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The Nintendo Thread of Existential Doom

ShakeWell

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
Phantoon said:
I finally get this after only 30 odd years 🤦‍♂️
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They did away with the pun for the US release, where it was known as Ka-Blooey!, which I supposed is supposed to be a pun on the main thing you play as being a blue... whatever it is? I rented it early in the SNES lifespan, when there wasn't much out, and I recall liking it fine, but I haven't played it since probably 1991, so take that for what it's worth.
 
Mr. Sensible

Mr. Sensible

Pitch and Putt Duffer
Ka-Blooey! was one of the first SNES games I owned as a kid, along with Phalanx (another Kemco-published SNES port of a PC game) and Super Mario World. After having spent a significant amount of time with it I can't say it's a great puzzle game, but gosh-darnit, that soundtrack still gets me fired up to detonate some red spherical bombs as a stumpy little blue dude.


Additionally, this makes me hopeful that Phalanx might yet see a release on NSO, which is a perfectly generic early-90s sidescrolling shooter that just happens to also sport some real banger tracks.
 
madhair60

madhair60

Video games
I'm really excited for Jelly Boy as it is genuinely a good game*

Claymates is too but that was already on Evercade so I'm enthused but the novelty is lesser

*I know, it's me and I would say this, but it is
 
Positronic Brain

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
Uh, so is Kemco still around? If not, who owns their games now? I wonder how all these obscure games are getting published in Nesflix and I wonder what dark copyrightmantic rituals were performed to bring these games back.
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
They just changed their focus away from “weird and inventive” to “interchangeable JRPGs”
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
I’m fairly sure it wasn’t, but I’m equally sure that quite a few other Compile games were
 
WildcatJF

WildcatJF

Let's Pock (Art @szk_tencho)
(he / his / him)
The Guardian Legend was published by Irem but Compile's IP are all over the place. It hasn't been rereleased since its debut on the NES. Not sure who might own it now.
 
Sarge

Sarge

hardcore retro gamin'
Well, The Guardian Legend was published in the States by Broderbund, and apparently by Nintendo themselves in Europe? But yeah, no idea who would have the game's rights at this point. It's absolutely a game that deserves a larger audience - it still holds up after all this time.
 
WildcatJF

WildcatJF

Let's Pock (Art @szk_tencho)
(he / his / him)
That's right, I forgot Broderbund published it here, they were pretty buddy buddy with Irem back in the day.
 
SpoonyBard

SpoonyBard

Threat Rhyme
(He/Him)
The new games are up on SNESflix, and apparently there's one unannounced NESflix addition: A SP edition of Super Mario Bros 3 which starts you in World 8 with a slew of items.

Honestly I would have been more interested in one that started you in World 1 with a bunch of late game suits, but eh.
 
Positronic Brain

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
SpoonyBard said:
The new games are up on SNESflix, and apparently there's one unannounced NESflix addition: A SP edition of Super Mario Bros 3 which starts you in World 8 with a slew of items.

Honestly I would have been more interested in one that started you in World 1 with a bunch of late game suits, but eh.
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World 1-1, 28 Hammer Suits or we riot.
 
ArugulaZ

ArugulaZ

Fearful asymmetry
www.romhacking.net

Tomato Adventure

This is an unofficial translation of Tomato Adventure, a Japanese RPG released in 2002 on the Game
www.romhacking.net www.romhacking.net

Tomato Adventure for the Game Boy Advance finally got translated. If you don't know, this was the early ancestor of the Mario and Luigi games.
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
I actually still take my 3DS on trips to work on the last of 3D Picross on the airplane... but I turned the networking off for the plane and didn't even bother turning it back on while I was in NY state, because, yeah the chances of getting a hit now are miniscule. Kinda sad.
 
LBD_Nytetrayn

LBD_Nytetrayn

..and his little cat, too
(He/him)
They took our StreetPass* and gave us nothing in return.

I'm disappointed I never got to finish those puzzles.

* And our folders, themes, decorations...
 
ArugulaZ

ArugulaZ

Fearful asymmetry
The Switch has been really bare-bones by comparison. No custom icons, no folders, no free games with social integration, no Virtual Console, no internet browser... I wonder why they went that route? There's much to be said for streamlining a GUI, but at a certain point, less isn't more... it's just less.
 
ArugulaZ

ArugulaZ

Fearful asymmetry
I thought there were pink squares that couldn't be filled with coins? Nintendo is tricky like that.

I did use a router to make some headway in the StreetPass puzzles, but I've got no idea how that worked, and I'm not even sure if the router trick works anymore. Also, I lost all the progress I'd made in StreetPass a few years ago, and I don't even remember why. Was it the migration to a new system, or replacing the SD card, or what? I've got no idea.
 
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