"Passé" in English is a gallicism that somehow extends its original meaning, it's not simply the French word. There are far worse examples, like "bimbo", an italianism that has a meaning completely different from the original, that is masculine (feminine is "bimba") and it means "kid", "male child" or "male baby", and, only in Tuscany, also "mate", "friend" or "youngster" as an appellative. My favourite mistranslated italianism is "pepperoni", though, it's always amusing seeing the face of Americans when in Italy they order a "pizza coi peperoni" and are served a pizza with bell peppers.   

Sorry about reacting like that, but I just didn't see how it actually extended its original meaning. Interesting read though.

Virtual Console for classic Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.  Updated with 3D graphics.  So far those are the only 2 announced.  This is real.  This is amazing.  3 months.

This was a slide Ninteno showed a couple months back when they announced some other stuff about it.

For me that seems to be only Virtual console... are you sure its a update with 3D graphics? wow!

I think that "horrible secret" it's that is so awesome that it hinders Wii and DS christmas season  and January 2011

The Ghost of RubangB said:

If you turn the 3D off they should be direct ports, exactly like the originals.  But as you slide the 3D slider up, the flat 2D planes will separate, making it look like a badass diorama or pop-up book.  In Super Mario Land, for example, the foreground with Mario, the goomba, and the pipe would be way out in your face, and that pyramid would be way in the background, and that palm tree would be in the middle.

But... people asked Nintendo if these are going to be straight "remakes," and Nintendo would only say, "Well we're not sure if we'd call them remakes... we'll have more on that later."  I'm not sure what that means.  Could mean they're adding all sorts of new stuff, or it could mean they're just 3D re-releases.

But at E3 they had a little tech demo showing how this 3D effect could stretch out the graphics of all sorts of classic games, including several NES and SNES games, like Mega Man 2.  That was just to show off that it's possible though.  But holy hell they better have some Mega Man 2 3D on there, hubba hubba schawiiiiiiing.