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PAOerfulone said:

Seriously, Nintendo?
What about Mario 2 USA & Lost Levels?
Tetris?
Kirby's Adventure?
The original Kid Icarus?
Why don't you call Capcom, Konami, and Square Enix to get the Mega Man games? Castlevania? The OG Final Fantasies?

Or if you REALLY wanted to sell this Online service, why don't you bring out the Super Nintendo library? You're discontinuing the classic consoles anyways. Might as well put all those games (and some more) onto the online service. (And also hold up a giant middle finger with the words "Fuck You!" painted down the finger to scalpers in the process.)

This service has so much potential, but you guys constantly keep dropping the ball and it's so damn frustrating!

Nintendo isn't allowed to rerelease both NES and the original Gameboy Tetris due to licensing issues, and in fact the Tetris company swore themselves never to allow them to be released again (because Nintendo got their licence from another party, so they didn't earn squat over them), so don't expect it to ever show up despite how influential it was.

I can't agree the notion that those two games are lame (especially not Zelda II, my favorite Zelda btw), but I agree however that reducing to just two games is really shitty. I do understand that they need to strech out the releases between the months but why are there no higher profile third party games? I can understand for Megaman (Capcom certainly prefers to sell their game compilations instead by now) and some other potential games which just got rereleased in compilations, but that's about it. Get more games to the subscription!

A fear of mine is that witch the success of those retro consoles the IP holders (aka most big publishers) have jacked up the prices for those old games, especially the more known IP, to a point where they are not commercially viable anymore. I hope this isn't true and it's just Nintendo pulling a bad move, but considering the greediness of today's publishers it's not something I'd rule out either.

I hope Nintendo also open talks with Sega to get Master System and Megadrive games into the service at a later date.