
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.)
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