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If it's good, it's good.
If it's not they can just keep selling the original.

Bit of a missed opportunity not to at least sell Banjo-Kazooie on the eShop around the time the Smash Bros. collaboration happened.

Still awesome that Cuphead made it over though.

The European box, in black and gold, is both understated and bold.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Nuff said!

*I didn't realise at the time that my first line would rhyme

'All Software' is kind of like a folder. The option to create, name and fill more folders like that would be nice.

More themes would be nice too. Keep them basic if slowing things down is a concern, but colours that tie-in to the different joy-con and Switch Lite options would be a good start.

Rush Rally 3 got me hungry for more even more rally gaming so I've been playing some of the original PS1 Colin McRae Rally (which is extremely impressive for its age) and downloaded the Switch version of V-Rally 4 as it's on sale.

Started V-Rally 4 handheld and my jaw dropped when I saw how rough it looked. It doesn't seem like a bad game per se, but Rush Rally 3, though less complex, is both easier on the eye and more fun to play.

@Brownmonster Cheers for getting the game out in time for Christmas; was one one of the best things about it this year, even if it was a present to myself!
Oh, and if you're not moving on from the game just yet, please consider adding some dlc cars such as the Ronald V, Perseus 1405, Lance Atmos and, erm...Toy Oat Celery and Cola?
I trust you'll come up with better names for them too

I'm pretty sure the Switch Lite and new Pokemon games are the final nails in the coffin for the 3DS/2DS.

Glad to finally have Monster Bash on the Switch. Hope they don't go overboard with the censorship though, which is easy to spot on the Creature table already.

Xenon, Pinbot and the like would be unrecognizable after being put through the Zen filter.

I like the European the most, but none are particularly great. Japan could've had the edge with the illustration, if only Link didn't look so derpy

@Agent721 80's Overdrive!
There was a suggestion that a Switch version might be in the works, though that was over a year ago.

@glaemay What's sad is that EA is supposed to stand for "Electronic Arts" and early on their MO was to put the designers and programmers at the front and center of the work (I mean actual names on the front of the box!).

Anyhoo, Road Rash II would be nice on the Switch. M2 have done most of the work for them already in emulating it for the Mega Drive/Genesis Mini.

Doesn't get much more 90's than a tie-dye t-shirt with Sonic on it.

I'm still waiting to hear that the login requirement for Doom has been removed.

I hope the dot matrix effect and Super Game Boy colours M2 are using for their Game Boy emulations is a sign that they're working with Nintendo to bring the likes of Super Mario Land 2, Balloon Kid and Kirby's Dreamland to the Switch (this year would've been nice, but Nintendo don't always bother to capitalise on anniversaries).

The Japanese cover looks like the poster for an early 90's Luc Besson film.

@Dayton311 I've just bought it too...but I can't seem to update past 1.0.1 yet (in the UK). D'oh!

EDIT: Checked back a couple hours later, and TATE is here to...par-tay? :/

I'm hearing that if you want to play the Japanese versions of these games, you'll have to buy the Japanese version of the collection. Western collection has the US versions, which even differ from some European versions apparently.
That makes it a bit less appealing to me, but if it at least has tate mode where applicable I'll consider it.

...and Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, the composer for Balloon Fight, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Super Mario Land and Dr. Mario.

@retro_player_22 I'm sure I heard somewhere you can switch between left stick and d-pad functionality by holding the start button for a few seconds. EDIT: Nope, I got that wrong. It was actually MetalJesusRocks talking about Retro-Bit's Sega pads. Oh well. I've seen comments elsewhere though saying 8bitdo will likely fix the issue with a firmware update anyway.

I remember seeing Turok on the shelf in Woolworths priced at £70 (£125 today!). Most expensive I saw was WWF No Mercy at £80.

I didn't think much of the five minutes or so I played of the first one, but I've always been curious to see if the cerebral bore in Turok 2 is as awesome as N64 Magazine said. Might end up trying these two out then, and seeing if they work well with retro-bit's upcoming remake of the Hori 64 pad.

Don't think this'll have the correct button layout for the Mega Drive/Genesis collection, which unfortunately doesn't let you make any changes. According to this write-up though the Street Fighters will be good to go, and I'm sure the Arcade Archives and Sega Ages series will let you make any changes you need (though the Sega Ages ones tend to use X as Start instead of +).

I'm hoping the USB version of the Saturn pad will work with the Switch, through an adapter if need be. If not, might get one anyway if it reviews well enough.

I'll keep an eye out for the McFerran analysis then...

@Gabriel87 I'm hoping it'll work with the Mayflash Magic-NS adapter, though there's a good chance the button assignment will be less than ideal. There's another, more expensive adapter that lets you reprogram these configurations, but even as a bit of a controller junkie I don't care enough to do that right now.

If Nintendo really adds a single-player endless mode to Tetris 99, they might want to give us some more music options while they're at it. The Game Boy tunes would be a nice novelty of course, but what I'm really after is as many tracks from The New Tetris as possible; I'll gladly pay for 'em if necessary (as long as the composer Neil Voss gets his share).

From the Ninja Theory twitter: "it'll be digital only for the Switch."

It'd be nice if there were some kind of Astro City cabinet-shaped stand you could slot this stick and the Switch into.

Anybody know if this stick's ball top and buttons are standard sized and swappable?

There must be somebody on the Treehouse team that would like to work on translating those Famicom games.

Nintegrity.

Nintendo as a whole is obviously not perfect, but this is another example of why they're probably the best video game makers in the business. Certain other big companies would have just cancelled it outright, laid off the dev team for good measure and then start churning out yearly Mario Kart sequels and loot boxes for Splatoon and Animal Crossing.

@scully1888 I think we're being spoiled with all the reviews you've done for this site recently. You were hands down the best writer at the official Nintendo mag, and I'd say you've shot straight to the top here as well. (@Damo would be up there too, but he only shows up to write about Sega or upload cartridge porn )

I've little experience with Atari games, but it seems to me the lack of Activision games hurts the collection in the same way absent Rare games would hurt an N64 Classic mini console.

I couldn't resist those vector games though; to me the likes of Tempest and Major Havoc look as cool as if I had been around to see them in the early 80's.

@Moroboshi876 Just found out if you change the screen size from full screen to 'sharp screen' the border has a couple of SNK logos at the top.

@Moroboshi876 That's right, the borders are a plain silver with a green stripe running vertically each side. Not exciting but maybe the design is based on something relevant, so could be a nice detail I just don't appreciate yet. Also, soundtracks for the new games have not been added to the museum. They all have a 'watch' mode though and some have regional variations too.

My biggest complaint so far though is the game is still super prone to crashing when I'm simply navigating the menus.

I'm happy to have the Streets of Rage games on my Switch, but also glad I already have the Sega Ages version of Sonic as the lag when jumping in this collection is horrendous.

Having a clean version of the same design on the reverse side seems like the obvious solution.

I'll probably get one of these to connect my Club Nintento SNES pad and NES Mini pad. I can do so with my Mayflash Magic-NS, but this adapter will make it a bit easier to do.

My obsession with using different controllers on the Switch has gotten out of hand though; today I got Hyperkin's "Duke" controller, based on the original monstrosity the Xbox used. I'd only held one briefly at a demo unit back in the day, and it's as awful as I remember. I think Iain Lee (of Channel 4's Thumb Bandits) described it as being 'designed by blind monkeys with no thumbs.'
I don't know what Switch games I'll want to play with it, but I couldn't help myself.

Just saw a gameplay vid of this where the music in Streets of Rage was messed up. Kiiiinda putting me off.

There's a smidgen of a chance that the 3DS game 80's Overdrive might come to the Switch, which would be nice.
90's Super GP seems to be vapourware, but Racing Apex might actually happen. Then there's OutRun and Virtua Racing coming, and hopefully more Sega arcade racers besides those. I'd love to see another Namco Museum, this time representing the 90's with Ridge Racer included, and I know it'd be unprecedented, but getting to play Electronic Arts' Road Rash II on my Switch would be the cherry on top of a very good year for old school racing.

I look forward to seeing Alex sharing a packet of Jaffa cakes with Miyamoto next.

Was expecting it to be a bit rubbish, but I've already found the Gilius Thunderhead socks, so that'll be another bookmark for my browser then.

Don't suppose anybody knows why Ninja Commando has been off the eShop for a while now (in the UK at least)?

@Ttimer5 I think they have previously announced USB wired versions on the way too. Best check the PowerA website.

"Motion controls and system buttons added for compatibility with all Nintendo Switch Games"

I wonder if the sticks click down too then. Either way they look decent, so I'll keep an eye on them.

I wonder if the time spent making this custom save state could have been put toward adding an option to remove the info that's always at the bottom of the screen instead.

Unlike the interactive Mario face, the menu would have become annoying pretty early on if not for the pleasant music. Plus they made it look Nintendo enough not to end up as dated and 'vaporwave' looking as the original. At least they didn't base it on the "it's a UNIX system!" 3D File System Navigator from Jurassic park (apparently an SGI thing also).

Different topic, but despite staring me in the face for two and a half decades, I only very recently realised that the 2D sprite graphics in the original Sonic the Hedgehog were designed to resemble the basic 3D computer generated imagery of the day. One look at the trees and checkerboard patterns in Green Hill Zone, and those 'polygonal' birds and fish in the background of the special stage make it kind of obvious. So in a way you could say the game was almost a forerunner to Donkey Kong Country, which used 2D sprites based on actual 3D computer generated models (SGI again!).

Reminds me of the shiny plastic used on the Power Rangers figures from the 1995 movie. A bit tacky, really.

'Nez' never really worked for me, so I would have just called it 'the Nintendo' and later 'the original Nintendo.'
These days, having watched and read stuff on the internet for years it's 'en-e-ess' all the way.

As for the Super Nintendo, 'snez' just made sense in the UK of the early 90's for some reason. I'm reaching here, but I feel like maybe the Rave scene at the time might have influenced the way young people would make things sound cooler (slang) and would have filtered down to the playgrounds where you'd use anything to convince your friends that your Super Mario World was as cool as their Sonic. If you couldn't go with your older sibling to dance in a random field until either the sun comes up or the police shut it down, the next best thing would be having some mates round to play Mario Kart on the Snez while listening to that Ebeneezer Goode song you taped off the radio, right.

Something closer to Rex from Toy Story would probably work better; looking constantly nervous (if not terrified) would better sell the idea that the character feels inadequate due to his titular tiny hands.

If they're after a Rare feel (even though this looks more like Crash Bandicoot) another thing you could have are friendly NPCs who are weary of seeing the player character give up at every new hurdle because of their short arms, and try to remind you to just make the most of being a freakin' Tyrannosaur.

I'd like to see Sega and a company like Hori make a stand based on an Astro City cabinet with built in controls, and if possible the ability to pull out and rotate the part that holds the Switch for vertical gameplay ...

...or they could bring back the Virtua Stick Pro which might be even better!

Looking forward to having a Mega Drive case on my shelf again (well, sort of). That holographic slipcase makes me think about how holographic stuff was EVERYWHERE in the 90's, which in turn makes me wish there could be a packet of Sonic Mania pogs stuffed into each copy...

I know I'll cave in an get this eventually anyway, but I feel like maybe it could be a couple of quid cheaper.

@Pahvi Thanks. Guess I'll just keep GRIDD on my watchlist for now, and if the @Shiryu review doesn't put me off completely I'll wait until a sale (or enough gold points) knocks it down to a fiver.

As for Iro Hero, it may have been a nice way to scratch that Ikaruga itch, but...oh well.

@Shiryu Will you be reviewing GRIDD next? I like the look (and sound!) of it, but in the footage I've seen it seems like it might be hard to control your ship precisely...