I think every left handed gamer (certainly if you were born in the 80s) has a sense of pride that the most courageous and awesome hero was left handed. But on your comment that the sprites are left handed, that was my point actually. Each direction is a mirror of the opposite direction. So a sprite facing right and up…

Fair enough, the concept art shows him as left handed. But the game play clearly shows him using either hand depending on the direction he is facing.

Well technically in the original, he is directionally ambidextrous, so I don’t know that we can claim him going back to the NES era.

Dear Chicken Little,

For a ton of reasons. Simplified game play (2 buttons vs ~10), cartoon like colorful graphics, no lengthy cut scenes, short levels that let them feel a sense of accomplishment quickly, no tutorials. I’ve learned that kids don’t like to be talked to and they don’t like things explained. They just want to do. And the…

Fair. I resurrected an old laptop about 8 months ago for a NES project that I gave up on when the Classic was announced. I still use it, but I’m not going to waste the time figuring out how to get the guts inside an old NES case when I can buy the classic for $60, eventually.

::looks around::

I would love to see a full licensed library version of this come out one day. $300 seems right. And then do the same for SNES and N64.

God I hope they don’t qualify. The summer olympics just ended, I don’t want to think about having to sit through another summer of people talking about a boring shitty sport they pretend to like every 4 years

TLDR;

I hope you get the stars you deserve.