RobNYC1977

Call me a dumbhead, but barf.

THIS is the Wii U's final swan song!?

Bye, Felicia (i mean Nintendo)

I actually find it disgusting a giant corporation inhaling random IP's of historical significance and turning them into subpar video games for massive profit. F. this company. I even hated Legos as a kid, I found them obnoxious even back in the 80s.

Gotta pick up Streets of Rage 2. I wish it was included in the Sega 3D Classics collection, but looking forward to picking up this one when I re-up on a eshop money card.

omg, reading the last 10 replies, basically AFTER both my replies... <3 How is it that this is the only intellectual video game discussion site i've ever come across i years?!

@ThanosReXXX
thanks!!

@ThanosReXXX

thank you for that reply!!! great to hear from a fellow player of dreamcast and the quality of what's going on under the hood so to speak!! <)

Also, don't forget, people in general have the attention spans of gnats these days, so half-assed apps aimed at a nebulous demographic can/will and probably deserve to fail.

Shani: Welcome to the new world where mere fantasies and big hopes are enough, as long as you can beg/scrub money from people from Kickstarter, GoFundMe, why does it matter if one has any legit content to show off? We're all gonna be SUPERSTARS! barf

RE: the conversation going on in this thread about Dreamcast games not working. I have two meticulously cared for Dreamcasts (i got a random extra one for super cheap a while back) and it irks me how some games just won't read at all. ESPECIALLY some of the racing games. Test Drive 6 I think is one, like someone said! Some other futuristic racer too. Crappiest most unreliable system ever. (the dreamcast). Never had any issues with my Saturn, or any Nintendo system disc based systems for that matter. Is it the GD-ROM format that Sega used that is the problem? Some of the Sonic games won't work either.

Any game of this genre is very welcomed from me.

In a cranky mood after a long day at work and now I just feel like saying it. I hope Nintendo fails miserably with this corny trite digital garbage.

I am not a fan of the downscaling of games (perhaps one of the reasons I am turned off by PC gaming, although I never really knew this phenomenon existed until very recently).. I find it rude, like going to the Met and having to look at all the artwork with shades on. It's obnoxious, and I weep a little seeing that this tomfoolery is coming soon to consoles and handhelds

I'd rather they keep them separate, but if they are interconnected in some way I hope that Nintendo is able to release the console in three SKU's (hot pink, pale green, and electric blue) and that it's in the shape of a birthday sheet cake and that the handheld is in the shape of a cupcake (screen where the icing is, PLEASE! I am so sick of the disappointment that mobile phone companies do with this). It should be chocolate colored and have a pleated plastic back that shimmers slightly in the sun.

the whole Wii U has become one giant Shakespearean tragedy to me. This just drives another rusty nail through my Nintend<3

Agreeance, it's so obvious the dumbing down of people in general, that of COURSE video games would mimic that developmental pattern.

Fisher Price should just come out with it's own dedicated handheld and include pack in games like Angry Birds and Candy Crush (the F2P versions only of course).

BARF.

Ginormous DUH.

I ride the NYC subways daily and I am often shocked at adults playing crappy phone games like Candy Crush and the gazillion iterations of what looks like something we'd playing in kindergarten. Then i'm like, ugh, stop being such a snob. Humans in general, at least in the Western World, especially the privileged ones have glommed onto infantalism in such full force the last 5-10 years that it's not shocking.

Me personally? I don't give a crap since I'm not a breeder and don't give a crap what happens to our human society. It is sad though what has happened to video games.

a giant no to every suggestion

FYI, born in '77 to give my last post a bit of perspective.

I do specifically remember when Nintendo came out (and sega) and thinking OMG I can't believe my grandparents (who raised me) bought me an atari 7800 for my birthday when I turned 12. I was like WHERE's MY NES!?!?! (I wound up saving up for one by selling basically everything I owned at at the weekly flea market in my housing complex).

Without the beer, cigs, and coke, arcades are kinda pointless! (i kid, i kid) sorta. I remember back in the day, late 80s when gaming arcades were going out of fashion, there would still be local pizza joints and candy stores that had a few cabs in the back room. Me being a little kid was terrified to go back there with the teenagers though hahah.

So, i never got to experience REAL arcades... I have enjoyed my various visits to the various Barcades and their knockoffs over the years, but that always winds up just being a corny nostalgia trip and the games always suck because most are broken or too many people who have no real affinity of the genre clowning around the cabs drinking their crappy overpriced craft beers.

I hope you guys get the stickers!! they are awesome.

How about an unlock of all the tracks? That would be nice. I was looking forward to this game forever.. Bought it day one only to be completely turned off by the difficulty level. All the practice in the world wasn't going to help me after a certain point. The first one on Wii I had the same issue with. The difficulty in FZero for GC was fine, at least you still got to see every level in some way, in this game it just feels cheap and unnecessary. At least it was a budget title.

lol @ only just NOW getting the stability joke in all these articles.

too long. not gay enough.

kidding, kidding (sorta!)

A VR-Amusement ride of a new F-Zero in big entertainment spots would be SO nice.. then port that to the NX with online multiplayer.

I'd totally buy a Nintendo toaster!

Please don't crucify me for saying this, but sometimes I feel like Nintendo is the Autistic cousin in the video game industry.

@JLPick
thanks! Will check that one out. I'm actually a huge horror fan, but not horror games. Maybe Splatterhouse for the TG16 and the original Friday the 13th on the NES (that game actually used to scare the crap out of me as a kid... even though it was hard as hell)

Perhaps. But it would make it even more embarrassing being a Nintendo Fan than I already am (i'm almost 40). I think Nintendo has gotten too Disney-esque over the years. I have no issues liking what I like, and expressing it, but most people do not. I don't want Nintendo to die, but i'd rather see it die graciously than grasping at pathetic straws such as movie tie-ins. As much as I am a HUGE nintendo nerd most of my life, I have never seen a video game movie or watched a tv show based on them. It's a major turn off and is usually just mega schlock that does nothing but sully the brand.. See: Sonic.

And those stickers are proudly on display on my bag and laptop

OH AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! Especially amazing that it didn't only just take beating every single one of the other 9 games on extra super duper hard!

This gamer who sucks at gaming is pleased

The 3DS future line up is not my cup of tea at all and there's nothing that makes me want to switch to a new 3DS, except for the fact that I have collected every iteration of nintendo handhelds over the years and keep them for collection purposes. I REALLY want a New3DS, but the software lineup to me, is garbage.

The 3DS needs a good new racing game of some sort this year. Nothing coming out interests me, but it's just the genres i'm not that into. It got such negative reviews, but I thought Sonic Al Stars Racing transformed was a great port of the game.. And I have that game on Wii U (the second Wii U game I bought when I purchased the system that came included with Mario/Luigi), and the PS3 (got it super super cheap). I am very happy the Wii U version lets you use the Pro Controller, love that controller.

Oooh, I haven't looked on the eshop in a while, maybe there are some indie racers? (ugh, don't get me started on the last one I bought... called Family Kart Racing or something like that). Hello Kitty Kruisers on the WiiU was better than that (a game i felt totally ripped off by, but that's my own stupidity)

I'm also thinking about trading in my 3dsxl for one of the smaller New 3DS. Wish they had better color choices . Do you need to use the face plates on it?

This is the first generation, since I was like 16, back in the early nineties that i'm following video game industry news like it's the best season of Melrose Place and it feels really dirty, but really good.

In many ways, Nintendo products, for hardcore gamers anyway, is very much an elitist thing to begin with. The systems hardly ever drop in price (maybe 50 dollars here and there every few years?) and the software always remains at premium levels until the Selects come out (but most people who are Nintendo fans already have those games). I don't like software dropping in price so fast though, I get very pissed knowing that a PS4 game I want will be half price in a few months, but I do bite quite often at full price enough. But I am always a bargain gamer. Always have been, but I got entranced this generation by the Wii U and PS4. My wallet and bank account isn't happy, but whatever. I'm a gamer and love games and wanted, for the first time since I was a teenager, enjoy games when they came out. I guess online play adds to that mindset.

These are strange times in the video game world, and it's exciting. Perhaps more to browse websites like this than actually purchasing all the garbage that is thrown our way... and I find stuff like Miimoto, etc, as total schlock and garbage to be honest with you. Amiibo's too.

The "mainstream" whatever that means, is NEVER coming back to Nintendo. Why would they?

I would pick up the new starfox if I didn't have to use the gamepad tablet. That's my #1 reason for Wii U games.. As long as they don't use the gamepad, I enjoy them. I have never been able to adapt to that ugly controller. It's too big, it feels like I'm holding a dictionary or a bible, blech.

@Yrreiht

Because the facts might actually depress us!

I think that's one of the ways Nintendo turns me off, the whole "family friendly" aspect makes me gag a little. I understand why they cater to that market though, but I'm not a fan. I guess what was so great about the 90's in gaming was that even though I was a huge nintendo nerd, Sega had the stuff that was basically a big F You to families.

THAT said, I only recently bought a PS4 and with the Neo coming out I am a little pissed, so there's a chance I might switch over to the NX.. But they need more racing games. The Wii U sucked for my favorite genre. I mean a few years ago I was literally excited for that absymal Hello Kitty kart racing game that I wound up paying full price for upon release. :/ If the PS4.5 gets a Wipeout (doubt it since the company is no longer, right?) I could be persuaded. I was totally looking forward to PSVR too, but not if I have to buy a new PS4 to enjoy it at optimal levels.

I am actually quite optimistic Nintendo can pull it together and bring in a new generation of gamers that love their product. However, I don't think I am in that demographic anymore. It has nothing to do with Nintendo games being kiddie or anything, but I can sense a major paradigm shift in the company and the industry in general. I do not want to see a company that I have loved a majority of my life fail, but I don't have any hopes that they are going to cater to me. Which is totally fine. I'll still buy every Mario Kart though!

The Wii and DS domination was from a completely different era though, but I get your point.

Yes, the Nintendo brand is totally sullied, and relying on Amiibos and toys and corny mobile games doesn't make it less so.

I still love Nintendo, but you have to get real about what a company is doing to profit (that's really all that matters, we don't).

I feel like this is the first time, ever, in my 30 plus years of being a video gamer, where I am following the rumors and news of new systems and being like whaaaaaaaaaaa.? It's also kinda fun watching everyone's panties get all up in a twist about consumer electronics.

I am not positive about the new generation being for me, but I said that same about the current generation and I bought in, and i'm usually a gen or two behind.

this is so beautiful it's hard to look at it. i'm not a thief, but If I see someone on the subway with it, I might have a hard time keeping my sticky fingers to myself! These aren't region free are they? My first DS Lite was the light blue one from Japan, I loved that little machine. I find the colors of the current 3DS's kinda blah. I wound up getting the pink 3DS xl, but wish there were some better options at the time.

@TheRealThanos

thanks!

SO excited for this. Preordered on Amazon so I can get the stickers and play Power Drift. I don't have any of the games on in this compilation so it's worth it to me, I can see how it's totally not to some people. I'd pay the full price just for Power Drift though, can't wait. Have an old 3DS though, so the 3D is wonky, but I usually just use it for a bit and wind up turning it off anyway.

Plus it's Sega and with the 3DS i've decided not to just buy any old junk games on sale like I did with the DS (I wound up with a giant collection, but so much schlock..) With the 3DS i'm making a carefully curated collection (that sounds so lame haha)

I HATE emulation, but this is going to make me soft mod my Wii.

It looks complicated though (i realize it's probably not).

I am SO glad I never got into collecting Amiibos. There was a small part of me that almost started and took the bait, but I've learned over the years how easy it is to get hooked into collecting stuff like this. It doesn't end well (for my wallet anyway).

I still would like one or two at some point, but I'm afraid to buy the first one.. You can't become a crackhead if you never pick up that first stem! that's how I view it.

I rue the day these things start turning up in goodwills and salvation armies, that's probably when i'll catch the virus of collecting these.

And in a complete brain fart, I just now realized that those kids I grew up with playing Amiga were PC gamers. ?! I think there were Atari computers around for a while still at that time, because I got one at a flea market for 5 bux, but when I brought it home I attached it to a tv and all it was was a keyboard, literally. I just typed and the letter appeared on the screen. I had no idea software was supposed to go into it, nor my grandparents who raised me.

Okay, sorry for the tangent there, but it brings up an interesting point... The people PURCHASHING these machines need to be aware of what they do/function for. That never happened with the Wii U. Maybe it has, I'm not a parent so I don't probably get bombarded with parent spam.

I'm going to pray to the gods of 4/20 (hello, 3 hours from now!) and believe, FIRMLY, that the NX is going to be amazing. I am going to be a day one purchaser and run with it. I felt so burned by the Wii U that I totally believe it deep within my cells that Nintendo is going to make it right again, for us.

Call me crazy!

As much as I hate all of this crap as a gamer, I do laugh my ass off at how TMZ the whole industry has become. Not shocking really..

Because I was kinda sorta disappointed with my Mario Kart 8 Machine I went out and purchased a PS4. I am huuuuuge into racing games and thought that was the best system for them currently. And now, well, i'm sorta kinda sad and mad because I was REALLY looking forward to PSVR.