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Ooh shocking news. It's a sad state of things that anything with a limited production run is just seen as an opportunity for some now.

@Clyde_Radcliffe Personally the only two games of their's I enjoyed were the Creatures games and have always thought the series should have the originals released and even modern games as the design is fantastic and be great so see with a range of new ideas.

As for the Oliver twins having some influence in their older games I do believe they now hold the rights to Dizzy but only for new projects and none of the old games and I can't imagine anyone who works for this new Codemasters even before the EA takeover would have cared much for anything they said since it was pretty much a new group of people after they switched to just racing games in the last decade or so.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I'd live to see many Codemasters games from the C64 too but that would now be up to EA and unless they can smell a profit they probably won't consider it.

People seem to assume that this will be a service like NSO or from a vast list of publishers. It would only be a small list of games that Thalamus released on the C64 which was I believe 15 games unless they have aquired the rights to others under this new publishing company. This will most probably be a standalone collection of all of those games or most of them.

What kind of modern day voodoo is this?

Seeing as the price for the expansion pass is a joke for what you get then no and seeing as they aren't in any hurry to release any games for either that or even the standard online service it probably won't be worth it in my lifetime or anyone else's at this rate when compared to other subscription services out there.

While not totally against cloud gaming if it is part of a subscription service like PS Now or Game Pass as it offers a choice. I am against paying for a game that uses a closed of cloud system like this or even services that are streaming only with no way of having anything it offers stored locally since those services can just disappear as well as no way to access those games in future on a different service like what happened to OnLive.

Still have my original cartridge. I remember this getting fairly good reviews in magazines at the time here in the UK but because it was one of those with poor advertising and little hype it didn't really sell will. The story it very much a b-movie but it had its charm and once you get used to the cover mechanics it can be really fun. Although I can't imagine playing it with anything other than a controller with the correct layout as most N64 games don't really work on a modern controller layout if the c-buttons aren't cameras controls and mapped to the right stick.

Not surprised really, in all honesty I feel this is the kind of controller design Nintendo should have stuck with after the Gamecube. I felt the Wii Classic controller pro was functional it wasn't as good as using a Wavebird if you had access to one. The Wii U Pro controller was awful with its stick and button layout and I could never get used to it and the current Switch Pro controller is very good overall it leans on being just a generic controller. While this layout take a little adjusting for some games it would still easily work and be the return of those fantastic shoulder buttons, still I can dream.

For the price very much yes seeing as you can get PS Now for less a year and that while not the biggest selection of older games before the PS3 still offers better value since it has fairly recent games too. For instance this month it seems that both Final Fantasy X/X-2 remastered and the recently released GTA3 Remastered will be added and more. Now as much as I love older Nintendo games it would be nice if both Gamecube and Wii were added to this service to at least make it more modern other than having the same games that were released over the past two generations on the virtual console drip fed to us because many third parties don't want to put their games on the service instead opting to release their own collections or remasters. Throwing in a collection of indie games and maybe one big current gen game a month wouldn't exactly hurt the service either. Personally I can't see the appeal of the expansion pass at all and even the regular NES and SNES collections are lackluster because of the lack of big third party games.

@Quantaur the mods are not on the eshop you have to download Honey and Quake 64 through the game itself after logging in to a Bethesda account.

Overall it's been quite impressive how much they are adding to this and for the amount of content you get for the price if you like this kind of game I can't see why you wouldn't get it.

Might consider this as I love retro controllers given a modern facelift like this. Although still have a perfect working Wavebird after all these years. Not that it has had much use since the later days of the Wii. Admittedly this will probably really be suited for the one Switch game because of the button layout.

Isn't a modern version of a DS just a 2DS? Also about half of those systems have a mini console version which is essentially a modern version, how much more modern would you want to make them? The commodore 64 GS? Isn't that what the what the C64 mini pretty much was with the added functionality of having an on screen keyboard so you aren't locked out of games. If these people want a more modernised version of older systems that use the original media and controllers they can go with an Analogue console but good luck on that price point as they aren't cheap.

Also don't pretty much all of those games have modern versions? The fact you have to assume they mean remakes probably mean the ones voting in the first place just clicked on games the recognised the name of. Proof being that Crash Bandicoot actually does have a modern remake.

The trailer is awful and doesn't really make the product look good. The huge external battery pack also makes it look like it would make the thing very bottom heavy as a result and would probably benefit from some kind of bag to put it in and attach to yourself rather than having it loose.

That packaging is very questionable and I won't accept that who ever designed it didn't think it was in any way oddly provocative and sexual and is just a coincidence.

Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be some of these are horrid looking.

This is what happens a lot of the time when people take an old game engine and try and force new things on top of it without properly optimising it or rewriting the code. it's not like the games were transferred to a modern engine. Not only that but the visual style could have been excused if it wasn't so inconsistent. What we get is something that seems like was handled by AI and had very little human input to design the new assets other than press a button. While I understand this was done to save time because of how big all three games are, saving time at the expense of quality isn't the way to go about things.

is it the same industry insiders that have guaranteed a switch pro for the past three years?

It's no different to those people who buy digital land in things like Second Life and Entropia Universe. Because there is only one of them and other people often will want them down the line they can sell them on and people will often buy them from others early on because they seem worthless for the most part only to one day suddenly be sought after.

None of the Wii U games as I honestly skipped it but pretty much most of the rest of the games except the brain training games and Animal crossing ones, oh and Wii Play and Party.

I'm guessing the software sales don't include digital? The figure seems low considering how low priced some games are and the sales that happen all the time.

Very surprised people continue to back this guys projects. More because of his attitude towards his backers and lack of communication for years. Just because you finally make an average playing game that looks nice on old hardware doesn't excuse the fact you are a horrible people person and arrogant as well.

Did he think because his name was Bowser this was his only option in life? While at the same time another Bowser ascended to the top of Nintendo, you really can't make this stuff up.

Now no one can say devs aren't releasing AAA software on the Switch. It's like a dodgy listing on Ebay where they include as many buzz words as they can to try and sell you a potato.

Well many of the PAL 50Hz versions of games were also the only ones translated to languages other than English so it makes sense for those versions to be released across Europe. For us in the UK it's not as good but to my knowledge not many NTSC-U games had languages other than English and potential Spanish in a few games, unless someone can correct me?

One of the reasons Paper Mario was on a much larger cartridge in Europe was it had multiple languages to choose from.

Still have my original XBox version of this. For anyone who hasn't played this but has played the Mass Effect games this is in many way the groundwork for the first Mass Effect in many ways.

If this was a very rare game that had very few copies released worldwide or even in a particular reason I could understand the price for a near perfect condition copy. The fact that this has happened with three very common games recently that while in near perfect condition have nothing special about them other than that and probably have several copies floating around in similar condition. They aren't even limited edition packaging or variants of these games. So to me it is one or two things that either they are artificially selling these to people that work for them or it is some kind of money laundering as this and the two Mario games do not reflect the prices of what used to be a market that only the very rarest of games would fetch the highest prices.

Ever since the Gamecube was released people have been saying the same thing for 20 years. While since the N64 third party games haven't always sold well on Nintendo systems compared to others that doesn't mean Nintendo hasn't been making a huge profit on their own games, which often are some of the best selling games of each generation even compared to third party games that are available on every system available. even the Wii U somehow managed to have a few. People seem to think you need tor rely on third party software to break even over the life of a system and that simply isn't true.

I wouldn't fully accept the whole PayPal being at fault on this one. Fonzie the games creator has been known to complicate matters with others that deal in the production in the past. His arrogance on the release of this game also didn't help and when it was finally released after he went quiet for years made it seem like he would never release this on modern systems because that's not how he wanted it played.

Dealing with people is certainly not in his skill set and I personally cancelled my order for the physical game after it all seemed to fall apart after a "launch party" that had a broken early version of the game that was no where near finished. Then he essentially went into hiding while the game was being worked on where no one but him knew what was going on and not even a message to all those who invested the money to begin with.

@impurekind there are very few SNES hombrew games outside of rom hacks. You say the SNES was more popular and beloved but that isn't true in Europe where homebrew games are far more common and the Megadrive was the preferred system for many. Also most of the newer games released on the system tend to be from Europe if not all of them so probably explains why.

@Tanithgaunt that is completely untrue and it is common knowledge that the Saturn version came after. Even the developers also admit the Saturn version isn't as good and runs slower because it doesn't take advantage of the systems 2D capabilities. Looks like you are the one that has history wrong here.

Yeah like the age rating on a game has ever stopped young children playing any games for 18 years plus. It's a strange thing that many parents don't treat game ratings the same they do with movies or TV. Then are the same parents that will complain they had access to the games.

I have the XBox version of this I use for my PC and in all honesty it is pretty good overall and have yet to have any issues with it after several months. PowerA have actually become pretty good at getting officially licensed products too that essential try to mimic the look and feel of that systems official contrllers and I actually think they have been getting better in quality over the years.

@Kochambra I'll agree with that a little too much racing at times. But as a fully fleshed out version of Springfield it was great to just explore and was a great use of the license.

@Darkyoshi98 this has made my day as I actually loved that version and still have it. Would be interesting if modders covert the Saturn version to this also.

At the time I don't think as many people knew how good this game was and still is. Although I can't see anything official ever happening as the show as a whole just exists now for the sake of it rather than being any good.

@FishyS non-competitive? This was one of the original competitive shooters and with this being cross play it will probably get a massive resurgence.

Mod support on a Switch game? By Quake 64 does that mean basically the full version that was released on the N64? If so the future potential of this is fantastic, more so with cross play on all systems since they all seem to play identically. Can only hope the same is done for Quake 2. Although I would love to see a full reboot in the vein of Doom too.

The ones that complain about not getting these games fall in to two categories usually. First the ones that won't play any of the games the "want" past the first few minutes anyway and the second lot have already played the games countless times before and probably have several physical and digital versions of the game already. Some times a lot of the games that are being released haven't been given much attention not only at the time but also the years since and can sometimes be actually fun to play something that you don't know what it is or to expect from it.

Pretty sure in Japan alone there would be demand for these on both Nintendo and PlayStation consoles and they would likely sell millions there because of it. Me personally I would actually buy these twice once for on the go on Switch and second a PlayStation version so I could have every mainline Final Fantasy on my Trophy list except 11 because I am superficial that way.

Pretty sure some people's compression of what is being said and shown in those scenes is what makes this random person complaining funny. Not seen the movie and probably won't as from everything I have heard about it is that it is truly awful.

@Darlinfan I think Star Trek games have really suffered over the years because they weren't seen to be as good or flashy as Star Wars ones. I enjoy most for what they are I loved Legacy too despite it's average reception and I have probably sunk way too much time into STO because it has told some good continued stories from the shows and the movies, it did take a long time to be considered worth playing though.

For me it was Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy on the SNES for the most part it got some pretty bad reviews at the time. It was slow and clunky and the missions were very bad at times. Being a fan of Star Trek though I loved it and played it through multiple times for months. Probably its most impressive feat was that it rendered ships and objects in space out of polygons using the base SNES hardware with no extra chips.

Some people don't seem to know what games are considered bad for their time as they seem to be naming many games that were very well received.

I think some scalpers are overestimating how many people want this. If it was completely replacing the standard model or it had improved performance in some way then maybe. But this for all intents and purposes is no different to all those multiple revisions something like the XBox 360 had. Most people will end up purchasing the standard model still if they plan on playing it on their TV mainly.

There may be a lot of pure rage if the only improvements are the oled screen and the Dock. Or is this a case of the Wii U and them not really saying what is powering the system?

For all the money people have spent on those accessories for the mini they could probably have brought the real things and a flash cartridge.

Just proves people read into things far too much especially if certain information is lost to time in non archived printed media.

I got mine on launch day but on March 1st 1997 here in the UK still have it to under my TV and have a large collection of games. Most I have are the original copies I had growing up too. I also have started collecting some of the third party controllers from back then as some are weird and wonderful and actually seeing them up close changed my perception of how I remember them in magazines back then.

When so call experts with insider knowledge have been saying for the last two years that a Switch Pro announcement is soon it is a wonder anyone believes them anymore. If you keep saying the same thing over and over again one day you may be right though and claim you "predicted" it.