Posted on 07/29/2017 at 12:09 PM
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I wasn't too bummed about the NES Classic. All the games it had were on Virtual Console anyway. It didn't include a lot of my favorite NES games. Some of them I get will never show up again due to licensing or lack of interest by the copyright owners, such as Ultima: Exodus (EA only cares about mass market AAA games), Metal Gear (I know Konami has disavowed this version in favor of the MSX original that you can get with MGS3 Subsistence) or Wizards and Warriors (Acclaim is long dead and I doubt Rare, MS, or Nintendo is going to bother tracking down the licensing). But games like Bionic Commando, 1943, Faxanadu, or Dragon Warrior 1-4 shouldn't have been too difficult for Nintendo to get.
The SNES classic looks a lot more tempting, as a lot of SNES games I liked are on there, though some SNES games are still missing. Would have liked to have had Mortal Kombat II and Zombies Ate My Neighbors. No Chrono Trigger is also a bit baffling. Still, can't go wrong with FFVI and Super Mario RPG.
N64 Classic will probably be missing games like Harvest Moon 64 and Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, maybe it will have Ogre Battle 64. I wonder if they'll be able to get Rare titles on there. The N64 is my least favorite Nintendo console aside from the Virtual Boy, but I'd buy it for Mystical Ninja.
I kind of hope Nintendo will make a Gamecube Classic Edition. In contrast to how much of a disappointment the N64 was for me, I loved the Gamecube. I could dig the Zeldas, Metroid Prime, and Tales of Symphonia on a little retro console.