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@KingMike And abducted and caged a gorilla, forcing its son to rescue it.

Why is this news? Mario has been kicking Yoshi in the face for decades now 😂

I own the original Japan-only Pokémon Stadium, that I can’t play as I don’t have a Japanese N64, but I have rarer games than that that I can play, like Virtual Boy games etc.

@AlanaHagues *big

…sorry, I had to 😂

@AlanaHagues "*While the 1986 one had some interesting Zelda illustrations and a cute, bug-eyed Link, this 1992 book *is a lot closer to the art and design that we know and love."

@ChromaticDracula Agreed. This looks better than any of the existing Pokémon Switch games imo. Would be a dream come true

@AlanaHagues “Square Enix’s response”? Or “Square Enix responds”?

Too little too late. As @Silly_G stated, this is something that actually should be part of NSO. The asking price is extreme, considering Box, Ranch, Bank, and any other predecessors I may be forgetting. Whole thing is an absolute shambles.

@Liam_Doolan “Fire/*Psychic-type Delphox”

@Tyranexx Literally came here to say that the complete lack of WarioWare titles is shocking

@BloodNinja Not sure if you saw the link that @westman98 posted, but that article is a good example of Naka being a bully, to answer your question

@alanahagues *beginning, first line of third paragraph

@JakedaArbok Was said horse beaten to death in its own… stable?

I guess I’m very stupid and hideous then 😂

My town tune has been the Mario theme in every game, with the exception of The Simpsons theme for a brief while in the GameCube instalment.

I’d picked up long ago that each of the animal types had different sounds associated to them for their tune, but I hadn’t really thought about the possibility that their personality influences it too, which seems so obvious now in hindsight.

@BAN I feel like you’re replying to the wrong person lol, I didn’t mention Memphis

“You know how it is. You're scrolling through Twitter-“ nope can’t relate.

@MJF Yeah… hence why they said “IF that system HAD really come out in 1995”. They’re describing a theoretical scenario, not what actually happened.

@InkIdols Honestly the only game that’s not already on either of those apps that I care about. The N64 & Mega Drive/Genesis ones still have a ways to go though of course

@Anti-Matter By all means. You’re allowed to say it twice in the same comment section, in fact. But doing so the second time when not responding to anyone just seems a little odd.

@Anti-Matter Are you waiting for a response? That’s the second time you’ve said that in this comment section alone

None, I didn’t have any on 3DS and only used them on Wii U to group VC games by console.

@ThomasBW84 The course is called ‘Shroom Ridge’ (in paragraph 5, at least the way this article has been formatted on my phone). You may be confusing the name with Double Dash’s ‘Mushroom Bridge’.

@Deepdoop *8 years old. The Wii U version released in 2014.

Curiously enough, I also came to the same conclusion that the Aspergers claim was fake a couple years ago, as I wrote a paper for my Media course at university about the creation and success of Red & Green. I’d remembered hearing that Tajiri had Aspergers, but I literally could not find any reliable source for that information anywhere, so I ultimately left it out of my work. Of course I didn’t get so far as tracking it down to a MySpace page, so really interesting to know that there’s a good chance that that’s where this misinformation all probably originated from.

@AlanaHagues It’s ‘Phanpy’, rather than ‘Phanphy’. I also used to pronounce it like that as a kid though, curiously.

@Dragwhite Only clicked on the article and scrolled down here for literally the exact same reason haha

Actually the reverse for me - the NSO Expansion made me buy Mario Kart 8 hahaha

Well, I guess this will be the first Wii U port that I take the plunge on. Bowser’s Fury was tempting, but not quite enough - this is like an entirely new game though. I have the Expansion Pass already, so I’m all set.

@Dirty0814 That doesn’t answer the question though. Tetris 99 is licensed to Nintendo, and Nintendo themes based on new and upcoming titles are released for it all the time. The fact that Nintendo doesn’t own the IP is irrelevant.

@Tantani Nope. It was only £4 more prior to release, and I’m glad to pay that to get to play it at launch.

I seem to remember some fairly mature ads for the GBA SP in men’s magazines as well, one featuring a couple in bed and something along the lines of it being ‘nearly the best thing to do at night’ 👀

My uncle IS Nintendo.

@NinjaGuy69 As stated, I see your point. I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said - in fact, I’d say I agree with almost all of it. I concur that for its base solo price (£35 here), the current state of the service is unacceptable, but in my eyes, it’s not bad enough that I wouldn’t pay as little as £7.50 for a year of it, especially when bundled with a year’s worth of a normally £22.50 DLC that I’ll personally be done with before the year’s up anyway. I completely understand if, in anyone else’s view, what is provided is still not up to par, even for a price shared multiple ways. More power to you for sticking to your guns.

Funny, because other than a few levels & races here and there in Lylat Wars and Mario Kart 64, this evening was the first time I actually sat down for a few hours with a game on the service - that game being Super Mario 64. I got 50 stars in that time, so I definitely gave it a fair shake, but the emulation is shoddy - the border suffers odd, distracting visual effects constantly, and the frame rate is all over the place. You only need to play the 3D All-Stars version to see how bad the emulation (still) is on this one in comparison.

@NinjaGuy69 I see your point, but I recently opened a family plan for it where everyone’s paying £7.50 each, and 6 of those 8 members are also getting the benefit of the ACNH DLC. Despite the emulator issues, it’s definitely more than worth it at that price (if you can find that many people that are willing to join).

I’m assuming they’re keeping the plaque? I somehow completely forgot to get a photo of it last time I was in Kyoto, despite going to and photographing Nintendo HQ at least a couple of times. I was hoping I’d be able to see it next time I return.

@patbacknitro18 I mean, doesn’t seem like a typo to me when it specifically states that the deal ends at midnight tonight 🤔

@eltomo You might wanna check the ‘Earn Points’ section on My Nintendo. Has a list of all the ways you can earn points there. There’s similar methods to that Pocket Camp mission through games like Fire Emblem Awakening as well.

Also would have much preferred if this was a Lylat Wars poster rather than a Star Fox 64 one, for reasons of nostalgia.

@Faruko I don’t think there was ever a question of Nintendo buying Microsoft. That is and has been a complete impossibility.

I actually always assumed it would do the shield thing that Ruta does. I had no idea it would just have no collision lol

@noobish_hat Lol I hope it dies. As Duncanballs said, GAME is just absolutely extortionate to the point they could be argued to be predatory now. They know full-well that their prices are in no way competitive or fair, their main demographic has to be children, parents and grandparents that either have limited knowledge of shopping online for games, or do not have the means to do it. CEX and other businesses dealing in retro wares, in addition to smaller, independent yet competitive stores have their place, but the sooner establishments like GAME vanish the better.

I was also invited and went to that event, on my birthday on the 15th. My friend and I were (apparently) the first pair to have completed the Snipperclips demo that day, I got to try Sonic Mania & Splatoon 2, she got to try Breath of the Wild (watching her play is what sold me on it), and we both tried 1-2-Switch and ARMS, neither of which I was keen on then (or now). BotW, Splatoon & Odyssey are what kept me hopeful at the time.

@HammerGalladeBro Exactly, and for Hong Kong. Furthermore, both Taiwan & HK are literally the regions Traditional Chinese is supported for - Simplified is predominantly for the mainland. Plus, all Pokémon games since Sun/Moon (iirc) have had Chinese options. ‘Lack of games on Chinese eShop’ is certainly not the reasoning here, especially when the Xbox, a console that has not sold anywhere near as well in China, IS getting support in both relevant languages.

This is just one of those absolutely baffling SEGA decisions that they’ll probably refuse to explain unless the issue is pushed.

Personally, they didn’t follow the original concept enough - I just could not get into it, no matter how hard I tried. In my opinion, this and Yoshi’s Crafted World just have so much unnecessary faff that take all the fun out of what could be fun games, despite loving both Snap 64 & Yoshi’s Woolly World.

Two most disappointing games I own on Switch imo.

Balan Wonderworld over Bowser’s Fury seems mad to me, but then again, I seem to be the only person that prefers Sonic 06 to Sonic Colours (but that’s more because I can’t stand the latter), so 🤐

@PBandSmelly It actually used to be over 8k - exactly double (or half the chance) of what it is now, to be precise.

@Freek By that logic, no game or film should be criticised by anyone that isn’t a developer or director. Review sites, including this one, would cease to exist across the board. Comments like yours make no sense to me - you do not have to be skilled at creating a product to have a valid reason not to like said product.

If that was the finished version of the animation, then yike, yeah I can see why it was cut…

@DiggleDog I know what you’re getting at, but the vast majority of Pokémon’s sales is merchandise.