Happy birthday Mario fweep! What do we have planned for your 35th anniversary? Pure fucking cringe, of course:
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A NES on a chip crammed into a Game and Watch shell. We're getting into the handheld Famiclone marker 5 years after Chinese bootleggers! Here, enjoy two whole games and a watch. Get it before the scalpers do!
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An RC car with a camera. It's not like you can buy similar kits off Amazon, and get a toy that can actually fly, buy a glorified McDonalds figure with subpar gameplay.
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New All Stars! Does that mean we get graphical updates to classic 3d mario games? Nope, enjoy Mario 64 in all its low poly glory stretched across huge modern TV screens! Remastering one of the best selling games would mean we actually give a shit about the quality of our products!
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Tetris 99 but it's original SMB. Are you sick of this classic yet? Enjoy being creamed by sweaty neckbeards who've played this game since the original release.
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A port of the game that is barely 10 years old. So how are we going to implement Wii U pad gameplay features when the touchscreen is docked in the cradle? Crickets Also, a B side game with no gameplay shots.
Mel Brooks jazz hands MOICHANDIZING!!!!
Get your Super Mario branded sneakers, sweats, Air Fresheners, Tanuki tail buttplugs, anything but actual fucking games. Cue the chorus of "akshually, the're a toy company, always have been gunshot"
Eeeurgh.
Depends on how hackable those "G&W" are. But you can already buy a chinese handheld that'll even run some psx and dreamcast games for around 80-100 dollars. But the general pubic are pretty dumb and will buy this instead.
Oh, no doubt there. Hell, they almost had me with the nostalgia bait. I had a couple of the single-screen LCD G&W units (Donkey Kong Jr. and Super Mario Bros - the original blue one) when I was a kid and I played the hell out of them, and this announcement hit me hard in the memories. Sure, it'd be nice to have one of these as a shelf-sitter for the collection, but after thinking about it for a while I decided it wasn't worth it. Like you said, it'd make more sense to hit up Amazon or Ali and get an RG350 unit, then load that sucker up with every ROM under the sun.