IGN article shows Nintendo is the king of re-releases!

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Resident_Hazard said:

Fab_GS said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Acevil said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

"Yeah, I missed Dragon Quest--so chalk that up with Final Fantasy and the couple times Chrono Trigger has been released.  That's still way less than Super Mario Bros appearing on no fewer than four Nintendo systems."

Wrong. Final Fantasy I appeared on the NES, PS1, GBA, Wonderswan Color, PSP, and Wii VC at the very least. So that one game is greater than SMB1. So don't tell me that all of S-E's re-releases are less than just SMB1.

Mobile as well. I can buy it on the blackberry. 

So S-E games and the releases I can confirm:

FF1: NES, MSX2, PS1, Wonderswan Color, GBA, PSP, Wii VC, Mobile, iPhone

FF2: NES, PS1, Wonderswan Color, GBA, PSP, Wii VC, Mobile, iPhone

FF3: NES, DS, Wii VC

FF4: SNES, PS1, Wonderswan Color, FOMA, GBA, DS, Wii VC, PSP

FF5: SNES, PS1, GBA

FF6: SNES, PS1, GBA

FF7: PS1, PC, PSN

FF8: PS1, PC, PSN

FF9: PS1, PSN

FF11: PC, PS2, 360

FF13: PS3, 360

DQ1: NES, MSX, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000, Super Famicom, GBC, Mobile

DQ2: NES, MSX, SFC, Super Famicom, GBC, Mobile

DQ3: NES, SNES, GBC, Mobile

DQ4: NES, PS1, DS

DQ5: Super Famicom, PS2, DS

DQ6: Super Famicom, DS

Secret of Mana: SNES, FOMA, Wii VC, iPhone

Chrono Trigger: SNES, PS1, DS

FF Tactics: PS1, PSN

Those are just off the top of my head, and can be adjusted.

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Now do one of Nintendo franchises.  Don't forget, the Virtual Console counts. I'm tempted, but I really should start my homework...

okay

Super Mario Bros, 2,3- NES, SNes in all star, Wii VC, All Star on Wii, GBA

Zelda 1 2- NES, Zelda Collectors edition (Free), Wii VC, GBA

Lttp- SNES, GBA, VC

Black Label NES games- NES, maybe and the VC and Ecards or Free with Animal Crossing GC

Punch-out- nes, VC, free on animal crossing

F-zero, Snes, VC

Star Fox- Snes, VC

Star fox 64- 64/VC

Metroid- NES-gba-vc, free on other games

and basically most of the time it goes on like this

Original Release, Being available on the VC then maybe on a handheld, then sometimes offered up as a freebie or rarely on a contemporary 2 to 3 game compliation in the place of what would have normally been a single game, the super mario bros series is the main exception.  considering the time span of up to 25 years for some of these that isn't excessive at all

the reason to repackage games is to make them available again to a new audience or allow an old fan to reobtain a favorite- and it isn't exclusive to video games- you can still buy new copies of Alice in Wonderland- do you fault publishers for keeping classic books in print? if you do your a jerk

Personally I'd say namco is the king of reissues, how many collections have they released with just Rally-x, Pacman, Galaga, Dig Dug and Xevious?