Not really. There are things in NSMB that weren't being done in old Mario games. If they wanted to imitate the old Mario games then they wouldn't have added extra moves in the game and updated the graphics. If you see it that way then any 2D side scrolling game is a retro game to you. No matter what differences and updates it may have.
) and those sell very well.They're also sales you have to get into at the right time, otherwise they're like $20 at the cheapest. That's something to remember too, you can't treat a sale price as the equivalent of a full price, or else games on a whole have spiraled into complete devaluation when that isn't QUITE the case.
You could say the same thing about Street Fighter. The button combos to do the moves are even the same in a lot of cases. Still doesn't mean it's a retro game. It's a new game in a game series. Of course a new Mario game takes influence from old Mario games. Would you also consider Galaxy to be a retro game because it has a lot of similarities with 64?
Game 45 (Mar. 16, 2014): Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (GBA, 3DS VC) - 11:38
Started this when it came out on Ambassador, but didn't "get" it. Just kept going around in circles in the same area, so just quit. Having now gone through a lot more Kirby games, this one is still an oddball. It's nothing like the other Kirby's I've played in structure. It's essentially a big exploration game where you have to just go to every room and find all these exits, and oh by the way, Kirby's there and so are his traditional enemies/abilities. Definitely not a Metroidvania, as the abilities are there from the get-go. Is a big-time exploration game. Would've liked it more if there were less enemies in my exploration game, but it wasn't too bad in the end. Guess would have to call it a grinder, since you're just going to each level and trudging through to just find all the rooms exits again and again. Final boss was typically for a Kirby game ridiculously hard with several successive fights. Still a jarring contrast to the rest of the main game. Not too difficult with a lot of lives and figuring out the shortest way to kill it each time. Still a jarring experience, though. Decent timewaster for GBA, but of the Kirbys, still think Dreamland 2 is the best of what I've played (single-player). Still playing through Return to Dreamland, though, so we'll see how that one finishes.
That's not a quality or longevity indication, though. That has to do with there being ZERO appetite for content above that price on handhelds. That has nothing to do with this.
Production cost of cartridges alone makes $20 pretty reasonable for a physical release of anything.
Well, there is the angle that if you can't release them alone affordably then bundle them. Would have been pretty nice to have something like Super Mario All Stars on the GBA admittedly.
There were price complaints at the time and it wasn't exactly unjustified. I mean, I know that wasn't the point of the Famicom Mini anniversary but overseas we didn't even get the cool packaging or a third the releases for NES Classics. It'd have been nice if they bundled several games on each cart and done volumes instead or something but the games still sold incredibly well anyway.
Donkey Kong!
So, just talking about the hobby, you're saying the value of experiences like Advance Wars and Metroid Fusion is less than that of....lunch?
I bet we'll see N64 late 2015.
It's almost crazy just how good Metroid had it until Other M.
And I wanted to play Kid Icarus and an OoT remake on a console. I've learned to accept it. I recommend the same thing.
Why just these games? Why not EVERY game? Where is your line being drawn in the sand?
