Topic: Your First REV downloads

[Don'tHate742]

Assuming that Nintendo releases their entire back catalogue of games for download on Revolution's launch day, what games will you be downloading?

If rare's on board then my list is as follows:

Super Mario Allstars, StarFox 64, Pilotwings, Killer Instinct Gold, Diddy Kong Racing, and Majora's Mask. Realistically though, It might turn into an addiction to collect them all. Meaning, I might just...buy them all....when it launches (I'll definitely buy them all sooner or later).




P.S. I think Nintendo should call their system the RES (Revolution Entertianment System). People would say "I want to play some R.E.S (like NES)" Or maybe even "I want to play some rez (or rev)"  

[PaLaDiN]

Why would they call it the RES if it supports the lowest res of the next gen consoles? I mean the insults and puns practically write themselves.

Anyway, Super Metroid. I'm a Metroid whore.  

[Bill Aurion]

Super Mario Brothers (because it's the classic!)
Pilotwings 64 (because I can't find mine ;_;.)
All the Zelda games (because I need all Zelda in every format even though I have them all already =D)

Oh, and I REALLY want Terranigma so badly, you have no idea...Here's looking at you, Enix! >=O

[Don'tHate742]

Well, it has nothing to do with resolution. If it matter that much, you could spell RES - R.E.S.-

[Spak-Spang]

I will be buying my Revolution to rebuild my classic library of Nintendo games.  I am more interested in the classics than anything new...so I have a large list of games I will be collecting.

Super Mario Allstars
Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Yoshi's Island
Star Fox
Star Fox 64
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark (Please)
The Legend of Zelda (all)
Super Mario 64
All Nintendo Puzzle Games
Super Mario Kart
Mario Kart 64
Super Mario RPG

The simple fact is.  I may not even buy a launch title for the Revolution and just spend that money on old School downloads.

[JonLeung]

I've been holding off on playing any old Nintendo games in any form ever since I heard about the download service so that I can still have them to play on the Revolution.

I'll probably buy my whole game library again.  Ooooh, Nintendo is making me pay twice for my games - and willingly!  Smart.  Most of my games from the Super NES and up are the exclusive first-party games, though my NES probably won't last forever so hopefully the games I have for it will be included.  While big companies like Konami are likely to be on board, if any are, (so I won't miss out on buying Contra), I fear for other NES games I once owned from smaller/gone/absorbed/where-are-they-now companies (like my beloved Blaster Master from Sunsoft).

But more importantly, I'll be buying the games I feel I should have but don't.

Being the Nintendo fan that I am, I will probably get all the Mario games (I never did own All-Stars), the Metroid games (why did I sell Super Metroid?  WHY?), and all the Zelda games (I never did own Zelda II and Majora's Mask until the Collector's Edition Disc...and now I question why I'm buying them again)...

Therefore, some games I'd be buying just for the sake of having them, more for the sake than replaying them the umpteenth time.  Nintendo games have often been remade already (the main Mario games have all been remade except for Sunshine, all Zelda games are playable on the GameCube in some fashion...) so I wonder if the games I would actually be playing for the first time would actually be a small percentage of what I'm buying.

I really hope they don't charge too much...I'd be such a collector and much more so since it'll probably be very convenient.  Even at the impossibly low price of a dollar per NES game you'd see me willingly put down $700 for the whole official North American NES game collection...  I'd be happy, but I'd be broke.

[Pale]

The top 3 games I never finished and/or played back in the day...

Kid Icarus
Super Metroid
Earthbound

Then I'll just download everything else cause I'm a collection whore.

[Spak-Spang]

Earthbound, If I can find an English Translation is a must also.

[Epitaph]

Cobra triangle
ninja turtles
rc pro am
punch out,
mario bros 3
contra
dragonwarrior 1
breath of fire 1-2
rock and roll racing
cronotrigger
mario rpg
uniracers
zelda a link to the past
metal gear
megaman 1-4
bionic commando
kung fu

This is of course only if all companies come on board. Im just wondering if a company went bankrupt could nintendo include those games???  

[Don'tHate742]

Oh my!

I just realized how insane this collect-a-thon could get. If square, sega, konami, and capcom where to jump on board, I don't know what I would do. Streets of Rage, Ninja turtles, Contra, Chrono trigger......






OH MY GOD!

[odilon]

Earthbound
Pilotwings (since I've never played any version of it...)
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

...and many other's, I'm sure.  

[Ian Sane]

I prefer to have the original copies so I won't be downloading much.  However I would love to download classic games never released in North America like Terranigma or Final Fantasy III.  I never had an NES either so a few titles that I have never purchased in a re-release might get bought.  And since my copy of Earthbound's save battery is dead I might as well replace that.

All this depend on the pricing though.  If Nintendo has the gall to charge over $1 American on NES games I'm not downloading anything on principle.

[Bill Aurion]

Link's Awakening is a handheld game, and thus not on the list (though they could always add them in the future...)

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If Nintendo has the gall to charge over $1 American on NES games I'm not downloading anything on principle.

Principle of stubbornness...

[Don'tHate742]

Ya, what's up with that?

I'd like to see the original gameboy games for download....Then, when the GBA becomes absolutely, I'd like to see all gameboy games for download.

[Ian Sane]

"Principle of stubbornness"

More like principle of not being a tool.  The R&D for these games was done years ago and there are no manufacturing cost.  This is almost 100% profit for Nintendo so if they charge too much they're just being greedy dicks taking advantage of the same morons who paid $20 for GBA versions of NES games they already owned.

I'll give them slack if they make like a director's cut or translate a previously Japan-only game.  In those cases more work was put in.

If Nintendo is still going to give us the incomplete three-level NES version of Donkey Kong they better not charge more than a buck.

Although they haven't been annouced I think GB and GBC games should eventually be included since the DS doesn't support them.  Plus original Gameboy games are long out of print.  You can't buy a new copy of Metroid II anymore.  Though since Nintendo considers the GBA as a current product still they probably have the mindset that those old games are still playable on "current" hardware and downloads would eat into their likely non-existent GBC game sales.  It's probably going to happen someday though.

Are Gameboy games still sold new in Japan?  Maybe that's the justification.

[couchmonkey]

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings years ago.  I'm not giving any money to that greedy dick's estate.

Edit: Speaking of Gameboy games, I'd not only like to see them, but if possible I'd like to see the edges of the screen expanded.  One of the main drawbacks to a lot of Gameboy games (I'm especially thinking of Metroid II and Super Mario Land II) is that you can't see very far in any direction so you're always ramming into stuff.

[raptorspike]

I honestly don't have a need to download games. I have all my old consoles, and any games I want for them.

[Kairon]

Balloon Fighter. I don't want to have to boot up my GC Animal Crossing for that awesome game.

Oh, I'll get other games too. But... Balloon Fighter.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Pale]

I flipped my high score on the Animal Crossing version of Balloon Fight.  I'm very proud of that. =P

That said, you can add all my NES favorites to the list of downloaded games...

Namely...
Ice Climber
Balloon Fight
Wrecking Crew
SkyKid (if its there ><..  I think it was sunsoft?)

I'll tip my Rev controller sideways and fall back into my childhood.

[Hostile Creation]

Yoshi Island
Super Mario World
Link to the Past
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark (if available)

More later, gotta go eat.  Basically games I never played (or played but not owned) but have wanted to desperately.

[UncleBob]

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Originally posted by: Ian SaneMore like principle of not being a tool.  The R&D for these games was done years ago and there are no manufacturing cost.  This is almost 100% profit for Nintendo so if they charge too much they're just being greedy dicks taking advantage of the same morons who paid $20 for GBA versions of NES games they already owned.

So I'm left wondering, all the money that Nintendo is putting up for the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the servers and bandwidth, getting McDonald's (WayPoint, etc..) on board...  I wonder where all that money is going to come from?  You know, all those millions of dollars that Microsoft is supposedly losing on the Live! service (you know, the one that they charge for, as opposed to the one that Nintendo is saying that they won't charge for)...

Think it's going to come from 99 cent NES game downloads?

[Spak-Spang]

I am willing to pay up to $5.00 for a download game.  I understand the infrastructure of the online service must be payed for.  And I understand that these are still intellectual properties that have value whether you download it or buy the cartridge.

Everybody complaining about price needs to remember that...and also needs to remember the CONVIENCE of having a system that plays all your games...specially old games that are rare hard to find, or that the save batteries have died on.

As I said, I am probably going to have a huge library of 50-100 choice games from all systems.  I will have them saved on 2 backup SD cards and on the Revolution memory (until that fills up too much with other game saves).

I sold all my classic games with each new system so that I had money to afford the systems, and finally Nintendo is saying we understand you guys and we are bringing your favorites back.

I also hope for additions to games.  I hope Mario 64 is turned into the Mario 64 DS with online verse mode to play.

I hope that multiplayer games are allowed to be played online.

I will say, don't get your hopes up for your favorite licensed games like Ninja Turtles.  They may have a hard time releasing those games on the Revolution.

However, I am sure Nintendo has already got the big companies like Konami, Square, Capcom, Hudson Soft, and more ready to have game download service available.  It woudn't surprise me if Nintendo did the work for them, and translated the ROMS into whatever Revolution secure format they will use to avoid hackers and piracy.

[Ian Sane]

"I also hope for additions to games. I hope Mario 64 is turned into the Mario 64 DS with online verse mode to play."

I hope they do stuff like that but also offer the originals, likely for a lower price.  Nintendo, well, screwed up their GBA ports because of meddling.  Adding annoying sound effects and making games easier is not the sort of "additions" anyone wants to see.  If they want to bastardize classic games so Yoshi has his crappy Story voice instead of the "yeah-uh" sound effect he had before, okay, but put the original up too so that it's preserved.  Like any company Ninendo's style has changed a little bit over the years and it's noticable when you play game from across their consoles.  I think it's important that that be preserved.

[Spak-Spang]

Ian:  With Super Mario 64 you really can play the original game on the DS with just playing each level with Mario.  

I understand what you mean about meddling.  Sure I want the original but I want new content occassionally too.  However, I don't want them to be seperate downloads...I want them packed into the same download.

How awesome would it be if Nintendo quickly threw in just one more Cup for Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo using all the original sprites and such?  It would be awesome, take Nintendo practially no time at all, and it would completely warrant a price tag of $5-10 dollars.  Specially if they figure away to allow you to play 2-4 player games online.  (I know Mario Kart is only 2 player, however Bomberman and such are more.)

[UncleBob]

Ian does bring up an interesting idea... Putting up the original games... and putting up alternate versions of them.

Personally, I'd love to see an option to download new Super Mario Bros. 1 levels  - perhaps a design your own level contest?