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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
Old school Mario Kart might not be a bad buy either.
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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
Smash Bros should be released with updated graphics, and or online play, same for Mario Kart.
It's almost criminal what Nintendo is charging, and saddening that people will actually pay them.
11/21/09
It is an excellent game that still holds up today. A true classic.
If I didn't still have my SNES version, I wouldn't think twice about buying it.
11/21/09
Microsoft had rare remake some stuff from the n64 era for download games, but they'd never have gotten away with releasing an N64 game in it's original form for banjo kazooie/tooie/perfect dark on the marketplace anyway, or else you can virtually guarentee that they would have.
11/21/09
11/21/09
I don't know, I think the problem here is your sense of self-entitlement.
11/21/09
Also: Gamers complaining about paying $8 for Mario Kart. Wow.
11/21/09
Do you even factor prices outside of your bubble? Prices for these products aren't the same across the planet you silly ignorant thing.
Pull the Mario sheets over your eyes once in a while pal, there's a whole world of differences out there.
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Or is that just the UK region?
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11/21/09
Nintendo care about the EU, and consider it a viable business opportunity, why can't Sony think the same way? They're both Japanese companies.
No offense America, but you do tend to get a little spoiled and treated like the "favorite kid" when it comes to videogames. America may be bigger, but Europe is no less important.
11/20/09
Now where's my SNES Star Fox?
11/21/09
But I always thought that Star Fox was just...ok.
I alwats prefered playing Parodius when I had both in my hand.
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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11/21/09
When pigs fly, dude, when pigs FLY!
11/21/09