially love playing Breakout Recharged, Asteroids Recharged and NeoSprint with this thing.

Like I said, kind of a hard thing to recommend to most people, and it's probably overpriced unless it goes on a huge sale again, but if you're looking to play these newer Atari games with twist controls, it's a darn good option. Happy to go into more detail if you'd like.

@Teksette get a VCS!

@topher6490 agreed, Atari and Nintendo are probably my two favorite video game companies these days. Just one awesome game after another from Atari over the last 5 years.

Atari has been awesome the last few years. Really solid games (I’ve especially enjoyed the Recharged games, Mr. Run and Jump, Qomp 2, Yars Rising and Kombinera, not to mention Atari 50, which is the the best retro collection ever), the 2600+/7800+, the 400 Mini, big acquisitions, official releases of cool homebrew games and long out of print/hard to find games…I know what they’re doing isn’t for everybody, but man, personally, I like them as much as any other company in gaming right now. Can’t wait to see what they plan on doing in 2025.

Oh, and I finally got a VCS when it was REALLY cheap around the holidays. Wish I had done it a few years earlier, I love it. Hard to recommend though.

Oh also, I’ve heard a few interviews with Wade Rosen on the All Things Nintendo podcast. Seems like good dude to me.

@DwaynesGames I’ve never been a big fan of WayForward. The Metroidvania aspect of this game was about what I expected. Glad everything else was so darn good.

@DwaynesGames Definitely one of my favorite gaming experiences of the year (as a big Yars/Atari fan), but it was a very mediocre Metroidvania with very enjoyable Yars and Atari stuff in it. The good outweighed the not so good, but man, I really struggle to call it a great game.

I had a great time. I 100%ed the main game (not all of the challenges you unlock). But I'd never recommend it to somebody looking for a good Metroidvania.

I played this garbage for about 10 minutes after using my code. I was planning on throwing it away, but figured I already paid, so what difference does it make. Not sure what you guys are talking about, it isn't fun at all. Also, where's the game I actually backed?

I have my doubts about this one, because I've never been a big fan of WF's games, but man, I love Atari-especially Yars. Hmm...

Also, I personally consider an easy final boss to be a good thing.

This guy is the worst. Can’t wait to throw my code away. And no, I will not be giving it away. I don’t want to be responsible for getting this stupid game in anybody’s hands. I hope nobody plays it.

I love how it costs more to get the bundle.

@Ade117 I'd recommend taking Horace off. I have no idea how it got such a positive review from this site.

I love Atari, and Yars' Revenge is my favorite Atari game, but I have almost no interest in this. I don't get why it'd be a Metroidvania (though I love the genre), and I don't like WayForward's games. Oh well.

If Ace Attorney makes an appearance, I'll be good.

Good news if it's true-I'm all for more games coming to Switch. Having said that, while this game has a pretty awesome vibe, I thought it was kinda boring.

@gabrigoes not a fan of bad level design and unnecessarily annoying enemies.

I love Atari. Yars’ Revenge is my favorite 2600 game. WayForward, though? Pass.

@Ashfan2020 heck yeah

Pretty expensive for what it is, but the NES cart alone goes for over $100, so I guess it's a good deal? Personally, I'm not curious enough to buy it until it goes on sale, though. I don't see spending more than $15 on this thing.

@ibookboyuk if you really want to play RIGHT NOW: https://morphcatgames.itch.io/bobl

@KoopaTheGamer same. Micro Mages is fun for sure, but I kinda think it’s the weakest game on the cart. Weird to me that they push that one as the “big deal” game.

Great article. I have the Morphcat Evercade cart, and it’s one of my favorites. I typically prefer the real retro games over indie games when it comes to Evercade, but man, a good collection is a good collection. Bobl in particular is a favorite.

Definitely a “must own” game.

I’m a huge SteamWorld fan, and I will never buy it. Not my kind of game.

@120frames-please a video game for playing shoegaze? That could be the game that finally bumps Metroid Prime down to #2 on my list.

@Stormcloudlive I got my free games

I’m not quite done with it yet, but maybe an 8?

Easy 10 if I can consider how happy it makes me that it exists in my rating, though.

I've been really looking forward to this since it was first announced (and I thought it had a release date then, too?). Really looks like my kind of game. I picked up qomp 1 on Steam a few weeks ago to prepare, and man...it's a fun little game. I think I'm gonna love this.

I'm not a physical guy, but man...these are excellent games. I'm glad more people are going to get to play them! This is great news.

I’ve sold/traded in a ton…mainly because I decided to go almost all-digital after I already bought a bunch of physical games. Many of them were replaced with digital versions, but not all.

@BoilerBroJoe Agreed! I like the service. I think it's reasonably priced, I like being able to play things that I otherwise wouldn't have tried, all that...but if I could pay a few extra bucks to be able to keep individual games "forever", that'd be way better. Who knows, maybe they'll give us the option down the road. Makes sense that they'd prefer to just keep the subscriptions going for now.

The demo was great, and I’m really excited to play it! Just not excited enough to play start it before playing through Another Code and at least one Apollo Justice game. But hey-maybe it will have gone on sale by the time I’m ready for it.

I'm a big fan of this series. Yars, Black Widow and Quantum are my favorites, but they're all worth playing.

And hey, how about Mr. Run and Jump? It's my favorite game of 2023. Of course, nobody else in the world would say that, but darn it, I like it. Best platformer I've played in years. The 2600 version is really good too!