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Got universal cases for my SNES and N64 collections and printed out box art for them. I am happy with this spending decision.

@darkswabber That's a damn nice collection. My own physical games library across all my platforms is like 300. Out of 7200 total. The rest are digital either as single purchases, bundled into collections, or included inside other games. And I've tallied games I've borrowed at some point, beaten at a friend's place or at the arcade or otherwise got a chance to play until completion.

@Fizza I've found that IKEA's Gnedby is perfect for shelving Switch games, as long as you put a bit of padding behind the cases. Helps organizing. Three shelves are filled with Switch games:
Random
Zelda and Mario
Xenoblade, Fire Emblem and Metroid

because of the way I've organized my shelves with my desk, a bit of shelf real estate is lost, but I got all my (3)DS, Wii U and Switch games and all my new Wii games stored that way. Plus I got controller holders and a cabinet leg for a headset holder screwed to the side of the shelf.

I used to have that N64 magazine stand. Then I built a two-trough box in shop class for the games and accessories.
NES games are all in my Nintendo Entertainment System Cabinet in their sleeves along with a non-functional Zapper and an extra controller in the upper shelf.

I've bought cartridge cases for all my SNES, GBA and N64 games. And I have all of my physical DS, 3DS, GC, Wii, Wii U and Switch disks and carts in their original cases. Bought Gnedby shelves for those, so they're literally in arm's reach at my battle station.

First they copy the Wiimote with their wand, then they announced a hand-held that essentially turns the PS5 into a Wii U and now this.

@Angelic_Lapras_King That's the primary reason I only beat the SNES titles through emulation. The second game is HARD and I simply didn't have the unbroken hours along with the required patience to sit through all the levels.

My cousin owned the first game, I own the second. Had to emulate both to beat them. Never tried the GB game.

@Ryu_Niiyama Two weeks. Get ready for a surprise!

For me the "traditional" formula was stuck to pretty thoroughly from A Link to the Past all the way to Skyward Sword, which worked well as a vehicle of storytelling and presentation. But bracketing these games and perhaps either as a new formula or as a breather before the next is the open world, where your hand isn't being held at all. Zelda, Zelda II and Breath of the Wild.
You get to explore a largely depopulated world with some settlements separated by miles of wasteland and the occasional hidden dungeon or item that you can complete or collect in any order, really.
I'd like to see some incentive for backtracking to dungeons with explorable nooks that you can only access with items from somewhere else in the game map and these items should be discoverable at least in a basic form on the game map with more powerful/efficient versions in specific thematic dungeons. This'd allow catering to both free exploration and a "recommended" linear experience.

How ironic, since I compared the Angry Birds craze with all the merch on sale to Mario back in the early 90s. And now them birdies are part of SEGA.

the only Nintendo COD I have is CoD3.

One questions how could something be infamous if it doesn't exist.

I have so many ways of playing it. NES (with Duck Hunt on the same cart), All-Stars on SNES, on NSO, All-Stars on NSO and Super Mario Deluxe on 3DS (but the screen scroll feels wrong to me).

My favorite is definitely All-Stars.

I still have this on my N64. Used to play Blue quite a lot on it.

What's the OS on Luigi's phone, a custom Android?

I can't be the only one who thinks of Endless Eight with Loop8.

Got Etrian Odyssey games on the 3DS as part of the eShop crusade. I'll wishlist the games of the collection on Steam and wait for a hefty discount.

I've had this on preorder for well over a year now.

@Bunkerneath You mean you never put her in a dumpster while you cleared the area?

@ElRoberico You can download updates and games you've already bought, but you can't buy new things anymore.

Of the ones that'd interest me, I've either already bought them or they're on Steam. If I'd held off with foreknowledge of these sales, I might've saved a couple dozen euros over the past year.

Blue and Yellow were enough for me on GBC.

Anyone remember Bodyworks Voyager on DOS? Kinda the same basic premise.

Is Contra 4 available on the eshop? I got Probotector on the NES and the collection on Steam, but I think I've missed out on that one.

@martynstuff I already do in my own language, so it carries over into english.

@nocdaes I've been on a year-long program gathering 3DS and WiiU exclusives and Virtual Console games. Just did a round of tallying the remaining Virtual Console titles and noticed I need two extra months to buy them, so this and the next month's purchases are gonna be nuts.

Still gotta tally the rest of the exclusives and eliminate the less interesting indie titles and the ones I already own.
The final splurge is going to be something else...

I still have my preorder at a local electronics megastore for this. Been waiting for almost a full year.

"Hey Joe, you wanna play a zombie game?"

The Japanese one looks like a video game magazine cover page.

At the very least Phantasia, Xillia and Abyss.

I have Zelda-themed decals on my N64 and Switch, and I'm pretty happy with those.

Got it for christmas '21 and from the start I've meant for it to be a platform for retro gaming, and that's what I've done with 2022: gathered a retro library for it consisting of Wii, GBA, DS, SNES and TG-16 digital titles, along with doubling my physical Wii library. Haven't done much else with it, but I've beaten a campaign run in Star Fox Zero and I just started on Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Gonna be interesting to power through my newly expanded Wii library with it, as well as the emulations.

Already beat all four on the Mega Drive collection.

@Marioman2022 @kkslider5552000 @Thwomp_Stomper etc. The Mega Drive version of VF2 is full 2D. The characters are sprites rendered from the 3D models.

Finnish exchange student?
TORILLE!!!

@EVIL-C Yeah, Project Zero 2: Wii Edition, digital purchase. The store becomes defunct next March, so I had it on a year-long purchase program. Maiden of Black Water is also available on Steam, so off the program it went, since it's not time-critical.

Just purchased my first entry to the series. Fatal Frame 2 on the Wii U. I'm not much of a survival horror fan, but I think the series will be interesting and that I have more resiliance than I did when I first heard of the series.

@ElRoberico I went through the list of Wii U and 3DS exclusives and prioritized them. I did this when I first heard of the closure in March. I made a monthly list of about the same sum of money worth of games by a prioritized order of interest.
I've gotten down to tier 4 of my list, and it's still dozens of titles. Got some out of the set order during discounts or physical copy availability. In ways I'm ahead of schedule already.

@KayFiOS JoyPrawns.

Got it on Steam the day I learned of it and beat it in the same sitting. Was nice.

And I only now got the pun behind the name.
Save room, the safe space where you save the game.
Save room, the given order to maximize inventory space.

She looks more like Daisy from the movie than the Peach we're used to.

@SpaceyCiel Got my Wii U last Christmas with a few games for a pretty nice bargain. Sold some of the games on, since they were for the previous owner's daughter.
I've been on a purchase program to get as many 3DS and Wii U titles as I can before the store shuts down. I've basically doubled my Wii disk collection. When it comes to Virtual Console games, I scratch off titles that have ports on the Switch, get ported to PC or are on a streaming service. I do this so I wouldn't have to rely on emulators to experience them.
Got on disk Nintendo Land, Twilight Princess HD, Yoshi's Woolly World, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Pikmin 3 and Star Fox Zero. Other exclusives I've had to get digitally. Made the mistake of getting Paper Mario: Color Splash digitally after buying the disk, but the box's unopened.
Kirby's Wii Adventure is getting a Switch port and I learned this three days after buying it on the Wii U.

Oh my God, you could grind meat on those.

Wait, Double Dragon's a Kunio/Renegade offshoot? Just how huge is the meta-series?

I might as well throw darts at the side of a barn festooned with post-its with the track names written on them when you ask this.

This time I'd post... Torvus Bog Subterranean theme from Metroid Prime 2.

@variableman Tallon Overworld Depths was the first song that started playing in my head when I read the article.

@Aurumonado @Vivianeat and others who say this is an isekai...
Mario originally was a portal fantasy. The plumbers are from Brooklyn who somehow ended up in a warp pipe that lead to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Them being Mushroom Kingdom natives is a later iteration of the canon.

And yes, the term for the genre in general is "portal fantasy." Isekai is just the in vogue term now and it means "other/alternate world" anyway in Japanese.
If you want pre-isekai trend isekai animation, check out Escaflowne, 12 Kingdoms or Alice in Wonderland.

For Mario being an isekai, it's always been so. Before the term gained prominance and was known as the more general concept of Portal Fantasy.

In the canon I know and keep, the Mario Bros. have always been plumbers from Brooklyn who somehow ended up in a portal/warp pipe that sent them to the Mushroom Kingdom. The Stork in Yoshi's Island came as later canon.

There might be a disservice this film does: I now expect the next main series Mario title to look at least as good as the movie.

I'd need to hear more of Pratt's work in the film to make a more informed judgement, but he was hitting some of the notes already when it comes to my expectations. I remember the days before Martinet's style, so I don't have him pegged as the sole way of doing the Mario (pun fully intended). I've heard what's essentially the Mickey Mouse of gaming, a gruff Nuw Yawhkeh accent and a generic hero voice. Pratt's seemingly going for an everyman with a hint of Martinet in his delivery.

Jack Black as Bowser honestly sounds great, though they could pitch his voice down an octave. I'd love to hear him do lines from Paper Mario. Bowser's all ham and Jack Black works best with roles where he can ham it up.

I was born in the late 80s. I remember things. I remember the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, both in original audio and dubbed in Finnish. I still have the VHS for the Super Mario Bros. movie. I watched the OG animation of Mario this year when I heard it was on YouTube.
In essence, Charles Martinet's iconic performance as Mario is a relative newcomer for me when it comes to Mario's vocal profile.

So, I will have an open mind when it comes to this movie and Pratt's performance as the moustachioed plumber, but I will bring my whole baggage train as to what I expect of the setting.

@PoorGeno "Do the Mario"? "♫ Swing your arms from side to side ♪"

@BeautyandtheBeer Apologizing in those situations is never interpreted as anything more than as an admission of guilt, and instead of it being the point where the noise is dropped, it's free license to tear into the accused and give them their "just punishment."

DEFINITELY gonna wish list this, but sorry, not for Switch. This is one of those games where an authentic experience is had with a keyboard and mouse.
And it's cool they have General Graves from DNF here.
In a way, the graphics engine kinda looks like what DNF was supposed to be, much like Ion Fury had the Build Engine (Duke Nukem 3D's engine) pushed to its limits. Here's hoping for destructible environments and location-specific damage.