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Smiley or not, that's severe nitpicking.
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@Dreadjaws

Because, as my post clearly infers, £4.50 is a tad expensive.

If I had any friends (and by that I mean gaming friends), I'd certainly pick Street Fighter II up. Shame really. I'd love to play it.

@JarvanZheitk That's not what I was saying AT ALL. What are you trying to do? Be a troll and cause arguments?

Anyone who is paying £4.50 for those NES games is a fool. Unless it's their first time playing the game, then I might let them off.

No need to fear for Nintendo's future. They've got more money in the bank than this ngmoco have ever had.

It makes sense that you get Reggie, he's a well known Nintendo spokeperson and the head of NoA. The head of NoE isn't really a "personality" and isn't well known among most people so we got Iwata. Which is fine by me. I like his shiny Mii,

You can't register download games anymore can you? At least not eShop ones.

Dr Mario was never my cup of tea. So nothing on the eShop this week is good seeing as Kid Icarus will be here soon!

@Hyperstar96: This is NOT a scam it's disgraceful you have called it such. I bought and received volume one last year and received a hand-written note of thanks for buying the book. This is not a scam and a lot of hard work has gone into it by people who care. Maybe if you actually made an effort to trace where the item is by contacting Pix 'n Love Publishing and getting postage details you might get your item. It's the postal system you should be angry with, not these guys.

Limited life of Nintendo 64 cartridges? Pull the other one. NES games still work that are well over 25 years old. If you're bothered about save games then it'd be cheaper to learn how to replace the internal battery.

It's probably going to be somewhere around a 250-500MB. I would be surprised if it was 2GB.

Oh, right, yes of course!! Completely didn't think about that... Oops!

I totally agree with whoever said we need Atari Lynx games. That would be awesome. California Games, Scrapyard Dog, Viking Child, Rygar, Electro Cop. I loved my Lynx II.

Three Nintendo Directs? There was Iwata-san and Regginator. What else was there?

I've got £90 on my Game card!!

Well that's quite shocking but I do believe they've been a victim of their own success.

@Myx Have you been living under a rock since the release of the 3DS? Also, how exactly were you tricked into buying it?

Have you not played Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Resident Evil Revelations, Sonic Generations, Ocarina of Time,Tales of the Abyss, not to mention Pushmo, Freakyforms, Mutant Mudds, and now Dillon's Rolling Western among many other made for 3DS downloadable titles?

@James Nope! Just because you have a fancy badge next to your picture doesn't make you right.

Columns better than Tetris?! On my days.

I wish Sega would just throw Columns in the bin. It was fun at the time, and a quirk of the compilation backs a few years ago but we don't want it any more!

Also, the screen looks great. Love the option to have the GG as part of the image. I wish the GBA games would do the same.

Love this game. Played about an hour of it last night.

I tried Inazuma Eleven. I love the style of the game, I just didn't like the gameplay so I doubt I'll be getting these.

I got this email on Monday this week. So I did a bit of Google searching and found that other people had been notified at the beginning of February that their order had (apparently) been swapped for the regular version. So it would seem they knew about this for a lot longer than they let all their customer's know.

It's clear that GAME are in trouble. There are a lot of tell-tale signs including the distributor credit as detailed above and the re-branding of the website which they had major trouble with which would suggest either issues internally that could be redundancies giving them less staff to sort the issues quickly or less cash forcing them to use cheaper and more inexperience agencies.

I don't know if any of you know about Gameplay.co.uk either. I used them in the Dreamcast days and early Gamecube days. They were a fantastic value online company with superb service. GAME bought them and then their own online site appeared offering pretty much the same service. So I swapped because I got reward points as well offering me slightly better value. If you go on Gameplay.co.uk's site now, there's a notice saying they're merging with Gamestation (another GAME owned company when they bought them a few years ago) which also looks like redundancies and cost savings.

They've tried to monopolise the high street market at a time when people stopped spending money due to the economic downturn. GAME's online retailers are also forced to try and be competitive due to bigger sites like Play.com and Amazon who can afford to offer products much cheaper.

GAME's online preorder service has rarely let me down. I've only ever had two games in the eight years I've used them that failed to get to by release day and on both occasions I received a voucher or credit as a result. It's annoying but really I have plenty of other games to play so it really shouldn't be much of an issue, it's only my impatience that makes my immediate reaction be that of anger toward them.

So I'm basically saying it's a shame they're in trouble. I'd happily keep using them until their fortunes turn back around or they go bust. I'd even be happy if they asked for money up front in pre-orders if it meant that would guarantee they could stock all the games. And they should be stocking ALL the games because they are specialist high-street and online retailer of video games. Anna-Marie Mason's comment is just a defensive counter, but it's quite ridiculous.

I have started Shopto.net for sales and some preorders that are just much better value than GAME. Though I've personally found their service is not just as good.

Awesome, I suspected this would be announced at Nintendo Direct EU. So pleased.

Totally agree with the above comment.

I would be interested in this for the right price. Never got round to playing the Dreamcast version though I did want it.

New Pokemon.

I love how even the screen flicker is present on this game. It really is a masterpiece and I much prefer this over Wario Land 4. Can't wait to play 2 and 3 of this series.

Not before the History of Mario and the Gunpei Yokoi books though thanks!

These books are a masterpiece of design. I received Vol 1. for my birthday last year with a personally written post-it found inside saying "thank you". The book itself has some writing quirks which I think are a result of translation but it makes it by no means hard to read. It was full of interesting facts that I'd never read before and loads of high quality photographs. The book didn't feel cheap either which made the fairly high cost of a book this size not complete non-issue. I will be buying Vol. 2 and I look forward to reading it.

@battLeToaD I have Myst on iPhone and it's over 600MB. So I don't think the eShop is a viable solution.

I would very much welcome Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow with added wireless multi player please.

Can't wait for the inevitable Limited Edition version.

Awesome stuff! Have been looking forward to Wario Land ever since I bought a 3DS!

It's the best breakout style game I've ever played but the lack of control over the direction you send the ball can be extremely frustrating. It seems set to specific angles to three angles for each direction and that doesn't necessarily seem to correspond to where on the paddle the ball lands.

I would love the white ones... I wonder how much shipping from Japan would be..?

I still think the eShop layout is hideous and don't really understand how this chap thinks the overall structure is better. Sure, we've got big icons with the latest releases or defined groupings of software but it's certainly not the App Store or even PSN.

The thing is with AAA games on Nintendo hardware is they don't necessarily hit number one but they continue to sell for months and months and months.

So is this actually coming to the UK or not?

This really gets to me, that developers seem to think just because a console can do something, they need to use. No, they don't. A simple port a bit later down the line with standard controls would be fine in this case. People would understand that because it's a port. We don't NEED you to use the tablet, we'll use the standard controls or even the Classic Controller Pro for those that have access to one. I don't really want this game anyway but it's just a general thing that annoys me.

This is sad, I wonder if he was ill. Trying to find out what he did at Nintendo, but there's not a lot to go on.

I've already played the Resident Evil demo at a game expo last year so I'll leave that. But I might download Cooking Mama for something to do!

And like most UK online retailers we won't be able to pre-order it until about a week before its released.

What @shingi_70 said.

I'm confused by this because GAME doesn't have login names, you use your email address, don't you? And the passwords are all encrypted anyways?

EDIT: Ah, that's the Catalyst version. Searched pastebin for GAME.co.uk logins and found one posted two days ago. Doesn't appear to have mine on there. Will change it anways.

Who gives a crap about the glitch if everyone uses it?

I'd be up for this if true. I loved the Seasons/Ages games. The replay value on those games was great. Those pics look amazingly fake though. Happy to eat my hat, however.

@WaveBoy As long as a component cable is used the picture will be 480p whether it's in 16:9 or 4:3. My TV displays the games without any borders in 16:9 unless borders are introduced ala cutscenes in Skyward Sword.

@taffy Just because everyone else doesn't do it doesn't mean it's not a good idea and you shouldn't implement it. That's how you innovate. Otherwise we'd still be playing Space Invaders in a smoke filled arcade.

@WaveBoy Do you mean set to widescreen in the Wii options or on the TV options? Most TVs (including old TVs) resize the image based on what is being fed into it. My TV does that and it's five years old.

My Wii games look fantastically pin sharp, bright, and colourful. I'm in no way complaining about they look on my TV. Certainly not the jagged blurry mess some people seem to complain about. I have my Wii options set to EDTV 480p, 16:9, and use the official component cable.