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Can't wait to get my hat in the mail! Will look good next to the one I got 34 years ago!
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Portal 1 is great. But Portal 2 might just be my favorite game of all time. Glad to hear you enjoyed it so much! Now go play 2, all of you!

13 our of 15, I know nothing about Fire Emblem, ha!

@DonSerrot Yeah, this doesn't really clear that up. The way it loaded levels was not the way machines loaded them. I'd really like to hear the explanation behind these decisions.

Not that it, like, really matters. That being said, I'm glad he got his Pac-Man record reinstated, thought it was a little harsh that ALL of his records were removed.

I do look forward to people talking a bit more in-depth about this, instead of "in light of new investigations and testimony".

I think this continue code story literally shows up every five years online! Seriously, just did a quick search and Polygon was talking about it in 2015!

My friends I knew the code back in the day, I'm guessing because of Nintendo Power. I thought it was in the instruction manual, but just looked it up and it's not in there.

Hmm, does Nintendo have an official store page on their UK website? You can buy them right from there on the US page.

Nintendo Magic is a fun read that looks mostly at the Wii era of Nintendo, but also touches a bit on older projects like Game and Watch, and how those shaped the Wii's creation. It was published in Japan originally but it's available in English and certainly a recommended read.
http://a.co/d/0gNk9Zy

European publisher Pix n' Love Publishing had a great series of books including a fun history of Mario book, and a couple History of Nintendo books with tons of pictures that looked at their earlier products from the past 100 and some years. Sadly it looks like all of their books are out of print right now? Their website mentions a History of Metroid is upcoming though.

@Moroboshi876 Hmm, makes me wonder if they'll keep the swear word in there? I'd assumed it would be taken out, but the wording there is suspect.

@Alikan The original Donkey Kong arcade, however, had some programming that was partially done by another company, Ikegami Tsushinki Co. There's a question of whether or not they may have some say in what can be done with that version of the game. In fact, in 1983 the company sued Nintendo for 580 million yen when Nintendo decided to try to manufacture the boards themselves. The lawsuit involved both Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior. Nintendo settled out of court.

Man, I used to record silly videos and let's plays with commentary back in the NES and SNES days. Somewhere out there are beta tapes with retro gaming goodness from my childhood.

Saw the new movie over the weekend and thought it was great, I'll probably try to see it again before it's gone.

I revisited Ghostbusters 2 on NES just two weeks ago, and liked it a bit more than I was expecting to. I don't think I'd played it for about 10 years before that. And I finally beat the darn thing! That last level is hard (and the Statue of Liberty level goes on forever). All in all though, it was fun and had nice variety in the levels.

Thanks for the info. I have a Japanese import of this game and never really knew anything about it, except that it was hard!

It's already been revealed that this was a joke post on 4chan that then was picked up by Reddit. Don't worry people, it's a fake! Though with all the leaks from Nintendo lately, I had my doubts too.

This was the first splatfest that I actually made it to Queen status. Go Team Pokemon Blue!
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Oh, wow, I was thinking the same thing! I used to call the pirana plants Audrey II's when I was a kid! Looking forward to trying it!

I find it a bit strange that just six days ago Jeremy Parish's Game Boy World retrospective covered this very topic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAyt8NI9u9c

I had that Mad Catz cable and it never worked once for me. I'm interested in this! Hope it is very reasonably priced!

Not a Nintendo watch, but I have a game watch based on Ghostbusters II. You control a Ghostbuster on the bottom of the screen in the courtroom and shoot at the Scoleri Bros that fly around.

I already had it on my PS3/Vita, but since I'd been looking forward to the game since it was first announced for WiiWare, I still went and bought it on my Wii U. The extra ROM mode was a nice incentive. It's a great game and I'm glad that overall it was a success.

Like Spacekappa, I got a chance to play this at PAX East and it was my favorite game of the show! I'm totally going to support them with $15 so I can get my Wii U version. The game looked great, played great, and sounded great!

It's weird, like two days before the original statement was said by Jens, I was just telling a friend that I'd love a Minecraft port on WiiU and 3DS. I still have hope that we'll see it someday.

Well, they're definitely getting better with their PAX showings. This will be my third PAX East, and I remember the first year i was so psyched to check out the Nintendo booth, thinking they'd have all these games on display that weren't due out for a while like Metroid Other M and Skyward Sword. Their booth was the size of a closet, and they had two games featured: Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver and Warioware DIY.

I will be checking out Spirit Camera. And challenging people to Kid Icarus battles. : )

Shoot, I work at a GameStop, but all I'm doing is bringing in the Zelda cartoons to play at work! Now I feel lazy! But man, that display is crazy awesome.

Also, been staring at the box full of Zelda games for like 5 days now, can't wait to take it home tomorrow!

I dunno, I really enjoy Alleyway. And at only $2.99, you can't really feel bad about losing the money. Then again, I was around when the game first came out, and I used to like playing brick-breaking games on the Atari (Circus Atari is still awesome fun), so maybe I'm in the minority.

Sure, it's a simple game with a simple concept, but that's why I kind of like having it on my 3DS's menu; sometimes I just want to play something for a few minutes, and with the new save state feature of Virtual Console, I can even pick up where I left off and save my high score, unlike the GB original.

Still have my Virtual Boy, which was bought for the full price of $180, sitting on my shelf. (I didn't pay for it though, my mom did) I believe I have 5 games for it. One of them is Wario Land VB, and it's awesome.
And yes, BlueFlameBat, Galactic Pinball is pretty great!

Hmmm, wonder if this has made it's way to the US Barnes and Noble stores yet...maybe I should plan a trip.

Darn it, I was looking forward to Ys Book 1 and 2 today. Maybe next week.
...also Strong Bad on Wii Ware. Maybe next week.