Nintendo brings Super Mario Kart to the Virtual Console today, the classic SNES racing game that spawned many Mario racers, for 800 Wii Points ($8). A NES classic is also available today on the Virtual Console with A Boy and His Blob. Get ready for another BIT.TRIP, with BIT.TRIP VOID coming to WiiWare today. Plenty of Electroplankton mini-games are coming to DSiWare too. See the new WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare games coming out today, starting at 9am PST, with all the details from Nintendo.
Yagmur Sevinc from NoobFeed writes - Sometimes the genre defines the game, but sometimes the game defines a genre, and it is beautiful.
My list:
1) Demon’s Souls - set a trend for Souls games
2) Amnesia - set trend for survival horror
3) Doom - set trend for arcade FPS’
4) Arkham Asylum - set trend for OW combat
5) Hitman 2 - set standards for sandbox levels
6) MGS1 - set trend for stealth mechanics
7) LoU - set trend for games not necessarily being “fun”, and for (trying to) eliminating ludonarrative dissonance from the violence in a game’s story.
8) Death Stranding: likely to be the only game in the “strand” genre ever. I love it, especially with the Dualsense, but it’s hella niche.
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WTMG's Heidi Hawes: "I really enjoyed my time with A Boy and His Blob. I definitely understand now why this adorable little game won the hearts of so many. It might not being the most challenging game on the market, but it’s still a lot of fun. The levels are all very brief, which makes it an ideal game for the Switch. It’s the perfect game to pick up and play on-the-go."
"Today, publisher of retro-and-modern games Ziggurat Interactive announced that the unique and cherished classic puzzle platformer “A Boy and His Blob“, is coming to the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Eshop today." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Super Mario Kart, one of the very, very few Nintendo games I could waste hours of my life playing. Such fun games.
I can remember setting a record for myself on Rainbow Road in the original Mario Kart for SNES. I couldn't top it, neither could anyone else I knew at the time. I remember setting it with Mario.
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Holy %$*&...awesome updates. Super Mario Kart AND A Boy and His Blob? Sign me up!
Certain classics fare better in updates. I have no desire to play 16 bit Mario Kart at this point. I love Retro, but some franchises benefit from their progress.