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I would pay 50 for this out of curiosity, but 100?!

I love the franchise which is the only thing that makes this stand out amidst a sea of similar retro brawlers. Sadly, they didn't adapt any of the Karate Kid music. No chiptunes from the soundtracks, no film score pieces. The franchise has an actual orchestral theme that's nowhere to be found here. Visuals alone can't save this one, as fun as they are. Having played through it, I'd give it a 6

Power Rangers: Beats of Power. It's a free fan game for OpenBOR and it's fantastic

Unlike Sony, Nintendo doesn't price gouge. They are very much a family friendly company. Granted, the Switch 2 will unlikely be anywhere close to as powerful as a PS5 Pro, which will assist its price being lower

Looks like a flash game, which looks super cheap

"It's previous releases include games like New World" should be "its". It's right under the headline, dude

My first console system with carts was the NES and I will always have a fondness for them

The Rogue Squadron trilogy is the only SW remaster I want

Having finally gotten some time with the title, I do enjoy it, but it feels more like a 19.99 game. Presentation is nice, but the game selection is pretty limited, especially when Nintendo could easily add more of their own titles like Rad Racer and Urban Champion. Games themselves have no bells and whistles. No box or manual scans. Some retro commercials could have been a fun inclusion, unlockable with coins. It could have been a love letter to those classic titles but feels more like a salad bar where you don't get to eat anything beyond some samples. The deluxe set has some great pins, but even the box art cards seem to have missed the mark. The art doesn't even occupy the entire card, there's an off-center white border, and not having the back of the card show the back of the box feels pretty lazy. I see the addicting appeal for sure, and folks will have a lot of fun with it, but there also seem to be some areas that could have easily been bolstered with minimal effort

So much for quality testing

I've never collected variants. I tend to get whatever releases first and stick with it. I may have considered this one if it were a Switch OLED, but as a strictly portable unit, it's too pretty to ding up

Looks a bit barebones/cashgrabby. Wish it weren't

Nice to see all the Rastans in one place, even if 2 isn't that great. Love Cadash

I still have NES Remix 1 and 2. It looks like a fun idea, and I'm glad the digital version isn't 60 dollars, but I'd have preferred an official repro cart from the actual Nintendo World Championships for display purposes

I don't think the people crying about the sins of emulation are going to get a cookie from Nintendo

It's such a lackluster experience that I avoid it entirely

I'd have put Kid Icarus Uprising on this list

It looks like a lot of fun. The collector's set feels like a cash grab, but that's just me being finicky because it features a repro cart for a cart that never existed that can't be played in an actual NES. It's just there to look pretty. But so are supermodels and man, people love those. Hoping it's a great release

Generally, if there's a new title from Nintendo and I think it looks too much like a previous entry, none of that winds up being important if when I play it, it's fun

I didn't realize until I was puttering around my old PS3 that there was a PSN Rocket Knight title

I would love to see a Kid Icarus Uprising remaster. Even with the stand that came with the game, it's still uncomfortable for me to play on the 3DS and it would make a great shooter for the Switch

The lack of actual Zelda music hurts the presentation for this lifelong fan, but ever since the remake of Link's Awakening, I've wanted Nintendo to take an official pass at sprucing up the first adventure, so I appreciate this effort

Rastan and Cadash are two of my very favorite Taito titles from the era

It's not up my alley, but if it's up yours, pre-ordering would be the way to go. The deluxe set will be pretty tempting for scalpers

@swoose Keeping Wii in the Wii U's title was a terrible choice

I enjoy new controllers specifically designed for a new system. Having the Wii U compatible with Wii controllers may have played a part in why some who didn't follow games as we do mistook it for a slightly improved Wii rather than an all new console

I respect many gamers may only have the Switch option, but this is why I pick up these things on PS5 or PC. It's sad that the experience isn't uniform

Lame. There are definitely those in gaming who insist female characters are not allowed to be too appealing. It's a shame they're inserting "male gaze bad" into titles from a less overly modest time

I'd prefer a Zelda expansion, but DK lends itself to some great ride ideas

Nice to see Tennis included. To this day I still enjoy it's cute little characters and awesome soundtrack

BOTW, as TOTK borrowed almost all of its graphical and audio assets. If you only look at what was newly created for TOTK, it pales in comparison to the amount of what was new in BOTW. Both are fun, but you can't even have the second without the sizable foundation of the first

Did anyone else pick these up on Steam years ago? Seemed to run fine there

Dang. That's a shame, I enjoyed the earlier gaming entries. Thanks for the warning!

@floxi Thanks, that helps me feel a bit better

@StAmbrosius Dang, I had no idea

160 dollars. Wowzers, a real watch like that back in the day was 20 or less, with inflation, maybe 30 or so. Eek

@Banks Agreed. The Super Mario and Zelda titles seemed like no-brainers. You are correct, Sega offered more heavy hitters with their 3D line. I wish they'd have done Golden Axe, but it was an otherwise fine collection

@Banks I understand, I did pick up 3D Urban Champion and all the 3D Classics releases, but it felt like one giant wasted opportunity. So many of Nintendo's heavy hitters didn't make an appearance in the line. Perhaps, if they'd come out of the gate with more popular titles, the line would have continued. To be fair, SNES games may have been more suited for 3D, they had a lot more going on in the background. Sadly, I think this may be it for a while. Unless Nintendo releases another 3D handheld or a VR headset in the future, that is

@Gamecuber Good hearing from you. I always felt the lag was pretty serious, but no online reviews seemed to even mention it, which is a shame as a lot of us picked up the compilation having no idea. I'm so glad you also found a version to play that performs well!

The Mega Drive/Genesis Classics Collection is riddled with abysmal input lag that makes the Sonic titles unplayable in a franchise reliant on speed. I didn't detect the same problem in Sonic Origins or the standalone Sega Ages releases

I started with the original NES when it hit North America in the mid 80s and have only missed one console between then and now... the Virtual Boy. Despite my Nintendo Power subscription, I was vaguely even aware of the device and didn't know anyone at school who even had one. Perhaps there were store demo models or something, but I never encountered one to even try the product. I agree, the lack of Virtual Boy ports to the 3DS was baffling. Then again, when it came time to tackle their own titles as 3D Classics endeavors, Nintendo skipped an actual 3D game, Rad Racer, and gave us 3D Urban Champion, thus proving Nintendo doesn't always have the right idea

Once it's in your console, appearances rarely matter, but I miss the novelty of a golden Zelda cart

@Slim_in_Blue Agreed. When it first landed, every other day featured a new duplication exploit. Weeks of that kind of news. Beauty thing was, as you mention, it didn't affect gameplay and could be avoided

I picked this up around Black Friday for a buck or two just to have it and it's pretty awful. The games, all two of them, aren't that stellar. The Lynx and home computer titles weren't even attempted, it's just the LJN stuff, and they're known for bad games

Compilation titles should have their own category. The individual games should be the only ones included in a 'top games' list

I played this one when it was new. No save states, but still a blast

Back when it was a new release, Zelda II taught me the value of a Game Genie™. Still love this one

They should have added the arcade shooter

Realistically, Shantae. Unrealistically, Old Man in a Cave from The Legend of Zelda