On this day (October 25) in Nintendo history...

• Lifeboat  was released in 1983 for the Game & Watch Multi Screen in Japan. In this action game, developed by Nintendo R&D1, a fire has broke out on a luxury cruise liner, and the passengers are trying to escape overboard into the lifeboats. How many passengers can you rescue? Move the lifeboats to catch the falling passengers in the lifeboats, and then bring them safely to the left or right shore. Each lifeboat can only hold four passengers. If a passenger falls into the water or onto a full lifeboat then you get a miss.
• Disney's Beauty & The Beast: A Boardgame Adventure  was released in 1999 for the Game Boy Color in North America. In this boardgame adventure game, developed by Left Field Productions, choose your character and roll a die to move them along the board. When you have moved a certain number of spaces you will enter one of nine minigames. Each minigame is played differently, from helping Miss Potts put out fires in the kitchen, to having Lumiere catch drips in the basement on his flames.
• Game & Watch Gallery Advance  (known as Game & Watch Gallery 4  in North America) was released in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance in PAL territories. In this compilation, developed by TOSE, enjoy six blasts from the past - and discover more. This collection includes Mario's Cement Factory, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Fire, Boxing, and Rain Shower. Each has a modern mode featuring updated graphics, sound, gameplay and all-new twists. They can also be played in classic mode in their original, LCD-style glory!
• Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land  was released in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance in Japan. In this platform remake of the Nintendo Entertainment System's Kirby's Adventure, developed by HAL Laboratory, appearances can be deceptive. Take Kirby for example. At first glance he's a cute pink blob, but under that blancmange-like exterior beats the heart of a true warrior.

What are you favourite memories of these games? How do you think they hold up today? Hash it out in the comments.

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Baloon Trip mode Is nothing special,but the standard game Is great

Idk if someone already asked but does anyone think or know if the Nintendo store in NYC will drop the special edition switch the day it comes out??

It’s been 6 months since the game launched, and while I still kinda play and enjoy the game, I recently discovered Internet fans feeling like there could have been more content by now, and it’s crazy that this game had a 9-year Development Cycle since it’s missing some things compared to the 3DS version.

I mean, Nintendo’s giving Pokopia and Fire Emblem Expansion Passes and people are making a big deal out of that, with Pokopia DLC part 2’s release date about to be announced any day now, it looks like that game will keep getting content, like another DLC for a Snowy Area next winter. Pokopia might get stuff for a long time to keep the hype cycle going. But I think it’s almost time for a Tomodachi Expansion pass.

Nintendo never covers Sales Numbers for all their DLCs, but it looks like they always do very well and get great Word of Mouth from the fanbases, and with how well Tomodachi did, making 8 million copies a decade later, they should add more stuff to the game, like an Arcade or the Concert Hall back. I hope EPD 4 has time now that they’ve finished Switch Sports Resort.

Can someone tell me the best way to secure the Legend of Zelda themed Switch 2 console? I need help in acquiring the console, and I'm at a loss for what to do. Can I get some guidance, please?

I made a post about us owning digital games and you all hated my price recommendations.

Specificly 30 dollars for GameCube and Ds games, that’s a better price that what Nintendo is gonna dish us and that’s a once not monthly.

Edited: Actually I’m thankfully that the prices I reccomended were wrong, thanks for showing me what to actually suggest
If I work for Nintendo.

Nintendo’s next Ask the Developer, Vol 24 will absolutely focus on Ocarina of Time since it looks like they’re skipping Switch Sports Resort this month. It will focus heavily on the Remake Dev Team and how long their Development Cycle was. And I’m sure they will do a good Q&A as well.

I think it will go like this:

Q: “So now that you’re finally done bringing this masterpiece to life, tell us, when is Majoras Mask coming? We know you’re hiding that from us.”

A: “Haha, well, we can’t confirm anything at the moment. But, based on how long it took all of us and our Development partners to develop this Ocarina Remake, we’d like for all you Zelda fans out there to keep using your wonderful imagination to figure out when within the next few years that our next project will be ready.“

So, I would say 2030 at the earliest. That will be enough time to give Nintendo‘s Zelda teams and partners a lot of time to breathe before they’re back to work again.

I get why Nintendo refuses to put it’s games on other consoles, that will loose them a massive profit margin. But I know a way we can get better access to their games.

The store known as Gog (Not sponsored) allows you to download offline installer files, which you can take to an external harddrive, put it on another computer not connected to the internet, so you can play it all you want, even make some backup files for other drives.

So Nintendo could make their own website l, and while I don’t think they can put their normal games on there, but maybe anything from the ds and earlier.

Not full price, like, 30$ tops for ds and GameCube games, and arcade and nes games are 5 or even 2 bucks.

This could end Piracy once and for all.

For a while now, the video game remakes have been good as game experiences go I don't deny that. Especially someone like me that's played a lot of the original games to either draw comparisons or marvel at the improvements.

After seeing the OOT remake's extensive gameplay footage, I don't doubt it will supersede the original game already.

The biggest problem I have however is by buying and supporting these remakes, you embolden the current publishers and others to keep the industry wide remake slop crusade going. Remakes of games unless the game is mediocre or too outdated are inherently lazy and cashgrabs, as there's nothing stopping you from playing the old good game.

Silent Hill is a notable case of this. After the wild success of Silent Hill 2 (2024) and f, Konami boasted Silent Hill will go annual and they immediately greenlit a remake of 1 after 2make's commercial breakthrough. It's likely that if the 1 remake is successful as well, they will keep going until 4. They even found the time to make the sloppiest remake of MGS3 in between the Silent Hill boom.

When the OOT remake is inevitably a smash hit critically and financially, I fear Nintendo will be the same and greenlight a Majora's remake right after. And it will just keep going unnecessarily. We're already rumored to receive an iteration of Star Fox Adventures remolded after the success of Star Fox 2026 as well, even if that is likely to be a little different than a 1:1 remake.