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Ain't it funny. We sit here typing away about how we hate ports on our consoles. We hear newbies moaning how that's all we're getting on the Game Boy Advance and that it isn't what the gamer wants.
Lets look at the sales charts shall we?
In the UK chart for the weeks top selling Game Boy Advance games we have Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 at No. 5
At No. 6 on the GameCube chart there's Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes.
In the Japanese All Formats charts there's NES Super Mario Bros at 14, NES Dr. Mario at 15, at 16 there'sNES "Gambare Goemon! Karakuri Douchu" (any translations would be appreciated), and 18 NES Twin Bee.
For the GameCube, fans went crazy for copies of Ocarina of Time and Master Quest, and again for the 4 game Zelda disc which contained Majora's Mask and the two NES titles!
The fact is, ports are selling. And I'm glad they are too!
Granted I was a bit peeved that Donkey Kong Country was re-released for Game Boy Advance shortly after it had been ported at great effort to Game Boy Color, but I'd be a hypocrite to complain now after swapping my Color version to the Advance one. And now my excitement is building up over the fact that I'll soon have a NES Classic edition of the Game Boy Advance SP to replace my shiney blue one in July. I'll have Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong in all their original glory and I'm sure I'll pick up wonderboy - the brilliant platformer that I first played in the arcades, then on a mates NES over fifteen years ago.
Sure, I could have them emulated on my PC. But to be quite honest, why would I want to when I can play them on the go, or wherever I want?
Ports are great. They allow the current generation of gamers to play the games of the previous decades, and give those who didn't have the original consoles a second chance to get the games for themselves.
Now it hasn't been that long since 3D games have been out - relatively speaking. So the Game Boy Advance is the perfect system to be porting all the old classics to. With the GBA userbase being the biggest of any system so far, it's no wonder tonnes of NES, SNES and MegaDrive games have been ported over - not to mention some old ZX Spectrum classics.
So what about the delay it's causing on new games getting a release? There isn't one! These games use the simplest of coding in comparison to games of todays standards! They would take very little editing to be rendered playable on the Game Boy Advance and so we are being charged less for these new NES re-releases. Granted, Nintendo may be a little more greedy when it comes to other ports like Donkey Kong Country 2, but it is a slightly more complex game to port and it's likely to sell a lot regardless of price, so Nintendo aren't going to make a loss on it really.
And are ports damaging the availability of new games on our systems? No! Look at the GameCube's 2005 lineup. Look at the DS lineup and look at all the new titles in development for all three systems!
If you don't want to get them - don't. That's up to you. But don't even try to tell me they're taking precedence over the development of new titles, I'll just laugh (or blow flatulence) in your face.
Lets look at the sales charts shall we?
In the UK chart for the weeks top selling Game Boy Advance games we have Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 at No. 5
At No. 6 on the GameCube chart there's Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes.
In the Japanese All Formats charts there's NES Super Mario Bros at 14, NES Dr. Mario at 15, at 16 there'sNES "Gambare Goemon! Karakuri Douchu" (any translations would be appreciated), and 18 NES Twin Bee.
For the GameCube, fans went crazy for copies of Ocarina of Time and Master Quest, and again for the 4 game Zelda disc which contained Majora's Mask and the two NES titles!
The fact is, ports are selling. And I'm glad they are too!
Granted I was a bit peeved that Donkey Kong Country was re-released for Game Boy Advance shortly after it had been ported at great effort to Game Boy Color, but I'd be a hypocrite to complain now after swapping my Color version to the Advance one. And now my excitement is building up over the fact that I'll soon have a NES Classic edition of the Game Boy Advance SP to replace my shiney blue one in July. I'll have Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong in all their original glory and I'm sure I'll pick up wonderboy - the brilliant platformer that I first played in the arcades, then on a mates NES over fifteen years ago.
Sure, I could have them emulated on my PC. But to be quite honest, why would I want to when I can play them on the go, or wherever I want?
Ports are great. They allow the current generation of gamers to play the games of the previous decades, and give those who didn't have the original consoles a second chance to get the games for themselves.
Now it hasn't been that long since 3D games have been out - relatively speaking. So the Game Boy Advance is the perfect system to be porting all the old classics to. With the GBA userbase being the biggest of any system so far, it's no wonder tonnes of NES, SNES and MegaDrive games have been ported over - not to mention some old ZX Spectrum classics.
So what about the delay it's causing on new games getting a release? There isn't one! These games use the simplest of coding in comparison to games of todays standards! They would take very little editing to be rendered playable on the Game Boy Advance and so we are being charged less for these new NES re-releases. Granted, Nintendo may be a little more greedy when it comes to other ports like Donkey Kong Country 2, but it is a slightly more complex game to port and it's likely to sell a lot regardless of price, so Nintendo aren't going to make a loss on it really.
And are ports damaging the availability of new games on our systems? No! Look at the GameCube's 2005 lineup. Look at the DS lineup and look at all the new titles in development for all three systems!
If you don't want to get them - don't. That's up to you. But don't even try to tell me they're taking precedence over the development of new titles, I'll just laugh (or blow flatulence) in your face.
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Ain't it funny. We sit here typing away about how we hate ports on our consoles. We hear newbies moaning how that's all we're getting on the Game Boy Advance and that it isn't what the gamer wants.
Lets look at the sales charts shall we?
In the UK chart for the weeks top selling Game Boy Advance games we have Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 at No. 5
At No. 6 on the GameCube chart there's Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes.
In the Japanese All Formats charts there's NES Super Mario Bros at 14, NES Dr. Mario at 15, at 16 there'sNES "Gambare Goemon! Karakuri Douchu" (any translations would be appreciated), and 18 NES Twin Bee.
For the GameCube, fans went crazy for copies of Ocarina of Time and Master Quest, and again for the 4 game Zelda disc which contained Majora's Mask and the two NES titles!
The fact is, ports are selling. And I'm glad they are too!
Granted I was a bit peeved that Donkey Kong Country was re-released for Game Boy Advance shortly after it had been ported at great effort to Game Boy Color, but I'd be a hypocrite to complain now after swapping my Color version to the Advance one. And now my excitement is building up over the fact that I'll soon have a NES Classic edition of the Game Boy Advance SP to replace my shiney blue one in July. I'll have Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong in all their original glory and I'm sure I'll pick up wonderboy - the brilliant platformer that I first played in the arcades, then on a mates NES over fifteen years ago.
Sure, I could have them emulated on my PC. But to be quite honest, why would I want to when I can play them on the go, or wherever I want?
Ports are great. They allow the current generation of gamers to play the games of the previous decades, and give those who didn't have the original consoles a second chance to get the games for themselves.
Now it hasn't been that long since 3D games have been out - relatively speaking. So the Game Boy Advance is the perfect system to be porting all the old classics to. With the GBA userbase being the biggest of any system so far, it's no wonder tonnes of NES, SNES and MegaDrive games have been ported over - not to mention some old ZX Spectrum classics.
So what about the delay it's causing on new games getting a release? There isn't one! These games use the simplest of coding in comparison to games of todays standards! They would take very little editing to be rendered playable on the Game Boy Advance and so we are being charged less for these new NES re-releases. Granted, Nintendo may be a little more greedy when it comes to other ports like Donkey Kong Country 2, but it is a slightly more complex game to port and it's likely to sell a lot regardless of price, so Nintendo aren't going to make a loss on it really.
And are ports damaging the availability of new games on our systems? No! Look at the GameCube's 2005 lineup. Look at the DS lineup and look at all the new titles in development for all three systems!
If you don't want to get them - don't. That's up to you. But don't even try to tell me they're taking precedence over the development of new titles, I'll just laugh (or blow flatulence) in your face.
Lets look at the sales charts shall we?
In the UK chart for the weeks top selling Game Boy Advance games we have Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 at No. 5
At No. 6 on the GameCube chart there's Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes.
In the Japanese All Formats charts there's NES Super Mario Bros at 14, NES Dr. Mario at 15, at 16 there'sNES "Gambare Goemon! Karakuri Douchu" (any translations would be appreciated), and 18 NES Twin Bee.
For the GameCube, fans went crazy for copies of Ocarina of Time and Master Quest, and again for the 4 game Zelda disc which contained Majora's Mask and the two NES titles!
The fact is, ports are selling. And I'm glad they are too!
Granted I was a bit peeved that Donkey Kong Country was re-released for Game Boy Advance shortly after it had been ported at great effort to Game Boy Color, but I'd be a hypocrite to complain now after swapping my Color version to the Advance one. And now my excitement is building up over the fact that I'll soon have a NES Classic edition of the Game Boy Advance SP to replace my shiney blue one in July. I'll have Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong in all their original glory and I'm sure I'll pick up wonderboy - the brilliant platformer that I first played in the arcades, then on a mates NES over fifteen years ago.
Sure, I could have them emulated on my PC. But to be quite honest, why would I want to when I can play them on the go, or wherever I want?
Ports are great. They allow the current generation of gamers to play the games of the previous decades, and give those who didn't have the original consoles a second chance to get the games for themselves.
Now it hasn't been that long since 3D games have been out - relatively speaking. So the Game Boy Advance is the perfect system to be porting all the old classics to. With the GBA userbase being the biggest of any system so far, it's no wonder tonnes of NES, SNES and MegaDrive games have been ported over - not to mention some old ZX Spectrum classics.
So what about the delay it's causing on new games getting a release? There isn't one! These games use the simplest of coding in comparison to games of todays standards! They would take very little editing to be rendered playable on the Game Boy Advance and so we are being charged less for these new NES re-releases. Granted, Nintendo may be a little more greedy when it comes to other ports like Donkey Kong Country 2, but it is a slightly more complex game to port and it's likely to sell a lot regardless of price, so Nintendo aren't going to make a loss on it really.
And are ports damaging the availability of new games on our systems? No! Look at the GameCube's 2005 lineup. Look at the DS lineup and look at all the new titles in development for all three systems!
If you don't want to get them - don't. That's up to you. But don't even try to tell me they're taking precedence over the development of new titles, I'll just laugh (or blow flatulence) in your face.
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