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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).

If this is free of the glitches plaguing the other new versions (or in any event sees patches that the 3DS didn't), then I'm up for this.

@ImDiggerDan Wow, didn't realize Kid Tripp was one of yours! Will definitely have to grab it now! An Adventure Island-referencing title from the developer of Digger Dan is worth a buy (or two, might get it on both consoles just because) in my books. Loved that game on both 3DS and DS.

Hopefully you have a Switch hit on your hands!

Oh man, I want this so much but I'm locked in for EOV for the near future. I guess I'm going to gamble on it hitting the secondary market at a reasonable-ish price once I'm done with EOV, as I'm not keen on building up a backlog of unbeaten retail games (again). Too easy to fall down that hole.

While I will continue to think those "everything should be on Switch now because I have one and therefore literally everyone does and we all threw out our 3DS' too" guys are ridiculous until the Switch hits the one-year mark, this is still a great step in the right direction for Atooi. They've paid their dues on 3DS, and now it's time to see what they can do with the new hardware.

Good article. I don't play this, but I have a roommate who at least used to and a nephew who does. They've both tried to get me to play, but it's hard to find time to get into something like this.

I actually didn't know they phased cards out in competitive play. Personally, I think if they're going to do that it should be because the cards are so powerful as to be broken, not just "this is a 2014 card and is thus disallowed." Doesn't get more pay-to-win than that.

lol, truly this puts the beautiful back in the Beautiful Game.

As someone who didn't see any reason on that games list to buy the thing, I think it's slightly cooler now. But I still have a working SNES and if I wanted to go ROM wild, I could just set up a Pi. Still, this is a good enough option if you don't want to fuss with Pi and you don't want to pay collector's premiums for SNES games.

It's also adorable, so there's that too.

Personally it doesn't have games I particularly want (I wasn't expecting sports or like Three Kingdoms or Aerobiz, but not even Pilotwings? come on), so I didn't bother with it. But if the stock situation resolves at any point, I'd consider getting one as a Christmas gift for my best friend who would definitely be into it.

@WaveBoy They might've been. I don't think the VS. ones were, but you're right that the regular arcade ones would have been. VS. Excitebike was on Wii U, but I feel like anything on Wii U is fair game to re-release because of its low sales.

EDIT: I looked it up and apparently none of these were available on the Wii VC. So I guess technically these arcade titles are all new additions to the library!

Yeah, I hear that. Some of this retro stuff goes far enough back that I don't have nostalgia for it, but I do have a historical curiosity for how things worked and how games were made in that era. But you're right; it's hard to get much out of games that are so overexposed that you feel you've played them without actually having played them!