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Nintendo’s New Year’s Resolution

Posted by John Constantine



Hell yeah! I love that new year smell. It’s a heady blend of desperation, manic behavior, stale cookies, and endless possibility! You can practically taste it on the air: the tang of freshly printed gym membership cards, the musk of old car models being discounted. This is the time when we wide-eyed lovers of videogames stare forward, ready for anything that may come. We take our last looks at 2008 and get to predicting what’s on the horizon. In the spirit of embracing new opportunities, I would like to recommend one New Year’s resolution for each gaming console maker as well as a select few third-party publishers. We’ll start with your friend and mine, Nintendo.

Nintendo? You resolve to release Star Fox 2 on WiiWare in 2009.



There’s no shortage of exciting stuff coming out for the Wii in the next twelve months, but actually releasing this forgotten and ignored gem could be an event. An unreleased SNES game in a beloved-but-bedraggled franchise? Solid gold! Not to mention the game is, thanks to the work of some intrepid fans, literally finished and playable at this point. Bring in Dylan Cuthbert and the Q-Games crew, have them polish it up, and put it out at twenty dollars. You can’t go wrong!

Come on. Everyone reading would play the hell out of this, right? Course you would.

(Bet you thought I was going to say release Mother 3 commercially. Nope. That will never, ever happen.)

Related links:

Fun Fact: Dylan Cuthbert - The Genre Masher
Why Am I Playing This: Star Fox Assault
The Ten Most Adventurous Sequels in Gaming History, Part 3
Industry Predictions for 2009: Doom and Gloom Edition


Comments

Roto13 said:

I think it has a better chancing of coming out on the Virtual Console than WiiWare, but there's probably not a very good chance of it coming out for either. :P It's a cool idea, though.

January 5, 2009 7:57 PM

Odin said:

I'd buy it.  I doubt it will happen, but if it did, I'd buy it.

January 5, 2009 9:26 PM

LBD "Nytetrayn" said:

...whoa, twenty bucks?  I'm a touch hesitant on that...

Okay, granted, Mega Man 9, for all intents and purposes an 8-bit game, is ten dollars, but as much as I like Star Fox 2, paying twenty bucks for Nintendo's leftovers seems a bit much.  Especially with stuff like Bionic Commando Rearmed and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix asking so much less for modern aesthetic.

...I might buckle at fifteen, maybe.

January 5, 2009 10:54 PM

Nick Daniel said:

How is broken and boring game like Star Fox 2 a 'gem'?

January 6, 2009 12:42 AM

Demaar said:

I dunno man, I'm not the biggest fan of Star Fox. It'd be cool if it happened, in a purely "Oh wow, that's so awesome for you guys, you get to play this game you want!". You know, vicarious enjoyment.

January 6, 2009 3:10 AM

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