Are you kidding me? These are the games?

About half of them are crap and there isn't even the option to choose anything else! I was hoping for Ninja Gaiden is all.

Im assuming you are talking about the FREE games that are given to Ambassadors? While there were some other games I was hoping for, I still think it is a great collection considering its 10 FREE games, and you can choose which ones you want to download.

You can choose sure but might as well get all 10 since there isn't any other option.

Yeah, might as well get all ten. That's what I'm doing even if I'm not really interested in a few. However, there are a lot of people complaining about not being able to choose which games like they expected to have all NES games available to choose from. It's still ten games with 10 more coming soon which is a lot since they didn't really have to give anything

I just wanted for there to be SOME choice. Even if it wasn't Ninja Gaiden having something to choose from instead of just taking what they give you would be nice.

I see it as you can still choose, but the option is there for all of them. With the PSN crysis you got to choose from several games, however you only got 2 of them. This way you can choose what you want, but aren't limited to how many of the options

Will there at least be more than this when they release it on eShop?

About half of them are crap and there isn't even the option to choose anything else! I was hoping for Ninja Gaiden is all.

Sora278

ALL of them are crap in my opinion... I know, those are classics, the legacy of a bygone era, but nowadays they are just old... Wise man says, that one should never look a gift horse in the mouth, but such a horse should be just redone to glue... At least we should have had a choice, and not from NES games but from N64.

I hope for GBA games :) It would be awesome if the list proves to be true.

Well Nintendo could only offer Nintendo games and Ninja Gaiden is not a Nintendo game.
And at least we get 20 free games, good or not. Nintendo does not owe us anything. We bought the 3DS before a price cut, it happens to every console. We were just unlucky enough to have a price cut so soon.

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About half of them are crap and there isn't even the option to choose anything else! I was hoping for Ninja Gaiden is all.

demon-zer0

ALL of them are crap in my opinion... I know, those are classics, the legacy of a bygone era, but nowadays they are just old... Wise man says, that one should never look a gift horse in the mouth, but such a horse should be just redone to glue... At least we should have had a choice, and not from NES games but from N64.

I hope for GBA games :) It would be awesome if the list proves to be true.

I am a die hard Zelda fan and Donkey Kong is alright, so is Mario since the games are pretty much the same and Iceclimbers is something you play for ten minutes but Metroid is crap. And yeah that list of GBA games would be great! I only have like two out of the ten.

These games are awesome (except golf) what are you talking about?

I personally like the selection, and besides, we are getting GBA games for free later this year.

Nintendo really didn't have to do anything for consumers and early adopters. Obviously they care about their fan base and they gave us some classics ... and people complain? Really?

You willingly bought a 3DS for $249.99 -- and they're offering you 20 games, free of charge. Do you think any other industry would do the same to their most rabid dedicated fanbase? No.

Nintendo really didn't have to do anything for consumers and early adopters. Obviously they care about their fan base and they gave us some classics ... and people complain? Really?

You willingly bought a 3DS for $249.99 -- and they're offering you 20 games, free of charge. Do you think any other industry would do the same to their most rabid dedicated fanbase? No.

Haziqonfire

They didn't do it to please their fans. They did it in hoping they wouldn't lose them as a customer for future hardware because they knew that most people would be pissed off at them for overcharging for the 3DS and then dropping the price of what it should have been 5 months later.

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Nintendo really didn't have to do anything for consumers and early adopters. Obviously they care about their fan base and they gave us some classics ... and people complain? Really?

You willingly bought a 3DS for $249.99 -- and they're offering you 20 games, free of charge. Do you think any other industry would do the same to their most rabid dedicated fanbase? No.

Jelley0

They didn't do it to please their fans. They did it in hoping they wouldn't lose them as a customer for future hardware because they knew that most people would be pissed off at them for overcharging for the 3DS and then dropping the price of what it should have been 5 months later.

I agree, I don't see this as Nintendo being nice. I think they're doing it because they feel like they have to.

I just wanted for there to be SOME choice.

Sora278

I hear ya, even if they had let us pick from 23 games or so I would have felt so much better about the whole thing.

They didn't do it to please their fans. They did it in hoping they wouldn't lose them as a customer for future hardware because they knew that most people would be pissed off at them for overcharging for the 3DS and then dropping the price of what it should have been 5 months later.

Jelley0

That's still pleasing their fans though -- giving us free software as well as telling us "we know we messed up and we may have betrayed our core fanbase, but you guys are our most avid fans".

I agree, I don't see this as Nintendo being nice. I think they're doing it because they feel like they have to.Pixel-Perfect

They're not being forced to do anything.

[QUOTE="Pixel-Perfect"]I agree, I don't see this as Nintendo being nice. I think they're doing it because they feel like they have to.Haziqonfire

They're not being forced to do anything.

Of course not, that's why I said that they feel like they have to. ;)

Of course not, that's why I said that they feel like they have to. ;)

Pixel-Perfect

I don't think they feel like they 'had to' do it. They did it because they felt like giving some sort of compensation for their consumers -- out of the three hardware manufacturers, Nintendo is the only one that cares about it's fans the most, more so over than making a profit. In a way, they're a lot like Apple with their customer service.

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Of course not, that's why I said that they feel like they have to. ;)

Haziqonfire

I don't think they feel like they 'had to' do it. They did it because they felt like giving some sort of compensation for their consumers -- out of the three hardware manufacturers, Nintendo is the only one that cares about it's fans the most, more so over than making a profit. In a way, they're a lot like Apple with their customer service.

Alright man, I guess we can just agree to disagree. :P

These games are awesome (except golf) what are you talking about?

Ghost120x

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Of course not, that's why I said that they feel like they have to. ;)

Haziqonfire

I don't think they feel like they 'had to' do it. They did it because they felt like giving some sort of compensation for their consumers -- out of the three hardware manufacturers, Nintendo is the only one that cares about it's fans the most, more so over than making a profit. In a way, they're a lot like Apple with their customer service.

They had to. They had to compensate their customers if they didn't want to lose them. They didn't do it from the kindness of their hearts, they did it because they had to. They wouldn't have done it if their weren't people who were pissed off about the price drop.

I am a die hard Zelda fan and Donkey Kong is alright, so is Mario since the games are pretty much the same and Iceclimbers is something you play for ten minutes but Metroid is crap. And yeah that list of GBA games would be great! I only have like two out of the ten.

Sora278

^^ I am serious. Metroid is bad. Every room looks the same you have no idea where you are.

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I just wanted for there to be SOME choice.

Pixel-Perfect

I hear ya, even if they had let us pick from 23 games or so I would have felt so much better about the whole thing.

You get what I'm talking about! They just give us ten flat out and we either like it or lump it.

^^ I am serious. Metroid is bad. Every room looks the sameyou have no idea where you are.

Sora278

What do you expect, it's an NES game. :P

But that's the beauty of Metroid! Total isolation and you gotta explore until you find an important upgrade to be able to access other parts of the map. I can't beat a metroid game without looking at a walkthrough at least once, but that doesn't mean they're bad games. ;)

What do you expect, it's an NES game. :P

But that's the beauty of Metroid! Total isolation and you gotta explore until you find an important upgrade to be able to access other parts of the map. I can't beat a metroid game without looking at a walkthrough at least once, but that doesn't mean they're bad games. ;)

ANIMEguy10034

Fair enough but look at Legend of Zelda, pretty much every area on the map looks different enough for you to be able to tell the difference.

Agreed I loved Metroid Prime 1 and 2 (3 sucked, it was so easy as long as you know how to press 'A' the one hard part was that pirate before the final boss), Fusion, and Zero.But the original Metroid is bad to me.

They had to. They had to compensate their customers if they didn't want to lose them. They didn't do it from the kindness of their hearts, they did it because they had to. They wouldn't have done it if their weren't people who were pissed off about the price drop.

Jelley0

They didn't do it because they had to, they weren't forced. I never said they did it out of kindness, I said they did it as a strategic move -- part of that strategy was giving something to their core base that they care about. It was totally up to them whether or not they wanted to give out free content to early adopters, they could've easily said they don't care about their core base and let it be.

^Third party companies and plus that would probably kill their sales of Zelda 3D.

^Third party companies and plus that would probably kill their sales of Zelda 3D.

Sora278

Still third party games are on there. They don't want it to cost more than they have to. I was thinking the same thing you are a month ago.

Gameboy games are what, 4 dollars/euros? These Nes games would have probably been 5-6 dollars per game. I wouldn't have bought them but I'm glad I got them for free. I've played nothing but Balloon Fight, Mario, Open Tournament Golf and Metroid since I got them :D

http://www.gamespot.com/nes/sports/golf/view_image.html?id=OIQN4xkv7h6Z4R7m

i would have much prefered this golf game..

oh well..

http://www.gamespot.com/nes/sports/golf/view_image.html?id=OIQN4xkv7h6Z4R7m

i would have much prefered this golf game..

oh well..

KBFloYd

I'm not even wasting the memory with the one they gave and downloading it.

I don't like golf games, at all, but this was great because I can respect how hard it was to make. And in that sense it's superior to Wii Sports Golf. But yeah, I would much prefer something else (Kid Icarus!?) because the golf game just feels like a filler.

And, to the guy who hates Metroid, it's only downfall (or rather non-'down'-fall) is that you can't aim down.

As for the games themselves, there is only one that I don't like out of the 10 (5 of them I had completed beforehand) is Wrecking Crew, simply because I've never understood the challenge in it. I find Ice Climbers enjoyable, I LOVE Balloon Fight, I found myself stuck to both Zeldas despite having completed them already, SMB was like 'Yeah ok, I expected as much' because I've played it too much, I love DK Junia and I play Metroid until I die and come back with only 30/199 energies whenever I get bored of the rest.