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@Spider-Kev The fact that said magazine refers to the game as Paneru Gopon (not sure where/how they got the Go part) throughout the article makes me believe it was indeed made up.

I cannot see Nintendo thinking back then that changing the overall tone of the game from the Panel de Pon fairies to the somewhat gory fighters of Killer Instinct would have sold the game in the west, I feel it would have made players wish they were playing Killer Instinct instead.
Silver lining would have been that maybe a KI Panel de Pon would have had more chances for re-releases than Tetris Attack.

With that said, if a ROM hack happens, it better have the KI announcer shouting "Ultraaa Combooooooo!" after x6 chains.

@X68000 I'm surprised it's being ported to the Dreamcast first since it was envisioned as a Saturn sequel to the Mega Drive/Genesis games.

The day that DLC was announced was the day AiAi's banana matured.

For me it's the Gamecube game, such a wonderful game, I miss the early Acres system, made easier not getting lost, something that happened a lot in Wild World and in my little time with City Folk. I will forever miss my GC town known as "house".

Eventually I got an N64 cart of Doubutsu no Mori.

@sportymariosonicmixx the accident my Gamecube suffered wasn't even my fault. My sister was playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! with her ex boyfriend, back then the system was on a shelf placed higher than the TV. He got too excited and pulled the controller so hard its cord pulled the entire Gamecube and it fell to the floor.

He never apologized for what he did. If I remember correctly, this happened circa September 2006. So I was without playing Gamecube for a few months until I got a Wii.

Back then I didn't know what had actually happened until I opened it in 2021 and saw the crack on the board over the P1 Controller port, every other controller port worked fine. Thankfully that part is modular, which means I could simply swap it with a working one from a busted Gamecube I had laying around.
If I remember where I put this cracked board, I'll post a photo of it later.

Other than that crack and the lens disajustment, everything else still worked fine before 2021.

@sportymariosonicmixx did you try to get the laser fixed? My Gamecube also stopped working back in 2006. I've always assumed it was an aftermath from an accident caused by my sister's ex boyfriend, which cracked the board for the controller ports, rendering the P1 port unusable.

I ignored the system for many years until 2021 when I finally got the Gamebit screw I needed to open it and have a look myself. I had seen that adjusting a screw on the lens could fix the problem. I tried it myself and sure enough, my GC strated to work as great as it did back in 2001-2005 again.

@Martin_H in that instance, I see no problem in wanting games, which I assume are already expensive, in the best conditions as possible.

I mean, I'm already paying exaggerated prices for Gamecube games and most of the time they cannot be arsed to come with the manual, let alone come in the original box or have the cover art.

@Sketcz Thanks for the video, will watch later for sure.

@no_donatello Come to think of it, do you know how Another Code: Recollection did that particular puzzle?

@EarthboundBenjy the eShop closure was announced on late March 2022 and took place almost exactly a year later.

I remember because the week prior to the announcement I had gotten Metroid: Zero Mission, Drill Dozer and Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures without knowing those would be the first of my last purchases.

Sorry, but my New 3DS XL is still not going anywhere. Not until I get play Kirby: Planet Robobot, WarioWare: Gold, the two Mario & Luigi original games (the remakes are ok to skip) and Metroid Prime: Federation Force (yes, really).

This game had no right to be as good (albeit short) as it was.

@Najlosiji

I traded it for a 2 chocolates and a pack of smokes with an 8th grader (i was in 5th )

That would never happen today unless someone was that addict to either chocolate or cigarettes.

Wish this one was #500, as the actual #500 doesn't feel that special when it is already available in other ways.

On the flip side, not being #500 means I can play it sooner rather than later.

Makes you wonder if any of the staff in The Outfoxies was involved in Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U and/or Ultimate.

Not sure if at launch, but this one is definitely going to my Arcade Archives collection.

https://youtu.be/IVXJmfd3cmg?si=TaOUlpNf7xLmtDwi

Jokes aside, the real loss is the insane stories this SuperSaga brought with it.

Random guesses:
The Simpsons
Tekken
Popeye
VS. Mach Rider
VS. Duck Hunt
Mario Kart Arcade GP
A virtual recreation of Namco's Wani Wani Panic

Haven't done a restoration work like this myself, but I guess I'll take it as a compromise. As long as a system works, I don't care what it looks like if it's just for sparkles.

@kitestar For Mega Man specifically, there's still a few games: For "mainline" Mega Man series, the only one pending to make a comeback is the Legends series. Everything else is mostly spin-offs and side "mainline" games such as Rockman & Forte/Mega Man & Bass.

If you want, you may also include The Wily Wars and the GB Mega Man series (known in Japan as Rockman World) as unavailable in modern systems.
They're available on Nintendo Switch via NSO and the former is also on the Mega Drive Mini, but they're not available as games you can purchase on any current platform.

If they can go back to mainline Classic Mega Man looking like Mega Man 7; I'll be on board. But Capcom probably would rather do another 8-bit style Mega Man.

With that said, where have Zack and Wiki, Falcon/Fokker and Viewtiful Joe been all these years?

@PKDuckman I wonder if that's the reason there's an empty slot in the Marvel side of the Character Select Screen where Norimaro is in the Japanese version.

I'd like to smell like Naked Snake, but not necessarily being in that state while smelling like him.

Now, if only SEGA released it on consoles as much as they re-release SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis games.

The Miyamoto doodle could fit in as a character from It's Mr. Pants.

Sammy Salazar's mom is not proud of him yet.

I've been playing a lot of Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection these days and it's one of the things I wondered when I booted up Marvel Vs. Capcom 1 the first time.

Once I played the first FPS segment of Banjo-Tooie, I immediately thought of GoldenEye 007, mostly due to both games being from Rare more than anything else.

Let me have Fang, Trip, Ray and Mighty, please.

About Conker's Pocket Tales, can you toggle between Color and DMG versions? I heard that when you play the game on a DMG Game Boy, the world has a different layout or something to that extend.

Who is the ghost supposed to be?

So, it's a FDS or DSF

No, not Famicom Disk System, but rather Frankenstein Dual Screen/DS Frankenstein.

Don't show this to the AVGN, it'll trigger Top Gun plane landing flashbacks.

@HoyeBoye Don't forget "Mattel Electronics Presents: BeE sEvEnTeEn BoMbEr".

Anyway, I'm sure Tommy Tallarico's mother is very proud of him for the one sale of a console he kickstarted.

If it doesn't have a McNuggets-flinging Ryu in the same way as a Hadouken, I'm not interested.

@Tropicallo You mean the Virtual Console version? Cannot find any concrete proof, but I found that the European Wii Virtual Console had a serious bug where the game froze after clearing Stage 1.

The publisher of that version, Commodore Gaming, were aware of it but it was never resolved and forced Nintendo to give refunds.

Of the three Real Bout games, I think this is the one I've played the least despite having the ACA NEOGEO release. I should really give its due time.

With that said, I hope this one also comes to consoles.

More PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 games on modern systems are never a bad thing.

They better not mess up the song "The Palace That Was Found"

@Guru_Larry first thing that popped in my mind.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that screenshot is from a ZX Specteum game.

This is a game that occassionally pops up in my area, next time I see a copy I'll get it. I've always been interested in it out of principle of it being Tekken.

Hearing that it shares a lot in common with Tekken Tag Tournament now makes it a future purchase.

@Lanmanna back then I was still very new to gaming, and I believe I hadn't played Diddy Kong Racing when I saw the figures and my experience with Mario was relatively sparse that I didn't connect the dots that it was the same Mario from Super Mario World. But yes, silly 6-7 yo me was a fool that rejected a free toy.

SHIIIINOOOBIIIIIIII!!!

I will forever regret not getting either the Banjo figure from the Diddy Kong Racing line or the Mario one from Mario Kart 64 when my mom openly asked me if I wanted one for no reason.

I miss the Acres system of the original, made it easier to not get lost in the town. I have never been able to memorize any of my Animal Crossing towns, no joke.

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Americans discover there are other countries outside with different tastes.

Something similar happened to me once but not to the same extent. In 2017 a video game store in my city was selling a CIB copy of Pokémon Black for just 30 Mexican Pesos (about $2.50 at the time). Even the employees were surprised that the system was throwing that price. The funny thing is at the same time they also had a CIB copy of Pokémon White for 500 Pesos (about $25 at most).

Of course I bought it and still have it to this day.

Thank you for your hard work.
If ever get the chance to try the mod, I would. Even going as far as try to have it on an actual N64 cart.

Just played Grunty's Revenge for the first time about 2 years ago and it definitely feels a bit like a hiddem gem.

No paint can add-on?

@smoreon thanks for the summary of Viva Piñata. Despite fact I don't have an Xbox or GamePass, one day I'll play it along with Rare's other MS games, particularly Sea of Thieves.

The DS game often pops up in my area, so I might finally get a copy next time I see one.

@Broosh is that patch a fan translation of the Japanese release or is it based on the western GC localization?

@Broosh @BulkSlash
The games I can think of are
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Press the Sacred Crest (top screen symbol) on the Sea Chart (touch screen map) to transfer it) and

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (when Milla faints and you have to close the DS to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation)

Another Code: Two Memories / Trace Memory (close the lid just enough to not put the system on sleep mode to reveal a code via the reflection of the screens)

The cases of Zelda and Hotel Dusk are requiered to progress.
On the 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console versions, pressing HOME treats the DS game as if it was put on Sleep Mode.

Are there any other examples?