Has the Unthinkable Happened?

[Roufuss]

Take out the ports and Sword Of Mana (which was made by Square,not a first party) and you'd be right.

[jarrod]

Take out the ports and Sword Of Mana (which was made by Square,not a first party) and you'd be right.

Sword of Mana was co-developed by Brownie Brown and Square Enix Division 8. Brownie Brown is a Nintendo funded start up, composed mainly of former Square employees who worked on the Mana and SaGa games.

And the ports rock! Yoshi's Island is still the best platformer ever made.

[Kinopio]

jarrod, the thread I just made is basically an echo of your post. GBA tops everything.

[burgundy]

The releases of _______ by Nintendo should be viewed as acts of terrorism.

T'was me bitching about Double Dash, and I actually like Nintendo.

Nintendo and Sony both release great games, and lucky me, I don't have to choose.

Nintendo still releases a hell of a lot more than Sony (and at least a few of Sony releases are shitty sports games no one plays), so even if you like a quarter of all Nintendo games but everything Sony releases, you still probably like more Nintendo games.

And personally I can't think of a single MS title I like, but to be fair, if I had broadband, that probably wouldn't be the case.

Yeah, Whatever.

No really - it's a fact.

Really though, I'll reiterate that nobody can touch Nintendo's 1st party GBA portfolio overall...

About a third of those are rehashes, and another third aren't coming over.

[kingoffighters]

Sega and SNK are the only first party games I love(d). Now that Sega had gone 3rd party, and the Neo Geo has become (basically) a relic, I don't have any particular love for first party games. In fact, I think Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft all suck. But MS probably suck the most, followed closely by Sony/Nintendo.

[voltz]

Sega and SNK are the only first party games I love(d). Now that Sega had gone 3rd party, and the Neo Geo has become (basically) a relic, I don't have any particular love for first party games.

It doesn't help any when you have SNK getting most of their titles downloaded off the net thanks to staying with the cart format and people (from these boards in particular) wanted sega dead, reguardless of how great their games are.

These truly are some dark times indeed.

[johnk_]

all 3 first party publishers suck lately..

but F-Zero being "farmed out" to AV was the best thing that happened to the series, thank you very much..

[Lordmrw]

Really though, I'll reiterate that nobody can touch Nintendo's 1st party GBA portfolio overall...

-Advance Wars (Intelligent Systems)
-Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (Intelligent Systems)
-Densetsu no Stafi (RD1/Tose Software)
-Densetsu no Stafi 2 (RD1/Tose Software)
-Dokodemo Taikyoku: Yakuman Advance (NdCube)
-Domo-Kun no Fushigi Terebi (Suzac)
-EZ-Talk (NdCube)
-F-Zero: Falcon Desetsu (Suzac)
-F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (NdCube)
-Fire Emblem (Intelligent Systems)
-Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi (Intelligent Systems)
-Game & Watch Gallery 4 (RD1/Tose Software)
-Hamtaro: Ham Ham Heartbreak (EAD)
-Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue (Alpha Dream)
-Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Hal Labratory)
-Kirby: Kagami no Daimeikyuu (Hal Labratory)
-Koro Koro Puzzle: Happy Panechu! (RD2)
-Kuru Kuru Kururin (EAD/Eighting)
-Kururin Paradise (EAD/Eighting)
-Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past w/ The Four Swords (RD2/Capcom Studio 1)
-Magical Vacation (Brownie Brown)
-Mario and Donkey Kong (NST)
-Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga (Alpha Dream)
-Mario Kart Super Circuit (Intelligent Systems)
-Metroid Fusion (RD1)
-Metroid: Zero Mission (RD1)
-Mother 1+2 (EAD)
-Mother 3 (EAD?)
-Napoleon (EAD/Genki)
-Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire (Game Freak)
-Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green (Game Freak)
-Sakura Momoko no UkiUki Carnival (SPD)
-Super Mario Advance (RD2)
-Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World (RD2)
-Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island (RD2)
-Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (RD2)
-Sword of Mana (Brownie Brown/Square Enix Division 8)
-Tomato Adventure (Alpha Dream)
-Wario Land 4 (RD1)
-WarioWare Inc.: Mega MicroGame$ (RD1)

...I'd say Nintendo's lackluster Gamecube output is mainly due to an apparent drop EAD's offerings and focusing on western studios to try a make it up (Retro Studios, Silicon Knights, etc). Meanwhile, teams like Intelligent Systems and RD1 are making some of the best games available right now.... there's more to "Nintendo" than simply EAD. People forget that.

If you ask me, i think the gamecube is in the position its in because of the level of support they're giving the GBA over the cube. It seems like the gba gets the lionshare of their of their attention, while the cube gets the occasional nod. Anyone remember spaceworld 2000 when it seemed like they were more excited about foisting the gba on to third parties than the cube? it seems to biting them in the ass now.

[burgundy]

The only thing biting Nintendo in the ass is bags and bags of money.

[Drewbacca]

With dollar signs on the bags.