At first, you might think Nintendo is flat-out crazy.
The company is launching a new $300 game console amid the biggest slump in video-game sales in years.
It’s also taking on Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com and everyone else selling new Web tablets this holiday season.
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.
Excellent article, very good read.
They could take on Apple if they start offering IOS app to play exclusively on the Wii U Gamepad. People will gladly buy Angry Birds or that sort of games to play while in the bedroom, or while going to the bathroom and then resume their gameplay afterwards.
Using a Wiimote and or seeing it for the first time experiencing what seemed like virtual reality-human interaction with computers is something much different than a fancy futuristic= http://www.everythingicafe....
Give me a break, Wii is not going up against tablets anymore than an oven goes up against a microwave.