MontyCircus

The file size is massive, so I intended to get it physically.
But Limited Run, so I guess not.

Already have the first 2 digital. Those 2 are rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam (the highest possible user rating).

Will probably get these 3, but I'm waiting for Switch reviews just to make sure the ports work out:

• 8-Bit Adventures 2
• Crow Country
• Faith: The Unholy Trinity

The first game has a half dozen great PC reviews.
The last 2 games have some solid critic ratings, and are rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam by a few thousand users (the highest possible rating).

And Limited Run games will ship it right to your door! By 2032!

Wii had 101 games MetaCritic scored "80" or higher.

Switch has 530.

Down with Prince of Persia!
Down with Mario + Rabbids! And the sequel!
Down with Rayman Legends!
Down with Child of Light!
Down with The Stick of Truth! And the sequel!
Down with Assassin's Creed!
Down with Scott Pilgrim!
Down with Beyond Good & Evil!

To hell with Ubisoft and all their great games!

"I think we've released something like 50 different games on Switch now."

I have a couple dozen of those. Great indie publisher.

My sentiments exactly!

The only other game I'm definitely getting is:
Arcade Archives BLAST OFF which is a Namco sequel to Bosconian.

So far it looks like a very thin week.

I would argue that Super Mario Bros. was the best game ever made when it was released in 1985. And The Legend of Zelda was the best game every made when it was released the next year (in Japan).

Don't be shy to hit online guides though. Secrets were not made obvious in game design back then.

Burning. Every. Bush. is quite tedious now in modern times.

Good timing for spooky season!

Did someone say: "Previously Unreleased Outside of Japan"??

WOOHOO!!!

You listed 4 of the games I'm getting (plus Cash Cow, which I'm on the fence about, I have Donut Dodo but it seems that is more highly praised than Cash Cow?).

Don't really need to add anything about Echoes of Wisdom.

Iron Meat has GREAT early reviews, the developers (Retroware) also published Love 3 and the Angry Video Game Nerd games. They've got Toxic Crusaders coming this year and The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest coming next year.

JALECOlle Famicom Ver. Bio Warrior DAN The Increaser War was a Famicom Japan-exclusive...until now! There were plans back in the day to release it in the West with the title: Bashi Bazook: Morphoid Masher.

Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition, I saw it for a long time in the upcoming game listings, but until the NL review I had NO IDEA that it was a Digital Eclipse special edition, with all those cool museum documentary features (like with their Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, The Making of Karateka, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story). I'm in for all of those!

I saw this in the listings, but had no idea it was a Digital Eclipse documentary special edition until this review!

I'm in for all of those!

@frenchtoastplease

Okay, here is the link to this week's poll:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1fn69um/best_video_games_of_the_snesgenesistg16_era_poll/

We're in the SNES/Genesis/TG-16 era now. There are links for the results of the Top 50 Atari Era games and Top 100 NES/Master System Era games.

I run a weekly retro video game poll on Reddit. For the "Atari Era" (roughly 1976-1984), Berzerk made the Top 10.

I only have Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain on GOG, so would love to add Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

A while ago I googled for lists of the best Sega Genesis games. I looked for long lists each at least 50 games long, that were ranked. I assigned points based on rank and added them all up. I was left with 16 lists, 396 unique games and 1,465 total entries.

Lunar: The Silver Star ended up #90
Lunar: Eternal Blue / Lunar 2 ended up #53

Worth noting that not every list included Sega CD games, so they probably deserve to be even higher.

I recently watched two women text "Love ya!" to each other, but then it was explained to me that what they both really meant was:
"I will hate you for eternity."

Getting:

• BZZZT (already had it on Steam)
• Loddlenaut (rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" from over 1,500 Steam users, the highest possible rating)

Waiting for Switch reviews:

• Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (the original Wii game had poor performance, camera issues, graphical issues, if those are solved it could be worth playing)
• No Case Should Remain Unsolved (rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by over 4,000 users on Steam. I was going to pick this up on its launch sale, but waited for Switch reviews that never came...)
• The Karate Kid: Street Rumble (sign me up for beat 'em ups! Just have to make sure it's a good game, and also good on Switch)

The comment sections for this story on non-Nintendo sites sound like this:

"Greedy Nintendo! You can't patent an idea!!!"

@batmanbud2

Then you've got to give props to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. A game so good that it received rave reviews on re-release nearly 3 decades later.

SNES games are timeless. Fondly remembered because it was the height of pixel art and 2D games before primitive 3D polygons took over.

Just look at the difference between a top SNES game and a top N64 or PS1 game. The latter look and play pretty rough now, even though they came out later and are "more advanced".

And gamers are still craving that SNES style.

Super Mario Wonder looks like a Super Mario World sequel, and was nominated for Game of the Year.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom looks like a Link to the Past sequel.

There are tons of great SNES games that aren't on the NSO. Just Square itself was banging out RPG all-timers, and they were SNES games. This list is just the tip of the iceberg.

IGN ranked Battletoads & Double Dragon – The Ultimate Team the #76 best NES game of all-time.

It looks like The SNES version was criticized for being a cash grab, straight port of the NES game, and does not take advantage of the SNES' advantages. So, very similar to the NES title.

I'm just happy to see the first Battletoads game on the Switch!
Hopefully the original game in the series follows shortly!

"I'm having a meeting at the headquarters of Nintendo..."

"WOW!!! I'd LOVE to go to Kyoto!!!"

"...Nintendo of America."

"Oh...well...that's......cool?"

@Bonggon5

"I'll never understand people who like comic books as adults."
"I'll never understand people who like animated movies and TV shows as adults."
"I'll never understand people who like dressing up for Halloween/conventions as adults."
"I’ll never understand people who like video games as adults."

Rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by almost 4,400 users on Steam, the highest possible rating.

Getting:

• Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
• Arcade Archives LEAD ANGLE
• Celestia: Chain of Fate

Probably Getting:

• Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
• Besiege

Waiting for Reviews, and how the Switch Port is:

• The Plucky Squire

These polls are always puzzling to me, because I wait for sales on nearly all games.

I'm definitely getting it, so..."Day One" then?
Really my answer is: "The Very First Sale Offered I'll SNATCH it up!"

The Switch OLED is $350 USD. So Switch 2 is going to be more than that.

I see LCD Steam Deck on sale right now for under $500 USD.

$400 would be around what the original Switch was at launch, adjusted for inflation today. That would be an incredible price.

$450 would be accepted if the specs are impressive.

$500 or more and it's a less "WOW"-level compelling "sweeping the Internet" sort of price.

But if there are similar "Lite" versions launching at the same time, at $400 or lower, that might work.

$400 though, if they can do it. It would really be something. "Half the price of PS5 Pro!" (with disc drive and stand) would be great marketing.

Same here. Got it on GOG, will get it on Switch.

Waiting to know for sure it plays well on Switch.
You can't be too careful nowadays!

MetaCritic reviews are dire overall...

Ninja Gaiden was Tecmo. You might have meant Shinobi, luckily those are available.

But yeah, they pulled the plug so fast on their Sega Ages line of games.

I want to play Zaxxon!

Good call! Xbox is sharing all their franchises now (with apparently a "one year old" rule). I could totally see the Forza games on it. Forza Horizon 5 was on Xbox One. Maybe they could squeeze the newest Motorsport on it somehow?

We'd need analog triggers though!!!

**Adds all games to cart**

I'm just kidding of course. Switch 2 still won't have a cart.

Sounds like a lot of this book is "the making of"? Like a documentary in book form? That is interesting to me.

I skipped the "Hyrule Historia" because it sounded like chronology to a series with no real chronology or story.
I skipped the others because they sounded like art books.

But this and "Creating a Champion" sound interesting, if they focus a lot on "the making of" Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

I run a weekly retro video game poll on Reddit.

For the NES era (including Master System, Arcade and Computer games), Sunsoft was a Top 6 developer:

• Batman: The Video Game
• Blaster Master
• Journey to Silius
• Gimmick! / Mr. Gimmick
• Batman: Return of the Joker

Getting these 2 with former Japan exclusives:

• Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
• Sunsoft is Back! Retro Game Selection

Getting this one as a solid sequel to an NES classic (well, so says one glowing review so far):

• Gimmick! 2

Getting this one because of a couple of glowing reviews, and about 2,400 Steam users giving it their highest possible rating:

• Shogun Showdown

I count 4 "must-have" games in the first collection, and 3 in the second collection.

I don't think these collections will be good value unless they are $15 or $20 (individual games are around $5 on sale).

Unless you just are reeeally interested in checking out a bunch of mediocre-to-bad NeoGeo games.

As soon as the Direct says: "fully backwards compatible with every Switch game, physical and digital"...

I will SMASH that pre-order button so fast!

"Officially unveiled in October 2016, the Nintendo Switch launched worldwide simultaneously in March 2017."

If it's an early spring release, then an early winter reveal makes sense. As you can see, it happened before. In fact, it happened last time.

Especially if it is backwards compatible.

"Everything you buy for your Switch this Christmas, will be playable on your Switch 2 this Easter!"

That would go down pretty well. And would not hurt sales of games.

Would there be less Switches sold this Christmas? I guess? But would affect only a few naive people living under a rock that don't know that the new one is coming very, very soon.

It would be cool for this kind of thing to come to the NSO.

In one of his videos, Sakurai said if you release a sequel to a hit game, that is very similar to the one before, you can expect it to sell about half as much as the previous one (without a new, innovative gameplay hook that makes it fresh).

For me, a good example is Sonic Superstars.
I've got Mania, I've got Origins. Why do I need this?
It felt like they just pumped out another 2D Sonic game because it tested high on fan questionnaires.

(I'm not disagreeing with you, these are just "last article of the night" ramblings from me).

I thought I'd read before that Nintendo workers often brought games in development home with them to see what their families thought of them?

"This is fun. That not so fun." etc.

I'm not into anime visual novels generally, but Nintendo's first "M-rated" game had me intrigued.

Then the reviews were "good-ish" but definitely not "great" so I passed.

Seeing the headline, I immediately wished that Princess Peach game had a hard mode, as hearing it was more for youngins scared me off...

When I was younger, "story" was what happened for a couple of seconds between a game's levels.

Now, in a lot of games, "gameplay" is what happens for a couple of seconds between "story".

Pretty fantastic month of little indie games!

You had me at Super Famicom exclusive.

Getting:

• Castlevania Dominus Collection
• Pizza Tower
• BAKERU
• Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn

Interested, but waiting for reviews:

• Gundam Breaker 4
• WitchSpring R
• Valfaris: Mecha Therion