Has there ever been a worse time to be a Nintendo fan?

[Aquamarine]

Soundwave said:

Aquamarine said:

Nintendo's 2016 lineup is one of their worst ever. I'm a HUGE Nintendo fan and I'm literally only interested in Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Pokemon, Bravely Second, and Twilight Princess HD.

We also know next to nothing about Nintendo's 2017 plans except for Zelda NX.

So not only do we have a sparse lineup this year, but we also have to deal with an incredible amount of uncertainty. The NX could stun us with a fantastic lineup...or it could be even worse than the Wii U. The problem with today's Nintendo is we really don't know how the NX is going to turn out.

This is a really bad time to be a Nintendo fan. It's one of the worst years to be a Nintendo fan, that's for sure. 1995 is another really shitty time to be a Nintendo fan because the Nintendo 64 + Pokemon wasn't out yet and Nintendo devoted pretty much all of their first-party efforts (outside of a few star titles like Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island) towards the failed Virtual Boy. I hated that thing so much. This is pretty much on-par with the 1995 era.

1994-95 was awesome ...

Donkey Kong Country 1&2, Killer Instinct, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Metroid, Super Punch-Out, Super Mario RPG, Ken Griffey Jr. MLB, and great third party games like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Super Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat 2 (with blood!), Megaman X2, etc.

Virtual Boy sucked but generally that period had some of the most memorable Nintendo games ever.

Unfortunately there were a bunch of late gen SNES projects like Comanche, FX Fighter, and Star Fox 2 that got canned because of the N64.

I edited my post to just talk about 1995.

1994 was better for Nintendo....but 1995 in the USA was pretty bad.

It was just mostly Virtual Boy outside of Earthbound, Yoshi's Island, and Donkey Kong Country 2.

 

Full list of Nintendo published games for that year:

 

Super Nintendo Kirby's Dream Course 02/28/95 North America

Super Nintendo Kirby's Avalanche 02/28/95 North America

Game Boy Mario's Picross 03/31/95 North America

Game Boy Kirby's Dream Land 2 05/31/95 North America

Super Nintendo EarthBound 06/05/95 North America

Game Boy Donkey Kong Land 06/30/95 North America

Game Boy Arcade Classic No. 1: Asteroids / Missile Command July 1995 North America

Virtual Boy VirtualBoy Hardware 08/14/95 North America

Virtual Boy Galactic Pinball August 1995 North America

Super Nintendo Killer Instinct August 1995 North America

Game Boy Arcade Classic No. 2: Centipede / Millipede August 1995 North America

Virtual Boy Red Alarm August 1995 North America

Virtual Boy Mario's Tennis August 1995 North America

Virtual Boy Teleroboxer August 1995 North America

Game Boy Street Fighter II September 1995 North America

Game Boy Arcade Classic No. 3: Galaga / Galaxian September 1995 North America

Super Nintendo Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 10/04/95 North America

Virtual Boy Mario Clash October 1995 North America

Game Boy Arcade Classic No. 4: Defender / Joust October 1995 North America

Game Boy Killer Instinct November 1995 North America

Virtual Boy Golf November 1995 North America

Virtual Boy Virtual Boy Wario Land November 1995 North America

Virtual Boy Vertical Force December 1995 North America

Super Nintendo Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest 12/31/95 North America

Game Boy Vegas Stakes December 1995 North America