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@Jawmuncher I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TYPE THAT! Such a surprisingly awesome game.

@Jawmuncher

babble babble babel

@Railgun
true

@baby sea tuna

yea seriously. them and dataeast take me back.

@KiDPANDA

Yeah, it was an early one for me too. I traded some kid at summer camp the game where you were a little dinosaur that dug holes (the name escapes me,) for it.

@Softserve

Do you seriously think the only issue with releasing these games is whether it's technically possible or not?

@OldsXCool
I certainly don't throw my old hardware away. I sell it, or give it away if anyone I know wants it.

In general I don't particularly want to play old games at all; if I wanted to play it on GBA I probably already played it back when it was new, right?

But I agree if anyone somehow expected Nintendo to release their entire library of GBA games (let alone SNES etc) within the first year of 3DS launch, um... wtf were they thinking. :)

@lonecow
"The real problem is you all expect epic releases every week."

No, we expect at least a few epic releases. Right now there are only two games on the eShop that are really considered classics. Right now, the eShop is just getting started, and Nintendo needs to release some must-have gameboy classics if they want people to keep paying attention. A new platform needs killer-apps to draw people in, and while the eShop does have a couple good games now, there's nothing to really keep interest.

Honestly, if they released something that was a huge hit, like Pokemon Yellow, most people would shut up. But there's nothing that enticing at all on the eShop, and it's alienating longtime nintendo fans and potential new buyers as well.

@CaramelZappa

*sigh* People just complain to complain these days. But whatever, I'll bite.

The thing just launched in June and we already have Super Mario Land, Kirby, Link's Awakening, and Donkey Kong '94. ALL of which are must play games.

And I'm not trying to be insulting here by assuming your age, but I'm guessing since you want Pokemon Yellow, you are probably younger than when the Game Boy launched. You probably don't realize that Donkey Kong 94 is probably one of the most epic games released for the hand held. It isn't just 4 levels of DK that you know. It is over 100 platforming levels where Mario has about the same move set he has in Mario 64. Go download that, and play it all the way through without save states and then you will be ready for the next big title they release.

What I can agree with you on are the 3D classics, which we have one so far and the upcoming ones look pretty bad. However, they are pretty much making these games from scratch so I can afford them a little leeway.

Also I have very little interest in the Pokemon GB games as they have remade all of them by now, and made them better and in the remakes you can take your Pokemon and move them to the newer titles. Why would you want to go through all that with inferior graphics and gameplay? (Yes yes, I know they haven't remade Yellow, so you can't have a Pikachu starter Pokemon. Big Whoop.)

@Baha05
So? They have to do all that for these less than stellar titles as well. It's the same process for Super Mario Land as it is for anything else.

@Dreamcaster

Ummm... There has been so far?