Edit: Heh. Just as I'm criticizing Nintendo yet again for their poor treatment of VC, some actual good news shows up. :lol ...Nonetheless, just like the rest of VC, Master System will probably never see the least bit of promotion except perhaps the week or two when it launches, and that makes me just the slightest bit upset. :/ Nonetheless, I'm sure there'll be games I'll enjoy, so from that more limited and/or self-centered standpoint, this is pretty nice news.
Now I just have to go figure out which games those are, since--wouldn't ya know it--I put together lists of stuff I'd want if Sega CD, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, or Saturn were one day supported by VC, but not Master System. :lol
Edit 2: Okay, after finding out that Game Gear games are included in the Master System support, I'm quite a bit more hyped than before! I guess tonight is a night for both celebration and criticism, then, at least for me.
So, get this:
SMB, Zelda 1, Kirby's Adventure, Super Metroid, Star Fox 64, and others will have time-limited demos in Smash Bros. Brawl. And
the Japanese site also shows this to be true of Earthbound and Fire Emblem 3--at least, I suppose, in Japan.
Actually advertising games available on VC? Making the service visible to Wii owners? Letting people know it exists? Shocking. But hey, Sakurai does what Nintendon't.
Get with it, Nintendo. You've been shown up by your former employee twenty times over. (
Well, actually it's probably significantly more than twenty times over, but who's really counting?) (Alternative sarcastic comment: In reality it's infinity times over, since Nintendo's promotion of VC to this point has been exactly nil, with people like us being the ones selling it via word-of-mouth. :|)
But putting my mini-rant aside for a moment, I'm sure there are people who might be interested in VC a little bit, but not enough so to try classics like Super Metroid and Earthbound (if it ever shows up in NA) sight-unseen, so hopefully this can get them some more exposure. Whatever the case, since Brawl comes out in Japan in the slightest bit under one week, hopefully we'll find out soon enough exactly how many trial games are available, more details on the length of time they can be played before it kicks players out, whether there'll be some third-party trials, etc.
Again, though... A good show for Sakurai IMO, but it casts the most negative of lights on Nintendo for being negligent and not having done this much sooner--it's especially striking when I consider just how many more resources the company has available to it than this single development team.
