Kotaku: On Friday, we brought you the story of Jon, a Nintendo fan who spent $400 downloading old games to his Wii, but, through a mistake of his own and due to Nintendo's unusually strict digital-downloads policy, found himself with access to none of those games.
The lesson: a Nintendo machine isn't like an iPhone; your content is locked to the username that is locked to your console (though it seems Nintendo customer service can get around this).
After that story ran, I heard from another Nintendo fan.
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.
Nintendo should just put the entire NES and SNES lineup on the virtual consoles. This guy and the 400 dollar duy last week, it really looks like getting games from classic systems. Makes you wonder if the Gamecube could still live through the virtual console.
Beef up the Wii U virtual console, Nintendo. You could get a nice chunk of digital money if you added Gamecube first party title with off tv support.
If Nintendo would unify their account system, people would buy more games. If the customer isn't confident they can "own" the game, they'll be less likely to buy it. If I could play Virtual Console games between my Wii, 3DS, and WiiU (I don't own a WiiU) I would actually, y'know, buy Virtual Console games. But because I have to buy a copy for each system, there's no point.
Sony was allowing cross-platform accounts since the PSP/PS3 days. I have PS1 Classic titles that I've downloaded to multiple PSP systems, multiple PS3s, and now to my Vita, and Sony didn't require me to re-buy it a single time.
that was nice of nintnedo but you still need to add a log in system
Well, I'm certainly glad Nintendo changed their tune. That's far better than what was pulled the last time we heard about this.
But it doesn't change the matter that Nintendo needs to separate the accounts from their consoles and tie games to the accounts.
I still have the gold cartridge Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man with the weird cover art, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Kid Icarus.....and this is why. It's like in 1985, I knew they'd invent some way to charge me again for games I paid $50-$70 for.