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The WiiU is the only Nintendo console I was truly disappointed in. I’ve been playing Nintendo consoles since 1988 and bought the Virtual Boy for full price on launch day.

I was a big fan of Pac-Man 99 when it was released and for a long time afterwards, but I haven’t played it as much recently. We need a Ms. Pac-Man 99 with different stages. I believe there’s some kind of copyright issue with whoever actually created the original Ms. Pac-Man, however. Bandai-Namco needs to end this once and for all and just buy out the rights to Ms. Pac-Man. They’re Bandai-Namco, for Christ’s sake. They can afford it.

Why a long sleeve t-shirt in the middle of May? And why is “long sleeve t-shirt” in quotation marks, like it’s some kind of strange, exotic thing? Are long sleeve t-shirts one of those US things that one would think are completely banal and common everywhere, but are actually unknown in the UK? Sort of like how you can’t find a decent sausage roll in the US, or habanero peppers in the UK.

@Darthmoogle Really? I remember the SNES game was pretty highly rated when it was released, while the Mega Drive/Genesis version was mediocre at best.

Dragon Warrior is a super common cartridge, nothing this guy is doing is going to affect its price for collectors.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You don't get to leak confidential information just because it's confidential information about a multibillion dollar company. Besides, it's not like he won't have another terrible retail job soon anyway.

This isn’t bad for an April Fool’s joke; it seems initially somewhat plausible. But, of course, there’s no way on God’s green earth that Nintendo would allow this.

The Pro Controller would look great if not for that stupid white grip.

1987 - US releases of Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Kid Icarus, and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. Also, Final Fantasy and Mega Man were released in Japan.

I thought there were only official stores in Japan and New York, why would there be two in Thailand? None in Europe, one in the US, two in their home country, and two in…Thailand?

I'm sure this is a minority opinion, but I don't really care for the MercurySteam games. I don't like the analog stick control or the new punch move, and the art style looks like it belongs to a cheap mobile game instead of a Nintendo title. They're not terrible by any means, but I would prefer to see another developer take a shot at a 2D Metroid.

Couldn’t care less. If it’s half as good as BOTW, it will be worth it. Charge $80. Charge $100.

My memory might be hazy on this, but I read years ago that the name “Harvest Moon” wasn’t even created by Natsume. It was the result of a contest among the staff at NoA’s Nintendo Power magazine, who apparently loved the original Japanese version off the Super NES game. Staff members submitted ideas in an internal contest for an English name for the game, “Harvest Moon” won, and they suggested it to Natsume, who ran with it.

That looks gross. But so does Link's Awakening remake...

runs away

Of course, this is a perfectly plausible situation that we're hearing about from noted truth-teller Billy Mitchell. It's also sad to hear that stress caused a rupture in his peritoneum, which is something that happens in reality.

I want Twilight Princess on Switch and I'll happily pay $60 to get it. Feel like you're "getting screwed" by paying that? Easy. Don't buy it.

"As this was before the internet and emailing, however, Rare had no idea that Nintendo was working on its own handheld device at the time, and the Playboy was ultimately shelved."

The Game Boy was released in Japan in April 1989, so Rare would have known about it at CES, even if it was the January CES instead of the one in June. I mean, the "Playboy" name wasn't a coincidence...

I'm sure I could find this out if I cared to Google it, but how the hell does this Swedish company no one (and by no one I mean me) has ever heard of have enough money to buy the rights to the Lord of the Rings? I know they bought the remnants of THQ several years ago and a few tiny little game studios, but that's pocket change. Now they're some sort of behemoth that somehow owns everything?

I've never owned or played the Mega Drive versions, but in terms of box art, both of them blow the others out of the water.

Why is the ESRB rating on the box so huge?

I miss Chibi-Robo and wish Nintendo wouldn't have (seemingly) killed the series because Zip Lash was a failure. A 2D Chibi Robo platform game was a bad idea no one asked for.

Lol, these games are garbage. No one wants this.

I don't care what anyone says, I appreciate the subheadline.

The Game Boy Micro had a lot of things going for it: the screen was sharp, the buttons and D-pad were much better than the GBA SP, and it had removable faceplates. But it was too damn small. My perfect GBA would basically be a larger GBA Micro, but that would have been an even more pointless product to release at the time.

@SwitchVogel I kind of agree, but I don't think that should be held against Mother 3. If Earthbound Beginnings didn't do that great, it's because it wasn't that great. It's an interesting curio, a sort of prototype of the truly great Mother 2, but Mother 3 is a fully-formed fantastic game in its own right.

I desperately want the 3DS remasters of OOT and Majora's Mask to appear on the Switch. I'm afraid that Nintendo will view them as unnecessary since the original N64 versions are available with Nintendo Switch Online, but the remasters are very well done and don't deserve to die with the 3DS.

This obviously isn't going to be on the Switch in any form. It will be lucky to make it to the PS5 before the PS6 is released.

I absolutely love the design and would want to stay there even if there was no connection to Nintendo. Time to reconsider my negative attitude towards bank robbing...

Donkey Kong Country 3 is available on Nintendo Switch Online.

I've never been able to get into Majora's Mask. I bought it when it came out for N64, I bought it for Virtual Console, and I bought the 3DS version. I don't think I've ever finished more than 20% of the game. It just doesn't feel like a Zelda game to me, although I'm not giving up and am determined to actually finish the 3DS version at some point.

Someone (ahem) should write a comparison guide to the 2D Zelda clones on Switch. Which is the best?

When I was a kid, I always wanted more games that were similar to Zelda, especially since there were so many Mario knockoffs while Zelda knockoffs were rare. Looks like that's no longer the case, so I have no complaints about any lack of originality.

I wasn't a fan of this art style in the Switch version of Link's Awakening, but it fits perfectly for Mother 3.

When Yacht Club promised a "historic" and "ground-breaking" game, I said that I would bet my house that it would be neither.

I was right, but still, I am really interested in this. Games don't have to be ground-breaking and historic to be good. And they don't need Kickstarter *****, either. Just develop the game and release it, you're not a no-name developer anymore.

I am willing to bet my house that the announcement is neither historic nor groundbreaking.

I'm not hating and you're not creating, Troy. Something as silly and pointless as NFTs shouldn't be hated, just ignored and forgotten about.

I've never played the game, but it has the barfiest art style of any game I've seen this year, and that's including zero budget mobile games.

@OwenGamer22 Yes, it's definitely noticeable. I guess if you're not used to the way the originals played it may not be that bad, but pressing a button and waiting for Sonic to jump is pretty awful. The Switch Genesis collection is the only game I got a refund for after I purchased it. Everyone thought it would be patched, but nope.

Anyone voting for the original Zelda or Breath of the Wild is just fundamentally wrong. Breath of the Wild is the best Zelda ever made, and the original Zelda is a perfect example of the genre that later titles expanded upon. It is in no way "too difficult". I played and mastered it when I was 8, so maybe you just suck at video games?

Design is way too busy. Does it really need both the Mega Man logo and Mega Man? Those little boss men need to go as well.

@Burning_Spear The PS Store version came out in 2016, so maybe it wasn't affected by whatever royalty issue is affecting Ms. Pac Man now? I don't know, I just want to play Ms. Pac-Man on Switch. 😄

@The-Nate So Namco could release a version of Ms. Pac-Man, but they would have to pay royalties to GCC (or AtGames?) But no one else could release a version of Ms. Pac-Man, since Namco owns the rights to the Pac-Man name? If that's correct, I don't understand what GCC/AtGames gains from having a right to royalties if they won't cooperate with Namco. They have a potential customer base of exactly one (i.e. Namco).

@Burning_Spear I wish I understood this whole Ms. Pac-Man copyright fiasco. The way I understand it, at some point Namco and the original creators of the arcade game had a falling out, which means that the original arcade developer owns the rights to the Ms. Pac-Man game, but not the name Ms. Pac-Man. So they can't sell it and neither can Namco. I wish Namco would just buy the rights and end this mess.

N64 games on NSO work look and play great for me, and they look a lot better than on Wii U, where everything was dark for some reason.

This might be a dumb question, but does anyone know if you subscribe to the NSO Expansion Pack through an EU account, but your Animal Crossing: New Horizons save file is linked to an American account, are you able to play the Happy Home Paradise DLC through the American account?

Looks interesting, but I have a feeling that it won't be available until around 2024.

I thought it was pretty overpriced at first, but then I saw it included the Animal Crossing expansion, so that makes it worthwhile for me. Standard NSO+Animal Crossing DLC would be $45, so an extra $5 for N64 games is great. However, it's a pretty crap deal if you're not interested in Animal Crossing, and Nintendo should have offered other free DLC choices.

The old logo was terrible, the new logo is worse.

I don't understand people who claim the N64 controller was uncomfortable. It was incredibly comfortable. It makes me think they're those weirdos who gripped the left handle when trying to use the control stick. Regarding durability, I still have the same controllers from 1996 and the control sticks still work perfectly. Granted, however, I never played the Mario Party games.

@KingMike That's what I was wondering. Maybe it's the logos? They're pretty similar to the official ones, and maybe that's all that need to be changed? He doesn't say the project is dead in the water, so it may not be the idea of an unauthorized guide that's causing the problem.

Thank you for clarifying that Darksiders III is a sequel to Darksiders II.