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I've been using the Super Mario Game and Watch as a watch. Well, technically a clock. I did not strap this thing to my wrist, and will not even look up the possibility of doing so. The Game & Watch sits on the shelf facing my general direction, and the time displayed is correct, as I've adjusted it to be so, and the time has remained constant since the November 2020 launch of the product…
Nintendo forcing developers to go 3D really killed momentum for the fighting genre on Nintendo consoles. Even on playstation and in the arcades, by 1997 fighting games in general had lost some of their luster. Though a decent idea for a cash grab initially. This idea is well past the expiration date for seeing decent returns. The only chance a middling game like this has is to launch on the N64, where owners were desperate to buy anything for a reasonable price. I'm actually surprised this didn't get the "Only for" N64 tag up in the top right. I guess they were still planning that PSX release when this ugly box landed on store shelves…
Did you know that there was a time when Masahiro Sakurai didn't work for Nintendo? It's true! It happened once. Then they pulled him right back into the life. In that brief moment of Non-Nintendo clarity, Sakurai teamed up with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his company Q? Entertainment to create a handheld puzzle game, as was all the rage at the time…
