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"Although the original never arrived on Nintendo hardware, this sequel brought a taste of the arcade action to the Super NES"

The original is on GBC.

This reminds me of the Dr. Mario commercial with the witch doctor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt2nV7ietFw

@PvtOttobot The description for Photos with Mario in the eShop says that they are eShop cards.

Lolo is a lot of fun, but it's a bit of the easy side. Lolo 2 is much harder. I haven't played Lolo 3. The odd thing is that the JP Famicom counterparts of Lolo 2 and 3 have completely different levels. The first NES Lolo doesn't have a counterpart with the same graphics, but a couple of the Eggerland games for Famicom and FDS share the same levels. The Famicom game (the title translates to something like Revival of the Labyrinth) and first FDS game actually have a maze like structure with multiple paths to choose from after completing a puzzle.

The funny thing about that Rocky III parody is that there is an actual prototype A-Team 2600 game where you play at Mr. T's head. It also happened to be made by the maker on ET, Howard Scott Warshaw. It started out at a game named Saboteur, which is on the Atari Flashback 2.

@midnafanboy It was submitted to Nintendo in March, telling from twitter posts. There's also a post from Jools a few posts above that says the game is complete and should be coming out very soon.

Great news. What about the Mutant Mudds 3DS update? Last I heard, it was close to submission, but I heard nothing since.

Other Kirby games have gotten similar reviews and I still ended up liking them. I plan to get Mario Golf first, but I'll probably get it eventually.

Not the biggest fan of Gamestop, but I don't like the idea of game stores being replaced with more cell phone stores. I was very disappointed when one of the few arcades left near me became a cell phone store.

This wasn't the only Akumajou Dracula that wasn't called Castlevania in the west. The European MSX2 version was called Vampire Killer (which for some reason was also the Japanese name of Castlevania Bloodlines). I doubt that the arcade Akumajou Dracula was completely forgotten by Konami since one of the songs from it was in Castlevania Portrait of Ruin.

I can't believe that this was actually eligible for a intend to buy survey on Club Nintendo.

I'm disappointed that the new article still says that this was a delay. It was listed as coming out in Winter 2013 quite a bit before this was posted at nintendolife. December is the only Winter month at the end of 2013, so Winter meant the December 2013-March 2014 timeframe. The tweet didn't even say that March was certain, just that it MAY release in March. Anyway, it has really been delayed now, though it's good they are working on giving it extra polish before release.

As I tried to say before, the tweet saying that the game MAY come out in March wasn't a delay since the game was originally listed for Winter (which is the December-March timeframe). Yes, it said Winter 2013, but since December is the only winter month at the end of 2013, it probably would have released in 2014 anyway. However, this new announcement really is a delay.

I hope Mario Open Golf comes to the US/EU VC. It's the Japanese counterpart of NES Open, but it has some differences. No tournament mode, but it has more courses and different music. Telling from screens, it looks like NES Remix 2 Wii U is using Mario Open rather than NES Open.

I find it dissapointing that recent compilations from Namco lack Ms. Pac-Man. Proabaly due to it not being designed in Japan, but it's still one of the better Pac-Man games. I might get this for 360 for Pac-Land and Battle Royale, but the lineup is somewhat disappointing. Too bad for 3DS, but at least Pac-Man Galaga Demnisions fills some of the Pac fix for 3DS.

It's only SMB Deluxe that is missing Worlds A-D. All Stars has them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9YRvbeFYZY

Ugh. No love for Life Force (the JP one is slightly better, but it's still a great game). I want SMB3 too, but it's disappointing when good stuff like this and River City Ransom gets overshadowed because of it.

Because it's the SEGA licensed Sakura Wars GB. It's not actually published by SEGA, just licensed from them, though. I usually avoid the more text heavy imports like RPGs, but I have played through Goemon 4 SNES and Super Robot Taisen J GBA. I also found some strategy games like the original Famicom Wars easy to play with memorizing the menus. I stick mostly to shmups, puzzle, and action games for imports, though.

I hope this comes here. I have the GG version and it's a nice version of the game. Not sure why they are choosing this over the GB one, though. Despite the lack of color, the GB version has more modes. Like Dr. Mario, it makes good use of the GB's shades and it's easy to tell the pieces apart. Then again, the GB's multiplayer still isn't emulated on 3DS and the GG's multiplayer is.

I was saying that there is no delay. The game already had a vague Winter date.

How is this pushed back? The date on Nintendo's website has been Winter 2013 for a while. It's no surprise that it may be pushed into 2014 with the vague "Winter" date.

@Blizzaga I doubt that's the case since none of the footage shown thus far has been of the 3DS version. Even on that Nintendo Direct with the part on indie games, only the Wii U version was shown.

I would like to see Fantasy Zone, the M2 System 16 remake of Fantasy Zone II, Power Drift, Enduro Racer, Racing Hero, GP Rider, Outrun, Thunder Blade, Super Monaco GP, After Burner II, Zoom 909 (version of Buck Rogers without the license), Subroc 3D, Congo Bongo, Zaxxon, Turbo, Up 'n Down, Yamato, and Strike Fighter.

This game came out in retail stores in the US (I have seen it online and in places like GameStop and K-Mart). It's not download only for the US.

@CAM290 Space Harrier, Super Hang On, and Galaxy Force II are arcade ports and the rest are Genesis ports. I'm going to get the arcade ports first and may get a few of the Genesis ones like Sonic and Shinobi III. I'm especially excited for Galaxy Force II since it doesn't have as many ports as some of the others and looks like it could be one of SEGA's better scaling arcade titles.

The abstract image has me thinking Katamari.

I'm not a fan of region locking, especially on portables. PAL/NTSC is also a non issue for portables and newer consoles since most EU games now support 60 Hz. I like being able to play games like Eschatos on the US 360, Kururin Paradise on US GBA, and Ouendan on US DS. I also import games for older systems like Super Fantasy Zone for Mega Drive and Super Pinball 2 for SNES. I plan to import Last Window from EU since I like Hotel Dust quite a bit. Not all imports are expensive either and some are actually cheaper than their US counterparts.

I also like it when the region locking is easy to bypass like with the US SNES. All it takes is removing two tabs from the cart slot. Genesis is trickier because some games are locked, so a region switch was installed. I also like how all Saturn needs is an Action Reply to bypass region protection. With Famicom, I imported the system due how the US system isn't wired for the extra sound chips in some games. I imported the JP SMS since it can play most US games with an adapter (exceptions being some games with unfinished FM sound, which aren't blocked from Mark III without FM, and a couple light gun games, which play but don't detect the gun), it can play SG-1000 games, it came with a couple of games that got better JP versions, and has FM sound (which even some western games have built in). The US system is fine for most first party (and some third party) EU games (most of which play fine and even run at the same speed as their GG counterparts on US systems), though.

$14.99 is a good price for Kokuga. It is a full retail game in Japan and much more expensive on the eShop there.

Shining Force had three games on the game gear, not two. There was a third one in 1995 for Japan, Shining Force Gaiden: The Final Conflict. http://www.gamefaqs.com/gamegear/563049-shining-force-gaiden-final-conflict

Why no talk about what was added to the game like more colors added to puzzles, the hidden babies, and another unlockable that was mentioned in another review? I also asked if this had the hyper mode and got no answer.

Nintendoworldreport's review hints that this game may have an unlockable that's a callback to the Wii U Mighty Switch Force. The review also mentions that there's an extra color added to the lock puzzles.

@MeWario I know it has the hidden babies. What I was trying to get at is that it isn't mentioned in this review. I was wondering how it affected gameplay.

Does the game have anything like the hyper levels from the Wii U version of Mighty Switch Force? What about the hidden babies mentioned in previews?

I wish this was based on Disney's Gummi Bears and good.

Yikes! It sounds like the Swords & Soldiers mini game in Wario Ware DIY is much better done than Swords & Soldiers 3D.

The US date is listed on the eShop. It's coming out Thursday, the 9th.