Author Topic: So, list of Games you'd download? (Read 17308 times)

Strell · « **on:** May 17, 2005, 04:16:01 PM »

Off the top of my head...I'll try to keep these by system but I doubt I'll succeed. I'm at work so my attention is divided.

Excitebike
Castlevania 1/2/3/4/X
Contra
Contra III: Alien Wars
Goldeneye 64
Sin and Punishment
Tetrisphere (never got a chance to play it)
Blast Corps
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 4/6 (maybe even 3/5???)
Secret of Mana
Secret of Mana 2 (i.e. Seiken Densetsu 3...maybe there's a way to patch Japanese games???)
Mario Paint (Usb ports...mouse and keyboard?)
Earthbound 1/2 (i.e. Mother 1/2....hmm...maybe they'll finish Earthbound 64??)
Mario All Stars
Kid Icarus

Dammit now I have more questions than when I began...and I'll edit this with more later.

jasonditz · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2005, 04:31:01 PM »

A lot depends on price. If they keep the price reasonable (Say, $0.25 per NES ROM, $1 per SNES ROM, and $5 per N64 ROM, I'd probably get quite a few.

BlackGriffen · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2005, 04:50:56 PM »

Also important is which third parties they can get to re-release their stuff. That is, unless the license third parties had to sign is still good for letting Nintendo distribute the games.

I'd like to add that it looks like the original Playstation's use of CD's is finally a disadvantage for Sony - Sony can't offer anything like this at anywhere near the convenience no matter how much they like to brag about the number of games the PS3 could play.

BlackGriffen

Makzu · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2005, 04:55:16 PM »

That's a good list, and I really don't want to repeat anything. But I would add:

Pilotwings 64
Perfect Dark

And probably a few more..

Obiyo · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:07:29 PM »

Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Zelda: LttP
Super Metroid

Probably more that I can't think of at this moment. (If they're reasonably priced- a lot more)

trip1eX · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:27:22 PM »

Yeah it depends on price. Also can I archive them?

anyhoo I think Nintendo's back catalog might be great for kids. The games have generally easier controls. The difficulty of the games tho might be too great.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:27:34 PM »

If it's just Nintendo first party stuff nothing. I own every Nintendo published game I want to own so there's no point.

If third parties were included I would probably get some obscure SNES titles I can't find used like Chrono Trigger and R-Type III. My Earthbound's save battery is f*cked so I probably would get that too.

One thing that would be cool is if they used this to localize some originally Japan-only titles. If they used this to localize stuff like the SNES Fire Emblem games I would pick them up in a second provided they were priced right.

The price is the big factor. If Nintendo goes all NES Classis Series on us and charges $20 for games or something the whole thing will completely bomb. It depends how good the emulation is too. And if they CHANGE anything like adding crappy voices or something I won't download anything.

Strell · « **Reply #7 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:33:35 PM »

I've heard this comment a lot lately so I'm going to see if I can make sense of it.

"Yea well will it include third parties?"

1. Iwata (or whoever) said it would be ALL past library games.

2. Downloading these games is going to almost be 100% profit for whatever company. Aside from server costs, I can't think of much else. Let's assume Nintendo DOES have all the third parties. Let's assume someone wants to download Chrono Trigger. Let's say it's 10 bucks. I'd assume 2 might go to costs. The remaining 8 - maybe 3 goes to Nintendo, 5 goes to Square Enix. Point being is that it's basically pure profit to both companies AGAIN. So what would be the point of *not* allowing someone to download these games?

I guess at this point I just can't see a third party not wanting their games to be downloaded UNLESS, UNLESS Nintendo did something stupid and said "we want 90% of the profit for every game you download." At that point, yea, third parties might as well tell them to piss off.

I guess we'll know in a few months though....

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #8 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:45:08 PM »

What about companies that no longer exist?

Strell · « **Reply #9 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:59:29 PM »

Actually as I was writing that, I wondered the same thing.

Irem
Data East
Ultra (though that's really just Konami in disguise...)

Who else isn't around anymore?

Nile Boogie · « **Reply #10 on:** May 17, 2005, 06:30:04 PM »

EVERY GAME THAT HAS EVER BEEN RELEASED ON ANY SYSTEM SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD. It doesn't matter if who has the rights now, Nintendo owns those games. If you go to a Toys R' Us right now, look in the bargin bin and find Perfect Dark, will the clerk say, "Mircosoft owns this now franchise which means we can't sell it to you". Think iTunes but for games. Only games that won't be availible are the ones by that company who made NES Games without permission e.i. those funny shaped NES games. Fear not, the glory days are returning.

I don't know if this was said but will you be able to send the downloaded rom to the Ds to we can play on the go? Oh please, oh lease let that be true. If so, then the Ds could be the iPod of we all wanted, sorta...

NinjaGaiden Trilogy
EVERY R-Type and Contra
BlasterMatster
TMNT4 Turtles in Time.
StarFox
StarFox64
Clash at Demon Head
Stryder
3D worldrunner
Rad Racer
Yoshi's Island
F-zero all of them
007-373-5963...(you know what that is)
too many games to name

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #11 on:** May 17, 2005, 06:43:00 PM »

I wonder if there'll be any portable games emulated.

As for myself, first 2 games I'm getting are Super Metroid and Link to the Past. Just for the hell of it.

Savior · « **Reply #12 on:** May 17, 2005, 06:46:45 PM »

Hopefully Third Parties are on board. Chrono Trigger.

Obiyo · « **Reply #13 on:** May 17, 2005, 06:59:16 PM »

That would kick ass. I've never played Chrono Trigger and haven't been able to find it used.

blackfootsteps · « **Reply #14 on:** May 17, 2005, 07:07:12 PM »

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Originally posted by: Nile Boogie
I don't know if this was said but will you be able to send the downloaded rom to the Ds to we can play on the go? Oh please, oh lease let that be true. If so, then the Ds could be the iPod of we all wanted, sorta...

What happens when you switch the DS off?

Obiyo · « **Reply #15 on:** May 17, 2005, 07:12:17 PM »

they could use the sd expansion slot coupled with the play-yan(changed to support this) so that you could keep them

Arbok · « **Reply #16 on:** May 17, 2005, 07:34:21 PM »

Super Dodgeball (NES)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)
Super Mario RPG (SNES)
Final Fantasy 6 (SNES)
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Super Metroid (SNES)
King of the Monsters 2 (SNES)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4 (SNES)
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters (SNES)
Killer Instinct Gold (N64)
Goldeneye (N64)
Perfect Dark (N64)
Super Smash Bros (N64) [sorry I sold this one, would like to dig it out now just for the good memories]

If I could get a list together like that, it would be awesome. Yes I own just about all of these, save Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters and SSB which I sold, but having them all on one system without having to dig out the actual games would be very nice.

Of course, honestly, those are just the ones I would love to have, I would likely go insane with this thing and try to get tons more.

jasonditz · « **Reply #17 on:** May 17, 2005, 07:38:20 PM »

I hope Nintendo is smart enough to realize that they can't charge as much for an NES game as they can for an N64 game. If we look at Apple's 99 cents for a 4-5 MB download we get a pretty good idea of what it costs per MB to deliver content. NES games are WAY smaller than this, the cost would be almost nothing. I'd guess at the kind of volume they're likely to be doing its way way less than a penny a download in cost for your average NES ROM.

So what should they charge? Think of it this way: if they charge $5 each for NES ROMs, I'm going to buy only two or three of them. If its a buck, I have maybe 10-15 of them I'd probably get. If its a quarter, I'd probably buy hundreds. Since the cost per unit is practically nothing, they'll make a lot more money off of me at a quarter each.

I don't know if my likely spending habits are the same as other people here... so I don't know what's the "sweet spot" for them, but that pricing is a major issue, and it could be the difference between the backwards compatibility being a major selling point and a train wreck.

Here's what I'm picturing. Go into Circuit City, or Best Buy, or wherever, plop down $20 for a "Revolution Download Card" that has a scratch-off code you enter in (like a calling card). Then you can spend it however you want on content. Maybe they could even have pack-in cards that come with some of the new first party Revolution titles (or even other stuff like cereal or potato chips) in smaller denominations to get people to try out the service without paying for it. Maybe you could even win some credits playing online titles. $0.25 for an NES title, $0.99 for an SNES title, and $5 for an N64 title.

jasonditz · « **Reply #18 on:** May 17, 2005, 07:43:47 PM »

Can you see it? It's so beautiful in my mind.

Obiyo · « **Reply #19 on:** May 17, 2005, 07:44:46 PM »

Free is better, but I suppose that could work.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #20 on:** May 17, 2005, 08:33:30 PM »

"Irem
Data East
Ultra (though that's really just Konami in disguise...)

Who else isn't around anymore?"

R-Type Final came out a little while ago so I imagine Irem is still around.

What about licenced titles? When Konami included the old TMNT arcade games as bonuses for some new TMNT game they had to change the music because they no longer had the rights to it. I assume this would be a similar situation. Capcom made several great Disney games on the NES but they might have the rights to re-release something like Duck Tales. Of course most licenced games suck but there's Goldeneye and it would be nice to have that for download. Maybe EA and Nintendo could work a deal out for that one.

IceCold · « **Reply #21 on:** May 17, 2005, 10:03:30 PM »

That just gave me an idea...Nintendo could say "if you buy this game for the Revolution, you'll get a code to download the classic free". So, for example, you could download Super Metroid when you buy Metroid Prime for the Rev, or SMB64 if you buy SMBR

I just want two games - Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger. I used to have both, but somehow they got lost..

. Iwata (or whoever) said it would be ALL past library gamesNo...he said all past NINTENDO games

Caillan · « **Reply #22 on:** May 17, 2005, 10:14:27 PM »

I'd get too many, presuming they're cheap, for me to count. I've sold four people on the Revolution today by this alone. Nintendo just need to make sure they don't screw it up.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #23 on:** May 17, 2005, 10:22:36 PM »

I'd buy tons of SNES games, since I never owned one. I already beat Super Metroid with an emulator, awesome game, but I'd probably download cuz I do want to pay for it. And I could do it again, perhaps.
Really, though, this is incredibly news. I'll definitely be getting a ton of games, especially for SNES and N64, which I never got to own before.

PugGTI · « **Reply #24 on:** May 17, 2005, 11:16:14 PM »

I'd download none.

I've owned every major nintendo console since my NES and have the best of all the games i've had.

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