Pak-Man

All I need to hear: TMNT: Shredder's Revenge out NOW!

So little of my time enjoying a game is spent gazing at the box art. And yet there's something about it that says, "You were late to the party on this one. You got a deal, but you weren't THERE when everyone else was playing through this gem."

Big Rifftrax fan here, and can't wait to dig into Rifftrax: The Game.

I feel like stating that Advance Wars is definitely December shows that these are educated guesses at best. Advance Wars is ready to go, pulled just a month before it shipped because of external circumstances. If a sudden outbreak of world peace were to occur, Nintendo could release it whenever they need a major release. Why wait until December? What if war is still happening in December?

RE: That hefty data need - There are instructions online that let you format SD cards bigger than 32 gigs so they will work on your 3DS. So if you've moved your switch up from an old 64 or 128 gig card, format it, pop it in your 3DS, and you will have more storage than you will ever need.

A lesser company would have called this DLC.

Anyone who hasn't really should. It's one of those games that sticks with you and makes you think, but not in the depressing way that so many of these games do. It uses humor, and uses it well.

Maximum elasticity on those bear puns in the subhead. I approve.

Seriously, this looks like my jam and I am making plans now to spend way too much time playing it.

The thing is, Origins looks really cool, but SEGA seems to want to check off all of the gamer pet peeves with this release.

They can't delist my physical copy of the Sega Genesis Classics collection!

Wow. $5 per Monster Hunter game on 3DS. Those games never clicked with me, but I'm tempted to get the set in case they ever do.

Just a little note that while the Ace Attorney Collection looks way sharper on Switch, the 3DS versions are IN 3D! Only way you'll ever be able to enjoy them in 3 dimensions.

I got all those feelies the first time around, so I'll just be ordering the standard version, which will slip into the Collector's Case that Limited Run sold me with the first one.

I don't blame the Kids These Days for taking a look at the original and seeing hot garbage, but if you were THERE, the ability to pilot your little 3D Arwing through shooting-gallery style space battles was amazing. The sound design with the big booming soundtrack and the warbly chatter noises created all kinds of "This is so COOL" feelings. The graphics certainly didn't age well, but the gameplay is still rock solid if you commit yourself to it.

Least we forget, the 3DS was fully capable of GBA emulation, but Nintendo did nothing with it after the ambassador program.

It's the post-game where everything really starts to sing. Trying to find all the thousand or so doodads by solving puzzles and running mini-missions is all kinds of fun. It reminds me of the Mario Odyssey endgame.

You know the Sega Genesis Classics collection is like $30. It may not have the bells and whistles, but it has like 46 other really cool games. Some of them come with Sonic!

I have never played a bad Star Wars game. (Although I've played only a few GREAT Star Wars games.)

So if anyone was wondering what the "Classic Characters" pack entails in a game that already has several copies of those classic characters, it gives them the look of the first Star Wars minifigs, with yellow faces and all.

OK, Nintendo. You want me to upgrade to the expansion pack? GBA is how you get me to do that.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been keeping a big fanboy grin plastered on my face for the past week.

Other titles:

Earthbound
Actraiser
EVO: The Search for Eden
Super Mario Odyssey
Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

True Story: 999 showed me I have prosopagnosia (Face Blindness). The funny thing about it is most people who have it don't realize they have it and just think they're really bad at names.

But (Without revealing too much) there was a puzzle at some point where you have to identify characters by face, and one character was getting weirdly anxious about it, and I realized I was feeling really anxious about it too. I learned about his condition, looked up some facts online, and now I know I have it too.

I would definitely upgrade with or without BOTW2. Don't think this is the year, though. They can't go FOREVER without releasing some sort of Switch upgrade, but supply chain stuff I don't understand seems to say it's not happening soon, and it's not like Nintendo's sales are hurting.

Picked up Etrian Odyssey Untold 2 and Persona Q2 to complete my Etrian Collection. Now I'm a happy dungeon cartographer.

I have the advantage in cases like these of being older than the hills. I was there when video games were new, and I'm pretty good at framing 40-year-old games in the context they were originally presented. I can start up Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, for instance, and I can think back. "OK. This stuff is done to death now, but it was cutting-edge back in 1990. Look how innovative this feature was back then" and so on. This means for me, it's always best to start at the beginning because I have all that context, even if I wasn't playing it back in the day.

I can imagine for younger gamers, going back to the old stuff is probably painful. The games back then didn't teach you how to play or tell you what to do. The way action is represented today just wasn't there then. To them, old games are always going to be old games. There are reasons to try to push past that, of course. They're good games. We swear! But the foundations they created have been built on for 40 years, and it's hard to go back to that.

FE Warriors gets a lot of guff, but I let myself become swept-up in the post-game with the character unlocks and special weapons and everything and now I'm hooked on Musou. Absolutely on-board with this entry.

Now to blow my nose with a Kleenex while using a fax machine!

Won't someone think of poor Baby Pac-Man? They need to make it work for the kid's sake!

@inc The soundtrack features some Sega deep-cuts from games like Outrun and Fantasy Zone. There are only 4 songs, which is a pity.

Well Triangle Strategy did really well and Square seems very open lately to the fact that they're sitting on piles of already-localized gold.

That's the second biggest announcement I've ever seen!

The Etrian Odyssey and Persona Q games are an experience that can not be duplicated on any other system.. The second screen is integral to the map making component, which is the whole point. And physical copies are not cheap. Get them while you can!

E3 is a relic. Reporting to game journalists so they can report to the fans was necessary in the days of magazines, but now companies can just like- tell everyone. Everyone is happy to listen and pass the news around.

Yeah, I did the Japanese account thing to see if I could struggle through Fire Emblem back before we got a nifty English copy. I was using Google Translate on my phone while I played through. It was kind of fun, but Harvest Moon is way too text heavy for that to be practical. I also finally changed the Japanese account back to English because I was tired of getting Japanese news updates.

@Judgedean As someone with a picture of a star nestled deep within my Switch, I get it. But I got it with a sale that made the price effectively the same as the standard Sandisk. That picture is only worth so many of my dollars.

Ouch. I LOVE Earthworm Jim, but I SO wish I could get Harvest Moon on Nintendo Online. It struck a chord with me that no other game in the series could ever quite match.

Nintendo's strategy has been to pick games that nobody cares about but me, so I'm going to guess: NES: M.C. Kids, A Boy and His Blob. SNES: UN Squadron, Utopia.

I like to be reminded of Earthbound at regular intervals. Keep it up, Big N!

I have to say, I've found my tastes leaning toward the light and breezy stuff lately. I'll see games I want to play, but the game description reads like, "A dark exploration of the heart of evil that beats within us all" and I'm like, "No thanks. Kirby looks fun, though!"

If it's digital only, heck no. Unless they can entice me with more than a little $3 DLC trinket.

If it's physical, it depends. If it's released by Nintendo or Square, I can grab it when it launches, or whenever, because they'll be on shelves FOREVER.

UNLESS it's a special edition, in which case I have about a 10 minute window to TRY to preorder.

If it's a really niche title that will probably only see a small print run, I'll preorder.

I also preordered the TMNT Cowabunga Collection, because I'm terrified Nickelodeon will change their mind in a month and they'll vanish from shelves.

Note: They are not throwing away the Bollards underneath, which are heavy and concrete. So unless you have a giant concrete sphere of your own, it would be difficult to display the Kirby ball you "acquire" properly.

Me: Well, nothing new coming out from Nintendo for a while that interests me merch-wise. These N64 keychains are probably a safe bet to blow my points.

Here's hoping they come to US, but not 'til I've had a chance to accumulate some points!

Here's the thing about Kirby and Yoshi games. They're "for kids" in that a kid can play and enjoy them. But if you want to go full-completionist, they always have challenges that will daunt even the most hardcore gamer. You can make it to the end, but can you see/do EVERYTHING? I'm ready for this challenge!

This inspired me to get the 3DS version while I still can, and I'm utterly charmed. It's like an 8-bit musou Tower defense game and it's got some snappy writing to boot!

So the Wii and DSi shops closed a long time ago, but they were still online so you could redownload anything you purchased. That was what went down.

The 3DS and WiiU shops are closing next year. But like with the Wii and DSi, you can still download what you purchased, and the shops will be kept online for that purpose.

So everybody only has a little while to buy things, but once they do, they can still redownload them for the foreseeable future.

For those who've never been on the customer service end of things, "Undergoing Maintenance" usually means, "It broke, and we're going to maintenance it until it works."

I had some good times with this one. Probably the most generous Gatcha game I've ever played. I never paid any extra money and had just about everyone I wanted. (Which might be why it's shutting down, I suppose.)

Eventually it got to that "I'm not enjoying this. It's becoming another job and I want a game" phase that these things always come down to and I uninstalled. I might have to slip back in and see how it all ends.

Yay! Now bring back Badge Arcade so I can decorate said folders!

@StarPoint My head-canon has always been that Kirby has no clue he's saving the universe. He just goes on eating sprees and happens to stumble into saving Dreamland.

I would SO pay $50 for "Super Tax Bros. " every year instead of TurboTax.