@laser beams: I'd only had Nintendo systems too - I used uninverted controls, like the defaults from... Starfox. It's clear he forgot they made Starfox 1 though.

@gurfinki: I used to respect Miyamoto, but I think this is the last straw. You can only coast on past success and good grace for so long.

@ein_general: They did that with the original Starfox 64. I want my money back... I spent the whole time scraping the ground or riding the sky because up isn't down.

@Woshiernog: For one, I don't fly real airplanes, but when I play sims, they're in first person and I use the standard controls for them.

@TylDurden: Yeah, that line was total BS. I never had anything Sega until the Dreamcast. I learned to fly an Arwing uninverted... ON THE SNES. WITH CONTROL SCHEME "A" - the default one! But his decision to force it on Starfox 64 ruined it for me. To me, there was only one good Starfox game - Starfox.

@SorcererLance: I've never flown a plane while riding a line dragging behind it though. I aim the cursor, and half the controls for that cursor were backwards while the other half weren't. If up is down, then left must be right.

@StompedYourHouseWithaMech: Well, main characters so often lack bodies... maybe they're flying their heads and arms around? :p

@SG-17: Well, the original Starfox 64 was inverted only, so you should be in good hands. Me... well, if I tilt the back of my head down to look up, that means I'd turn it left to look right, and that's not an option. Neither was uninverted controls, so I paid for that game and didn't get to play it.

Like I said on the last story for this game - I loved Starfox, but I was so mad when I bought Starfox 64 (on the Wiiware store - no returns) and found that it's inverted only. The game was literally unplayable. Either invert everything or nothing, but don't invert Y and not X; that makes no sense to control in third…

@matthallphd: For the last couple generations, I've been probably 95% an import gamer. It still holds true on PSP and DS. Still, when I look at my game shelf, I can't deny my current consoles have almost as many Western games - GTA4, Burnout Paradise, Heavy Rain, LittleBigPlayet, Skate, God of War, NFS games,…

@GunFlame: opened the chest...the chest is empty: It depends on what kind of games you like. Most of my PC games are from Japan. Recettear, the Touhou series from 6 up, Castle Shikigami series, Warning Forever, Tumiki Fighters, Higurashi Daybreak, Genetos. Doujin games are indie games, and that niche has been booming…

@Raso719: It's like how people think if a system isn't the no. 1 seller, it was a failure, when a real failure isn't profitable. In this case, "Western" games have become viable on consoles in more than just occasional cases. It doesn't mean Japanese gaming is dead, it means Western console gaming is alive.

@citrixlemon: I've had one for 14 years that amazingly hasn't become unusable yet. Besides, don't assume I do this on all things. This one is just so unimportant that if they're the only ones who insist on doing it this way (and so far, they are) then I simply don't need them. It's not like I'm going to be kept up all…

@negitoro: It would be silly for them to spam you directly, but have you received no spam at all on that account? The profit comes in selling the address lists to marketers - which could be a right they reserve in their TOS. I didn't go to their site and track it down to read it because I have 4 pages of games…

hawaa? That was unexpected!

Sure, you can use the statue to hide... but don't forget, you can also turn into a statue in midair and use it to stomp out rotodiscs! Its attack power is second only to the hammer suit.

@Sunwind: In Japan, yes. I think official English Nintendo sources always used "Tanooki."

@Bouzi: Go Habs Go!: hehe... I can't think of countdowns anymore without this song coming to mind.

@Forest Baker: Well deserved. Sure, Itagaki wasn't Team Ninja itself, but without him, it's not Team Ninja. Now the flow of combat gets broken up with QTEs, and the very things you'd play the game for are removed or vilified?

@Chris Westphal: That was just the problem for me - it filled your hands, no matter what you did. NES, SNES, PSX/PS2 controllers are all best held with nothing on your palms, then they're quite comfortable.