Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in a custom compiled list.
This week brings a Wii re-release of Super Mario All-Stars to North America, along with the downloadable Quake Arena Arcade and X-Men: The Arcade Game.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending December 18th, 2010.
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As part of the inevitable circle of life in gaming, we come to a compilation of remasters. In some respects Nintendo was a trailblazer, as remasters and upscales are all the rage in modern gaming; with good reason, too, as playing a better version of a great title isn't exactly a chore.
From the article, "So, there’s this thing happening at Google. As part of a big project to promote coding as a worthwhile thing to do, you can hop over to this website and play with a Made With Code bracelet customizing tool. You can even have it sent to you free of charge, fresh out of a 3D printer. At GamerTell, we pride ourselves in our silliness. We decided it would be a fun idea to pick out memorable quotes from our favorite games, lines we feel are perfect for a giant hunk of nerdy plastic. Old Japanese games are certainly easy targets for this kind of thing, but even so there’s no topping the goldmine that is X-Men: The Arcade Game. I wrote a list of my 10 favorite quotes from this classic, thoroughly stupid arcade brawler, then immediately jumped on the site to create my very own “WELCOME TO DIE” bracelet.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work out."
It's Super Mario Week at Review Crew, which means that we'll spend the next three episodes looking at old school games starring Nintendo's favorite Italian plumber. Up first it's Super Mario All-Stars, a compilation featuring upgraded versions of Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3 and The Lost Levels. Did critics love this 16-bit collection of 8-bit games, or did they view this as a cynical cash grab from Nintendo? We turn to Electronic Gaming Monthly, Nintendo Magazine System, SNES Force, Die Hard Game Fan and other classic magazines for the answer.
Mario 1,2,3....but with Super Mario World Sounds & Art Style.
How could you not like that.
THIS REVIEW: "What a thrill, all of my bad memories of 8 bit in living color ... boing, boing, happy, happy. I'm sorry, but the old Mario games just haven't stood the test of time. The music and sound FX are great, but the control is too lose [sic] and it's all just too cuddly. I believe it's time to retire Mario for a more nineties character." -Skid
Yet we're still downloading and playing them today. This guy was proven wrong... so wrong.
I strangely prefer the 8 bit versions than the 16 bit. Might be nostalgia factor.
I was just about to say the same thing.These remakes look and play better but it's just not how my mind remembers them.Anyone who grew up on or are just now playing them for the first time must think we are crazy for liking the old games better and they are probably right.lol
Mario 3 on the NES, SNES versions looked a not to clean and rent a mario, prefer them in their original forms, still played it, who didn't but I'd take the original games in this case every time.they were great in the first place, some things don't need constant tweaking, George Lucas I'm looking at you, the fact he put new Anakin at the end of Return of The Jedi was outrageous, little of topic but hey ho, as you were.
