Pak-Man

Move over, Last-Week. It's time for Mario to FINALLY get the spotlight!

Capcom tossing them into the Nintendo Online service tells me they aren't interested in cashing-in on Breath of Fire any time soon.

@Dr_Corndog It was an unlockable game within Staff of Kings.

Also they're selling the games individually at $35 a pop (Which is reasonable), so this is really a buy-2-get-one-free sale.

For a collection of three full-length RPGs, I'll give it a pass. If they were trying to just sell one game, I'd wait for a sale.

Square's website has changed the button from "Unavailable" to "Waiting List." Keeping my fingers crossed that they'll have a bunch more to sell at launch.

Honestly, I feel like Nintendo is more scared of being stuck in a rut than any other company. You'll get one sequel- max- of "More of the same" and then they change it up again and almost never look back. Want a Paper Mario game that plays like Thousand Year Door? Sorry. Nintendo don't do that anymore, even though everyone wants them to and it would probably be a best-seller. But they're more focused on going somewhere new than they are on rebottling old lightning, and it's served them well, for the most part.

I've been spending the last year scooping up anything that might ever be interesting to me and I think I'm ready. It sucks, though, that many of these games won't be available to anyone in any way. Some of them will get ported, but some of them only work on the 3DS's unique features, and those will be lost to time.

My days of PLAYING 3DS, though, are far from over. I have a huge backlog of games still to play, and it's still just the best system there is for plane rides and bus trips. As an overall system, it had probably the most robust variety of RPGs and Strategy Games, and other genres that take hours to play. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

This is one of the rare games that really took advantage of the 3D display. It's playable in 2D, but 3D really makes it work.

It wasn't necessarily when the best games came out, but I, like many, spent SO much time in 2020 playing Switch. It might not have produced the best games, but 2020 stands out as the year that the Switch really helped my state of mental well-being.

Etrian Odyssey remaster is coming. Maybe they don't like the idea of giving those games away on the cheap when there might be a whole series of remakes to sell.

The Fire Emblem Echoes theme with Celica that plays With MIla's Divine Protection, which is probably my favorite Fire Emblem song.

Something's wonky with the poll. It lists the results, even though I haven't voted, and there are a whole bunch of blank entries with various percentages.

According to my sources (My sources are the guy behind the Gamestop counter, so grain of salt) Nintendo accidentally shipped out some game that was supposed to come out at the beginning of March in the cases that were supposed to have Metroid Prime, and Metroid Prime is expected to come in at the start of March.

My Day 1 Amazon preorder is coming in late March!? Gonna hit the pavement and see if any of the brick and mortar stores are carrying it, and then cancel my preorder if I find one.

GBA may overtake it in time, but the SNES just had such an amazing library. Even the duds are fun to play for a couple hours.

The NES game was my very first disappointment. Used a birthday present to get it and it sucks soooooo much.

I didn't know they were remaking Montezuma's Revenge! Hi, I'm older than the hills, and I used to play this game!

Metroid 2 was the Nintendo Power poster that hung in my bedroom throughout my childhood, and will always be the gold standard in my mind.

I traded in my GBA for a Celebi-Edition GBA, and then traded THAT to get my SP. I would eventually trade THAT up to a 3DS, but a couple years later, my wife would give me the NES Edition SP for my Birthday which I still have to this day.

I went out of my way to obtain (and occasionally replace) the New 3DS (Which really should have been the New 3DS Lite, since it's the rarer version, but Nintendo was really determined to make the name on this one as confusing as possible) because the XL is too darned L. It remains my happy medium. Lots of great downloaded games, and a solid library to take with me, and SO many RPGs and strategy games to make those 2 hour bus rides fly by. Fits comfortably in my pocket (I may have selected pants specifically to accommodate it) and back in the day it got me tags when the bus would pass by a McDonalds.

All the racers from here on will be Fire Emblem characters, and myriad sword users from other games.

Yeah, as one of the old fogies who was THERE back in the text adventure days, I can't resist its call, and will probably be willing to overlook a lot. They tried to update it for a modern audience, but the original audience is still kicking and might enjoy it. (OK. I wasn't quite alive in '76, but I cut my teeth on text adventures at a very early age.)

Game & Watch Gallery sounds kinda lame, but when you start playing and get hooked on the unlockables, it's a blast to play.

I'm dubious about how well the Switch touch screen will work with the mapping feature. The nice thing about the DS was the precision. But if it works, I'm willing to double-dip (Triple-dip if you count the Untold versions!).

Some short phrases I like that I did not expect to hear today, or ever again, really: Ghost Trick. Samba De Amigo. Fantasy Life. We ❤️ Katamari. Etrian Odyssey. Professor Layton.

Between this and Ghost Trick, Kate Gray really picked the wrong day to quit, didn't she?

I paid $70 for Zelda in the '90s, and I'll pay $70 for Zelda again! Like any rational consumer, I wouldn't LIKE it, but prices go up. It's what they do. It's kind of amazing they ever went down from the N64 cost.

Honestly, with Zelda and Metroid on the way, and Fire Emblem still in my Switch's cartridge slot, I don't even know what I'm hoping for. More info would be cool, of course, but for games I don't know about, most of my wishes are recently fulfilled, or will be soon. It's kind of exciting. I'm ready to be legit surprised.

Advance Wars would look great on my Birthday list next month, Nintendo!

A desperate, sleep-deprived Nokia starts slicking back its hair. "All right, N-Gage 2! This is your year!"

Colossal Cave is the Point and Click remake of the original text adventure game. It's being made by King's Quest creator, Roberta Williams. If you run in classic adventure gaming circles, these words get you very excited.

Hold down the B button while selecting Shade Man in Mega Man 7 to hear Ghosts and Goblins music instead of the usual music.

Hold A while selecting a stage in Mega Man 2 to make birds fly in the background instead of stars.

Oh hey, I kickstarted this! I've been following its development and can't wait to see the finished product!

Every Steamworld game is a different genre, and it's always a genre I love. Bring it on!

I'm not as invested in the story as I was in Three Houses, but the actual nitty-gritty of the game itself is SO much better. Fire Emblem can be so many things, it's hard to give it a score when you compare one entry to its predecessors.

Mmmm. Second biggest boxed Lunch.

I always bristle at how people use the term "Kid's Game." Like- Barney's Hide and Seek for the Genesis was a Kid's Game. Kirby and many other Nintendo games are "Everyone's Game."

Hmm. What to play a week from Friday? Fire Emblem Engage, or Uno?

I'm noticing that the whole generational leap thing isn't what it used to be. The new Xbox and Playstation are still just really nice Xbox Ones and PS4s. I wonder if something like the "New 3DS" isn't the way to go with Switch. (But for the love of God, don't call it the "New Switch." Have you ever tried searching for New 3DSs on eBay!?)

Just release the Super Switch, or whatever, give it full backwards compatability, but enough processing power to let it enhance games when you use it. Old timers should think of the Gameboy Color. It was still a Gameboy, but now it made all your old games in color, and had a few games that would only work on the new hardware. No need to pull the old Gameboy stock off the shelves because it was all still relevant, but everyone WANTED the Gameboy Color.

I'll be playing my game of the year just a few weeks into it!

The state I live in is very sparsely populated, so my only hope for getting tagged was to pop into a McDonalds or other 3DS Streetpass Zone. That or going to a convention. I did manage to complete every puzzle, so I'm super-proud of that.

I will scoop up Wildermyth on day one when it finally comes out. The only reason I don't play it more is because it's hard for me to clear enough PC time to really dig in. That's less of a problem on the Switch.

I'll add Rimworld to the list. It got released for everything else, but it BELONGS on Switch, and doesn't seem like it's too demanding or anything.

UPDATE: I posted months ago that I hoped it would come to the US after I'd had a chance to accumulate some points, and I did indeed have a chance to accumulate some points! They are all mine! (Also snagged a calendar. I love having these Nintendo calendars by my work computer every year!

The first thing that hit my brain when they announced these remasters- and I'm SURE I wasn't alone- was "I need a physical Switch release for this!" If they just released physically in normal quantities LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO, they'd sell a kazillion of them. (As evidenced by the fact that they were all gone a few minutes later.) Why would they do this to us, sure, but why would they do this to themselves?

It was "Moist." That is a very bad word.

I will never see "Tera Raid" and not accidentally read "Tara Reid."

Waiting list already for the standard edition!

The price is a bit steep, but Squenix could have just as easily released them on individual cartridges for $30 each and it wouldn't be the WORST deal. It's not like you'll be done with the series in a week or two.

I will fight and die for Sommie!