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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2023 9:49:58 GMT -5
Off the top of my head (not really, just looking at a list of hidden gems for both systems as well as off the top of my head): -Deja Vu -Ring King -Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight -Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics 2 -The Adventure Island series (at least the first three games since the fourth game did not appear in NA/EU) -Magic Of Scheherazade -Gun-Nac -Clash At Demonhead -The Ikari Warriors series -Little Samson -Adventures Of Lolo 2 & 3 -The Guardian Legend -Xexyz -Mr. Gimmick -Zombie Nation -Saturday Night Slam Masters -Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen -Boogerman -Phalanx -Uniracers -Lufia I & II -Ys III: Wanderers from Ys -The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja -Cybernator -Metal Warriors -Super Smash TV -Blackthorne -Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol -Illusion Of Gaia -Terranigma -Soul Blazer Deju Vu - The company that made this game went out of business in 98 so who knows who has the right to it now. Ring king - Samething with as Deju Vu. Data East went out of business and the ownership of their IP was split up between different companies. SF 2010 - Capcom. They probably dont want to rereleased a game that has nothing to do with the actually street fighter series. That or they probably dont remember that the game existed in the first place. StarTropics 2 - It probably end up on the service someday. Adventure island series - Unfortunately konami owns the rights to the hudson soft library and the only hudson soft series they actually remember existed is Bomberman. Magic of Scheherazade - probably too obscure of a title Gun-nac - Samething with deju vu and ring king. Company went out of business so the rights to it is probably a mess. Clash At Demonhead - the company that made this is no longer a video game and mostly do telecommunications stuff in japan. Probably have no interest in rereleased their old categories. Ikari warriors series - SNK so if rereleased, it probably be on the eshop instead of NES online through Crystalis is on services so the series might have a chances. Little Samson - Takeru, the company that developed LS went out of business and Tatio is own by Square Enix and we all know SE isnt going to give a game away for free. Lolo - it hal laboratory. Apparently the NA/PAL NES online has lolo 1 while japan has lolo 2? The Guardian legend - same deal as with Gum Nac. Xexyz - another hudson soft game. Blame konami Mr. Gimmick - this game is actually getting a rereleased this year on the eshop with updated features. Zombie Nation - apparently it got a japan only rereleased on the switch. Saturday Night Slam Masters - Capcom. If anything this and it sequels might get a collection release someday. Orge battles - lol square enix Boogerman - The earthworm jims games are on the service so this might have a chance. Phalanx - it might have a chance but who knows. Uniracers - the lawsuit kill any chance of it every being rereleased ever again Lufia - probably a rights issue. Ys 3. - probably a game that would end up on the eshop instead of the online service Mystics Ninja - konami again Cybernator - konami again Metal Warrior- lucasarts game which means that it own by Disney. Super Smash TV - I think this series is own by WB Game which had no interest in any old midway games beside MK Blackthorne - Got a rereleased on the eshop as Blizzard Arcade collection Zombie/Ghoul - Got rereleased on the eshop last years. Also own by Disney now. Illusion of Gaia - lol square enix Terranigma - it a nintendo game but it never came out in America so who knows? Soul Blazer - lol square enix. Alot of ther earlier enix game are probably screw because of square enix.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Feb 9, 2023 10:03:45 GMT -5
Damn @shadowcage , are you a living video game encyclopaedia or something?
And I mean that in the most positive manner.
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Post by salz4life on Feb 9, 2023 10:14:56 GMT -5
I keep thinking about what I pondered a couple of pages ago. And I came to the conclusion that I hope that Nintendo will prove me wrong with their NES / SNES selections this year and add some more to them.
The NES/Famicom had 1,380 officially licenced games The SNES / Super Famicom had 1,727 officially licenced games I find it hard to believe that 79 games in the NES section and 65 games in the SNES section is all that Nintendo can afford to have in their selection. Especially considering that among the released games are not exactly only cream of the crop titles or high demand titles (at least I imagine in the NES section, nobody was foaming at the mouth to finally get to play The Immortal, Eliminator Boat Duel, Mighty Bomb Jack or, as far as the SNES section goes, for games like Fighter's History, Jellyboy, Bombuzal or Spanky's Quest). Don't get me wrong, I agree that there is a 0.1 percent that these sections will see any of the otherwise licenced stuff (like Batman games, Simpsons games, Tiny Toon games etc.) or games that companies already released via collections for modern systems (Castlevania, Mega Man, Contra) or games that originally needed a special accessory (like the Nintendo Zapper games, Power Pad games, Super Scope games) and so on. Still even excluding all that, I think that there still is a sizable amount of NES / SNES games that could find their way into those collections if Nintendo tried. Off the top of my head (not really, just looking at a list of hidden gems for both systems as well as off the top of my head): -Deja Vu -Ring King -Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight -Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics 2 -The Adventure Island series (at least the first three games since the fourth game did not appear in NA/EU) -Magic Of Scheherazade -Gun-Nac -Clash At Demonhead -The Ikari Warriors series -Little Samson -Adventures Of Lolo 2 & 3 -The Guardian Legend -Xexyz -Mr. Gimmick -Zombie Nation -Saturday Night Slam Masters -Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen -Boogerman -Phalanx -Uniracers -Lufia I & II -Ys III: Wanderers from Ys -The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja -Cybernator -Metal Warriors -Super Smash TV -Blackthorne -Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol -Illusion Of Gaia -Terranigma -Soul Blazer I guess the reason why I care so much is that I would like to have as much games from these older consoles released on modern systems in some form so that gamers of today can appreciate them in a legal way. But we shall see what the future will bring.
I remember really enjoying Ring King after I got sick of playing Tyson's Punch Out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2023 10:24:03 GMT -5
Damn @shadowcage , are you a living video game encyclopaedia or something? And I mean that in the most positive manner. I own Pat Contri nes and snes book which are very helpful plus I grew up in the nes/snes/genesis era of gaming. I think the main problem atm is that you either have games from companies that no longer exists, companies that merge with othee companies or companies rather released their back catalog on the eshop for more money. Also the game value plays a factor too. The reason why something like castlevania bloodline is on the service instead of Super castlevania 4 is becauses SC4 has more value to konami compared to bloodline.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Feb 9, 2023 10:43:23 GMT -5
Damn @shadowcage , are you a living video game encyclopaedia or something? And I mean that in the most positive manner. I own Pat Contri nes and snes book which are very helpful plus I grew up in the nes/snes/genesis era of gaming. I think the main problem atm is that you either have games from companies that no longer exists, companies that merge with othee companies or companies rather released their back catalog on the eshop for more money. Also the game value plays a factor too. The reason why something like castlevania bloodline is on the service instead of Super castlevania 4 is becauses SC4 has more value to konami compared to bloodline.
Thank you for the information.
The only reason I do not entirely agree with regarding why games are not released is obscurity and game value.
Mostly because of the released games so far, I kinda doubt that games like The Immortal, Eliminator Boat Duel or Nightshade would be among games that would immediately spring to mind when thinking about NES games (the same with SNES games like Jellyboy, Bombuzal or Spanky's Quest). At least, in my opinion since I didn't know about any of those games before I discovered the Nintendo Switch service. But perhaps they are more well-known than I thought.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 9, 2023 10:50:39 GMT -5
StarTropics 2 - It probably end up on the service someday. More likely now that Tetris is on the Game Boy service since Tetrads are a part of the plot to StarTropics 2
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Feb 9, 2023 11:13:30 GMT -5
Sorry if an explanation was already posted on the previous pages.
The only notable omission from the initial Game Boy line up is Super Mario Land which is weird since Super Mario Land 2 is part of the initial line-up.
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 9, 2023 11:17:27 GMT -5
Sorry if an explanation was already posted on the previous pages.
The only notable omission from the initial Game Boy line up is Super Mario Land which is weird since Super Mario Land 2 is part of the initial line-up.
Going straight to 3 for Wario Land seems a bit odd to me as well.
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Post by chrom on Feb 9, 2023 11:19:15 GMT -5
Sorry if an explanation was already posted on the previous pages.
The only notable omission from the initial Game Boy line up is Super Mario Land which is weird since Super Mario Land 2 is part of the initial line-up.
Kinda like how The Sega put up Sonic 2 and skipped the first.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2023 13:32:50 GMT -5
Also, only six GBA titles. Granted there are a few big hitters coming with Fusion, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror and Golden Sun, but who knows how long they will take.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2023 13:34:52 GMT -5
This is the third time that SMB3 has been made available. Getting pretty redundant But you get the eReader levels included. That's a bonus.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 9, 2023 14:52:21 GMT -5
damn weapon durability...
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Post by chrom on Feb 9, 2023 14:56:36 GMT -5
Starting The Minnish Cap.
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Post by chrom on Feb 9, 2023 16:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 9, 2023 16:59:13 GMT -5
Starting The Minnish Cap. I've been wanting to replay it for a long time but I always get turned off by how dragged out the opening is and how awkward to navigate the mountain between the first and second dungeons is.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 9, 2023 21:22:09 GMT -5
Starting The Minnish Cap. I’ve never gotten around to finishing it, definitely gonna be playing it in the near future
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 9, 2023 21:24:18 GMT -5
I want them to add some of the most random shit to the online service, given they're putting that one Alone in the Dark on it. Throw Mortal Kombat II for Game Boy on there.
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Post by Chiral on Feb 9, 2023 21:27:49 GMT -5
This video is all I can think of whenever they announce new Switch Online games (language)
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Post by chrom on Feb 9, 2023 23:15:06 GMT -5
Well I've beaten Gargoyle's Quest.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 9, 2023 23:23:21 GMT -5
TotK has a file size of 18.2 GB, making it the biggest first party Switch game, supplanting Breath of the Wild at 14.4. Likely why they jacked up the price on it, going to have to put out a bigger cartridge than usual for it.
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