New NES GBA SP - Old NES Games for $20 each?

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No thanks. Nintendo is always trying to milk us fr as much money as possible (I know that's the whole point, but c'mon). Now they are releasing 8 classic games for the GBA for $20 each. I would have paid $20 for a compilation cart with all of these games but $20 each is WAY too much... :evil:
 
http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/502/502358p1.html

Well, no doubt about it, I'll be buying that SP. It's not even a matter of choice, just a matter of time.

$20 apiece for straight up Nes games? That's absolutely rediculous. When I'm buying Zelda at Bestbuy for $15, i'll absolutely be hating myself for it. What sucker would buy Donkey Kong for that much? It's only like 4 levels!

But yeah, that SP is the coolest thing i've ever seen.
 
What a coincidence that the people who grew up with NES now have enough to spend $20 for nostalgia. If thats not a ripoff then I don't know what is.
 
now 9.99 might be a more reseaonable price..I mean considering you could play that damn Excitebike game on your E-reader or even on Animal Crossings..paying $20 bucks for it just seems like a joke. I just hate it but I know I'll probably be one of those damn suckers paying the bill for Zelda...and I'll be praying I'll have the restraint not to get that beautiful SP since I already own a platinum one...
 
im am so getting that sp. i was gonna spend 150 to import the famicon one, but nowim gonna get that. i will definately get the zelda cart, and maybe some others (not SMB, i have deluxe) im so happy this was released stateside.
 
yes, but its our ugly. Its like liking your crappy hometown team (considering when i was in high school at walled lake western we won state, i have no room to talk.)
 
Well the good news is these games will go cheap real quick! I would never pay that much for a nes game! Nintendo give me a break! I could understand if it had two-three old games on it! Hmm let me think about this one...Nope not going to pay that much. I'll just wait till the old target clearence!
 
I don't think these games will drop in price as rapidly as you think. Look at the secondary market prices for a Zelda cart. Zelda carts are still maintaining some value, even after the release of the Zelda collection.

What bothers me more is not that they are doing this, but rather thier choice of games.
What moron chooses to put out Xevious instead of Kid Icarus?
 
I liked Xevious too, I just played it yesterday actually, I don't think I'd spend 20 for it though, got it for NES for like 2 dollars I believe at Gamestop before they started being bastards and not carrying anymore NES, SNES, or Genesis...
They should make Elevator Action, I'd spend the 20 for that... :)
-Goatman
 
Yeah, that does look pretty money.

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a regular gba game in japan is about $50
famicom games are $20, or 40% of the normal price

american games average $30. 40% of $30 is $12
the NES remakes cost $20

Nintendo is overcharging americans by $8
 
i'd buy the mario bros game just cause of the fond memories and probally zelda too. i guess thats what nintendos trying to trigger, people remembering the old days and wanting to play again. otherwise i wouldnt pay that much for those games.
 
yeah ill totally pick up mario and zelda, the rest...eh, if they were 10 id buy excitbike, and prolly iceclimber. even tho i already have mario dx, im hoping the screen settings are better on this than they were on dx
 
Hey, maybe they'll re-release the Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 re-releases. And maybe the Donkey Kong Country re-release too! ](*,)
 
Here's a question. Would you rather not have them rerelease anything, ever, or have them do this?

It's not like they are forcing you to buy these, or not offering any other way to get most of them.
 
[quote name='JSweeney']Here's a question. Would you rather not have them rerelease anything, ever, or have them do this?

It's not like they are forcing you to buy these, or not offering any other way to get most of them.[/quote]

I would honestly rather have them not re-release stuff ever and focus on making quality new titles more often than once a year.
 
[quote name='Mr Unoriginal'][quote name='JSweeney']Here's a question. Would you rather not have them rerelease anything, ever, or have them do this?

It's not like they are forcing you to buy these, or not offering any other way to get most of them.[/quote]

I would honestly rather have them not re-release stuff ever and focus on making quality new titles more often than once a year.[/quote]

Why? So they can make quality games, and then have people complain that they wanted a game based on a five minute tech demo instead?
Rereleases and ports finance the more ambitious projects that are done.

If everyone is so dead set against rehashes and remakes, they all still whine about how they want Mother 3, or another Fire Emblem, or a realistic Zelda.

For all the talking down people do off Nintendo for rereleasing old software, there are still few developers that take more risks in thier game design than Nintendo does.
 
That new SP looks like a Platinum that they slapped one of those skins you can order online for a few bucks on it. AND I can pay $20 for games that are around 2 decades old? Gosh, thanks Nintendo!
 
Considering that it's $6.25 (4.25 + 2.00 s/h) for a GBA SP "headphone adapter" from the Nintendo store, I'm not surprised these are $20.
 
[quote name='JSweeney'][quote name='Mr Unoriginal'][quote name='JSweeney']Here's a question. Would you rather not have them rerelease anything, ever, or have them do this?

It's not like they are forcing you to buy these, or not offering any other way to get most of them.[/quote]

I would honestly rather have them not re-release stuff ever and focus on making quality new titles more often than once a year.[/quote]

Why? So they can make quality games, and then have people complain that they wanted a game based on a five minute tech demo instead?
Rereleases and ports finance the more ambitious projects that are done.

If everyone is so dead set against rehashes and remakes, they all still whine about how they want Mother 3, or another Fire Emblem, or a realistic Zelda.

For all the talking down people do off Nintendo for rereleasing old software, there are still few developers that take more risks in thier game design than Nintendo does.[/quote]

I wouldn't mind another FIre Emblem or a realistic Zelda. Nintendo needs to put their creative talent and innovation into making NEW games. Rehashes are only going to alienate gamers into choosing a system with fresh new games being released, rather than the same games that they've been playing for the last 20 years. No wonder why Nintendo isn't first anymore in the market. If you love playing Mario Bros. over and over and over and over, then more power to ya.
 
OK, boys and girls, now you can't complain about having to use emulators to play NES games. Now that they're directly for sale, you're excuses for stealing the IPs hold absolutely no water in anyones eyes.

On a side note, yeah, I'm digging it, and might just have to get one, and Excitebike and Donkey Kong regardless.
 
[quote name='vshekar']Considering that it's $6.25 (4.25 + 2.00 s/h) for a GBA SP "headphone adapter" from the Nintendo store, I'm not surprised these are $20.[/quote]

I am so with you on that one. My beef is that one the back of the gameboy box it states "stereo sound". They fail to mention that extra hardware is required to take advantage of it, until after you open it up. I realize that this is a small matter, but I find it kind of annoying seeing that every incarnation of gameboy has had a headphone jack unitl now.
 
None of those games are worth buying. Now if they had given us Mapppy, then maybe. Plus We get gypped on the packaging. In japan they were like tiny original carts. here they just slap it in a regular gba box because NOA sucks, and that's why we don't get many of the good original games here. Like Starfi 1& 2, Tomato Adventure, Magical Vacation and so on. And that's just 1st & 2nd party GBA games.

Of course, some of the blame lies on the horrible taste of american gamers, ie wanting a realistic zelda, buying ea sports games, loving first person shooters.
 
[quote name='BigDirty']OK, boys and girls, now you can't complain about having to use emulators to play NES games. Now that they're directly for sale, you're excuses for stealing the IPs hold absolutely no water in anyones eyes.[/quote]

Anyone else want to bet that this was part of the reason the games were released in the States? :wink:

That said...I still think they're overcharging. Zelda is tempting, but the rest are too much. I don't think I'll be buying any until they either lower the price (I'd love $10, but I could live with $15) or begin releasing more third party games.

I'd love to have the TMNT games, or the Capcom Disney titles...the rights to those are probably completely shot to hell, though. It's a pipe dream, but it would be awesome.

There's only one more game I can think of that would get me to buy this...I know it's been said, but I'm one of those people who would love to see Punch-Out! be rereleased. I know it would be the Mr. Dream version, but some Punch-Out! is better than none. :D
 
im starting to save so i can get it at launch with zelda. i probably will buy all of them eventually. its only a little over 100 with BB. a bit much, but imo, worth it for some quality portable gaming.
 
All these games (and more) would have fit on one small corner of a GBA cart. I would have rather seen a compilation, or even a yearly compilation, "Best of NES '88".

And I just know Nintendo is going to send out something (like they did in Japan) when you register all the NES/GBA games at nintendo.com to get you to buy them all. :roll:

Nintendo used to be the most innovative developers out there, too bad they're concentrating so much on the past.
 
:( Damn it, I just bought a new SP!! WTF Nintendo?! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME?!

On another note, here's a solution to that "20 dollar NES GBA games" problem.

eReader from VGD = 26 bucks

Cards (all those games except Zelda and Mario are on the eReader) = 3 bucks.

Voila', problem solved.
 
What a pile of that site is. Guess that should have been expected with its close ties to EGM. Busting on Mappy is inexcusable, as that's the only one of either series worth owning.
 
Why do I feel like ebgames could have came up with something better for the description. My eyes were tearing after reading it.

"The '80s were, like, a long time ago"
 
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