NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Good games everyone should play, but can't because they were only released on an obscure console with no ports to date http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=188398 2019-10-01T14:54:58 -05.00 phart010 50 Originally posted by: DefaultGen
 
Originally posted by: Quaze

Virtual Boy Wario Land is probably the best game to never really have been played by a wide audience.

Nintendo never did anything with 3DS and Virtual Boy right? What the heck is up with that?
There's probably many reasons, the biggest one is that while it's a sort of "beloved" item to throw a callback reference to, it is also Nintendo's worst-performing game hardware, and the last Nintendo project released which was directly created by Gunpei Yokoi. Some games wouldn't have strong appeal for starters. Add to this that some of the better games are rather reliant on the double d-pad setup. It would be hard to translate Red Alarm or Teleroboxer to 3DS. Then consider how games like Mario Clash would lose out because you would no longer have the move/throw inputs on the d-pads (unless you got rid of the option to use the face buttons for run and jump and only allowed triggers for those). This would basically require a re-imagining of how the game would work, and while doable, would be somewhat of a lost opportunity.

It's my opinion that, in the end, the only game which would have strong appeal as a virtual console 3DS title would be VB Wario Land, a game which would work fine on the given controls. Making an emulator to work on 3DS just for one game wouldn't be practical, and even then people would complain about how short the game was, or they would realize that perhaps VB fans overhype how good it really is (more my opinion that hte game isn't nearly as good as people insist). Nintendo would honestly have been better off remaking the game in full 3DS visuals. The end product could be much improved too thanks to the ability to go back and add more levels, or more gameplay elements, any number of things. IMO the existing Wario Land just wouldn't cut it for the expectations of would-be players. 

I forgot that another game you could do is Mario's Tennis, but that's not even that good of a game compared to other tennis titles. Given the option, I'd rush to pick up the GBC Mario Tennis on 3DS VC over the VB game.

Just my two cents as a VB fan (I have mine hooked up as we speak and love playing Mario Clash on it). I don't think 3DS is a good platform to choose. I'd rather Nintendo do it right on a Labo VR release or something, maybe even make a wireless VB controller for the full pipe dream effect  


For me, the great game that will be missed out on from Nintendo's less-successful hardware is Nintendo Land. That was the game which completely sold me on Wii U back in 2012, the games were just fantastic multiplayer experiences, and the single-player ones weren't bad either. The game also had fantastic art and visual direction, and a great collection of nintendo music remixes, and is notable for the creative uses of the gamepad as well as for some really notorious game experiences (who doesn't remember the internet drama caused by Donkey Kong's Crash Course?) It is a real shame that the game will never be ported or be playable on other hardware.
  ]]> Good games everyone should play, but can't because they were only released on an obscure console with no ports to date http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=188398 2019-09-09T22:03:05 -05.00 phart010 50
I'm not an icon badge collector or I'd have a few and one would be for the virtual boy. So yeah I have the game and it's fun, so it's not me spouting of using some lame emulator or being a youtube jockey. ]]> Good games everyone should play, but can't because they were only released on an obscure console with no ports to date http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=188398 2019-09-04T06:05:44 -05.00 phart010 50 Originally posted by: Estil

A good homebrew NES or SNES version of Chip's Challenge would be nice.


The NES version that was finished and released by a team from the forum a few years ago covers it. It is the full game and playing on a TV with an NES controller is everything you would have hoped and dreamed it would be. ]]> Good games everyone should play, but can't because they were only released on an obscure console with no ports to date http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=188398 2019-09-03T23:25:21 -05.00 phart010 50 Originally posted by: Trj22487
 
Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

You can emulate that, easily, though.
 

Oh I see, well then I choose this



 
Shocker the video game.  If you get a high score, your hand is permanently mosaiced over for life.
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If there were games I could think of that are definitely hard to find or all but impossible to really experience, but are also ones that really should be played, then my choice would be Prop Flier. It's a really rare game from what I can tell. Last I saw, there was a working machine in the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. That's the only place I've ever seen one though.

There are some things that would benefit from VR. Lightgun games would emulate very well with that tech. Also, I think the Virtual Boy emulator for oculus quest is probably the best way yet to emulate that system (and it's very easily portable and reasonably easy to wear around, one thing it definitely does better than the beloved original). I wouldn't emulate something like the R360 though, because doing constant 3-axis rotations without a physical body change affecting you is an express lane to motion sickness. ]]> Good games everyone should play, but can't because they were only released on an obscure console with no ports to date http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=188398 2019-08-26T21:18:32 -05.00 phart010 50
That said, for most people, I'd say the Saturn is obscure. But these days even only somewhat popular PS1 and N64 games are becoming obscure. People are playing those consoles less and less with every year. ]]> Good games everyone should play, but can't because they were only released on an obscure console with no ports to date http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=188398 2019-08-25T11:29:24 -05.00 phart010 50 Originally posted by: kguillemette

Does Panzer Dragoon Saga count? Or many of the upper echelon Saturn titles? There are more than a few games I've always wanted to play for that system, it's just getting harder and harder to come by I’d say Sega Saturn counts as a obscure console. It was somewhat mainstream, but I know a lot of people my age that say they never heard of it

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