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- yohnstoppable, on 02/22/2008, -4/+80Obligatory "Give us ***** Goldeneye already" comment
- Cerialthriller, on 02/22/2008, -1/+48ChronoTrigger please!
- cerealjynx, on 02/22/2008, -6/+51Yeah, or you could just play them on your computer. For free.
I guess you'd have to like, download stuff and then run it through an emulation program. Life is difficult! - ianarcher, on 02/22/2008, -11/+53I, for one, am insulted when companies like Nintendo pull old ROMs off websites and try to charge me $10 to play Donkey Kong or the original Zelda.
I spent the majority of my childhood money supporting these companies buying their overpriced games. And now, they want to overcharge me again for 15-year-old technology. Thanks for the loyalty guys! - lebruf, on 02/22/2008, -3/+35Every time I try out one of those old games I LOVED to death (Street Fighter II, Metal Gear, Bionic Commando... etc) I realize after about 5 minutes of play that it's boring as hell.
Nostalgia is nice, but not always entertaining. For most, I think just knowing that you can play it again any damn time you want is the real payoff, not actually playing it.
(try and take this ***** away from me NOW mom and dad) - Jay730, on 02/22/2008, -12/+35EMULATORS! STOP BITCHING! SAVE YOUR CASH!!!
- ussoldier, on 02/22/2008, -1/+18For real, buy a used PSP off of Ebay, an 8gb duostick, a $10 acrylic full body protector, install Dark Alex's custom firmware from psp.qj.net , and play 7000 of your favorite old console games from any platform anywhere you go (fire up thepiratebay.org and your bittorent client (utorrent, azureus) and do a search on console name ROMS, or PSP ISO or PSP CSO). Total cost about $200.
- roflbrothel, on 02/22/2008, -1/+17I WANT TO PLAY OREGON TRAIL ON A 1080P 100" SCREEN!
*dies of dysentery* - caddyalan, on 02/22/2008, -1/+16There are an awful lot of old games which have been "buried by time," and only work on outdated consoles or computers. I'm willing to forego games which are tied into outdated licenses. I'm not willing to accept excuses such as "the code was lost," because it should be possible to re-create most games.
- clarkbp, on 02/22/2008, -1/+12Warlords was awesome. Where is Warlords? (any atari 2600 freaks out there?)
- boxybrzown, on 02/22/2008, -1/+12- Buy an actual USB gamepad for 20 bucks instead of using the keyboard
- Use save states! They don't make you less of a man, honest How the hell else will you beat Battletoads? - nblsavage, on 02/22/2008, -6/+17You know, no one is forcing you to buy them. If you want to go to the effort of getting an old console and games, it should be fairly cheap.
- BitSlash, on 02/22/2008, -0/+10http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/22/british-mag-to-u ...
- Hetman, on 02/22/2008, -2/+12If you do not think old games = Good then you are probably to young to be drinking wine anyways. So put the bottle down pick up some old games and you will see how great they really are. "you do not really have to put the bottle down but if you are under 16 you definatly should. but I hope someone that young would not be making a reference about old wine being good."
- kingmanic, on 02/22/2008, -0/+10Licensing issues could hold things up. For instance Golden Eye, created by Rare (now a 2nd party Xbox developer), published by Nintendo. Nindendo has to wrangle with Microsoft if they want it on the virtual console, Microsoft needs to wrangle with Nintendo is they want it on Live Arcade.In the end the competing interests makes it impossible. You also have companies like SquareEnix, which makes more money reselling it as a repackaged slightly improved game (FFIII, FFIV, FFV, FFVI) then as a download. There is also games where either the publisher or the developer no longer exists and the IP is either in Limbo or divided up among several publishers (Fall out was like this). All leading to delayed availability of old games.
- Aharoni, on 02/22/2008, -1/+11There are many old games that can actually move consoles, the fans are dying for sequels/remake and the IP owner isn't planning on doing anything with it for the time being. Star control, for example, would make a perfect XBL game. Ally cat, the ancient game developed by IBM, with modern cell-shaded graphics? now that is a casual gaming experience that would only do good to Microsoft's line of games.
I wish certain games would make a modern comeback on the PC as well... think about it: X-Com: Enemy Unknown with Google Earth as the globe view. - Spamcan, on 02/22/2008, -0/+10It's one thing to say a game is worth X amount of money, but some of the Virtual Console games cost more then they do for a used copy of the physical cartridge. It's even worse that games like Sonic and Streets of Rage appear on XBL with optional filtering, online scoreboards, gamer points and online multiplayer for $5 while these same games are $8 on the VC without any of these features, that is totally inexcusable. Not that Nintendo is the only guilty party here, Microsoft is now charging $15 for downloadable versions of old XBOX games that can now be found cheaper on disc and take up 1/10th of the piddly 20GB drive most people have.
- Ayavaron, on 02/22/2008, -1/+10I think a lot of people consider the PSX retro now.
- Rev0lver, on 02/22/2008, -1/+10I would love to see the day when Legend of Dragoon makes it's way on PSN.
- johnmatias, on 02/22/2008, -3/+11But there's just something so nostalgic about blowing the hell out of an N64 game and then beating the ***** out it because it refuses to work.
Ah, memories... - ZephyrNinety, on 02/22/2008, -2/+10Dreamcast games need to be brought back.
- inactive, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9The developers would still work on the new games but and different people could release the old ones.
- trer, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9Downloading roms is NOT the same thing as assault with a deadly weapon.
- mywhitenoise, on 02/22/2008, -4/+12The N64 games are the only ones with a semi-decent pricing scheme. I can't believe they charge $8 for SNES games.
- MrWhipplemen, on 02/22/2008, -2/+9I wish that they/somebody would redo a new NBA Jam with modern rosters
or even just a release on virtual console or XBOX live
that game I loved - enclaved, on 02/23/2008, -2/+9Why would redevelopment be simple? Have you ever lost a project and had to recode it from scratch? You are foolish to think it's trivial.
- Peynis, on 02/23/2008, -2/+9How can you not love Street Fighter 2, even after 15 years? :(
- Coffeedemon, on 02/22/2008, -0/+7What about an old whine?
- roflbrothel, on 02/22/2008, -1/+8Buried for idiocy.
- Hetman, on 02/22/2008, -1/+8When did bestbuy start selling SNES, SEGA and NES games? And even if you do believe you are stealing armed robbery is considered a violent crime so it is not the same thing. This would be more like shoplifting.
- OrderedChaos, on 02/22/2008, -3/+9How about some remade Monkey Island games? Too much to hope for I know.
- Ghiren, on 02/23/2008, -0/+6Goldeneye + XBox Live support = Change of drawers :)
- Noceous, on 02/23/2008, -0/+6What ***** are you talking about? Your comment ***** doesn't make any ***** sense. Where the ***** did he say it had *****?
- MaynardJK, on 02/23/2008, -0/+5I bet you are one of the kiddies that didn't start gaming until the PS1 days. You're an idiot.
- Sairgem, on 02/23/2008, -0/+5Except the xbla games actually add something. Be it better graphics, online multiplayer, or at the very least I think every game has an online leaderboard. Nintendo is basically charging for roms that you could find online for free. If they added online multiplayer to some of their games, they would be worth the money again.
- MaynardJK, on 02/23/2008, -0/+5XBMC is one of the greatest pieces of software ever written. Your fanboyism is making you miss out big time.
Every NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, and TG16 game on one box = heaven. Plus, it will stream damn near anything you throw at it. If it had the horsepower to emulate N64 better it would be perfect. - bphicke, on 02/23/2008, -2/+6Is it just me, or does it seem like developers are replacing good story lines and great gameplay with flashy graphics?
- tomz17, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4I agree... the emulators on the XBOX for SNES, NES, and GENESIS are perfect! The BAED (Big Ass Emulator Disk) compilations are great. A single DVD includes EVERY SNES, NES, Genesis, and atari game ever made! The $50 I spent on an xbox was by far the most entertaining $50 I ever spent!!!
- winmywii, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4I have a Wii, but I still play my modded xbox a lot more. I don't think I have even gotten that much value out of a console. With Emulators and XBMC I am set.
- zantos420, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4while i must agree with what you said, I must also disagree on the basis that there are a few select games that just had amazing replay value and would just be mind blowing on todays gaming consoles
- jonnyeh, on 02/23/2008, -1/+5I'm sorry, but old games are not necessarily good. Some old games are good, probably a lot fewer than you remember, just like today's games.
Really good games from ye olden tymes are still really good, but mediocre game are now awful.
Go play some Super Mario, Metroid, and zelda, they're still awesome. Then go play Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World, barf! - Peynis, on 02/23/2008, -1/+5You truly have no clue what the hell you're talking about.
VC games are merely being emulated on the Wii, just like you'd emulate them on a PC, so bringing a classic game to the VC is really easy to pull off and needs no effort at all.
You dump the ROM from an original cartridge, configure some settings here and there, like the controls, write an electronic user manual and that's pretty much it...If the game runs flawlessly (which it undoubtedly will in most cases), you're ready to release it...
How else do you think publishers would be able to release several VC games a week in addition to their regular lineup of new games?
The "development" costs and effort going into VC games are close to zero, so there's no risk connected to it at all.... - kingmanic, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4Donkey Kong was published by Nintendo, the IP was Nintendo owned and rare was essentially doing work for hire. They were hired to work with the Nintendo IP (Donkey Kong). Golden eye is in a different spot because it's also someone else IP (MGM). Thus Nintendo owned Donkey Kong with some strings back to rare, strings back to MGM. Rare's a 2nd party of Microsoft (actually MS owned). The talks to get golden eye on the wii broke down on profit splitting between the three. The rights for Donkey Kong Country is clearly Nintendo's.
- tomz17, on 02/22/2008, -2/+6#1 Buy an xbox
#2 Hack it
#3 Get the BIG ASS EMULATOR DISKS
Enjoy memories of your childhood. - d3dm, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4I wanna play Commander Keen on my 50" plasma!
- enclaved, on 02/22/2008, -3/+6yeah, but even if redevelopment is possible, who's to say it's financially viable to do so?
- solid12345, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3If it is Nintendo holding back this coming to the system they really are douchebags. Microsoft extended the olive branch to Nintendo by urging fans to buy a Wii and 360 for the price of a PS3, so Nintendo should not say anything if Rare wants to port Goldeneye over to Live.
- xBBx, on 02/22/2008, -2/+5No way, these companies will never release their old games for free. If they can milk their old games, why wouldn't they? Nintendo itself has a HUUUUUGE catalog of games. If they can make $5-$10 bucks from games that pretty much are already done products, why wouldn't they? It's just smart business.
- winmywii, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3I can't bring myself to pay for the same game again. If I really want to play it that bad I will bust out the old console or an emulator. These downloads should be free, especially on XBL.
- norman619, on 02/23/2008, -1/+4ROMs and MAME baby!
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