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I'm hoping as seeing that Nintendo might be getting their rights back with their arcade machines. There might be a Donkey Kong 4 in the works! Like a PacMan Championship Edition of Donkey Kong!

One can only wish!

But what is it like inside?

Can you put a Switch inside? What about the dock? What's the quality like?

Dang it, you made me excited to use my bluetooth ear phones with my switch. Alas, it's through USB and not the on-board bluetooth.

Nice! I'm one of the Kickstarters, and I ordered the tape cassette USB drive, 2 steam keys and a Switch code for this game! I can't wait to get my hands on it!

Coil Bot!

I can never understand why these aren't Amiibos?

Surely there's a business venture opportunity right there!

Analogue triggers...

Where are my analogue triggers!?

Super Metroid Remake on Switch!

Simple!

@Anti-Matter 1998...

The greatest year in gaming ever!

I would write down all the awesome games and consoles that came out. Not to mention all the awesome PC games that came out.

I was 14 at the time, and I witnessed the greatest year ever. I can't imagine the second coming of 1998, we were spoiled beyond belief!

1998...

...just, 1998...

It's not an N64 controller without three handles...

...just saying...

Hmm...

£3 a game, with Online leaderboards, proper tate vertical screen support in tabletop mode, daily challenges, and PacMan Vs.

Tempting... Thing is, Namco Battle Museum on the PSP was the same price, but it had way more games on it and arranged versions of games too.

@garydbz25 It's £29.99

Question is, what makes "EX" different to the other versions?

If it's significant, maybe, I like the idea that Sine Mora is now portable, but it'll need more for me to justify that price tag.

Nice one!

But can we PLEASE have analogue triggers Nintendo!

Maybe on a Jon-Con Pro?

Hah...

I always called it "Eight Bit Doh", but that bluetooth speaker has taught me a lesson!

LMAO!

@Jessica286 Yeah, Local Wireless play isn't available yet. So if you want to play with this with your fiancee, you'll have to play it together on a TV, or in table top mode on a single Switch console.

@SKTTR If you like BomberMan, and have access to your mates. It's worth it. But with all the stuff that missing and not working, it could have been a little cheaper. Thinking about it, it reminds me a lot of the Ouya release day when there was an absolute butt-ton of local multiplayer only games, including the popular Tower Fall.

@Jessica286 Just be aware that Wireless local battles is a feature to be later unlocked. For the time being, Local Multiplayer games are only on a single Switch console.

@Dr_Corndog Yeah, maybe if there's a new game update, I could throw a news article about it providing the NL team will allow me to do it. I can test the game and see if things improve. Then see if the game deserves a "re-review."

The difference between Splatoon and Flip Wars is simply that Splatoon worked out of the box with maybe the odd connection issues on a blue moon. Flip Wars on the other hand feels like a game that centred itself a bit too much towards local multiplayer, and then got an online mode slapped on it at the last minute without really testing it. There was certainly A LOT more care put into Splatoon than Flip Wars, which is a shame as the premise for Flip Wars makes for a perfect ChuChu Rocket-like pick up and play quick fire online game. But it kinda doesn't right now... It was released in a rush.

@Moon Hmm... I'd say the local multiplayer is as fun as Bomberman, whilst keeping it fresh at the same time. But Flip Wars suffers from Early Access syndrome, whilst Super Bomber Man R is a complete working game. Not saying that Flip Wars is terrible, but it needs some work done on it's online side of the game, and unlock those "Coming Soon" features.

@SuperCharlie78 Yes, this is my first review on NL, and thank you! In honesty though, this was a rushed job. We found about it's localised and finalised name practically days before it went gold. If anything, this game should have been released next month so that everything is truly gold and ready for release with a decent amount of play testing online. If title might end up getting forgotten, which is a big shame as it's great as a local multiplayer party game that has a ChuChu Rocket flare to it. But it's online play is rough; I've yet to play a full four player game online yet, and random disconnects in lobbies and mid-game are annoying. Granted, it's better today, Monday the 10th, than it was Thursday the 6th, but it need much more polish!

@ALinkttPresent The core is worth it, but what fails this game is its Early Access-like feel with missing modes that are "Coming Soon", and an online mode that seems to work 1 or 2 out of 5 times.

@Dr_Corndog Well, I'm hoping that I get the chance to re-review this in the future. But right now, it more disapointing than Splatoon on day one.

@SuperCharlie78 Yeah, that might happen. Which is a shame seeing as the core game itself works very well.

@retro_player_22 Not too sure if I'd call this a "New IP" TBH. A New Nintendo IP typically has some character and identity to it. Problem with Flip Wars is that apart from being colourful as all hell, the player models are bland and don't really bring anything exciting to this. The Flip Wars Warriors are no Splatoon Inklings... Personally, I wish that they kept the Miis in this game just to give it more character than it has now.

@manu0 Oh wow. the online was even worse in Japan on their release. That sucks! At least now and again I can get a match running with a little bit of lag. I did have three matches in a row that worked perfectly, but with only one person. At least the Switch has easy means to add friends into your friend list now huh?

@manu0 Oh really? I didn't know that. What was missing in the Japanese release?

@OorWullie Yeah, it feel a little bit rushed. The local multiplayer stuff is there, prime and ready. But the online half of the game and missing modes is quite the let down.

@adam9431 If you have friends around you and own 4 controllers, it's a blast! But it's online game potential is a shoddy right now, which is a real shame...

Argh! I got something weird. It shows that they've taken £69.99 for the SNES Classic Mini, but it doesn't mention the system at all, just a "£69.99" followed by nothing!

It's cool to see PacMan VS on this collection. But where's Xevious, Mappy, Ms. PacMan, Galaxian, and Rally X? Namco Battle Collection on the PSP had more games on it than this does. Granted, it does have Splatter House, Rolling Thunder 2 and Tank Force; but I wouldn't mind seeing the arrangement versions of these games and maybe some of the early Namco 3D games like Ridge Racer and Starblade and Solvalou.

@TDS_Computer It was simply a Panzer Dragoon clone. But they didn't do a good job at it!

@crackafreeze What I mean is that games that are owned by Atari, are not being developed by Atari. They'll give people the right to use their intellectual property to make a new Atari game like Missile Command, Yar's Revenge, Pong, etc.

@crackafreeze That's if Atari will actually develop the games. I doubt they're going to get a lot of third party support, so Atari needs to hire a whole bunch of people to develop games for this new system. But remember when they released those "New" Atari games a few years back? Look at the new Yar's Revenge, what a total let down that was! The last time an Atari property was put to good use was the recent VR BattleZone game, and even then, that wasn't developed by Atari, but Rebellion, a UK development team who made the Sniper Elite franchise.

@Biff_ARMStrong The Atari 7800 wasn't a bad piece of kit, it was simply a suped up Atari 2600 with backward compatibly, though not with Atari 5200 carts mind you. But Atari was meant to release it before the NES came out, but because of the crash Atari held onto it until the console market came back. And by then the 7800 looked really dated compared to the NES and the Master System.

@0upshroom7 The company still exists merely to keep trademarks and copyrights. It'll be so weird if they do go back into hardware development though...

Are those the only games on it though? No Bosconian? No Mappy? No Xevious? I'll commend Namco for finally putting Splatter House in a Namco Museum, but there needs to be more IMO.

I found the master sword yesterday. Thing is, I don't have enough heart containers, and you can't cheat it with temporary yellow heart containers either. Maybe this will teach me a lesson in focusing on my stamina from soul orbs.

Wait...

Snake Rattle and Roll sequel!?

https://images.loveroms.com/assets/data/nintendo/22225front-4340.jpg

Cool, but I wish that this was a thing you can do in the first game though...

I find it funny how people are comparing this with the PS4 and XBOne when it doesn't even use the same system architecture! If anything, we should be comparing this with an iPad. Will it like an iPad Pro, but with a 720p display? We'll have to find out on the 14th.

Eh... I'd rather get the Mario Black Friday 3DS if they launch it over here in the UK. But I have a bad feeling that they wont!

Two Controllers!?

Damn it, I preordered another controller!

You forgot to mention that not only can it actually run MegaDrive carts. It can read ROMs from a microSD card from a card reader located next to its AV outputs.

So a 2DS of the Nintendo Switch huh?

At least it'll be affordable if the portable aspect wasn't there. What would it be called though? Nintendo Mono?

This looks really awesome!

But my biggest problem with this is that as we're getting 1:1 sized controllers. The Famicom Classic Mini uses much smaller pads so that the controller can slot on the side of this smaller Famicom. I can't imagine that this would be nice to use for extended periods of time.

At least we get to see what the interface could look like for the NES classic Mini.

I wonder what the Miitopia thing is at the end of the Japanese Nintendo Direct is?

Well-well-well... A 3DS game I actually can't wait to get.

...tell a lie I want Dragon Quest VII too, but in the 3DS' life span, I've barely got as many games for it in the same amount of time I had for the regular DS.

LMAO! Got to love recordings that go wrong. Grant Kirkhope explained to Game Grumps that he did voices for Banjo Kazooie, he had to re-record "Thank You" many-many times, because Nintendo thought it sounded like "F**k You". lol!