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So...they ask you to put a couch in your camper and then there is a "montage of them sleeping on it"

I have no interest in Animal Crossing, but this sounds hilarious.

Sweet, some of these are kind of good. I tend to kind of hate Nintendo's sales and I still question the logic of offering sales on the games that are still more expensive than getting a physical copy, but there's more good than usual here in my opinion.

@VinnieMii Yep, the Speedball games and the Epyx "Games" series were my must-haves on this list! No word on if you can add games yet (that I know of), but similar devices have allowed adding games so this would be a cool feature (especially with some noticeable gaps in this lineup).

@VinnieMii Yeah, I only saw news of it recently too but it's apparently set for 2018 release. It's a miniature model C64 with HDMI hookup, a controller and USB keyboard support.

Full list of the games is here (it has Impossible Mission I & II but no Last Ninja trilogy): https://thec64.com/games/

@Robotron2084 Oh yeah, I hear you. Plug and Play frees you from load times, too! And your Ouya (or a Raspberry Pi) would do the trick cheaply for sure. The revivals (other than the Next) are more for if you like the collectibility of having a "new" Speccy product.

Although I like it, the Vega is definitely not perfect. Like all Speccy revivals to date, it's a bit pricey for what you get. But it does have a virtual keyboard, which may or may not be to your taste (works fine for strategy games and sports managers, but a little rough for text adventures).

You can also add games (any games with Kempston controls work fine, or you can program your own keymaps/tell it to run in 48 or 128k/add POKEs/etc.). I find it a cool little device just to be able to follow the Speccy homebrew scene — usually a few new games every month!

The C64 Mini is supposed to launch next year for a more reasonable price of $70USD. It's going to have 64 games pre-loaded. No idea if you can add more, but you can access BASIC to do type-ins.

@Robotron2084 There have been a few attempts, but they all have flaws. Vega+ went to development hell (as @KIRO mentioned), Recreated Spectrum lost its licensing, the Spectrum Next is fairly pricey and much more than a plug and play unit.

I have the original Vega, and it's pretty good if you don't care about having a keyboard but it really is just for gaming. It's a little controller pre-loaded with 1000 games that you plug into a TV. No HDMI. It gets the job done if all you want is a Speccy gaming fix.

It'd be cool if we got a Speccy that's like the C64 Mini coming out next year.

Never heard of this game, but I saw the words "Triumphant Return" in the tagline and was hoping it was going to be an isometric platformer. Actual Speccy references though, wow! This sounds like a winner.

Unlimited lives are a treat for this genre too; since I guess we're past the age of POKEs now, huh?

Back when Club Nintendo had surveys, this was the kind of thing I'd always ask for. The real curiosities that relatively few people have had the chance to play. I'm genuinely excited about this (and some of Hamster's other offerings to be honest; I'm way more hyped for their release slate than I was for SEGA's 3D Classics, which is the only comparable project I can think of)!

Cool, reminds me a bit of De De Mouse. Nice to see Tanaka is still making music!

I know Reggie is himself an on-again off-again Nintendo fan and the guy they call on to make everything sound cordial, but, man, "legacy content" is the kind of cold corporate talk airlines use when they're trying to get you to fly on their 1980s planes in the modern day. I wonder if he himself isn't a big fan of the N64.

Personally, I think the N64 has aged about as well as the Atari 2600. Ahead of its time, which is terrible for posterity. However, I hardly think that matters. Casual fans will essentially see it as "Nintendo Mini: Part 3" and sales will likely reflect that.

Nice! I've played this game without the translation, but that's neat that they've made it accessible to more people. A really quality puzzle game on a console that had many, many contenders in that genre.

Also @shiryu, I always feel kind of pleased with myself when you post about a Super Famicom game I've actually heard of for once lol

I don't really use apps aside from listening to music on YouTube, but even I would say that not having apps at launch looks a little arrogant. Not the end of the world since smartphones are a thing, but certainly bad optics.

@NickDwyerDITC I was probably going to check this out either way, but I appreciate you giving a little more background on your thoughts. Interviews aren't really the easiest way to get some things across for sure. Sounds to me now like you're just as in awe of these guys as some of us who also grew up with them are! Very cool, and all the best on the project.

Cool project, but a little insufferable that the dude takes the tone that he's "discovered" any of this. I can appreciate the work, but on the other hand he's talking it up like he's the composer and not just the booking agent/archivist.

Granted maybe he's got some real fire that's been hidden for 20-30 years but, like, I can just YouTube FM Towns music. The only difference is I can't book the composers to play in my studio lol

Until these missions can be somehow steamlined into the rest of the game, they will never hit their targets. It probably isn't really that people don't want to do them as events like this are popular in other games, but the hoops you have to jump through to get your Pokémon counted is unnecessarily burdensome.

Penguin-kun Wars....Penguin-kun Wars never changes...

Seriously though, these games are just so good! Loving the sax in this one.

I voted for UFO, but Smash, Paint, Fire Sword, and Fridge (lol) are all on my list.

lol, this was like the time Level-5 had their best character vote and the plane from Aero Porter won, but the logo from Aero Porter also cracked the Top 10. I wonder if they've also promised to do an art of all Top 10 choices?

Jack Frost would've been my vote. Another Jack Bros. spinoff would be cool.

Huh, this is actually cool. I've always seen Ghetsis as the least repentant villain in the series (you somehow just don't come back from being a child abuser) but he's way too off the rails to summon a team of villains. Giovanni is like the Batman of Pokémon villains, so this works.

Am I going to go out and buy the game now? I doubt it, but never say never. This is still technically an annual release, and just on principle I'm never going to get fully behind those. But it looks less lazy now, so props to them.

One thing I think could be said of Mario Odyssey is that it's at least the game that is arguably the most in tune with the world of gamers of its own era.

Every other Mario game has either tried to create a brand-new space for market demand (like Mario 64's 3D platforming or Galaxy with its motion controls) or play to one they already made (like 3D World), but with this one it seems like they admit there is a real world out there. A world where, right now, people want to buy their wins and mess around with tons of gameplay options (Cappy), rather than finesse one specific move set.

I'm not going to say this is good or bad. But it is an awareness that's sort of interesting about Odyssey that you don't see so much in the earlier games.

@masterLEON Yes! Exactly like that! And it's coming to Switch? Nice! I remember it being announced, but just assumed it would never come to Switch.

Conceptually it's cool, but way too many beat 'em ups and platformers for my taste. The inclusion of Super Dodge Ball is a step in the right direction though. If they offered a selection of Kunio sports titles on this thing, I'd consider it.

My knowledge of Neo Geo stuff is basically a huge blank space, so I've thought about getting this. Good company and review sounds like it's a solid buy. Nice!

I think this is ridiculously extravagant and possibly doomed to fail. They could drop the price to $150 or something, and most families are still not going to want that many smart devices cluttering up their household. Parents will eventually come to see this as another tablet that can't play (as many) free games.

Gamers, of course, will splash out and buy as many as Nintendo requires. But I don't know if that will be enough to prop up continued high sales in the long run. Who knows though; maybe it will.

I think a lot of this is just hot take culture running rampant. Everyone wants to be the first contrarian to put out the piece on why they hate something popular (because negative unpopular opinions get more views than positive unpopular opinions).

I'm personally not a huge fan of Mario games, but even I can see that this one is a solid, well-made game. Possibly not a perfect 10, but certainly better than average.

In theory, I think this is neat but I'm not such a purist that I'd bother going through all the trouble. Personally I think "authentic" is not always something worth seeking, and is often fueled primarily by nostalgia. For now, I have a CRT that works fine, and an original model SNES. If either of those quit on me, I'd possibly think about upgrading (although realistically I play SNES so rarely that I'd probably do nothing).

@jmap Well said.

Anyway, I think given the sheer number of Power Moons, it makes perfect sense for Nintendo to offer a number of ways to find them all. Otherwise, we'd have another DK64 on our hands (which I personally liked but, as some have said, some people have lives and such and don't want to sink hundreds of ours finding one last trinket).

Looks good to me. The two packs I'm interested in would only be for one game (Congo's Caper and Super Side Pocket), but honestly I've never played the others on those collections so one or both of these could be a buy for me.

A cool alternative to plug-n-play devices if you have the original hardware!

Literally anything anyone said in the comments that's not an extended ad for HD Rumble. Nintendo's riding high now; time to shake it up with new stuff and maybe gamble on some risky IPs from the past.

My personal preference would be for them to just fold together all their "sports" titles, and Pilotwings, into a sandbox title.

When I first saw this, I thought it looked like those old Speccy graphic adventures where you have to roam a big house and fight sentient TVs and collect random jars and the like. I see now that it's not really like that, but it still looks like fun. It is almost impossible to do Metroidvanias completely wrong.

Yep, looks sweet. Ten hours sounds short, but then LTTP was also pretty short if you don't count that first trip to Turtle Rock (if you, like me, had no guide or common sense lol).

I actually don't really care about the spoilers, but more about this cynical race to be the first to reveal something. If putting out better content than your "competitors" is too hard for you and you feel the need to cheat the line, maybe you deserve that ban.

I've only heard of this game as per this sale, but Astro Bears looks TERRIFYING. Happy Halloween indeed.

This isn't surprising, but the endless gamer lust for SNES products absolutely blows my mind. I do own one and think it's great, but that it has this level of staying power makes me wonder if the public had been a little more primed for video games back when it was new (i.e., no anti-video game lobby) would Nintendo have had a Wii-like situation on their hands.

This is a marginally better list. I can see how Super Formation Soccer's inclusion might baffle some, but that was one of the games I was hoping to see included on the SNES Mini (in its NA iteration).

Lack of Pilotwings still feels so wrong though.

I think they just spread themselves way too thin here. Toys-to-Life in general just got saturated to death. They should've just rolled out a few properties for each "season" and given them more depth. Not even the most avid collectors can sustain a thrill for this many franchises, but each TTL property thought only of short-term profits and now the well is dry.

It was a cool idea while it lasted though, and I'm sure we'll see a revival someday.

This all sounds fine, but I don't know how I feel about playing another Pokémon game so soon (literally a year minus a day). Whether it's bursting with content or not, I'm not big on annual releases.

Comparing this only to itself and other ping pong games, this looks absolutely fine. Decent presentation, music is catchy enough, and the gameplay looks solid enough.

However, it's still a ping pong trick shot game.

If this is backed up by actual new content revealed, I'd consider it. Not really sure how they'd get such a dramatic story to fit in with the "do all the trials" game structure, but I'm not entirely closed to the idea of getting this yet.

I'm cautiously into this. I love non-real-time strategy titles, and even better when they appear on a Nintendo console (a too rare event in my opinion).

I've never played Crash (despite growing up with PS1, I leaned more toward other genres), so if this came to the console I'd probably play it but I feel no urgency either way.

@Pazuzu666 I definitely agree with this, but for as long as the Codies have Dizzy (and his Speccy adventures) locked in their vault I can't deny the appeal of these "lost" Oliver Twins games.

This looks great, but I hear it's really short. I have nothing at all against short games, but this particular type of game always feels wrong when it's too short.

I really like the Necrozma designs and new UBs, but unless they announce something game-changing like a return to Kanto I can't see myself getting this. Too close to the release of the previous games. I'd need a really good reason to go back to Alola so soon.

EOV and only EOV, but retail.

From what has been released so far of this game, it's unfortunately looking like this might not be a huge loss. The character models look really weird. Still, I think it'd be a better show for Square Enix to support the platform with the title than not.

That's too bad; I love these battle arena type games, as rare as they are, and this one looked like it was going to be good.

I can never get into games with the Moral Dilemma mechanic, but it's cool that something of this nature is coming to the Switch at all.

Wouldn't want this at the moment, as the only titles drawing me in are Side Pocket (might depend on the version they use though) and Joe & Mac. Get some sports titles like Street Hoop on there, and better caveman games like Congo's Caper and it'd start looking better.

These things featured one of the two things I hate most in games and that is actual end-of-lifespan death (rather than as a result of defeat), so I never jumped on this train.

(The other thing I hate is an internal clock that effectively nags you to play every day, but I suppose in a way these sort of have that too).