That's hilarious. Ah, the innocence of childhood.

It also illustrates that, whatever angst people in America feel towards the fact that they're missing out on these Wii RPGs, we in Europe had it worse. Much worse. For much longer. I'd like to be sympathetic to your plight, but that would be a total double standard. Do you know how gutted I was at the time when the tantalising prospect of an RPG starring Mario was ripped from my grasp? Hugely. But I didn't start making threats. I seethed quietly for a while and moved on.

In the words of Monty Python, always look on the bright side of life. *whistles*

@Killer_Man_Jaro


It wasn't fair back then, and it's not fair now with games like ExciteBots for you.


At the same time, though, translating four Dragon Warrior games, Earthbound, Final Fantasy, Super Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, etc. into French, Spanish, Italian, and German would be a gigantic undertaking and hardly worth the investment. We're complaining about games that are already in English. Literally all that needs to be done is to change it to NTSC and sell it.


P.S. I'm still sour about Sin & Punishment 1 :(

You put so much faith in those letters! I wonder how well Sony, Sega, or Microsoft have responded to their outspoken fans in the past compared to the way NoA is treating us today

Maybe NoE is making up for it's mistakes of the past?
Shame I'd already jumped ship to US models of their systems, now leaving me yet again in the dark!


This is why it always takes me so long to choose the region of system I'm going to buy, Nintendo region lock them, but then don't release the same games in each territory! Very frustrating. It's why I haven't bought a 3DS.


I have no idea what I'm going to do with the Wii U.

Not to rub it in, but I own all of the games listed here, except for the two Japan-only Nintendo 64 games. Maybe that's why I'm not really complaining about the lack of a release for three games.

The Indiana Jones game situation wasn't much better in North America, the only way to play the game was to rent it from Blockbuster Video. I guess that is better than in Europe (where it got canceled altogether).

You could also buy it directly from the publisher's store.

It looks like the PC version was released in Europe, but the N64 version brought some improvements so it isn't the best version.

Funny.  I'm in the US and never really had to deal with that growing up.  I can sort of relate for the time it took for arcade games to come to consoles in the 16 bit era.  Some games never came even though a friend of a friend's dad had an Uncle that worked for Midway or whoever and said it was coming.

Are you from the UK?

I don't think Americans have had any soul-crushing moments of games not being released, expect maybe for S and P.
Until now at least!

Not soul crushing, but I was a little disappointed when Doshin the Giant wasn't released here.

NEW PLAY CONTROL PIKMIN 2

Me? No, but I hope to move there someday. I'm not sure if there has ever been a situation like this before, where three Nintendo titles are released everywhere but North America, but there have been some other games I would have liked to see released here. Some probably more than these three. The two games mentioned above me are some. In any case, I don't expect every game to be released here because many of the ones that aren't wouldn't sell, or well enough to be worth the effort. We're lucky to have gotten certain games which obviously had no appeal here but were released anyway. Case in point are the Dragon Warrior games mentioned in the article. Dragon Warrior II didn't sell well at all, yet they still went on to release III and IV.

This.

Not quite the same though, seeing as Pikmin 2 for GameCube was released...and works in your Wii ;-P
But yeah, completely ridiculous that it wasn't released in the US, at least you got NPC Mario Tennis!
*silence*

I'll Trade.