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Sat Nov 28
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11/21/09
I can't believe Nintendo are still insistent on not including online functionality to their classic games.
11/22/09
I'll take mario kart as is thanks. Don't trust nintendo to go messing with this series, the games have gotten worse from the (alrightish) mario kart 64 to the mess of double dash
11/22/09
Super Mario Kart is such an amazing game, that I think it's a bit of a crime that Nintendo won't at least consider throwing in some online functionality. Say what you will about Mario Kart Wii: but I felt the online was solid! Never a problem getting into matches, no lag and a pretty slick system by Nintendo's standards.
11/24/09
yeah, it would be nice but not worth messing with the balance of what's there. I'm just completely underwhelmed with every entry after the snes version. I've not played the wii one, but having purchased 64, double dash and borrowed the ds version, it's gonna take a back-to-basics reinvention to pique even a shred of interest from me.
Releasing it untouched on Wii could make it the only piece of nintendo software i'm tempted by.
I wonder why it took 3 years?
#speakup
11/24/09
11/25/09
Well I had assumed it was to ensure the software reached a high standard before release, but seeing as mario kart has been at Gold/Release status for about 17 years- and sufficiently quality checked by millions of gamers myself included, i'm gonna doubt the 3 years was required to port it.
#speakup
11/21/09
I Got Zombies ate my neighbors and I never though I would see that game.
Its weird when I was a kid it was my birthday and my mom told me I could get one game I walked the aisles of Toys R' us and searched for a game the choice was between Street Fighter 2 and Mario Kart I couldn't decide my mom told me to hurry so in a rush I picked the mario kart ticket and ran to the front of the store. In retrospect that was a hard choice but as a kid all I had to go on was that Mario Kart had "Mario" in the title I got lucky and Mario Kart was an amazing game. Oddly the same sorta thing happened with Zombies ate my Neighbors.
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#speakup
11/21/09
There are alot of games that are said to be great, but unfortunately, they don't always hold up by todays standards.
Mario Kart on the other hand, is a true game that deserves the title of being 'great'.
Anyone that has a Wii, and not the original version of the game on the SNES owes it to themselves to buy this.
What a game.
11/21/09
11/20/09
Yet, any non-Nintendo VC release (even if it is a really good game) is often overlooked. And hell, people scoff at WiiWare, which are (mostly) NEW games.
I am not saying it's BAD, so to say... I've bought a few VC releases (even of games I physically own, like Bubble Bobble and River City Ransom), but it's nothing I wait over. Just, that... why do some people see this as such a big deal? Of course, I love classic games... but I guess I fail to see why things like Virtual Console is such a huge deal. Now, if you've never played the game, that's fine, you should experience the greatness of the past.
11/20/09
Seldom can many of us find moments to match those of our first time through 'Bob-omb Battlefield', or the dramatic lightning torn sky of Legend of Zelda:Link to the Past, when we just knew something amazing was going to happen.
Not to mention the multiplayer of these games of old are much more memorable for many of us as well, since that's when we played together with friends all at one console and t.v., as opposed to today we're it's less personal and practically all online. I'm sure I'm not the only one that felt as hyper as possible, when 3 people chased me down as I had the golden gun, sidestepping frenetically as the dance of a madman, shooting around each corner, laughing like a madman.
And then we grew up and though we still love video games today, we can very seldom recreate the experience and pure joy produced by these moments which are our nostalgia.
11/21/09
I get nostalgia, believe me, I do. Got my NES at age 4 back in the 80s. I just rarely see myself rebuying games... at least, digital-only versions (i.e. despite owning the original NES copies of the Megaman games and the Genesis copies of the Sonic games, I've still bought the GameCube collections for them). And many of these games are timeless classics.
I just find it unnerving that a re-release of a classic game is more celebrated than the release of a new one.
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11/20/09
I WANT EARTHBOUND GODDAMMIT >:(
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11/20/09
As far as I can remember, there's one licensed game on the Virtual Console. That was the first TMNT game for the NES, and that only happened so they could tie it in with the movie that came out a few years back.
11/20/09
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11/21/09
I remember a JP game that started the first level, and some soldier guy was shouting; 'go, go, GOO!'
Same one?
11/21/09
I guess that brings the total to five now (TMNT, three Star Wars, and Indiana Jones), but I'm still skeptical on Jurassic Park. Lucasarts obviously has the rights to the Star Wars games forever. I don't have a clue who'd own the rights to Jurassic Park, and there isn't any promotional incentive for them to bring the game out.
11/20/09
11/20/09
It's still my favourite in the series (please don't bother telling me all the reasons I'm wrong) and I would love the opportunity to test my crazy mad skills online.
If only.
11/20/09
11/20/09
I can still play Super Mario Kart for hours- few people have patience for it anymore. It just never gets old for me. And as far as I'm concerned, they've never outdone the original battle mode for pure fun factor.
#speakup
11/20/09
11/20/09
My favorite Mario Kart musical track: Rainbow Road (from the SNES), to this very day. Oh my gosh.
@Bialia:
I agree -- Mario Kart SNES with online multiplayer would be frigging sweet. Feather'd!
11/20/09
11/20/09
[grins]
Thank you. I found the actual SNES song on YouTube (I forgot how it sounded once it sped up on the last lap, like all the songs do). I hope Nintendo doesn't mind that it's there.
But that video was very good. Thank you very much.
#speakup
11/20/09
I went looking for the SNES version and got distracted ;)
11/20/09
Heck yes number two.
Edit: On second thought, instead of the OverClocked remixes ...
[www.last.fm]
#speakup
11/20/09
I want to own them all, and I want to play the SNES Star Fox before I finally play the copy of Star Fox 64 I've had sitting on my Wii for years now. I don't understand why it hasn't come yet :(
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11/20/09
Hopefully that means he'll get all giddy and happily mood-swingy now. ^_^