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@HolyGeez03 The NES wasn’t the first console to market but it’s place in history is assured due to saving the industry. It wasn’t that revolutionary of an idea and the Master System was a better machine (I’ll fight that hill!)

The 16-bit generation was an iteration of 8-bit.

The PS1 was probably the most revolutionary console of all time.

The Dreamcast was the dawning of the modern era. It gave us proper online gaming, console MMO, motion controls, Arcade perfect home conversions, HD graphics, The VMU, cel shading and user generated content. It was also Sega firing all creative cylinders and there hasn’t been a console before or since that had such experimental software.

Microsoft took the baton from Sega and whilst the original Xbox wasn’t that much of a leap really from the Dreamcast in terms of features, the Xbox 360 was. That standardised everything about modern gaming.

Some new Joycons. I’ll pay whatever they want

@samuelvictor The top games haven’t aged badly at all. I still play Perfect Dark on my Xbox and it’s a tight FPS.

But there is a lot of aged software in the library that just doesn’t play as well in the modern day compared to GBA and SNES releases. 2D games obviously age better than their 3D counterparts.

But then I find that the PS1 hasn’t aged much either. FFVII-IX, MGS, Castlevania, Alundra, Soul Reaver, WipEout 1-3, Rollcage 2 etc all play as well as they ever did.

Was the N64 revolutionary though? Its software certainly was but Mario 64 or Ocarina could have comes out on the PlayStation and still had just as much impact. Sega had an analog pad for nights well before the N64 came out.

Looks like a blast. It’s good to see a game with daft unlocks like a Triceratops to race with. Reminds me of the PS1 days.

@Meteoroid Your first point is why copyright law needs to change from 100 years to 20 years unless the holder continues to publish new material within that franchise. Then it wouldn’t matter who the rights holders are to forgotten games. We could continue to preserve older titles and Nintendo can co to use to fleece customers for rereleases of older games.

@Meteoroid Nintendo likely earned money on the original hard copy of the ROM as well. All a repeated copy of data does is deny inflated profits for collectors.

My point is that the gaming preservation market is ridiculous. Companies should either make all their non-licenced ROMs available for current platforms at a low sub cost (which I would pay) or change their licencing to freeware after 20 years.

Its all very well having clever consoles like the Polymega when a lot of the games you want to play are only available at over-inflated collectors prices rendering the device largely moot.

Every collected 1st party GB, NES, SNES, GBA and N64 ROM comes it at maybe 2gb combined. Either provide a cheap legal way to play them on Switch or legally let us exchange ROMs of them.

All many of us want to do is play the games, not horde them from the world.

The irony being that Nintendo made as much profit from the sale of these 2nd hand carts as it did from me downloading a bundle of ROM files.

I of course didn't spend any money in the first place whereas the collector is maybe $25-50k out of pocket.

I'm still hoping their marketing team extends as far as making Samus available for Fortnite.

@Bunkerneath Its for STEM and PSHE. You can teach kids a lot about society and how to deal with negative emotions when playing 4-player Mario Kart. Race tracks are also a good way to introduce the concepts of level design into Design and Technology and ICT lessons. You can then elaborate on this and talk about urban design and the challenges city designers face in taking transportation into account.

As a Design and Technology teacher I use videogames as a starting point for lots of concepts. I even taught a lesson on custody battles in PSHE using Street Fighter 2.

Easily the Gameboy.

However I will see your Nintendo startups and raise you one SAAAY-GAAAA (or the lovely Dreamcast swirl)

I would be all over it if they shoved some Sega on there.

Do they come with the cute girl?

I’d take a sports holiday to Aspen Lake. In the fall I could cruise around it on a Jetski (in Wave Race: Blue Storm) and in Winter go snowboarding down the mountainside (in 1080 Avalanche)

Or Sega could maybe think about finally porting Outrun 2006 to modern consoles instead.

Im not bothered about anything else other than a challenge. Samus Returns was far too easy to finish. I want something that is going to challenge my 2D gaming skills. It wouldn't hurt to be the size of Symphony of the Night either.

All we've ever wanted for the last 25 years is the anime, but in game form. A game more like Witcher 3 in size, with seperate large areas in between the cities, wild Pokemon behaving like animals rather than just randomly sharing some long grass and maybe some Shadow of the Colossus-type climbing and action to capture the legendary pokemon. It can keep the classic turn based battling: This is what Ash does! Just vary the exploration.

Id like to see what Namco's Tales team could do with it.

Nothing. The NES was nowhere near as good as the Master System and whilst it earned its place in history Super Mario Bros isn’t as good as Alex Kidd in Miracle World.

I've been playing a lot more recently. I have enjoyed the few Galar pokemon but where the heck are the Alolan ones?

Also its about time they added a custom Avatar creator instead of just hair and clothes.

It’s amazing the effect gaming can have on your musical tastes.

My interests were a mix of pop and indie until O heard the soundtrack to Wip3out in 1999 and it blew my mind. I heavily got into progressive trance and house because of that game and discovered tons of artists and DJs I still follow within that scene.

I think it was the release of SSX3 that got me back into rock and indie. Love me some Yellowcard and Placebo.

The most recent (?) is Forza Horizon. The OST to the original 2012 release is on constant repeat in my car. They created the perfect driving playlist within that game.

It has to be a classic Sega character. Billy Hatcher is a good bet but I’d also guess Alex Kidd, Vyse or Aika from Skies of Arcadia or Alis from Phantasy Star.

That said Sega do have a history of putting some proper left field secret characters in their games like the Horse in Daytona or even the Daytona car in Fighters Megamix. Heck, the final secret character in Sonic Racing 2 was a Dreamcast controller!

That is an amazing collection of mods backed up by some inexplicable changes to the foot sound effects that are REALLY annoying to listen to.

2 steps forward, 1 step back.

That’s easy: Galbadia Garden from FFVIII.

TBH I thought Dragon Ball Z Popotato and Cucucumber were much better.

With effort it is clear the Switch smokes the 360 and PS3 in terms of processing power and yet there are still a dearth of games that skipped the Wii that would be right at home on the console.

I’m looking mainly at SSX which deserves another shot at greatness, minus the terrible krschk big jump incoming krschk pilot on the radio.

Oh great. Another 6 months of ‘The Pokémon Company lied. They could put in 900 Pokémon’ from so-called ‘fans’.

Yay.

@Bentendo1609 It’s more they don’t feel safe going out. Nothing wrong with giving players choice. Maybe give them more rewards from Pokestops for being further away?

On topic: what the heck Niantic? Where is all the Alolan Pokémon?!?

I wouldn’t mind some news on Gen 8 for Pokémon Go too.

If Nintendo just bundles all their old ROMs together and sold them on a per-console basis for £30 a pack and the money went to some sort of gaming charity they would raise a small fortune.

@JasmineDragon I was just kind of winding up the title! 😅

Getting real for a second a person can totally be lonely despite being surrounded by people. Sometimes we can even be lonely if we are loved and in love. Love doesn’t steal us from loneliness as a famous band once sang.

@YorkshireNed But how can a group of Assassins be lonely? Surely the title should ready ‘The Lonely Assassin.’ Lonely implies singular, alone. Yet the ‘S’ at the end of Assassin means there is a group.

It’s a double negative: a singular plural (Like The Lone Rangers from Airheads. You can’t pluralise Lone Ranger)

@BloodNinja To be fair I on two occasions in my first year skived off my weekend job and told my girlfriend I was ill and not to come around just so I could play Metroid Prime and later Wind Waker for the whole time without any interruptions!

I’m 38 and certainly hasn’t ruined my generation.

I would argue the next pandemic is far-right governments and their news outlets failing to do anything about the environment.

Shame we cannot vaccinate the population against their propaganda.

How can you have a pluralised group that is lonely, implying it is singular ie alone?

This will be one of those American/English thing won’t it like the nonexistent word ‘Addicting’ or how Soldering is pronounced how it is spelt and not ‘Sawdering’.

It’s obviously Fi like the Greek alphabet Phi. In all the examples above Americans are wrong. Queens English ftw.

We need both. Physical to keep a permanent record and digital so that prices stay down. It’s about £60 for a 2nd hand copy of Persona 4 Golden on the PSVita from Cex and £9 from the PSN.

LOL at the fanboys getting in a twist about a Nintendo site covering a rival platform.

You’re all probably too young to remember Nintendo magazines in the early 1990’s detailing what Sega’s plans were and vice-versa.

So instead of changing what probably amounts to a couple of lines of arbitrary code they will now come up with some F2P way of making the distance double via an item you can buy from the shop.

Cheers.

@DTfeartheBEARD I’ve been after one for a while but the fear of drift puts me right off. Have all yours been ok?

Stone cold fact: Advanced Battle had the best theme tune.

I never understood the animosity towards the Wii. It remains Nintendo’s best console. It had 2 quality Zelda releases, 2 Metroids, 2 absolutely stinking Mario platformers, some very clever mid-life games like Kirby’s Epic Yarn and frickin’ Sin and Punishment 2 (a sequel nobody expected!) and it’s latter years gave us fruit like Xenoblade and the highly underrated The Last Story.

But it was the golden age of local multiplayer I will remember the most. I was 23 at the time and had friends around every week. They’d bring some controllers and we would blast Wii Sports, Super Monkey Ball and l, yeah because it was pretty good Red Steel. Ghost Squad brought back hazy memories of cinema arcades and HOTD Overkill was hilarious.

Wii Sports Resort was an ingenious title. The skill required to master table tennis was genuine. The OG Wii Sports cleverly compensated for the original remotes lack of precision with programming tricks but there was no hiding with the W+.

I can only imagine people who hate on Wii Sports Resort were just crap at it! A Switcb rerelease is long overdue.

@Kreko There was a 2 year gap between them both and if you already have them digitally there is no point buying a second copy.

So Ariana Grande then as leaked in the court case earlier in the year.

That means that we might still see Samus.

Oh my smeg. I am totally buying MHR just for that Amaterasu skin!

It’s a shame Nintendo don’t set an example to the rest of the industry and release an update so the title can be played offline, blocks all IAP but moves it into and delists the title. That way existing players can continue to enjoy it but no new players can accidentally download it.

Happiness on SSX3. I played through the whole game with every character on GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360 backwards compatibility and Xbox One rerelease. They also reused the SSX3 levels on the PSP version of SSX On Tour so this only adds to it.

I’ll regularly replay it just to see if I can beat my times. Normally I have Bitter End by Placebo or Way Away by Yellowcard playing in the background.

Streetpass was a very Nintendo solution to the question of how to convince the smartphone owners of 2012 that they still needed to carry around a portable console with them.

I would go as far as to call it the cleverest piece of software of the whole 3DS/Vita/PS4/X1 generation.

@PhhhCough life’s also to short to take a chance that a hot girl or guy might sit next to you and want to play Mario Kart 😅

I see it this way:

I am sat on a train with my Switch playing Mario Kart 8 DX. A stranger (who may or may not be attractive....) sits down next to me. I offer them a joycon and we play a few rounds of MK8. This starts up a conversation about gaming, what the other person does or does not play and we both have a pleasant journey reminiscing, debating and talking. This did actually happen to me.

I am sat on a train with my Steam Deck playing League of Legends. A stranger sits down next to me and asks wtf that monstrosity is I am playing on or outright ignores me because I seem like 'one of those people'. I either do not care and keep playing or put it away, self conscious of the thing.

Which scenario do you want to be in?