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Nintendo Classics games

  • Street Fighter II: Champion EditionStreet Fighter II: Champion Edition let players become the bosses. The four final opponents became playable in 1992.
  • Super Mario Bros.Super Mario Bros., Nintendo's 1985 platform game, had only about 20 bytes of cartridge space left once its music was added. Shigeru Miyamoto spent them on a small crown. The crown appears beside the life counter, and only for players who…
  • Nintendo ClassicsNintendo Classics is a museum where every exhibit can be played, and where the visitor pays rent to stay inside. It is a line of emulated retro games that Nintendo distributes for the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2. Emulation…
  • GoldenEye 007GoldenEye 007 started life as a side-scrolling platform game for the Super Nintendo. It finished as a first-person shooter for the Nintendo 64, released in 1997 and built by the British studio Rare. Nintendo published it. The game adapted…
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past reached Japanese players in 1991 as the third entry in Nintendo's Zelda series. It was built for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and it followed Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which…
  • The Legend of Zelda (video game)The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo's game about a boy named Link, began, by its designer's own account, with a lake. Shigeru Miyamoto remembered it this way: "When I was a child, I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to…
  • EarthBoundEarthBound is a 1994 role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and its American advertising declared, 'This game stinks.' Nintendo meant it as a joke. In Japan the game was called Mother 2, and it was led by Shigesato…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time holds an average score of 99/100 on Metacritic, the highest of any game on that review aggregator. Nintendo developed and published it for the Nintendo 64, and it was the first Zelda game built in three…
  • Super Mario WorldOn the 21st of November 1990, Super Mario World reached Japanese players under the longer title Super Mario World: Super Mario Bros. 4. It was one of only two launch games for Nintendo's new Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.…
  • Super Mario 64Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform game from Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, and a sealed copy of it holds the record for the largest sum ever paid for a video game. That sale happened in July 2021. Heritage Auctions' specialist said: "It…
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind WakerThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker sold 4.6 million copies on the GameCube. That sounds like a triumph until it is set beside the 7.6 million copies that Ocarina of Time had sold. Nintendo released this 2002 adventure to enormous critical…
  • Pac-ManPac-Man was first called Puck Man, until executives feared vandals would change the P to an F.
  • Donkey Kong CountryDonkey Kong Country made its public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, which ran from the 23rd to the 25th of June 1994. Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln saved it for the finale of the company's presentation. He…
  • Super Mario Bros. 3Super Mario Bros. 3, a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was more than thirty years old on the 20th of November 2020. That day, a sealed copy sold for 156,000 dollars. At the time, nobody had ever paid more for a video…
  • Mother 3Mother 3 is a role-playing game that took twelve years and four consoles to finish, and then never left Japan. In the run-up to its release, people who phoned the Japan Post heard the game's main theme, "Love Theme", while they waited on…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskA grimacing moon looms over the land of Termina in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Nintendo released the game for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. The moon is predicted to strike at dawn on the day of the Carnival of Time, an annual harvest…

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