The Man Cave Cinema writes, With the lack luster sales of the WiiU, will Nintendo follow the path of Atari and loose it relevance and ultimately fail?
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.
Cultured Vultures: True Nintendo fanatics may know some of these, but we doubt that everyone knows all of these facts about the NES.
I bought always awakening and it's sequel off Amazon for ps4 I didn't know it was released for nes for retro people lol.
Great article....interesting investigating reporting....NOT.
These stories are getting old, very quick. Sales were good, Nintendo will be around for a few years. I doubt the writer of this outstanding groundbreaking story will also.
"Will Nintendo follow the path of Atari?"
Uh, no. Nuff said.
my how the nintendo haters are so scared of the wii u. if this was the 720 or ps4, then the video game media would be like, oh give them time, sales will pick up, it's anew system, nintendo has been around for over 100 years, and they survived the virtual boy, the wii u is selling, it sold over 3 million so far. there are millions of mario and zelda fans, nintendo survived the game cube, they survived the n64.. the nes, super nes, and the wii won their cosole wars, and no one can touch nintendo when it comes to portables. so if the wii u is a disappointment in sales for the next gen, then they are not doomed!!! sorry nintendo haters, it's just the video game media's prayer to god that nintendo will fail.. THE WII U WILL NOT FAIL!! A FACT, NOT AN OPINION! I think it will win the next gen wars, but even it it comes in 3rd, you know like the ps3?, then nintendo will lick their wounds, and make another system in about 5 or 6 years.
sorry nintendo haters, nintendo will be around for a long time, grow up and get over and enjoy your own machines. until another nintendo is doomed garbage story is posted here, i will be waiting, lets see how patcher and the rest of the sony and microsoft media predict doom for the ps4 and the 720? god why can't the video game media have HONEST AND FAIR JOURNALISM?, wait the video game media does not know the meaning of fair and honest. how sad.
LOL can't bother.
Well obviously right, since both Atari and Sega came off of successful console and handheld machines the previous generation. While also having more than 10billion dollars in the bank as well before they went under as console maker... Not to mention having a new successful handheld and just launching a new home console./sarcasm