so the everdrive lets you load your NES roms on it and can read them?

Speaking of artificial demand. I think the first game that was faked on short supply was Zelda 2. I remember they were talking about a chip shortage and pumping up demand. Mainly because I think they realized it wasn't that great of a game after it was done. So they created a shortage buzz about it. It was damn hard to find one when it was first released. Only to find out the warehouses were stocked with them. But nintendo only trickled them out. Even back then it left a bad taste about the situation. Shitty things companies do to raise prices and create imaginary hype.

that's badass. Didn't know they had so many everdrives available. May go this route instead of trying to get my MAME arcade to run everything.

You able to save and everything like you can with games with batteries?

it's no different than Stern announcing the LE and saying they don't know if there is going to be a premium and watch the mad rush of idiots scramble to get an LE only to find out the premium shows up just like always.

Stern has learned from Nintendo.

It's amazing how a non pinball thread seems to be one of the most knowledgeable and indepth threads i've seen on pinside in a long time. Actual useful information in here.

why do the boxes look so weird? they custom?

like rental clamshells or something?

I used to have those when I used to have my video game rental business. Those were nice because they worked for many different cartridges.

no super castlevania? That game was awesome.

For me, I was in on NES when it first came out and loved it. Genesis came out first and we were blown away by the sound it was able to do and the huge graphic upgrade, so I had that while we waited for SNES to be released. Then I had both. Then Sega CD came out and was excited about that, but the game selections were piss poor.

I must have missed that one. I was playing games like JP, and trying to figure out how to get past Trex.

i was hoping there was some pictures of it. I like turn based strategy games. WIsh I would have found this one back in the day.

I remember it somewhat, but didn't put a lot of time on it. I was big into RPG's on the NES.

dragons lair or dragon warrior?

and it sucked too, because all you could do was jump. No weapons of any kind. I forgot how you got out of it. if it was time based or what.

Ninja Gaiden is one of the few games, I never finished. Later levels were damn near impossible with the jumps.

yea, it was some spot with some heads or birds or something and small blocks towards the end. Pissed me off so bad. Even worse than the grim reaper from castlevania. Took me a month to beat that guy.

i will be pulling the trigger on these for sure. All thanks to this thread.

for me, having the box and all that isn't that big of a deal. I had all that stuff when I was younger when it was new. Now you just want to play the games every now and then. The rest just takes up to much space. Valuable pin space.

that's true. Same can be said for board games. Yet, I have ran out of room for them as well that I need to sell a bunch of them.

so they don't have a Zelda switch bundle?

with some improvements I bet.

since this is vintage gaming. I just wanted to post some Zelda murals my kid just made for me for my birthday. Made a scene in the stairwell going to my basement gamerooms.

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I already have zelda preordered for the Wii U, so they better release it.

we have windwaker for gamecube so we played it with wavebirds, without any problems. Controls were good.

zelda 2 is challenging. That game is a straight up FU to most people. It was hard as shit.

I got one of the first releases as well. This was during Nintendos fake, "chip" shortage problem and copies were very hard to get. I think they did it on this game, because they realized it was not as fun as the first one.

It was super hard and I remember grinding and getting pretty pissed at times, but made it through eventually.

I watched side by side comparison videos of the Wii U version and the Switch version. The differences were so minimal, we just went with the Wii U version over buying another system, until the system proves itself over time.

we have twilight princess for both systems. Both can handle it very well and looks pretty damn close to the same.

I think the Wii U buyers are kind of upset because it seems the software support for the Wii U was short lived. There isn't exactly a plethora of Wii U only games. Many you can get on Wii and Wii U.

I wish link to the past was available on more outlets. I have the gamecube zelda version that has , Zelda, Zelda 2, ocarina, and majoras all on one disc. I love that, but why the hell did they skip Link to the past? Loved super nintendo back in the day.

That's right, after that, Link had to get a job at walmart being a door greeter.

You can't play adventures of link with gamecube

EDIT: I ment Link to the Past (SNES version)

what GC disc is it on? I have the master disc and that only has Zelda, Zelda 2, ocarina of time and magoras. they skipped right over link to the past.

i'm not familiar with GB player. Never got into GB at all. How does GBplayer work for gamecube?

It was my mistake, I ment link to the past (SNES), not adventures of link.

how does the GB Link to the past compare to the SNES version? I really liked SNES version.

CDi......(shudder)

we had one of these. Is it a DVD player? Is it a game system? or a half assed attempt at both. <------------this is the correct answer.

it was actually a CD player as DVD didn't exist yet, but they tried to play movies and stuff on it to make it like a DVD player.

skyward sword isn't bad.

I can agree with this and windwaker also felt like that as well to an extent. It still was enjoyable, but not as adventuresome as games like OOT and MM. Breath of the wild looks to be a breath of fresh air tho, as it's more skyrimish . Looking forward to it.

for me zelda 2. I didn't like the dragon warrior concept they had going on. Moving around and only being able to go 2 steps without hitting another enemy was annoying. The game was very unforgiving and hard as shit. It always felt like work, more than adventure and fun. OOT and MM were my favorites, but I love the original and link to the past a ton as well. But I played all these games as they were released. Seeing the new chapter revealed and the anticipation of waiting for it's release was part of the experience as well. Seeing updated features and a whole new world for the first time is different than, say...coming into the game now, knowing bits and pieces of the past, playing all the new stuff first and what not. Isn't going to have that awe inspiring moments of completely immersing yourself into the game, like back in the day.

Plus we didn't have the internet back then. If you were stuck, there was no running to youtube for a walkthrough. you had to sit there for hours and hours, getting frustrated. Only to eventually figure out it was something dumb and easy that somehow you missed. Or dial the nintendo hotline 40 times in a row, because the line was busy. But you had a rotory dial phone and the nintendo number had way more 9's and 0's than I would have liked, so you spend 45 min dialing the same number over and over hoping to hear a ringtone.

to really understand majoras mask, you have to play through ocarina of time fully. Majoras mask is the only game that is a direct sequel to another zelda game. One flows right into the other one.

zeldas are difficult to continue after a long period of time because you forget what the hell it is you were working on.

I saw my kid playing that one, and I wanted to play, but i just can't get into games on a small hand held system like that. I wish they had an adapter so I could jack into the Wii U and put it up on the TV and play.

yes, it looked great and looks like it totally has the zelda feel. That's why I wanted to play it. But would love for it to play on the TV.

that's pretty awesome, but why does it keep saying New 3ds? what happens if you try it with a 3DS that you have been using?

I don't want to try it with my kids 3ds if it erases all her game saves on her. we just had a fiasco last night with the xbox360 update, wrote over one of her worlds she has been working on for 3 months, and basically made it like a freshly generated world.

i did not know they have a new 3ds called New 3ds. that is confusing as shit. Bad call Nintendo.

let us know how it goes. I'm also going to go for the VR and RE7 combo as well.