The Nintendo DS Games Wishlist

The site Retrogaming with Racketboy has up a wishlist of sorts, calling out the classic titles begging to be released to the Nintendo DS. Along with the Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World cart that I've been wanting to see for a while now, Racketboy calls out Super Metroid, the Sega Genesis Collection, and the Namco Museum as great candidates for DS releases. He also asks for new titles, like a compilation of Wario titles and a NSMB-style remake of Super Mario Bros. 2. "MattG PressTheButtons also had a really great idea for an original DS game that would serve as a follow-up to the very popular New Super Mario Bros. But instead of continuing with the traditional Mario gameplay, Nintendo would go back to the Super Mario Bros 2. (Doki Doki Panic) action, complete with turnip-throwing goodness. Would it be quite as successful? Possibly not. But I think Nintendo is currently in the position to take some fun risks with some trademark franchises that could give the gaming community something new to talk about."

Comments

Chrono Trigger

[voice_of_all_reason]

With Final Fantasy 4 Advance-esque extra features

The Hell with Games...

[superdan2k]

...what I want is an affordable DS cart loaded up with Firefox, a lightweight mail client (put the keyboard on the touchscreen), a lightweight AIM app, telnet/ssh, and maybe even an IRC client. Give me that, and I won't need an iPhone.

Re:The Hell with Games...

[stsp]

..what I want is an affordable DS cart loaded up with Firefox, a lightweight mail client (put the keyboard on the touchscreen), a lightweight AIM app, telnet/ssh, and maybe even an IRC client. Give me that, and I won't need an iPhone.

Firefox is impossible because the DS has too little memory to run it.

But you can have links/telnet/ssh/bitchX IRC with dslinux. A mail client (mutt or mailx) may be added in the future. If you have a host to run bitlbee on you can have AIM via bitchX.

You'll need to buy a Supercard or an M3 (they cost small bit more than a DS game), and possibly a NoPass device (don't know how much they are right now but they should cost less than Supercard/M3). Check the dslinux wiki for more information.

Re:MOTHERFARKING STARCRAFT!!!!!~!1211one

[__aaclcg7560]

I'm sure that the smell of defeat would be overwhelming under those circumstances. :P

Interactive Physics

[Bones3D_mac]

How about more of the weirder style games where you exert some type of physical control over characters, enemies and the environment itself, rather than focusing gameplay on controlling a single character directly? Sure, you got stuff like Super Monkey Ball and Rocket Slime out there already, but this is only scratching the surface of what the DS is capable of. For example, imagine some type of RTS game where the playfield has elasticity properties the player can alter during gameplay. certain areas could have sudden elevation changes, rippling effects, twisting, pinching or other oddities that could alter progress.

Or how about games that allow the user to create their own objects with adjustable properties, or construct an object from a large number of preset parts, similar to Mind Rover: The Europa Project.

The bottom line: we need more games that force you to think outside of the box, and not just for purposes of speed or button mashing. The DS has so much untapped potential, it's not even funny.

Please no...

[grumbel]

I like Metroid and Mario a lot, but please not yet another retro release, Nintendo already had way to much of that in the last years or did everybody forget the Mario Advance series, Mario64DS, etc.? I am kind of sick and tired of getting the same games from Nintendo year after year. How about some completly new stuff instead of just another franchise milking game (YI2,...)? Pikmin was the last truly new thing that Nintendo did (ignoring all that casual gamer stuff, Nintendogs, Brainage, etc.) and that already was way to long ago.

If there ever come more rereleases for the DS then please in the form of a flashcard and downloads over the VirtualConsole, but not as full price cartridges.

Re:My list, in no particular order...

[XxtraLarGe]

Civilization (again, WiFi connectivity would make this ROCK), Are you a grown man? Prepare to CRY! Look about 1/3rd the way down. Apparently the DS hasn't gone unnoticed by Sid and it's potential for Civ-Goodness!