This morning we ran a roundup of clips from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's big post-E3 "Video Game Week," highlighted by his hands-on time with the Wii U. Fallon's opening monologue, however, is where the entertainment is, really.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
CNN did a whole like 2 page article talking about the WiiU as if it was a Wii add on as well. This is what you call brand confusion.
I honestly blame the name...they should of changed the name when they had the chance at E3
They probably thought people (aka the Casuals they said they wern't targeting) would be like...
"Oh cool a new Nintendo product, the Nintendo Wii was so awesome lets buy this day 1"
Yet because E3 isn't really watched by casuals and the fact they don't know like us it's a brand new console (next gen) it's probably going to go like this
"A new Wii...well no point buying it, we have a working Wii right here at home...maybe when this one breaks we'll get a new one"
The problem with this is because they're still going after the casual audience and they're likely to get a bad reaction from them on top of the already bad reaction they've recieved from core gamers.
They should of changed the name if they were so interested in going after the casuals again OR they should of picked one audience and stuck with it, the casuals or us core gamers because it really feels like Nintendo havent made up their mind yet. It's one of the other Nintendo but deep down I think you've already made your choice and I don't think it's us. I think they're just saying there aiming for the core audience so they can grab sales early on from both audiences.
As for third party support I honestly think that when the PS4 and Nextbox comes out the Wii U will become like the Wii and will be left in the dust as third part developers decide to make games for more powerful consoles...who can blame them, if you can do more with a game with better tec then go for it.
I said this would happen.
Great job Nintendo...