Nintendo 3DS Ambassador GBA Games Now Available
If you spent $250 on your Nintendo 3DS
The games aren't available directly through the Nintendo eStore, though. If you want to get them, you need to go into the eStore, then into the Menu, then into Other Settings, then into Redownload Games. The games will be added to the list of games you already downloaded to the 3DS, and if you have a big library, you might have to scroll down some.
Instead of downloading each game individually, you can save time by selecting "Download Later," which lets you queue up the games to download over SpotPass while you're doing other things. You still need to select each game, but it's a bit faster and much more convenient.
The games are:
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- F-Zero
- Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
- Fire Emblem
- WarioWare: Mega Microgames
- Metroid Fusion
- Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong
- The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
- Wario Land 4
It's a pretty impressive list, and better for more than nostalgia, like the mostly-Black Box early NES games released for the ambassador program.
Nintendo Isn’t Just Ignoring Gamers; It’s Humiliating Us With Nostalgia
I'm a lifelong Nintendo fanboy. I grew up with the NES and SNES. During the first 3D console war in the mid-90's, I sided with the Nintendo 64 despite missing out on many, many great games until years later. I was optimistic for the Wii, and the DS completely won me over. That said, I've realized something about Nintendo that I think always floated around in the back of my mind, but that I didn't really accept until the WiiU was announced.
Nintendo doesn't care about wooing hardcore gamers. Yes, jaded gamers think this is self-evident, but it's actually worse than it seems. Nintendo doesn't care about wooing hardcore gamers because we'll come back to them anyway. That is the truly terrible thing about Nintendo's current strategy. It doesn't matter how disappointing their hardware is, how inept their handling of online services is, or how much they bother to build a platform that third party developers actually feel like using to make a decent game and not just a half-assed semi-port.
Let me be crude but concise. Nintendo is our cheating ex-girlfriend who, every six months or so, calls us up at 2:00 a.m. looking for action. And, because we are idiots and she does that one thing we like, we come over. Maybe it's a one-night stand, maybe it's a short rekindling of the relationship, but it always ends with her completely ignoring us and sleeping with our little brother.
Nintendo Adding Game Gear and TG-16 Games to 3DS VC, 3D Mario On the Way
While the tech world has its eyes on Cupertino and the new iPad announcement, Nintendo dropped some pretty big bombs at GDC.
The 3DS Virtual Console won't just include Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, but Game Gear and Turbografix-16 games as well. There are already 63 TG-16 games on the Wii VC, but we probably won't see them all pop up on the 3DS at launch. If Nintendo's good at anything, it's dragging its feet with legacy titles.
Nintendo Unveils 25th Anniversary Mario Logo, Will Release Super Mario All-Stars on Wii in Japan
Super Mario Bros., the game that launched a million side-scrollers, is coming up on its 25th birthday. The game first came out in Japan September 13, 1985, and hit the United States in March of 1986. Nintendo is preparing for the celebration with a trademark representing the game's 25th anniversary. It's only been registered in Japan, and Nintendo of America hasn't made any announcements yet, but it looks like the company is getting ready for some sort of 25th birthday celebration.
One thing's for certain: a little over a month after the game's birthday, Super Mario All-Stars will finally hit the Wii. Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be a Japan-only release in the form of a retail game. According to Siliconera, the "Super Mario Collection Special Pack" will hit stores in Japan on October 21 with a retail price of 2500 yen (about $30). Besides the game collection (which includes Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2 USA (the reskinned version of Doki Doki Panic we all grew up with), Super Mario Bros. 2 JP (better known in America as "Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels"), and Super Mario Bros. 3), the pack will come with a soundtrack CD including music ranging from Super Mario Bros. to Super Mario Galaxy 2, and a booklet going over Mario's history from 1985 to now.
Mario's side-scrolling debut in America has its 25th anniversary next March, so while nothing has been confirmed by Nintendo of America, there's still a chance we might see a similar release in the Spring.
Top 15 games that still aren’t on the Virtual Console yet
When Nintendo first announced the Virtual Console, it seemed like a brilliant idea. The company would re-release the greatest games on its 8-, 16-, and 64-bit systems for download, letting us rebuild our childhood gaming libraries on a single memory card and play all of our favorite old-school games on the Wii. Every week would see a handful of classic games released on the Virtual Console, ready for download.
Four years later, the Virtual Console offers over 360 games (in North America) from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Turbografix-16, Neo Geo, and even the Sega Master System and Commodore 64. It sounds like a lot, until you realize the NES and SNES had over 700 games each.
The Virtual Console still has a lot of big holes in its library, and it looks like Nintendo isn't trying very hard to fill them. These days we're lucky to see one game come out on the VC per week, and that game can range from the obscure and uninteresting (this week's Ufouria: THe Saga) to the vaguely fun but pales in comparison to other titles (Aero the Acrobat).
Here are the 15 most notable games missing from the Wii Virtual Console.
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