mk64 wrote:

1) SML
2) 6 golden coins
3) Wario Land
4) Double Dragon
5) Nes Football
6) Gargoyles Quest
7) Pinball Dreams/Fantasies
Tetris
9) Boxxle
10) Nebulus/Castelian
11) Zelda LA
12) Pokemon Yellow/Red/Blue/Green
13) Metroid ||
14) Final Fantasy Legend
15) TMNT
16) Castlevania 2: Belmonts Revenge
17) Micro Machines
18) Alleyway
19) Batman
20) Gremlins 2

That's a solid enough list but there's licence issues on many of those.

Then theres games that are fine but much better elsewhere. Micro Machines springs to mind.

If Nintendo are gonna do this then those issues are very real.

20 meaningful games without licensing restrictions would be much more tricky.

Third-party games might not be that much of a nightmare since they'll have negotiated and cleared the VC releases for 3DS not too long ago. It's not like NES and SNES where VC didn't take off as much on Wii U and the big VC console was the Wii from, like, a million years ago.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Third-party games might not be that much of a nightmare since they'll have negotiated and cleared the VC releases for 3DS not too long ago. It's not like NES and SNES where VC didn't take off as much on Wii U and the big VC console was the Wii from, like, a million years ago.

I'm pretty sure there's more NES games on the Wii U than there was Wii.

Regardless my point wasn't that kind of licensing. It's games like Batman and Turtles. Konami made TMNT on Game Boy but they no longer hold the licence, I think Platinum do now.

So that's two green lights and money Nintendo have to pay out instead of one for Castlevania for example.

Exactly.

Off the top of my head the Turtles games were pulled from the VC along with the R-Types and even the DKC games for a brief period.

The Simpsons Arcade Game and Out Run 2 are no also longer on PSN.

I'm sure there's a shit load more.

Licensing is a right bastard that many of us forget about.

A few have already said this but I'll add my tuppence worth....DK '94 is one of the best platformers around - handheld or otherwise.  Well worth looking out for.  And for the optimal experience play it with a Super Gameboy to get the nice border art that makes the game look like it's being played in a DK cabinet.

never played dk '94 but if it was going on the best games list for the GB it'd be on there from what i've read.

Bang on mate.

Anyone here played SML recently? I got it on VC for 3DS and completed it in about 45mins.

Good for its time, forgetful as fuck now.

Fair play mate, I was never a huge GB fan tbh. The screen was so poor. Once the novelty of playing games on the go under a lamp wore off it went largely unused until the pocket arrived.

That was a bit of a game changer and gave the platform a new lease of life for me. That was when I played Zelda which was quite incredible tbh.

I passed the GBC and got a GBA. Same thing happened, OG had a shit screen but I got more out of it with the SP but not the same as Pocket levels.

DS/PSP is when I really got into the handhelds. Loved both of those and 3DS and now Switch have carried the baton very well for me.

They'd make a lot more with a GB app. 50p a game.

WorKid wrote:

They'd make a lot more with a GB app. 50p a game.

50p?! You’re having a laugh.
This is Nintendo we’re talking about!