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Glad to hear the Disney magic is alive and well somewhere, it's certainly not been in their movies the past few years. Will check this one out

Rewards like this remind me of Club Nintendo's final days

@VioletSword I'd defend the NES. Anyone with a basic knowledge of video game history knows its importance and influence, the genres it helped establish and all that jazz. I think what you're experiencing sounds like how I felt, though, when every other day was a Fortnite article. I couldn't have cared less. So I get it, but Nintendolife will always cover the NES, even if it is old, especially at anniversary milestones

@VioletSword The NES revived the video game market after it crashed and burned in the early 80s. Modern gaming owes its survival to Nintendo. This system will not go away, but hey, you don't have to read or comment on these articles

I've always wanted Golden Axe to return to its side-scrolling roots with the benefit of modern tech. Would settle for Revenge of Death Adder finally scoring a port

There are many here that would never make my own top 100, but it's still interesting to see what titles resonated with others

@Sisilly_G Exactly. They passed at the chance to revisit earlier 3D attempts in actual 3D. As a kid, my first Nintendo 3D title was Rad Racer. It came with flimsy 3D glasses and everything that totally didn't work. That title would have made a more sensical 3D classics entry. But they couldn't because, you know, they're in love with Urban Champion. Virtual Boy releases could have found a fantastic home on the console, especially if they went back and colorized them as a gameplay option

A Virtual Boy collection for 3DS made loads more sense than a baffling 3D Classics conversion of no one's favorite: Urban Champion

Interested. I miss their sprite art. It's one of the reason's Pirate's Curse is my favorite

The beauty of this is if you don't want to do it, you don't have to do it. I don't judge other players for giving it a go

@Uncle_Franklin An improved game engine. Tech has come a long way since its release

The base game dropped 9 years ago. Starting to think the 8 is an infinity sign

I say leave the exploits in. They don't hurt the game and those who don't wish to use them won't. Once upon a time, companies intentionally put cheat codes in, and even though this was accidental, it can be a big help to players who either don't have the time to grind (work, kids, etc.), or struggle with the difficulty. Not ashamed to say as a kid I couldn't beat Contra without the 30 lives trick or Zelda 2 without my Game Genie

How generous

Still my favorite original 3DS title, needs a remaster

The heads look... not good

@Waluigi451 Ah! Thanks, man. It makes more sense now

@TanukiTrooper Ah!

No more exclusives? That'd be like saying, "Hey, Disney, every studio can release your Star Wars stuff now. You cool with that?"

I dug the game, but with the sheer amount of in-game assets they recycled or slightly modified from BOTW + the higher price tag, the profit on this title for Nintendo has got to be huge

@KBuckley27 Mario Kart 8 is 9 years old and they still can't count to 9

@UltimateOtaku91 I like this idea. Like Smash but with racing

I'd be more excited if after almost a decade they could count to 9. Or 10 if you consider the mobile game 9

This was my favorite reveal from the Direct.
Though I had an SNES at the time, I never did pick up the original cart or play it over the decades. Looking forward to giving it a go

Looks the same to me, just with some technical improvements. Character model revamps don't do it for me. Cut clips from this with any of the other "New" HD entries and most folks unfamiliar with the series would think it's the same game

More power to folks who were pumped. Having grown up with these franchises when they were new and innovative, my bar is higher. When 2D Mario titles look about the same, we're talking since 2006 when the "New" SMB titles began, I don't get pumped about new powerups or more detailed character models. Everything just looks copy + pasted. It's why I was hard on TOTK. I enjoyed it, but they recycled a LOT of assets in that one while inexplicably raising the price. A sparse sky world and repetitive underworld are not the kinds of development investments that warrant a higher price tag. Again, if you dig it, awesome, but having followed this company since 1985, I'm seeing minimal effort

@SteamEngenius Nintendo's even been using the same visual style for 2D Mario titles since 2006. Looks like another soulless "New" SMB title with a few new bells and whistles

Nintendo can never shut up about Pikmin, so I expect it to be Pikmin-heavy

TOTK, which I did enjoy, taught Nintendo we'll pay 10 dollars more than BOTW for a game that recycles most of BOTW's assets while only adding a sparse sky world and repetitive underworld. I expect to see some low-effort titles. But hey, hoping to be wrong

I recently remastered an old Famicom VHS promo video for this title. It starts with Zelda, but The Mysterious Murasame Castle comes in at 06:24 (https://youtu.be/lku41z0mk0M)

I remember when New Super Mario Bros. Wii came out and Nintendo heavily promoted '4 playable characters' when 2 of them were identical Toad models with different coloring. No one seemed to care. But I did. So I can relate to the unhappy fans to a point, but it's not the end of all things

It's still a thing? My limited time with it felt like a great hub for younger players. That's who it seemed to be for

@brunojenso I wanted to point out that I both support purchasing the real thing and don't have a problem with pirates. I don't have to jump around with pom-poms for them, but I don't judge them

Nintendo isn't watching, so no need to hop on a high horse and decry piracy. I'm not condoning it, but geez, who hasn't as a kid checked out a CD from the library and made a copy. You're pious, it's old. If you don't support it, don't do it, it's not rocket science.
That said, I bought TOTK legit, but it's a perpetual bummer that modern Nintendo titles come from such underpowered consoles that they can be pirated and emulated so easily. That doesn't mean Nintendo had it coming, but geez, Nintendo, more powerful hardware would solve this problem each and every time

If folks can swing it, you almost have to have what Nintendo makes and an XBox or PS console, the Nintendo ports just aren't worth it

I always appreciate how 'company will make more of thing if enough people want thing' is news

@nocdaes Thanks, man! I was a little confused

According to Amazon, I pre-ordered this in August of 2018. I respect the article says it was announced in January of the next year, but Amazon's order history tells no lies.
At this point they might as well wait and release it on the next console

The final battle in TOTK was pretty intense. I beat it on my first attempt, but that was only because I went in with a crazy amount of meals and I was downing one every ten seconds or so

Having two versions of the same game as answers in some cases felt shady. Is it from Windwaker or Windwaker HD

Hard pass. You need an animation company that doesn't specialize in bright, colorful kid films to tackle Zelda. Worked fine for Mario, but these are two very different IPs. No one wants a Zelda comedy

Mario Kart 8 released for the Wii U in 2014. The fact that it's going to take at least a decade or more for a proper follow up is insane

The beauty of these exploits is no one is forcing anyone to use them. Much like the Game Genie was in the 80s and 90s, it's there if you want, and I'm not going to give anyone a hard time if they wish to enjoy the game this way

Nintendo isn't doing anything with its own Gamecube library. Were Nintendo actively making these titles available, they'd have a great excuse to complain. I've never seen one company fight so hard against emulation while doing little to provide enthusiasts with an alternative way to experience some great oldies

Years back I replaced all my N64 thumb sticks with Gamecube sticks, felt loads better

They could have released these at Easter

Glad to see the Switch finally emulating consoles our smartphones could run 10 years ago

This would make sense if Nintendo planned on doing anything with its vast Gamecube catalog, but like always they just sit on the classics and make no alternatives available to buy

Tears. Beat the story mode last week but have loads left to do

Why would anyone want to play an entire game as Gollum?