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Nintendo: Here are games where you can be a Yoshi. Here is a game where you can give gifts and belly rubs to your friendly neighborhood dragon. Here is a glorious remaster of your favorite childhood game. Fire Emblem now has deep character customization. Oh, and Tetris now has 99 players, because why not.
I... huh.
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@Goldkin Nintendo:
But we refuse to keep options for playing old games available. Cause heck you, that's why.
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@kelseyhusky TBH, they may have recognized they lost that demographic to the emulator and speedrun scene. If you’re ever interested in setting up a tiny portable emulator machine, lmk.
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@qdot It’s still going! They even released a Steam build a couple years ago on a new Doubloon ocean.
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@qdot Also, that build specifically nerfed the Poker station, so the game’s economy could work as intended.
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@Goldkin
I miss Puzzle Pirates... it was a good time.
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An oddly specific thing about Tetris 99: the format and presentation look exactly like how Puzzle Pirates did its naval battles (except using Tetris instead of clones of Puzzle Bobble and Super Puzzle Fighter).
I know of a few people that this appeals to specifically, and I kind of wonder if Nintendo hired them or any former Three Rings employees.