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naznatips on 01 December 2007
takeru51 said:
naznatips said:
fazz said:
Well, what about um... Pilotwings?

Pilotwings is SNES, but that's probably old enough that they could have been talking about it. Easily an option. So, my big predictions are:

Kid Icarus
Mario Paint
Pilotwings

These are the most likely candidates to this point imo.

@ takeru

The "older than 12" was more of a bitter "there are too many kids in gaming these days" statement. I think an NES generation game is very likely.

 


There was PilotWings 64 though. When I listened to the podcast they seemed to be very specific about that point in time. They said it would be a game that we hadn't seen in a couple generations + the 12 years reference, which to me,= a franchise last seen on the SNES or N64. It certainly seemed to me that they were hinting very strongly at that time frame.



Ah, I forgot about Pilotwings 64.  Yeah that seems too recent to me.  I think from the way they were talking about there being kids who wouldn't understand it they were refering to something at least SNES age and most likely NES age.

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Rath on 01 December 2007
naznatips said:
 

Earthbound is the second game in the MOTHER series. MOTHER 2 to be more specific. MOTHER 1 was on the NES, and wasn't released outside of Japan. MOTHER 3 was released on the GBA just a year ago. So it is certainly not a dead franchise, and it's very unlikely that it's the franchise they were talking about.


 However IGN is a western videogame site. They may not count Mother 3 as it hasnt been released outside of Japan.



takeru51 on 01 December 2007
albionus said:
takeru51 said:
I think that Pilotwings is incredibly likely as well. Although I didn't think it was a very good game, a lot of people, Matt and Bozon included, did. It will be a game that was around in the 1990's. If it was Kid Icarus, they wouldn't have said you had to be over 12 to appreciate it, since you'd have to be a pretty good deal older than 12 (in system terms) to appreciate Kid Icarus.

I think it was a throwaway comment. Bozon was so excited he just picked an age to represent "children" and 12 is the first that came to mind. I think he could have just as easily said 16 or even 18. That being said a 16 year old, if he was into reading video game magazines and websites, would have heard about the demand for a Kid Icarus game. It only comes up at least once a year in IGN, Nintendo Power, EGM, gamespot, and such.


I think they would wait to see how Pit was received in SSBB first. That's what they did with Fire Emblem, wasn't it?

Normally I would think that it was just a throwaway comment, and that I was reading too much into it, but they seemed to have very specifically chosen a time frame, and it was not the late 1980's.



naznatips on 01 December 2007
Rath said:
naznatips said:
 

Earthbound is the second game in the MOTHER series. MOTHER 2 to be more specific. MOTHER 1 was on the NES, and wasn't released outside of Japan. MOTHER 3 was released on the GBA just a year ago. So it is certainly not a dead franchise, and it's very unlikely that it's the franchise they were talking about.


 However IGN is a western videogame site. They may not count Mother 3 as it hasnt been released outside of Japan.


Matt and Bozon aren't like that.  If anything, they are more focused on Japan-centric games than western.  They wouldn't make a silly mistake like that, and they know that in their podcast they are talking to educated gamers, not people who don't know anything about Nintendo franchises.  If they say it's a dead franchise, then they don't just mean dead in America.



endurance on 01 December 2007
naznatips said:
endurance said:
naznatips said:
fazz said:
Well, what about um... Pilotwings?

Pilotwings is SNES, but that's probably old enough that they could have been talking about it.  Easily an option. So, my big predictions are:

Kid Icarus
Mario Paint
Pilotwings

These are the most likely candidates to this point imo. 

@ takeru

The "older than 12" was more of a bitter "there are too many kids in gaming these days" statement.  I think an NES generation game is very likely.

 


what about earthbound

i dont know what game it is but i heard its old


Earthbound is the second game in the MOTHER series.  MOTHER 2 to be more specific.  MOTHER 1 was on the NES, and wasn't released outside of Japan.  MOTHER 3 was released on the GBA just a year ago.  So it is certainly not a dead franchise, and it's very unlikely that it's the franchise they were talking about.


ok thnx for the info



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albionus on 01 December 2007

To everyone who is saying Kid Icarus is too old and they are too young to remember it, don't forget that Bozon is 24 and Matt is, well somewhere around 30. So are they speaking as older gamers on this. If because you're too young you don't understand why you should be excited about a Kid Icarus remake, just take the older gamers' word for it, you should be very excited.



endurance on 01 December 2007

^a kid icarus remake would be good,but a sequel would be better



naznatips on 01 December 2007

A couple other options: Killer Instinct? Metal Combat? Metal Combat only had 1 game, but it could be I suppose.

I think most likely are still

Mario Paint
Kid Icarus
Pilotwings



endurance on 01 December 2007

^yep i think they are most likely



albionus on 01 December 2007
takeru51 said:
albionus said:
takeru51 said:
I think that Pilotwings is incredibly likely as well. Although I didn't think it was a very good game, a lot of people, Matt and Bozon included, did. It will be a game that was around in the 1990's. If it was Kid Icarus, they wouldn't have said you had to be over 12 to appreciate it, since you'd have to be a pretty good deal older than 12 (in system terms) to appreciate Kid Icarus.

I think it was a throwaway comment. Bozon was so excited he just picked an age to represent "children" and 12 is the first that came to mind. I think he could have just as easily said 16 or even 18. That being said a 16 year old, if he was into reading video game magazines and websites, would have heard about the demand for a Kid Icarus game. It only comes up at least once a year in IGN, Nintendo Power, EGM, gamespot, and such.


I think they would wait to see how Pit was received in SSBB first. That's what they did with Fire Emblem, wasn't it?

Normally I would think that it was just a throwaway comment, and that I was reading too much into it, but they seemed to have very specifically chosen a time frame, and it was not the late 1980's.


Perhaps, we won't know for sure until the game is released.  At least in Japan though Fire Emblem has been in pretty much continous production.  It just seems this is so huge that if it has to be something older than the N64.  Getting a new Pilotwings game would be cool for example but it's nothing to be making this much of a fuss about.  It could be huge because of something other than the game is really old of course.   For example Zelda 64 and Metroid Prime were huge because they were Nintendo's top tier franchises not so much because of the 5 and 7 year waits.  However, Nintendo doesn't have any such top tier franchises that would make a huge splash on name alone.  So it seems the excitement has to be based on time scale not name.  Not saying Kid Icarus isn't a big name, it was back in the day but admittedly fewer gamers remember that each year.