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Hah. "Dungeon Building". Nice pun.

Depending on your lifestyle, portability and the pick-up-and-play factor are worthy trade-offs for graphical performance. I have a PS4, but barely get time to play it because it's more of a time investment. With a Switch, I can just fire it up and play within seconds, game for a few minutes, then put it down knowing I can just immediately pick up where I left off.

Glad to see Pilotwings 64 finally getting some love after being snubbed from BOTH the Wii and Wii U Virtual Consoles.

@TMG44 the core gameplay has been pretty consistent since the first one. I think it's worth a go.
One thing that I still find hilarious is that when you plant seeds, they automatically disperse in a 3x3 grid and not on individual tiles. But when they grow, the game is programmed to treat them as objects so you can't move through them and actually reach the crop in the middle.

I first saw Harvest Moon in Nintendo Power and was curious so I rented it. My dad grew up on a farm and so he was also hooked into it when I brought it home. Then my grandpa came to visit one time and he saw me playing it and said something like "Oh if only it was that easy."

The series definitely peaked with Mineral Town, and I fell off until A New Beginning on 3DS (which didn't get enough mention as it should, I feel). I was hesitant to get into Stardew Valley because I knew it would be a time sink, and I already had A New Beginning. When the remake for Mineral Town came out, I was torn between that and Stardew Valley, but when I compared the two, Stardew just had more features and better reviews for less money, so it won out. I'm glad I bought it.

@russellohh yeah I also cap off my day with a day in Stardew Valley

A parent, @ChickenJoe, a parent

I remember that old GBA game. The game completely crashed on my every time I tried to enter a certain door in Moria. Years later I found a work around, so I finished it, and then the game just unceremoniously ends. It was a good idea but just never quite stuck the landing.

Regardless of what's going to be shown the internet is going to find something to complain about. There'll probably be petitions and YouTube trailer breakdowns and articles. Then it'll come out anyway and life will go on.

Ever since I saw that island on the Dam level in Goldeneye, I've been fascinated with cut content from video games. Good find!

Mario Kart DS is definitely the most content-heavy entry in the series, with the Mission mode that was great but never showed up again, and was also the first to introduce choosing a racer AND a separate kart. Plus getting to re-play a lot of the N64 tracks in a handheld blew my little mind when I first played it.

I rented A Link to the Past, and then borrowed it from my cousin, but I never really made much progress in it. It wasn't until Ocarina of Time that I really got invested in a Zelda game. My dad loved it too so we split the cost of buying it. It was truly one of those defining games of that generation and remains my favourite game of all time.

@sikthvash This pun is under-appreciated

Checking this vid after wave 2 was just announced and so far it's adding up.

So glad we're getting Waluigi Pinball. Just waiting for Maple Treeway and I'll be a happy boi

Definitely the Portal games.
Super Mario 3D World has a lot of great bite-sized levels that only take a few minutes to complete.
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker is also great in small bursts.
Axiom Verge 2 is pretty generous with its save spaces, and even backtracking to one is pretty effortless.
Also:
Celeste
Fast RMX
A Short Hike
Lonely Mountains Downhill

With 2 preschool kids, I definitely appreciate games you can play in short pick-up-and-play sessions.

I like the back page, but this would have been better with an image, even a crudely drawn scribble. And also a name (even just FrankenBoy)

Gonna wait until it goes on sale, then buy it for my kiddos who've only really seen Sonic Mania.

When I was a kid, the thing that scared me the most about the Well was the idea that it was in the middle of this whole idyllic village and no one even knew about it. So people would be going about their lives totally oblivious to the horror that was just beneath their feet.

To be honest, that Ambassador Program is what hooked me into buying a 3DS at full price, even knowing that the price cut was coming. I just really wanted those extra games, and I'm glad I did cause I got to play games like Metroid Fusion and WarioWare for the first time.

My wife and I play Puyo Puyo Tetris a lot, and trust me there are only like 3 characters we can tolerate playing as. Then when we let our kids pick the character, they end up picking one of the really annoying ones. Part of me wonders if this was deliberate on the part of the devs to keep tensions racked up during a versus match.

I wonder if they'll be sending out condoms for Joycons soon, like they did with the Wii remotes...

Coins? Coins? COINS?!

@dustinprewitt just Nintendo things

For me, the movement in SM64 feels natural and easy, but that's because I grew up playing it. However, some of my friends who never played it have said it's hard to control.

I was hoping they would do a poster based on the Sonic 2 box art. Glad they finally did it!

God I love early-2000s marketing where everything had to be "edgy" and "extreme", even if it just didn't work.

My mom managed to snag an N64 for Christmas, and she could have scalped it for a ridiculous amount, but she gave it to me andy brother for Christmas. I would have had a very different childhood if she had sold it!

Definitely nailed the Mother vibe
Quirky and slightly melancholy.

I was legit in tears halfway through the article--in the middle of work, no less. Thank you for this, it brightened my day!

Man, remember when we could just buy a game and play it and that was that?

Maybe it will be Sakurai himself, and his final smash is he just programs your opponents out of the game.

I'm not thrilled with the new N64 controller because it's arguably Nintendo's worst controller. I'd rather play using a Switch Pro controller with a proper thumbstick. It was great when it first came out, but that's cause we didn't know any better.

Also, I do hope we get lesser-known N64 games like Road Rash 64 and Turok Rage Wars (imagine that online). AND CAN NINTENDO PLEASE FINALLY SHOW SOME LOVE TO PILOTWINGS 64?

I think the hard pill to swallow is that retro gaming is something that appeals to a relatively small user base when compared with Nintendo's overall customers. I believe this is why they abandoned the Virtual Console model and moved to a subscription-based service. This is also reflected in the low-frequency and mid-tier-quality of games coming out on NSO.

I was on the fence at first, but this sold out for me.

Clayfighter 63 1/3 definitely made the rounds in my house and became pretty quotable with my friends (particularly "Chicken-Licken" and "Cluck you!")

Why does anyone even bother asking these questions? It's always a vague non-answer. It's not like the President of Nintendo is just gonna suddenly drop a bomb and be like "Oh yes, we actually have a Switch Pro coming out but we haven't announced it yet, and the N64 Classic is real, and while we're at it F-Zero and Star fox are getting a reboot, stay tuned to the next Nintendo Direct bros."

@Papichulo I remember when you bailed it looked like the skater's head came off, but I think it was supposed to be the helmet. Hard to tell with all the pixel jank

Mother 3 is the Snyder Cut of the gaming world.

Listen, unless we get Jim Carrey saying "SnooPINGASusual, I see," this movie's wash for me.

I hope they lean until the crazy track designs ala Track Mania and let you design and upload your own courses. Otherwise, it looks alright!

I recently decided to give Stardew Valley a go, but I was torn between that, SoS Mineral Town and SoS Olive Town (didn't even consider Harvest Moon One World after Reviews came out). At the end, Stardew Valley is a cheaper game with more features. I may get SoS Mineral Town in the future but not until it gets discounted.

If it's a Spider-verse style crossover with different Sonic universes colliding, that would be pretty cool.

The last JRPG I grinded through was Persona 3 Portable on PSP. I reached the "final boss", only realize that the game was only halfway finished. Then I read that I should be a certain level before the final boss, spent hours grinding (final gameplay came up to about 90 hours), then fought the final boss and it went down like a chump--I actually over-grinded to the point where the final boss was laughably simple.
When that was over, I told myself "never again".

Now imagine if the original LucasArts Sam & Max game was released on Switch. And Monkey Island, and Maniac Mansion, and...

Yoshi's Island never ceases to lighten my mood in tough times. The cartoon style graphics, bouncy music and general atmosphere of joy just kick me right back to my childhood.

I'm not surprised my beloved Road Rash 64 didn't make it on the list, but I am surprised that Turok didn't get a single entry here.