Give Us Back The Old Nintendo (Nowgamer article)

[vlad321]

c0rd said:

dtewi said:

Well, I'd just like to let you know that they are not the worst.

SMBB>SMB64 any day of the week.

MKWii>Double Dash!!

And although I haven't played Twilight Princess, do you think that it's worse than LoZ for the NES?

I won't comment on the others, but I hope you're not implying The Legend of Zelda for the NES was a weak game! It's tied with Twilight Princess in user reviews on VGC, though I personally think it's better (not that it means much, since all console Zeldas are of extremely high quality)

 

As for the big whine in the OP, I question whether they know what "The Old Nintendo" is really about. It seems to me like the people who favor HD consoles are more fans of PC games than anything, with all the attention on graphics, story and such, and very little attention on local multiplayer, arcade style fun.

Old video game consoles, or "The Old Nintendo" was always focused on the latter. The NES games barely had any story, and had poor graphics compared to PC games. Nintendo did slowly drift off with the SNES and N64... with the GC way out there, being Nintendo's worst console by far (though largely because Rare was at its worst).

So I'm not sure how the console isn't associated with the mutual enjoyment of people who liked the old games (particularly NES, or arcade games), as it is easily the console with the strongest local multiplayer lineup on the market. People like our gran, our nieces, or other non-gamers? They loved the NES. It had games like Tetris, Duck-Hunt, and Pac-Man on it.

Remember, the Wii is not even 4 years old. Since the Wii is most comparable to the NES, just remember what the NES looked like at the same age - missing some of the most prolific games from the system, like Mega Man 2 and SMB3, FF and DQ...

You are actually absolutely wrong. PC fans abhor the HD consoles since they don't offer nothing more than mostly half-assed PC experiences. Meanwhile the Wii offers something that is not only far better on the PC, but is also neigh impossible on the PC.