I have to give it to the Nintendo DS. Absolutely incredible library, much of it too unique to play anywhere else.

The Lynx version came first.

FightCade.

The amount of storage and bandwidth Youtube needs is something no competitor could ever hope to match.

Under SKG, the new title would effectively be forced to compete with the old despite the fact that the IP holder doesn’t want that.

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Publishers shouldn’t be able to erase existing games consumers have purchased so that new games don’t have to compete with them. That’s the equivalent of Disney confiscating all DVDs of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and destroying them so that the new MCU movies don’t have to compete.

If their new products aren’t good enough to compete with the old, tough shit. Not an excuse to confiscate and destroy what consumers already paid for.

Ah yes, SMB1, a game so rare they only printed 30 million copies.

• The King of Fighters 2002 - Fans will argue over whether 98 or 2002 is best. 98 does not have Kula in it, so 2002 is better.

• Puzzle Bobble - If you have a friend to play with, the original is still the best. However, there’s no versus CPU, so substitute Bobble 3 if you’re playing by yourself.

• Waku Waku 7 - Incredibly goofy and colorful fighting game, every single character is a parody of 90s anime/game tropes.

• Twinkle Star Sprites - A versus shmup with a super unique format.

• Windjammers - A sort of extreme pong.

Also check out FightCade for netplay, many of these games have active communities.

I feel like I’ve heard this every console generation, that this time will be the end of consoles for real you guys!

I order physical copies online often, but can’t even remember the last one I bought at a proper brick and mortar retail store. Last year I did buy a copy of Soldam and Super Puyo Puyo Tsu from a vendor at a gaming convention, does that still count as retail?

If you’re specifically only using it for Pokemon, another option could be the Game Boy Tower in Pokemon Stadium. Has an unlockable 4x speed as a nice QoL feature.

I think there’s a very clear disconnect between players who want a power fantasy, versus players who want a challenging strategy game.

I notice a lot of players fall into the trap of only building for the deck itself, trying to force the kinds of hyperoptimized archetype decks you would see in a constructed TCG. The game allows for a lot of flashy combos that can feel like an unstoppable force, but if their deck only ever does one thing they will encounter some enemy that feels like an immovable object because it counters that one thing.

But then rather than accounting for that enemy’s existence and diversifying their deck to be able to handle it, they rush to the Steam forums to complain that the enemy was unfair. Because the deck was good, it had this cool combo in it, and that combo beat everything else up until this point, so clearly this good deck shouldn’t have lost!

It’s like building a team of all Fire-type Pokemon that only know Fire-type moves, and wondering why you can’t beat the Water gym.