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@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.

I'm a big fan of Jeremy Parrish and will probably end up buying these books. I noticed a few questionable design choices (why are the Super NES/Famicom hardware shots of dirty old systems? Was there actually no way around making the VB game shots grey and black instead of red and black?), but they still look interesting.

I really liked Sküljagger: Revolt of the Westicans for Super NES. It was a pretty basic side-scrolling action game, but it came with a lengthy comic book that provided a detailed backstory for the game, which really made it interesting for me.

The item description thing was so baffling in the original Skyward Sword. How on earth did that get past playtesting? Who thought that was a good idea? I mean, it seems like it must have been a mistake somehow.

I thought New Super Mario Bros. was great, it was the sequels that were disappointing. I want a New New Super Mario Bros. with some originality.

I like the idea of a Hyrule Castle Lego set, but that just looks dumb. Is that supposed to be the Temple of Time crammed against the right side? What about the little cottage thing on the left? Why are the turrets red and blue?

@twztid13 Lol, do you really believe there is no new Nintendo Switch model being planned? It's been planned since the day the original Switch launched. The only question is when it will be launched, which may or may not be this year.

@twztid13 IIRC, they never said specifically that there wouldn't be any new hardware they just said they had "nothing to announce". Nintendo (and every other hardware manufacturer) will never reveal their plans until they're ready. Hundreds of millions of dollars is at stake and everything is planned and timed months (or years) in advance. They're not going to admit there's new hardware when they still want you to buy the old hardware, and they're not going to change their carefully designed launch strategy because of some random journalist.

I'm playing this more than I played Super Mario 35 or Tetris 99, and I like both Super Mario Bros. and regular Tetris a lot more than Pac-Man. You just have to get used to how fast-paced it is compared to regular Pac-Man, which doesn't take long.

Future Nintendolife articles:

"Wallpaper Paste is Secretly One of the Best Pizza Toppings"
"Clear is Secretly One of the Best Colors"
"That Perpetually Burning Gas Fire in Siberia is Secretly One of the Best Vacation Spots"

I liked the N64 controller. People who are introduced to it after the system was already dead seem to be confused about how to hold it, but it's simple and no one had any problems with it at the time. I also had no problems with the control stick's reliability, although to be fair, I never played Mario Party.

I love Minish Cap and it’s easily my favorite portable Zelda (unless you count BOTW as a portable Zelda).

Yes, I think it’s better than Link’s Awakening. Fight me.

I still play this game occasionally after four years, it's just amazing. The recent talk of the Switch Pro makes me hope for the possibility of backwards compatibility enhancements for regular Switch titles. Imagine Korok Forest without all the frame rate drops...

It sounds like Skyward Sword to me - "medieval, but not photorealistic". It's also the only 3D Zelda game that hasn't been re-released on another platform.

As much as I liked Link's Awakening, I wouldn't want to see that art style used on A Link to the Past or any other Zelda game. The mainline, more serious 2D Zeldas would look amazing with HD sprites.

@Zidentia Thanks, I didn't know that. It's interesting to think that at the height of the NES's popularity in the US, each had to be at least partially hand-assembled.

I had no idea NES consoles were ever assembled at Nintendo of America. Does anyone know the story behind this and when they stopped doing this? I thought that maybe they would do final assembly in the US in order to be able to put "Made in the USA" on the console, but I've never seen a NES console that said anything other than "Made in Japan".