Pak-Man

The thing about backward compatibility, in the unique case of Nintendo, is it locks down design. In order for Wii to be backwards compatible with GameCube, you needed a set of GameCube controller ports. In order to make Wii compatible with Wii U, it needed Wiimotes. If they were going to continue backwards compatibility on Switch, we'd need a Wiimote, a second screen controller and a disk drive. AND all those things would have to interface somehow with the Switch Lite, if you wanted THAT to be backwards compatible.

In order for Nintendo to move forward the way Nintendo moves forward, they have to leave the past behind.

Gradius? Dance Dance Revolution? Do they still own Frogger?

I wonder how much of this game's coverage is due to bear-pun opportunities.

Amazon shipped my copy out today. Can't wait to delve back into my childhood tomorrow!

On Talk Like a Pirate Day, no less!

OK. Comix Zone has good potential, but Space Channel 5 is gonna need to be a really weird one.

I mean TECHNICALLY, ultimate means "Final," which is something to consider when getting ultimate nachos.

It can be correctly used to mean, "The last version, because there's no reason to even TRY to make it better," but most people don't mean that either.

Captain N: The Game Master! My parents would rent me a different game every weekend, and I made it a point to play everything that showed up on Captain N. (And that show had some great taste in video games. It rarely steered me wrong.) Since the big-bad of the series was Mother Brain, I eventually tried out Metroid. Been a fan ever since!

Don't know if it will be good or bad, but I'm gonna have to get a ticket.

"A later date" is more promising than, "Coming to Xbox and PlayStation!"

There was a brief but wonderful period of time where THE way to make a licensed game was to turn it into a beat-'em-up, and I wouldn't mind at ALL if Shredders Revenge brought us back to that place.

Heck yeah. All we need is the Legends games/Tron Bonne, and we'll have just about every Mega Man game ever available on the Switch!

Note: You can go straight to Nintendo's website, search for the game, buy it there with your credit card or paypal, and it will automagically show up on your linked 3DS. It's the best way to buy 3DS games in this post-points world. (Unfortunately, does not work for WiiU.)

Ooh. "Before We Leave" is a good time, and a perfect match for Switch's portable mode.

Neat! What's an Uzboross? Wikipedia turns up nothing and a web search doesn't pull up anything but press releases for this game.

Where's North America? (I mean, I know where North America IS. We're not THAT bad at geography here. But where's the North America Nintendo Download?)

Bad Words List is the new stability. We update the English language constantly with whole new bad words.

"Y'know, "slow news day" isn't just a thing that happens to journalists."

But- to be clear- "slow news day" is absolutely something that happens to journalists! Just sayin'. No reason.

I propose that Mario is running downstairs backwards.

Oh dang. My estimated release date went to September. Looks like it will only be KINDA Radical.

Cool. That's when my Shredder's Revenge physical copy is supposed to come out too. Gonna be a radical day.

Game everyone's always wanted + Manage your expectations = Mobile game!

Yay! Snagged! Hot tip: It doesn't seem to be linked from the rewards page yet, but following the link in Nintendo's Twitter post did the job.

FYI, the original Arcade Stadium has all the individual games on sale for $0.99 each.

LOVE Touch Detective. I'd buy a collection in a heartbeat.

Come on, Sega. Just give us Popful Mail. Pleeeease?

For just a moment, I forgot my British slang and thought they were taking homeless people out of the game, which would really play on the "Naive" thing. "Nope. No poverty here. Everyone's doing fine!"

So I have a gallery that's mostly full of screens I took early on when I was trying to hit the home button. I've got it down now, but it's interesting to see the state of games when I was trying to hit home. Often, I was prepared and ready to quit for the day, and other times I was clearly rage-quitting..

@DiggleDog Her full name is Devon Waluigi Pritchard.

I've been taking walks to stay in shape anyway, and Pikmin Bloom is a good way to handle that "this is nothing but a total waste of time" feeling I get when I go exercising. Now at least I get Pikmin and points and stuff.

What Ace Attorney games do exceedingly well is keep you riiight about where Phoenix/Appolo/Ryunosuke are. The best Ace Attorney moments are the ones where both you and your attorney avatar have been banging their head against the wall for an hour, and maybe this one really IS guilty, but then someone says something and both you and the Ace Attorney light up, and then the techno music starts to play.

The WORST moments are when you're out of sync. When you have it figured out, but you have to sit through half a trial of everyone ignoring that vital clue that you have figured out. OR when everyone's figured it out, but you're still scratching your head and feeling like an idiot.

There's an art to making the puzzle exactly as hard as it needs to be, is what I'm getting at.

This list could also be called "10 video game series soundtracks that I constantly listen to while I work." So good choices!

Let me preface this by saying that the changes to the Sonic the Hedgehog design were definitely an improvement, but this is exactly what I was afraid we'd start to see more of when everyone's whining led to an actual change. Now the notion is out there. "If we don't like it, let's be horrible until we make them change it!"

You son of a gun, I'm in!

Not the Wright I wanted to see in this direct, but it looks like tons of fun.

Dang, that's a lot of game for one collection. I've been running the Mega Man series and I was sure I'd have to skip these. Now all we need is a legends collection and we can tie a bow on this thing.

6 AM PT? I guess I'll watch the replay after I wake up. But they usually at least wait 'til 7.

Sorcery! Three Hopes! Sonic! Capcom Fighting Collection! Pokemon Snap! Blade Runner! Pocky and Rocky! This week is flippin' huge.

Can you imagine the visual of a Pokemon Musou, though? Psyduck and Oddish bodies flying through the air by the dozen, only to fall to the ground and flash out of existance?

Ah, so that sound was a Hyena. You_Raised_My-Hopes_and_Dashed_them_Quite_Expertly.gif

@HalBailman Rogue is a super old PC game. It played almost exactly like the Mystery Dungeon games (The most worthy of the Roguelike title). The dungeon revealed itself as you went forward and your goal was to see how deep you could get without dying. Except this was OLD PC stuff, so all the weapons and walls were just text. Your character was an @.

It's an old tale in video games. For a long time, fighting games were known (At least in my neck of the woods) as Street Fighter games (Even when they weren't Street Fighter). Every shooter was a Doom clone. Every city builder was a Sim City type game. But eventually we come up with less unwieldy words (Fighter, Shooter, City Builder) and those kind of take over.

That is clearly the sound that is made when one is shining a force. But I may just be hearing what I want to hear.

There was no way to win this one. Those are some of the most iconic songs in video game history. The new songs are good- maybe even great after a few plays- but you can't top a song with 30 years of nostalgia.

My prediction was Three Hopes direct, so I guess this is better.

I've had a fun little theory in my head that whenever someone leaks a Nintendo thing, they postpone that thing so they can prove the leak false. In this scenario, I figure the Switch Pro has been ready to go for 3 years.

I 100%-ed it. Provided a good month and a half of entertainment. It's a rare game that can stay entertaining after the credits roll.

NES Remix proved to be a fun way to revisit the classics, and Atari games fit nicely into that mold. I'll grab it for sure.

Had to make the tough call. I want physical, and I don't want to double dip, so I'm going to wait. Turtles games have a history of vanishing from digital storefronts. I want something that will always be there.

Fan artists everywhere: "Oh, we'll just see about that!"

The lyrics as I hear them

So break off your shoes! Break off your tie!
If you want me to go then I'll stay alive!
So I said it before! I'll say it again!
It's all 'bout my girlfriend!

ALL I WAAAAAAANT! ALL I WAAAAAANT!