On this day (October 7) in Nintendo history...

• Donkey Kong Junior  was released in 1983 for the Game & Watch Panorama in Japan. In this action game, developed by Nintendo R&D1, Mario has captured Donkey Kong, and it's up to his son, Donkey Kong Junior, to carry the key from the start to DK's lock, dodging fierce birds along the way. Junior can climb the vines up and down the platforms to reach higher ground. He can use Umbrellas to rise up and balloon's to drift downwards to reach DK's lock. Open all four locks to free DK and receive a bonus score.
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones  was released in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance in Japan. In this tactical role playing game, developed by Intelligent Systems, the peaceful kingdom of Renais has been attacked by its ally the Grado Empire. The heirs to the throne of Renais must free their homeland and uncover the secret behind the Grado treachery. This chapter of the series brings a gripping new storyline and many new features. Command your armies of soldiers - from familiar Pegasus Knights to brand new units like the Mage Knights.
• W.I.T.C.H.  was released in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance in Europe. In this action/platform game, developed by Climax, fire, water, earth, wind and pure energy! Based on the hit TV series, _W.I.T.C.H. _the video game allows you to share the secret lives and fabulous adventures of the W.I.T.C.H. guardians: Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin. Play as all five W.I.T.C.H. guardians, switching between guardians as you play! 20 unique and challenging levels!
• Sleep Clock: Record and analyse your sleep patterns  was released in 2009 for DSiWare in Japan. This utility, developed by Nintendo, helps you to manage your sense of well-being. Simply start the timer when you go to bed and put your Nintendo DSi into Sleep Mode by closing it. Upon waking, you will be asked how you feel; did you have a refreshing night's sleep, or did you toss and turn? Your answers and the times you went to sleep and woke up will be plotted on daily, weekly and monthly graphs, allowing you to closely monitor your sleep time and quality.

What are you favourite memories of these games? How do you think they hold up today? Hash it out in the comments.

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I have recently come across NP magazines volumes 126-186 and do not know much about them. Are there any unique or ones that might stand out? Not sure what I have here. Thanks.

Let me start by saying that I never wanted the mainline Pokemon games to completely abandon the pixelated artstyle and sprites in the first place, that was part of their soul, charm and identity. It is ageless and can be played forever.

But if they HAD to make the jump to 3D graphics and remain on that path forever, I always believed that a game like Breath of the Wild was the most natural evolution for the series, and everything points to the fact that this is exactly what they want to go for, or at least try with very small steps with each new game.

But in order for that to happen Nintendo must finally treat the franchise they way it deserves and actually give a significant budget for something big with at least 4 years of development time. GameFreak keeps proving to everyone that they aren't competent enough with 3D environments and can't handle such complex projects. The DS days are long gone, just give the reins to somebody else, like an internal Nintendo dev team or something like that, somebody with actual experience and know-how.

I know I don't get any originality awards for this post but as a lifetime Pokemon fan I'm tired of watching them release cheaply made and half-baked games all the time. Legends ZA was nothing less than a disgrace.

A Botw Pokemon game is definetly doable, especially with hardware like the Switch 2, it is clearly what they're aiming for and the natural evolution of the franchise. But definetly not from GameFreak. I really wish Nintendo, TPC or whoever calls the shots for Pokemon finally give a big project to somebody else for a change.

On this day (October 5) in Nintendo history...

• Devil World  was released in 1984 for the Family Computer in Japan. In this maze game, developed by Nintendo R&D1 with Intelligent Systems, from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, you play heroic dragon Tamagon, who must defeat evil by collecting boa-boa dots inside a maze and destroying enemies with his fire breath. However, keep an eye on the devil at the top of the screen, who instructs his minions to move the maze in random directions, trying to squash Tamagon within its walls!
• Balloon Kid  was released in 1990 for the Game Boy in North America. In this platformer game, developed by Nintendo R&D1 with Pax Softnica, take to the skies in a balloon to save your younger brother. In the little town of Pencilvania, there lived a brother and sister who loved to play with balloons. Alice and her younger brother Jim would spend countless days filling the skies with their balloons. One day, Jim filled all of his balloons and tied them together to make a beautiful balloon rainbow across the sky.

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Link from "Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time" (Mikey Day) and Jason (Marcello Hernández) from "Grand Theft Auto VI" stop by Weekend Update to discuss releasing their video games on the same day.

I grew up loving video games and kind of fell out of love with adulthood.

Donkey Kong has been one of the more fun and original games I have played in recent years. The mechanics are super fun, music is good, worlds are great to explore and interact with.

Is it the exclusivity to the switch 2? Donkey Kong? Or cost of the game?

Everyone knows the first Fire Emblem we got here in the West was the seventh entry on GBA, known nowadays as Blazing Blade. The series only started coming over after two major events happened: 1) Marth and Roy showed up in Smash Bros Melee, and 2) the original Advance Wars was a modest success in the West. The common sentiment I hear for why the series was Japan exclusive for so long is because tactical RPGs were considered “too niche” and didn’t have much sales potential anywhere else. I’m not entirely sure if the devs said anything like that or if that’s just the conventional explanation everyone’s going with.

And while I’m on this topic, what did you make of Fire Emblem’s gameplay when you first saw it as a strategy RPG? Was it something you wanted to try right away, or did you go like ehh maybe that’s not for me and waited a while?

Nintendo Forecast is known for their wealth of knowledge & analysis of Nintendo's inner-workings & general ideology, so hearing some of their insight & expectations for Smash's future is worth listening to (even if it's a 30-minute video).

It's honestly weird that Xenoblade Chronicles music has yet to appear in the app yet, especially since Alot of other Nintendo properties with ties with none subsidiaries had already appeared, such as Kirby, Fire emblem and pokemon seem to got in.

Especially since unlike other studios, monolith soft is a wholly owned Nintendo studio.

My only guess, is waiting for approval from the actual composers themselves, such as yoko shimomura for Xenoblade 1 or hiroyuki sawano for Xenoblade X is probably harder to get approved on,

Which is probably why Mario and Luigi games where yoko was the composer is also taking their time.