This was actually my assumption for the mouse controller Nintendo showed.

The real feature is full pointer support! The built in mouse is a gimmick to introduce full pointer support.

Fred Couples, eh…?

It had never occurred to me that the two were related. Duh!

Wikipedia describes Merry Melodies as a spin-off from Looney Tunes!

The title of Looney Tunes was inspired by Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies.

“This is my daughter Flu”

This is pretty obscure, but the Game Boy Advance remake of Mario Bros. (Not Super Mario Bros.) is more fun than the original.

You can run, for one thing, and the controls are more responsive in general.

It’s one of the games on Super Mario Advance, and one of the main reasons I originally wanted a GBA when it came out! I had the original Mario Bros. for the NES and thought it would be fun to have a portable version. I was right.

They did a great job updating the game!

The character art at the top of the Steam page is the right kind of unhinged for me!

I was playing a lot of Final Fantasy VII when it first came out around 1996, and used a paper strategy guide.

I got a one-handed controller (an ASCII Grip that was amazing for old JRPGs. I still miss having it for those kinds of chill games where I don’t feel like I need to be hunching over a controller.

I was always super jealous of this controller but I couldn’t afford it when it first came out!

I love ridiculous controllers.

I happened upon the original for $20 in Wal Mart in 1995 and I’ve been playing it on and off ever since!

One of the best games ever made.

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Sounds like they should have called it Underscale

I’ll see myself out

I don’t know how popular it was overall but I really enjoyed Super Mario Wonder!

I even remember buying a nice glacier blue rechargeable battery pack and never using it!

I wish I could buy everything in glacier blue now.

Generalize more! “You guys,” “normal people,” “not enough artists and creatives I guess.” That’ll help when you join a new community.

You’re writing a lot of words. Why don’t you write the service? Be the change you want to see in the world, “creative.” Nope, better lecture me instead.

Oh right, you’re “not an expert,” which means you can just spout off “how come no one has done it?? No artists I bet.” and generalize without thinking. The bold sells that.

Then you just keep typing instead of thinking.

“Why doesn’t someone just duplicate Pinterest’s search? Seems easy.” And then if anyone says something, you say “it figures. You guys are just ___________.”

Are you just here to complain? What entitlement.

Some Game Boy Advance games actually had a software-based sleep mode!

You pressed L+R and Select.

On top of that, I was always really impressed by the GBA’s battery life but maybe I’m just old.

I guess it’s just nobody here cares enough about that to bother with it, not enough artists/creatives around I’m presuming, bummer…

This last sentence is wild. People who don’t write software think it’s so easy, why can’t someone just whip it up?

The lack of artists is totally the reason, and not that building up an entire federated service isn’t easy.

The idea that “the lack of creatives” is the reason it hasn’t been made is astonishing. Such arrogance.

If someone is releasing, say, a western XCom clone and expecting Baldur’s Gate 3 level success, they might have another thing coming… Since it would have a niche audience.

Like, obviously I’m not talking about games like Baldur’s Gate 3 here, I assumed that was obvious from context but I may not know what Lamplighter’s League is like!

I was assuming it was more like Hard West, or Wargroove, the Fire Emblem series, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics… there’s a difference between a specific genre and games that are turn-based and require strategy. Hopefully that makes sense.

Also half of the games you listed are pretty old (10+ years). Yeah, it’s a bit niche. But go off weirdo

There’s also the Mario + Rabbids series which is still pretty niche if you’re asking me.

They were advertising it on the Paradox launcher for a while on Cities Skylines and it seemed like kind of a large risk for Paradox but I don’t exactly know why I felt that way.

It seemed like too much advertising for a turn-based tactics game or something. I like turn-based tactics games but it’s certainty a niche genre.

I opened it just to see some of the photos, and my browser crashed. The photos aren’t even good, don’t even open the link.

I don’t think I realized Kotaku had gotten this bad. Yikes!

Haha that ghost is reading Boolysses