Strangely, Nintendo doesn’t own the rights to publish Yoshi’s Cookie. Sort of like Tetris Attack, the gameplay IP is held by Blue Planet Software (the successor to Bullet-Proof Software). Likewise with Kirby’s Avalanche, which was technically a Puyo Puyo game (the rights to which are now held by SEGA).

The absence of…

Still waiting for Golf, Rad Racer I & II, Bionic Commando, Gyruss, Strider, Tetris, Ninja Gaiden II & III, Final Fantasy I - VI, SimCity, Super R-Type, ActRaiser, Axelay, Wing Commander, Super Mario All-Stars, Final Fight 2 & 3, Donkey Kong Country 2 & 3, EarthBound, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, or any of about…

I’d say that seems likely, since they blew past the PC / Steam goal, and have some blurred-out stretch goals beyond $500,000. This is clearly well on the way to $1 million or more.

I at first suspected the modest $50,010 goal was just a way for PlatinumGames to gauge interest, rather than actually fund porting / remastering the game from scratch. Right now, I’m watching the Kickstarter total spin upward at hundreds of dollars a minute (it should hit the $500,000 PS4 goal within the hour) and…

OMG. Why did I not think of doing this before??? The tray table is too low to play in tabletop mode, so I always play handheld on flights. I’m absolutely borrowing this setup for my next flight. Thanks!!!

Speaking for myself, it’s the absurdity of the fact that there are more characters from Fire Emblem in Smash than from any other series other than Super Mario. Fire Emblem is at best a B-tier Nintendo franchise, yet it has more representatives than The Legend of Zelda or Pokemon. I happen to think that’s absurd.

“...and that game was NCAA College Basketball 2K3.”

(the joke being that game is one of the rarest GameCube titles and now sells for around $150)

Several years ago, my best friend got me one of those SEGA Genesis Flashback consoles, which comes with about two-dozen old Genesis games pre-installed and about 40 garbage shovelware games. I was very grateful for the kind gesture, and I did open it up and try it out, but the video and sound quality are so awful I…

All true, and I’d add OOTP as well. Console selections are much more sparse.

I had the same problem. But I loved the rest of the game so much I just kept trying and trying until finally something clicked and I figured out how to maneuver the disc with some consistency. I hope you’ll give it another try -- the rest of the game is just great.

I’m playing through The Witcher III for the first time right now (on Nintendo Switch) and I just completed this quest the other day. Apparently I played it too conservatively, because I saw most of what you describe but not the cross-dressing bit. I guess I was getting nervous that they would do something terrible and…

I can’t help but wonder if this means MLB Advanced Media is giving up on its half-baked R.B.I. Baseball series, which has been the only MLB game for Nintendo and Xbox following the end of MLB 2K.

Thank you. I needed a good laugh today. And you’re spot-on, too.

Good thing always-online, multiplayer-only Games as a Service are the way of the future.

Good. I don’t play online games much, so once development of single-player titles ceases, I can finally get caught up on my backlog.

Welcome to California.

Seriously. I live in San Jose and $2.5 million would buy something considerably smaller and with only a tiny yard.

I don’t know if that’s a fair characterization of the house. Check out the real estate listing — it seems to me to be more of a heavily customized cabin-style home on five acres near the edge of the Yosemite National Park.

The proper pronunciation of “Cucco” was settled in Breath of the Wild, when Daruk says it in one of his cut-scenes, as “KOO-kohs”. So, Tim is correct. (And I was wrong about it for like 25 years.)

The Witcher III on Nintendo Switch couldn’t have come at a better time for me, because I have two coast-to-coast flights next week (San Jose to Boston and Washington DC to San Jose). I hadn’t played it before, and so far I am absolutely loving it. I’ll have a good 25 hours in by the time I get on the plane Tuesday.