Wii U And 3DS eShop Closure Is Removing Access To The Wider Goemon Series

Konami does have a pretty good track record when it comes to those M2 retro collections like the castlevania ones and the contra one, while a pipe dream i would love to see goemon get that treatment especially with the 2 N64 games.

even if the n64 ones were released in their own collection i would be cool so long as the games end up released in a form where you can purchase them and arent locked behind the NSO app.

Feel free to specify what those 9 games are if you actually want to offer a useful warning.

Because I count 3 games, including Konami Kraft Racers…. Unless you’re including Japan-exclusive options as well?

I've never played this series but it seems pleasingly bonkers so I bought the SNES game on Wii U the other day. I didn't realise there were as many as 30 games in the series, or indeed that 9 of them are on VC - most of those must be Japan-only, right?

It's a shame that we only have Mr.Goemon on Switch. I really hope Konami will release a collection in the future, but I kinda doubt it since most games are japan exclusives.

I still continue to hope that they will port The Legend of the Mystical Ninja on NSO, my favorite game of all time.

@gaga64 Yeah, I suspect they meant Japan-only games; a lot of episodes in the series never came to the West.

Yeah, most of them are Japan-only, there are less than 9 Goemon games available in the West overall, even if we count Mr. Goemon.
There's the first SNES one, also available on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS VC, the horrible second Game Boy one, also available on the 3DS VC (with built in turbo buttons, perfect for those horrible button mashing bosses), the two N64 ones that are not Mononoke Sugoroku (never re-released sadly), and one that not many people seem to know about: a colorized version of the first Game Boy game, only available in Europe on the Konami GB Collection Vol. 3 cartridge for the GBC.

Which is really sad, because it's a really fun series. Sure, it has some lesser games, but I really like it overall. Has some great characters and atmosphere, and some incredible sountracks.

Good-Feel, the company made of mostly old Konami staff that were actually responsible for Goemon games, put out some teaser pictures for a new project they were working on that looked incredibly Goemon-esque... but it was supposed to come out in 2021, and we never heard from it since.

@Krisi I got the Konami GB Collection Vol 3 last year and was pleasantly surprised to find that the Goemon game wasn’t just a colourised version of the GB Goemon game, but a different game entirely.

Does that Goemon game exist elsewhere, or is it unique to that cartridge? Because I struggled to find much info on it.

Imagine a collection of all the Famicom and Super Famicom games on Switch, all translated. It just happened with Ninja JaJaMaru, it can happen with Goemon, too!

Poor Goemon. I had some surprisingly good fun, and l the world of Goemon became quite endearing to me. Hopefully someone will bring it back around.

To the eshop!

IGN ranked Legend of the Mystical Ninja the #32 best SNES game.

I read another article about Goemon games yesterday and added Mr. Goemon to my Switch wishlist. I'm a sucker for Japan exclusives.

I think this is more down to Konami than anything. They've neglected the series for years (even compared to the neglect it shows its other long-running series these days).

@GravyThief Yes. There were actually 2 Goemon games for the original Game Boy, and what we got originally in the second one. The one on the GB Collection is a colorized, translated version of the first game, that only came out in Japan originally, with the subtitle Sarawareta Ebisumaru.