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"So... which one?"

Revolution allows you to download and play any game from Nintendo's 20 years worth of back catalogue, right back to the NES.

What's the first 'retro' title you'll want to get, and why?

TMNT4: Turtles Through Time

Aaah memories. :D

If they give them away for free, it'll be Nintendo only games, unless some kind companies 'donate' games. If they charge for them, they I cant see why it becomes restricted at all...

EDIT: But saying that, no companies are making any money from these games now. So it could possibly be any game.

Ah I'm confused now.

Majora's Mask and Pilotwings 64.

Yummy!

sPiKeCaSt wrote:
> Paper Mario on the N64 for me if it's only Nintendo titles. Missed out
> on it and would really like to see what it's like.

I'd agree on that, the second was very good and I never had a chance to play the first.

Shadowgate.
'Cos it rocks.

It will surely be all games that are published by Nintendo.

As publisher, that gives them the rights to sell or give away the game, surely?

Strafio wrote:
> Are they going to charge you for it?

I don't think so. Come to think of it, they've not actually said whether they will or not... but I think it would be a stupid decision to charge people to download the games.

> Perhaps Perfect Dark and Conker will run without slowdown when ran on
> the revolution...

There's a chance that both of those games won't be available for download. Nintendo haven't said whether it'll be titles that appeared on their systems... or simply titles that THEY created. If it's the latter, then that rules of Perfect Dark and Conker.

Mav wrote:
> Mario is Missing.
>
> Really, quite awful, but nostalgic.

Haha. One of the worst games I've ever had the displeasure of playing.

This whole idea of allowing people access to a huge back catalogue of retro games is something I've been hoping for for a long time (not just those crappy retro compilations that come with a couple of good games and dozens of naff ones that nobody remembers, proper big collections). An excellent idea if you have an epic back catalogue as Nintendo do.

With films you can get a hold of any old film if it's been released on VHS or DVD, but not with games. If you go into your local games shop the only games you can really buy are current ones (or at least only games from the last couple of years). Allowing people access to vast amounts of classic video gamery is a genius idea, especially if they did allow you to play certain titles online (such as the Mario Karts or GoldenEye for example).

I'd've creamed myself 3-4 years ago, but I'm all grown up and boring now. :-)

Still "vaguely" interested. :-)