AlternatorDelux

I read somewhere that until the mid-80s, Nintendo had a policy of exclusively using English in games so that they'd be ready for international release (they didn't have overseas localizers yet), and it's likely other companies were the same.  This doesn't explain how games this day are decided game-by-game what kind of logo to use, but it does show that for those in Japan, it's never been weird for it to be in English text.

It connects with 1, but that was still enough of a reason for me to add 2 to the list.

I'm reasonably confident in this being the NA list.  Note that it doesn't include games that only use the infrared port or the printer (the latter of which technically use the cable).  Marble Madness supports the cable on GB but not GBC.  Pokémon Yellow has a nebulous status for reasons that are its own topic and has been officially treated as either GB or GBC at different times.  I don't count it here.

 

Airforce Delta

Army Men 2

Asteroids

Azure Dreams

Ballistic

Battleship

Bomberman Quest

Bust-A-Move Millennium

Centipede

Chase H.Q.: Secret Police

Chessmaster

CyberTiger

Donkey Kong Country

Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors

Dragon Dance

Dragon Warrior III

Dragon Warrior Monsters

Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey

Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure

ESPN International Track & Field

ESPN National Hockey Night

F1 World Grand Prix II

The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock

Formula One 2000

Game & Watch Gallery 2

Game & Watch Gallery 3

Gobs of Games

Harley-Davidson Motorcycles: Race Across America

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

Harvest Moon GBC

Harvest Moon 2 GBC

Harvest Moon 3 GBC

Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory

Hole in One Golf

Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver

Hoyle Card Games

Hoyle Casino

International Rally

International Superstar Soccer '99

International Superstar Soccer 2000

International Track & Field

Jeff Gordon XS Racing

Klustar

Knockout Kings

Legend of the River King 2

LEGO Racers

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

Lil' Monster

The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure

Looney Tunes Collector: Alert!

Looney Tunes: Marvin Strikes Back!

Madden NFL 2001

Madden NFL 2002

Magical Drop

Magical Tetris Challenge

Mario Golf

Mario Tennis

Metal Gear Solid

Metal Walker

Mickey's Speedway USA

Midway Presents Arcade Hits: Joust/Defender

Mission: Impossible

Monster Rancher Battle Card GB

Monster Rancher Explorer

Motocross Maniacs 2

NASCAR 2000

NBA 3 on 3

NBA In the Zone

NBA In the Zone 2000

NHL Blades of Steel 2000

Pac-Man: Special Color Edition

Perfect Dark

Pokémon: Gold Version

Pokémon: Silver Version

Pokémon: Crystal Version

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge

Pokémon Trading Card Game

Polaris SnoCross

Power Quest

Power Spike: Pro Beach Volleyball

Rampage 2: Universal Tour

Rampart

Razor Freestyle Scooter

Revelations: The Demon Slayer

Road Rash

Robopon: Sun Version

Rox

Shanghai Pocket

Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder

Snoopy Tennis

Star Wars: Episode I Racer

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe

Test Drive 2001

Test Drive Cycles

Tetris DX

Titus the Fox

TNN Outdoors Fishing Champ

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Top Gear Pocket

Top Gear Pocket 2

Trick Boarder

Tweety's High-Flying Adventure

Uno

Vigilante 8

Warlocked

WCW Mayhem

Woody Woodpecker Racing

WWF WrestleMania 2000

Xena: Warrior Princess

X-Men: Mutant Academy

Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dark Duel Stories

You'd probably find no games in the last 20 years that meet that 100% standard, aside from maybe things on the scale of Jump Rope Challenge.  Watch the credits of any game and you'll find other companies involved in some aspects even if Nintendo was the developer.

My dividing line is "does the front of the box look different when you glance at it from across the room?"  This is the actual criteria I used for my NOA releases list, because I'm more interested in the way the same was sold.

On 7/21/2023 at 3:15 PM, DK said:

Yup!

Dungeons are numbered and it holds your hand through them.

The overworld map has everything listed, but for the secret items (heart containers, etc) it tells you where they are and how to get them, but not WHAT you get until you burn the bush/push the rock, etc. A little bit of mystery!

 

Fair warning, there are some mistakes and omissions in this guide having to do with things like what walls are bombable.  This is going from memory and it's possible later revisions fixed it.

Since it was mentioned that these aren't eShop downloads, are these initiated by doing something within the game or is it done over SpotPass (blue notifications)?  If it's the former, chances are you'll be able to do this for as long as 3DS supports online play, which will continue beyond the eShop closure.  If it's the latter, it's anyone's guess since that's handled game by game.

3 minutes ago, glazball said:

Worst:

Tuff E Nuff (SNES)

Don't stop without the full title!  Hey Punk, Are You Tuff E Nuff?  Master the Moves To Master Me!

Trio the Punch, and while we're at it, Sonic the Fighters.

I'm sure that I saw something somewhere from the Lance Burr (the one who redesigned it) that corroborated the toy part, and at the time, it would definately look that way.

I always had the impression the color scheme was meant to look classy.  It fits the soundtrack of F-Zero and Pilotwings in a way.

I've played a New 3DS XL heavily since launch and that hasn't happened once.  Today I tried holding it the way you described, but it made my hand pretty uncomfortable.  I think the difference is because it's meant to be viewed more at a downwards angle the way I normally hold it, whereas in order to be keeping it where your pinky would be on the power button, it would have to be held more directly ahead of your face.

On 8/29/2022 at 1:34 AM, Dr. Morbis said:

Awesome list!  I'm just wondering why "How to Win at Super Mario Bros." is listed under Multi-Game Guides?  The Zelda Tips & Tactics book that was sold along with it for years in Nintendo Power is listed properly under single game guides, but I can't figure out why SMB's book is listed where it is...

It might have been conflated with the similarly-titled How to Win at Super Mario Bros. Games (which itself is missing a word on this list).

The copyright date on the version with no game box is still 1992.  While it's possible that it was released later, I'm inclined to think it wasn't too far off from the end of 1992 since the games featured on the side and on the included poster fit that time frame better.

I can never take a source seriously that doesn't put a space in Game Boy.  But more to the point, they're probably good enough for strictly games, but should be avoided for things like hardware and accessories.

There were also figures included with some packages of Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver and Sun/Moon.

As far as game bundle-exclusive amiibo figures go, there was also Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival.

I left arcade games out because everything here goes under what I see as the consumer products side of things, rather than things that were more designed to be in public places, which would also include stuff like store demo hardware and other items used during events.  I'm still interested in the arcade games, but didn't really see them as part of the same side of Nintendo in the way all of these are.  If I added just the arcade games continued to exclude those other things, it would be just for the sake of making the "game" list complete, which would be easy enough to do as its own thing.

 

That said, the door is open for anyone to use this as a starting point for whatever list they'd want to compile themselves, as long as they link back to this.

I've been working on this step for ages, but I was finally able to compile the full list of products offered in Super Power Supplies along with a handful of other missing magazine-related bonus items.  I've been wanting to do this all at once, so after narrowing them down to those that were more likely than not to be Nintendo-produced, I've expanded the criteria for what types of items are listed.  Of course, if you have any information suggesting otherwise, don't hesitate to share.

 

This project has now reached what I've always wanted to be its final form as far as scope is concerned, though updates will continue whenever new information comes along.

Wii Sports in small sleeve: Original bundle

Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort in seperate small sleeves: Bundle that includes original model and MotionPlus attachment, and bundle that includes original model and Wii Remote Plus

Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort 2-in-1 disc in small sleeve: Redesign

But let me know if that sounds wrong to anyone.

On 5/5/2021 at 3:48 PM, AlternatorDelux said:

I can remember a game with a high-pitched creature that says something along the lines of "Payamo!"  I can't remember what kind of game it is, but I suspect it's on Game Boy Advance.  Multiple voices in Super Monkey Ball sound like it, but I haven't found that particular line in those games.

I found it!  Pop'n TwinBee.

On 4/20/2022 at 6:40 PM, DefaultGen said:

Dunno if the Sonic people ever figured anything else out, but there's a Printed in Japan copy with a receipt from before Sonic 1's "release date" (I don't know that Sonic 1 had a real release date, but June 23 is the unsourced one floating around). If it's not the first, it's at least tied for first as far as I'm concerned.

This probably isn't too unusual, since games with hard release dates were still the exception at the time and stores tended to start selling copies whenever they got them.  Still a good indication of it being from the first run.

There's really never been a point that my identity wasn't entirely video games, and I'm just as likely to play games from one era as any other.  More generations become classified as retro over time, and so how retro I appear to be also changes over time.  But I don't count the retro label as part of my identity.  I prefer to feel like time is an illusion and I perceive all points in time at once.

It gets a lot better when you try to imagine the train of thought that led to picking that name.

It's possible that I conflated details about the Funco person (maybe either Douglas Brown or Andy McNamara?) with those that were mentioned by Neil Levin of Play it Again, both of which are mentioned in this video.  It also points towards a similar conclusion.

 

 

Here's what the Lost Media Wiki has to say about it:

"The first person contacted was Andy McNamara, who works at Game Informer and was a former employee of Funco. When contacted by Lost Media Wiki Forums user co, he stated that David Pomije, CEO of Funco, was the one to compile the mail-in order lists. Later on, the list was also complied with buyers. Andy also said that it was likely that the list was created by looking at games available on the market in the early days.

The second person contacted was Neil Levin, one of the founders of Play it Again. Lost Media Wiki Forums user stintergalactic was able to reach out to him through LinkedIn. After this, a phone call interview was scheduled between the two of them. Neil said that the person who ran the company would often put in fake listings to catch people copying Play it Again. This was a common business practice, according to Neil. Through this contact, the theory that Yeah Yeah Beebiss I was a copyright trap is strengthened."

I got the Fire Emblem 30th Anniversary Set in store.  Of course, the game itself was a download code, so if that doesn't count, then it would have been the Nintendo Labo VR Kit.

On 2/7/2022 at 10:22 AM, scaryice said:

It's almost certainly a butchering of the Famicom title Rai Rai Kyonshis: Baby Kyonshi no Amida Daibouken, which was a Family Trainer (Power Pad) game.

I can't find it, but I could swear I saw a video pretty recently where someone tracked down the person in charge of Funco listings at the time and they said it was definately the kind of thing their boss would have inserted as a paper trap.