Shiryu

Good ol' St1ka!

Speedball 2 on switch when, Rebellion?

I never gave a fair chance to Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube mostly because by the time I got the system I already had a huge pile of backlog to go trough thus I think it is time I change that as soon as I can free up my schedule. I've always preferred Star Fox Assault for being a proper Star Fox game. Much like Star Fox 2 on the SNES, I was gutted when the game was canned on the Nintendo 64, it would have been an epic swan song for the system. I also condone everyone saying on my gameplay video that this was all Miyamoto's fault. It is Alway easy for us in the cosy distance of the present to judge the past without any risks, but for the people living it I believe things just went the way they were meant: We lost a late gen N64 that was truly pushing the hardware to its maximum capacity but won an impressive first gen GameCube game instead. A fair trade IMO.

...yeah, I'm completely OK with not getting one.

....someone is bound to post this gif sonner or later, might as well be me.

@Friendly A microscope was involved.

Thank you for your work, good sir. Thank you for this tribute, Damien.

The Commodore Amiga might have made me the man I am today, but it was Super Play that made me write for Nintendo Life. RIP good sir.

OK, will buy it.

Quickly browses prices...

... damnit.

@ZeldaFanboy78 Sprites!? When you flip the inside of the book you will understand... =)

Some guy spent a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of time getting all those in-game screen shots. Bet you he his an alright chap, that one.

@GealachNua Like me: Absolutely broke.

@KitsuneNight No, both this and Uber Eats: Apocalypse come out on November 8th. At least over here.

Normal people: "Death Stranding is out today!"
Shiryu people: "Capcom Home Arcade is out today!"
Everyone is a winner.

... I need those games (I love Slap Fight MD!) back in my life so its a yes from me , dawg.

@RogerFederer Yep, I would have to either pick it up from France or the UK at the time because the foreign magazines had import game store ads with price listings. But I started looking into those prices and it was just unfeasible. I instead gathered all my pennies and patiently awaited for the official PAL SNES to show up in my country.

Curiously I was playing this just this morning.

I often fear the day this will be on my plate. Hopefully a decision I will never have to make. Too many memories attached to those boxes and cartridges, but you never know what life has in store for your next...

... this thing is ridiculously tempting...

Very cool! Another place id get lost and lose all sort of need to get back home.

A reminder that The Square goes with everything.

Sad news to wake up to. RIP good sir, your ZX Spectrum Ocean covers where the highlight of my shelves when I was a kid.

A personal favourite:

Omake: Did not know Mag Max was from him as well.

@Fandabidozi I need a new LCD replacement, no other way about it.

@JHDK

My black Game Boy Pocket LCD display sundently began growing a huge black spot that now cover 90% of the screen. Gutted, I really loved that one.

...incredible!

"Blade Runner" saw this coming.

@mikegamer It is indeed a hefty investment, but with the price of cartridges hiking up every year, pretty much we will no choice in the near future to play all those delicious Super Famicom exlusives.

This was a great read. I really should start saving up to get a fully loaded SD2SNES I guess...

@ThanosReXXX Indeed, it was worth waiting for the Amiga version, the one I played the most at the time since I didn't have a Megadrive bacjk then and (sadly) the SNES edition never showed up at local stores.

@SonataAndante "L" and "R" made it a bliss to play on the SNES, since you could strafe and still fire Hydras independently unlike the Megadrive version that you had to hold "A" to strafe.

@holygeez03 You must be new here... allow me to introduce myself:

http://www.nintendolife.com/staff/goncalo-lopes

Retro Contributor. Retro is history. Retro is important knowledge. Retro is not only Nintendo. If I didn't think this news was important, I would not have submitted it. I believe you will find most of the staff and public will agree. "Nintendo Life" isn't "Nintendo Supreme Doctrine". "Nintendo Life" is about video games, the industry as a whole. All of them!

@sdelfin "Jungle" and "Urban" are also quite impressive, but they messed with the controls so I stick to the original when I want to play Strike in four shades of green.

@holygeez03 No.

You might think I'm crazy, but having "Desert Strike" in my pocket was an absolute treat.

Great read! Now if only they remember to put the new one on the Switch...

I will keep a keen, close eye on this one.

I knew it all sounded to good to be true. I know I shouldn't expect much from a 60 bucks system, but still... I will gladly take 30 perfectly emulated games to 100 "so, so" ones any time. No deal for me.

It's silly the amount of great FPS games on N64. "Turok" did sell me that FPS on console were possible despite the lack of mouse, keyboard and even online play. Sure everyone will always recall "Goldeneye" before they mention "Turok", but the whole four games on the system were solid good fun. Nice one @Churchy.

Nice one, James! My favourite game in the whole series! I think its due time I replay it (no stealth camo).

This here people is what you call a "Cluster F*** of Epic Internet Proportions". CFEIP for short.

I would give anything (ANYTHING!) to see, play and buy the original CD-Rom vision of what "Secret of Mana" was going to be.

I remains my all time favourite Star Wars game with good reason. I dream of a new entry in the series, just imagine what could be done on current gen hardware (heck, even on 3DS it would look ace!). I hope somehow, somewhere Disney and EA are taking notes because I am not at all convinced with the new "Battlefront".

PS: That last video still brings me pain. I really wish they had release it.

Thanks for reminding me I need to order that book.

Excellent piece! It's games like this why I keep coming back to my GameCube library, one which I consider superior in variety to the Wii and Wii U. A real shame those times are long gone now.

@TomKnows let's see how this goes...

I want to see where this one is going. Oh, it looks like a Jaguar because it uses indeed the plastic outer shell of Atari's ill fated home effort.

If we ever got half the quality of the tiles for that were being released PC Engine CD from Japan released in the west along with what European and American companies where putting out on the Mega CD (I'm looking at you, "Dune"!), along with the proper "Secret of Mana" game that was initially developed and maybe even "Final Fantasy VI" on this instead of PSX, I do believe it would be very interesting time indeed (despite the odd FMV interactive movie and lots of games that where the same on cart but with extra FMV and red book audio). If this was successful, no doubt in my mind the Nintendo 64 would have CD storage instead of cartridges as well. What a wonderful, bizarro world we would be living in. Of course that would also mean no PSX, no PS2, no PSP, no PS3, no PS Vita, No PS TV, no PS4...

These offer such fantastic insight. I really love the game and there is nothing quite like it on the N64. Could have never guessed it faced so many hardships before it reached the shelves.

...do not want. >_< But RIP, good sir.