Not sure which games were originally announced, but there are twenty-something arcade games on the Wii Virtual Console in the three years following their initial release.

So are they going to rename the first one “The Next to the Last of Us” orrrr?

But like, if it’s 2PM in real life while I’m playing, in which game is it actually 2PM. I feel like, the reason for having a day-night cycle that runs off the system’s internal clock is so that timed events can match the time in real life. If you’re going to intentionally warp that time so that it DOESN’T match…

I don’t think it’s “suppressing things rather than fixing things.” Yes, it’s frustrating that they’ve removed the tracking feature entirely, but it seems pretty obvious that that’s just a temporary thing, until they can actually get it working correctly. The main issue isn’t that the tracking feature is gone for now,…

I play with my son, and he loves it. He likes playing the playsets, or just running around a destroying stuff in Toy Box mode. I got really excited by the more obscure stuff they’d put in the game (the alternate costumes for characters, the Darkwing Duck power discs), and it always seemed like there was a lot of…

I liked it a lot more from a conceptual standpoint than I did as an actual tangible product. There was a lot of potential there, but a lot of it wasn’t realized in any of the actual games.

You heard incorrectly. This is it.

The problem with CGI is that even good CGI will very quickly look obsolete. CGI ages more rapidly, and more intensely, than any other technology. Look at Toy Story, which at the time was mind blowing. Nowadays? Obsolete, and bordering at times on jarring.

The acting in the scene is questionable, and the construction of the scene itself is a little ham-fisted, but to be upset about Vader having a heart underneath it all is to misunderstand the point of Star Wars in general. It was always a story of Good’s triumph over Evil, and the revelation in Empire that Darth Vader,…

No, Pokemon Z, as in we already have Pokemon X and Y.

This argument only works when he’s creating something in a bubble, with no intention of making money. In reality, the reason video games and other entertainment is created is for the purpose of selling copies and making money. We the consumers are the people to whom the creator is trying to sell his creation, and if…

But the whole Marvel universe is larger than all the rest of Kingdom Hearts combined. This is like saying “There’s a Steamboat Willie world? Why not just Disney?!” It’s good that they’ve chosen a property that’s self-contained within its own world, and I wouldn’t say that it rules out other Marvel properties making an…

Good Shrek reference, but not Pixar.

There was a whole line of Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart K’NEX sets.

Has “sprite” evolved to mean something different in terms of video game art nowadays? Or is it being used here in some other context than in referring to the actual graphics of the game? Because these graphics definitely have nothing to do with sprites, as I understand the traditional meaning of the term.

It’s a pretty solid, if primitive, entry in the Metroid series. It’s interesting, nowadays, to look back at it, and see the evolution in the controls from the first Metroid, to Metroid II, onto Super Metroid.

Was that Matthew Broderick?

It was always just kind of on the outside of canon; like, I don’t think anyone ever explicitly said it wasn’t canon, but story-wise it was so far removed from DBZ, and Toriyama wasn’t even involved (if I remember correctly), so it wasn’t really an issue. But the upcoming Dragon Ball series takes place before GT, which…

He’s Kangaroo Jacked.

Is there any way to tell whether the cats are boy cats or girl cats? I want to name mine, but I’m torn between calling it Phyllis or Horatio.