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@ryu_san ordered the zelda oled for that long term hold as well. I like buying a later version of these newer consoles to upgrade from the day one version (like the switch I currently am using) to hopefully extend the life of my switch library.

I feel like he actually played those, which is nice. Wasn't the awkward forced game shoe in like some for the super mario movie trailer.

@belmont agree with the megadrive/genesis versions of spinball and 3D. Those were both fun games but were 100% better on the newer system.

@TYRANACLES Happy to hear you are loving it. It really does do a fantastic job of both giving quality of life updates of a modern game while still being so faithful to the classics it is based on.

@TYRANACLES If you enjoy oldschool platformers visive Castlevania, Faxanadu or NES Batman then you will more than likely love this game. One of the best games of 2022 for fans of the genre.

@Smug43 agreed, finding that sweetspot for the cinematic platformers is pretty tough. As a huge fan of a lot of delphine studio games so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Whats funny is two of my favorite 3ds themes made it to this list. Top three in no particular order are:
Megaman stage select (I reordered my aps so I can see megaman in the middle)
Sega Genesis: has the awesome Sega CD theme that slaps
Toy Story: Simple theme but with a really beautiful jazz piano version of you've got a friend in me.

@TheBigBlue Hahah, very true. Maybe this can be Pokemon's first Empathic Trainer and they perform actions with their Pokemon. Then the whole premise would be to take down those lazy sociopathic trainers.

I wish instead of pokemon sleep they made a pokemon exercise game that uses the ringcon and leg strap to give me a workout as I capture and battle pokemon.

I'm getting bored of the same ringfit adventure levels and running around Kanto and all the other places would be really cool.

For me I'm going with 3DS.
Streetpass MiiPlaza is one of my favorite experiences on a console ever. playing the games and collecting the puzzles with my fellow 3ds players on the street was so fun.

The zelda games: link between worlds, oot and majoras mask remakes
Mario 3dland, mario maker, portable smash bros., mario kart 7, the luigi's mansion dark moon. So many great first party experiences.

@Sambuc Such a good game, and lets not forget the games that never got moved nintendo land and nes remix ultimate is so great.

@Classic603 prime phazon and prime light suit are both so awesome. I love the way the phazon suit has the outer field around it.

So the question was different than the article question. For the article question what is the best base samus suit, I'm going Fusion. Love the look with batmanesque arm blades.

Which games had my favorite Samus Suits in general would have to be dread. I love the changes not just to the color but to the lighting of the suit. and then that final suit, wow soo good.

Wow, amazing article and don't know how I missed that you were leaving @kategray but I am sad to see you go. Good luck on all future endeavors and thank you for being my favorite writer online, almost said favorite writer but can't lie that goes to Ray Bradbury.

Favorite endings:
Megaman 3: First game ending I can remember with that awesome protoman theme playing. Great even to this day.
Metal Gear Solid (so serene snow mobileing away after all that insanity)
Max Payne 2 good ending (didn't even know it existed just beat it on the hardest mode and was pleasantly surprised by the twist).
Super Mario World: still makes me happy to this day. amazing music, seeing every character in the game and the final the end picture was so cool at that time.

This really stinks. I knew it was a long shot but was hoping at least Microsoft and Nintendo would be there. The joy and energy of a good E3 was palpable and could be felt while watching live.

Still never forget the year Nintendo held their Nintendo World Championship finals right before E3. So much fun.

So, I feel like this is something I once knew and have since forgotten as I didn't keep up with the franchise (play the odd game here and there).

"like some sort of avant-garde staging of Waiting for Godot where all the dialogue is replaced by HYA HUH HEEEEYAH " I don't know which of the three writers wrote that but well done. Had me on the floor. Also a phenomenal list (minus tentalus) Love Koloktos at the top. Very deserved.

@Mauzuri I still love my switch and it doesn't feel old to me. but man oh man I would love it if I could have a home screen like the WiiU's or 3DS where I can organize my games into folders and it is right up front and not buried in the entire library section.

@Olliemar28 Severely underappreciated game and spell. Happy to know it wasn't just me.

@dustinprewitt I have such fond memories of mystic Quest. That was my first FF game. Remember renting it from Blockbuster back in the day.

Vagrant story would be pretty cool. I'm not a huge fan of that game but no so many who are I think it would be appreciated.

Oh man, Hogwarts legacy is the game I keep forgetting exists and when I see a news article for it I get pretty dang excited all over again.

Cannot wait for this to come out and hoping it is a great time. Weirdly enough my favorite Harry Potter game is still the first one on the PS1. Really love the pre-film art style of Mary GrandPré.

I beat Pokemon Snap at least once a year. Its a very get me to a zen place game.

Same with Megaman X4, I have played it so many times I can beat it in under 2 hours and when I just want to kill time and don't feel like doing anything else (practicing music or any other game) I just beat X4

Metal Gear Solid, I beat that once a winter. I go back and forth between original and twin snakes.

@Divide_and_Wander I just want to say, much respect for the faxanadu icon. phenomenal and underappreciated game.

I played through sticker star and had a wonderful time. I will say I have a glaring 3DS bias as I was such a huge fan of that system.

It has been a while, but I believe I stopped buying stickers and just had my key weapon locations memorized so if I knew I were going into a big battle I would take 5 minutes hop around the map and grab those weapons.

Though I would have preferred N64 style combat I still had a blast with the game and its overworld map was perfect for hits handheld style gameplay.

ooo, seeing a lot of 7-9's. I have held off but I might have to get it. I am a sucker for a good sonic game, sonic CD & Adventure are two of my favorite games.

I love hearing stories like this. So cool how creative they would have to get.

Call me greedy, but I want it all. I would love to see 3 pillars (been a while since we heard Nintendo use that phrase) of Mario. Give me a Mario Odysee style 3D game, And follow it up with a great new 2D Mario, and then have a new Isometric three 3D mario game.

@Fizza Similar experience but I have been able to play some but many I never had (family only had about 10 N64 games growing up). So having the opportunity to play pokemon puzzle league, kirby, winback, and of course go back and re-enjoy the zelda and mario games. So much fun.

Haven't played yet but also super pumped to play pilot wings.

@Olmectron I appreciate you pointing this out. I was honestly a few days away from buying a set (was going to purchase in store while picking up my mario plus rabbids preorder.

Now I will still be looking for some but it would have to be at a lower price point.

Perhaps the hardest question ever. For me it was split between Dire, dire docks(Mario 64), The Sages awakening songs (Wind Waker) or the Title Screen (Battle Clash).

Going to give the sages songs from Wind Waker.

@Guitario Agreed, this is one of my favorite games of 2022 (perhaps my favorite).

My only gripe/piece of advice to all those picking it up, do not put the game down for to long. I got what I think is pretty far (hard to tell with this game) and put it down and when I picked it back up I was quite lost. Now I am debating do I start over and re experience it with the knowledge of what I have retained or do I go on a quest to try and rediscover what I forgot.

Never played any of the ultimate play the game titles but rare is responsible for what is a top5 of all time game for me, Banjo Kazooie. Really cool to see this story and all of the photos of where it all began.

Cannot wait, I do hope they have some of the out in nature in environment setting that I loved playing the Bushido Blade. I have been praying that Bushido Blade would come out on PS online store but still no luck (that and Brave Fencer Musashi in case you couldn't guess by my icon).

@Yosher Same. Going to remain cautiously optimistic. I'm amazed there still hasn't been a good avatar adventure game yet. The character is so well designed to "learn" new moves as you go that it could really work as a zelda/metroid prime esque game where new abillities unlock new areas. Just need to do some prior avatar so that they could do what they want with the story.

So, I am not that old, but i am the youngin in the family. So thanks to my older siblings and mom being really into zelda my memory begins and we already had zelda 1 & 2 and played them a ton. I do have some distant fog memories of buying a Link to the Past and Link's awakening. For both link to the past and OoT I recall my entire family gathering around the TV to watch it be played.

A Family united by the need to banish evil and ridding this world of Ganon.

@sword_9mm I had forgotten completely about that game until I saw it listed and images of butterflies starting popping in my head. Would love to buy this as well if it came stateside (buying and importing sounds exhausting).

I do wish Revenge of the Ninja and or double switch were on there. But I am very excited to be called dogmeat in sewer shark

Ooo, the pictures and description on this sound cool. Sadly the video is listed as private for me so I can't watch.

This looks like a modern day supped up lego creator. Which I am all for, back in the day that was my 3rd favorite lego game (being Lego Island 1 & Lego Racers on the PC)

Got Metroid 2, return of samus for my 4th or 5th birthday from my older brothers (I realized later they just got it for themselves since I could never understand it) but I did play the heck out of that game and have played them all ever since. Prime and Fusion were the first that I played on my own with no sibling help and what great memory all those metroid games were.

Well this is quite the find. Very excited to try out.

Being a bit of a Video Game Hoarder all my life (some may say collector but I think it is beyond that), I have some incredibly old&rare games that I cherish, Ti-99 games and console, decently extensive library of snes and nes games (including boxes and manuals, but there is one thing that tops them all for me.

I have almost every Nintendo of America club nintendo reward including all club nintendo posters (to include any my nintendo posters) in pristine condition in a Folio case. Every once in a while I pull them all off and take a look and then put them away.

@CharlieGirl You perfectly nailed the two things that frustrated me most about both games. That darn Ocean King Dungeon (which was also the reason why my mother couldn't play the game cause she is bad with time trails so stunk for that as well) and I don't think I have ever been more frustrated by something that looks so simple as attempting to play that darn Pan flute.

That being said other than PH being a little lite on content I personally love both games.

Any Bowlers who roll straight rather than with a curve upset by this. I am outraged! Okay not really, but it does make me a tinsy bit sad.

@Mattock1987 That was my thought exactly. A pipe dream I know.

@moodycat Sors immanis et inanis!

@MrGawain Was going to say the exact same thing. Jon did so easily and quickly that it makes every rumor out there more suspect.

@dcstud I was too little to program on it when we had it (still do have it stored away somewhere) but I do remember the books and my parents programming games using them. Nothing like having to transcribe the game you are playing.

Also learned a lot on the Socrates. My mom found it and all the educational games for it in a 90% off bin. Though is perhaps the most obscure console of all.

Above 30 but being the youngest in a family of gamer's it is hard for me to remember since they were always around. But I would guess it would be one of the TI-99 games (we had that before getting a NES and the Mario/duckhunt/world class track meet.

Hunt the Wumpus, Missile command, facemaker and Alpiner are the earliest games I can remember.

@Advantage I think you just did it. You Designed the perfect console.