Mer.Saloon
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Over the last several months, I've been able to play Zelda Four Swords, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, and the best version of Arcade Mario Bros all in their intended multiplayer modes.
These are all games I owned as a kid but never could fully access on my own because I never could actually find anyone who owned copies of these games. At the most people around me owned copies of Pokemon for trading, but that's about it. Never could play anything else with anyone on the damn GBA because almost every decent game needed people to own several copies of the thing to make use of a lot of the best features.
You could always emulate these games sure, but that still required everyone to have/want the emulator and the games you wanted to play. Just a hassle there for a bunch of old games that I don't think people have a lot of nostalgia for because of how inconvenient it was to access the multiplayer on them. The advantage of NSO is that you get all the games so you can be assured as long as you know people with the expansion pack you can play the GBA lineup with them.
It's not perfect mind you. Random lobbies would be really nice, because as is you still have to find people interested in playing these specific games on your GBA list.
Random thoughts on random games:
These are all games I owned as a kid but never could fully access on my own because I never could actually find anyone who owned copies of these games. At the most people around me owned copies of Pokemon for trading, but that's about it. Never could play anything else with anyone on the damn GBA because almost every decent game needed people to own several copies of the thing to make use of a lot of the best features.
You could always emulate these games sure, but that still required everyone to have/want the emulator and the games you wanted to play. Just a hassle there for a bunch of old games that I don't think people have a lot of nostalgia for because of how inconvenient it was to access the multiplayer on them. The advantage of NSO is that you get all the games so you can be assured as long as you know people with the expansion pack you can play the GBA lineup with them.
It's not perfect mind you. Random lobbies would be really nice, because as is you still have to find people interested in playing these specific games on your GBA list.
Random thoughts on random games:
- Bowser only shows up in battle mode of Mario Bros. Now what is up with that?
- Why Capcom/Nintendo felt it was ok to lock a bonus dungeon behind a multiplayer Zelda mode is beyond me. It definitely didn't make my friends wanna buy it, just made me wish I had new friends.
- Kirby and the Amazing Mirror is really ambitious for the time. The fact you can have access to a whole map across four seperate screens is pretty bonkers. And the game is struggling to manage that performance wise.
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