MP3 link goes to Episode 113. :D I think the ACC one does as well.

Thanks! Fixed it up...

Man the first question of listener mail is AWESOME. Great discussion was sparked around the topic, I love it.

Oh and Zelda reboot makes me sad. Look at Phantom Hourglass, fail.

Sophia's letter is a good one too. I agree about the Super Mario 64 demo. I must've played that 10 second demo a thousand times at Sears. Totally blew me away and I just couldn't believe how amazing it was. My first day with Ocarina of Time also rivals that. What an amazing moment, a stunning game that was just absolutely amazing.

Playing Super Mario 64 for the first time was definitely one of my gaming career highlights as well.  I can't remember if I said that, but booting that up for the first time was MAGICAL.

I could have spent another five minutes talking about my favorite gaming moments, but I deferred to the other guys in the interest of time.  One that really sticks out was launch day for Ocarina of Time.  I went to Kaybee Toys to pick it up, along with two other friends.  We all went to one guy's house and set up three TVs and three N64s so we could all play at the same time.  It was a lot of fun to compare progress, comment on things that we saw, and help each other through problems.

Another great memory is also Zelda-related.  At my very first E3 in 2000, Majora's Mask was the first game I played on opening day, which means it was the first time I ever played a press demo of a game.  I tried out the Goron racing game and loved it, but I quickly decided that Zelda should not be experienced in the demo atmosphere but should be saved for longer, immersive gaming sessions.

I'm honored to be mentioned in the podcast, and I absolutely love the irony in the fact that I got Jonny to say something nice about a WiiWare game but he said it about a WiiWare game that I have absolutely no interest in and probably wouldn't download even if it were free and I had a million blocks.

EDIT: Cool, you read my listener mail too (the SD card reader speed one).

I noticed the talk about My Aquarium, there is actually a Japanese 360 game called AquaZone which is exactly like My Aquarium except its 40 dollars and you get the fun of buying fish as if you bought them in real life via DLC, yet the fish are on the disc so the DLC are unlock keys for the fish on the disc. In order to get all the achievement points the game offers you have to buy all the DLC which is 5,000 Microsoft Points.

Brilliant.

Hey Jonny, for a change of pace I'd like your opinion on downloadable games for a different system. Did you buy both Geometry Wars games on XBLA and if so do you think it's worth it to get both? I'm buying a 360 and, though I plan on buying way too many downloadable games like I do on the Wii, I figure I should only buy both if it's really necessary.

As a owner of both geometry wars games on 360 I would say no to that. I think geometry wars 2 and geometry wars galaxies(Wii version more than the DS) are the two must own geometry wars games, and the wonderful thing is retro evolved is included as a mode in galaxies.

I already own Galaxies but I don't play it much. It's the kind of thing I'd play a lot more if I could just turn on the Wii and play it for 5 minutes without worrying about what disc is in there, the same reason I bought Jonny's whipping boy WiiWare games, Wild West Guns and Midnight Pool, instead of Wii Play.

I agree with Flames... there's little reason to get the original GW now that GW2 is out.  If you already own Galaxies, you can try it for yourself.  The XBLA version is exactly the same but with leaderboards, and those are no longer very compelling since the game was released three years ago.

There are definitely lots of XBLA games worth buying, but the nice thing is that every single one of them has a demo, so there's no excuse not to try them before spending your points.

I'll be interested to hear what you think of Groovin' Blocks.  I think it will make you look at your other WiiWare purchases in a different light, since it is a better game and a better value than almost anything else on the service.

F U JONNY and don't worry I'm joking about that part

1080: Avalanche ABSOLUTELY RULES. I STILL play this. Me and my friends love it, and if you played Shaun White Snowboarding, you know it would AMAZING with the balance board.

Lindy, I agree Zelda needs a revamping. And I think they are doing it.

Greg, I agree main Mario series is amazing. Drop dead amazing. Platforming is my favorite genre.

I think 1080 still has a chance to be an awesome franchise, but it needs a drastic overhaul and a lot more depth.  Avalanche was a huge disappointment for me.

Balance Board controls would be a great addition for 1080, but that's not nearly enough.  The Wii version of Shaun White is probably going to be lame despite the controls.  If only they would combine Balance Board support with the open-mountain game design of the HD versions!  Then I'd be really excited for it.  Same with Skate It -- the controls may turn out great, but the game design seems to be so stripped down from Skate that I'm skeptical of whether it will be fun for very long.  I'm a LOT more optimistic for the next SSX game on Wii, since that series has already been done competently on the system and would benefit just as much as the others from Balance Board support.

NO EXCUSES. LOVE AVALANCHE OR GET OUT.

But seriously I'm joking. No need for any long winded reasoning. I'm cool with whateva

Unfortunately I don't have the blocks for Groovin' Blocks (and I forgot that Groovin' Blocks had the word blocks in its name when I started typing that sentence. Blocks.). I've already had to delete half of my WiiWare games to make room for more WiiWare games and I don't want to do that again for a while. I'll have some room once I beat Toki Tori but I'm not sure that Groovin' Blocks will be high enough on the list to make the cut. Once Nintendo releases their magical non-hard drive storage solution that they've confirmed to exist several dozen times but not officially announced or given any kind of hint as to what it actually is I'll certainly pick it up.

Total N64 games: 387 WAY OFF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_64_games

1 out of every 3 things said on Radio Free Nintendo is untrue, but only 20% of the mistakes are intentional outright lies.

If I remember correctly both the Wii and DS versions of Galaxies do have online leaderboards for retro evolved.  I think all the download services on each platform has a good amount of games worth checking out. I dont try demoes for downloadable games that often and the only game I was pissed off a little on was PAIN on PSN because when it came out it felt like it was only 1/2 or 1/4th of a game, and it's painful and sad seeing the character select screen full of BUY ME! signs (yes each additional character is $.99).

Great question, mine was definitely with Mario 64 as well.  I downloaded screenshots for months before the demo finally hit Toys R Us, and when I finally got my grubby mitts on the controller I was in awe.  I spent hours there and was actually able to talk them into to selling me the N64 a couple days early.

All the leaderboards in Galaxies are useless because they don't show your friends' scores.

Exactly, a definite missed opportunity.

Jonny, you guys should consider issuing a correction on this, even if you disregarded half these games you'd have nearly double of what you guys said was the N64 game library. You guys are recording tonight aren't you?

A lot of those are Japan only.  The list on Metacritic, for those reviewed by popular US sites is much shorter:
http://www.metacritic.com/games/n64/alpha/

Note - None of the games on the list are European only, sorry Greg!    ;)

I've gone through that list of games, and I've already found many missing that came to america. Including:

AeroFighters Assault
All Star Baseball 2000
All Star Baseball 2001
All Star Tennis 99
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes
Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
Automobili Lamborghini
Asteroids Hyper 64
AeroGauge

And that's just in the A's.

James calculated the other day that 300 N64 games were released in America.  So yes, we'll issue a correction on this week's show.

okay. Not trying to be a dick about it, I just know there were a lot more than 99 games on the N64.

so a good pool game is NEVER coming to the Wii even after Motion Plus.

damn thats disappointing.

Wow, 300 huh?  Coincidence or symbolic of how Nintendo tried to stand up against the CD Manufacturing Empire with just 300 cartridges?

oh yeah with the whole talk of no more heroes is a new interview on the making of the game.

clicky

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did Jonny say the yoga in Wii Fit wasn't a big part of the game? There are more Yoga exercises then anything else.

I was going to make a smartass remark about this but Jonny doesn't seem to like me very much right now and I don't want to get banned.

Have to disagree about Assassin's Creed. Great visuals, the animation and character control are very good, but the world is just so empty. There's very little color or flavor in the world. You compare it to Hyrule in Zelda, but at least in Zelda there are spiders to find, treasures to uncover, enemies to kill. The setting and style of Assassin's Creed are great, and really stand out from generic space marines, but the content of the game could have all been fit into a world a tenth of the size.

about what greg said about no more heroes. there is no blood in the european version? that's strange. the game still has the excessive swearing right? then why did they edit  out ll the blood? (not that i really care)

European ratings are not forgiving to blood and violence.  In order to avoid a harsh rating (or out-right ban in the case of the Germans) blood and stuff needs to be kept to a minimum.

This is also very sociological.

America is very prude compared to Europe but more violent.
Europe has no problem with nudity and sexual themes in movies and other media, however violence they don't like. Something like Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles might to harsh for Europe as is, but sexy stuff they have we couldn't put on prime-time tv.

It's very interesting. part of the reason America was founded was because left Europe because it wasn't conservative enough.

anyway this might get political so I'm going to stop, but allot of people don't realize how polar opposite Europe and America when talking about sex, violence in media.

You're completely right Vega. This isn't the right place for that discussion, but it is noteworthy.

It all comes down to the fact that breasts give life while blood drains it.  Its just that simple.

I'm slumming it here with GoNintendo Podcast episode 161. Can we start nagging about 115 yet?

eh eh eh

Regarding No More Heroes, there was nothing uniquely European about the bloodless version, as it was originally released like that in Japan. Subsequently, with the stricter standards that prevail in Germany and the UK and in the midst of the Manhunt 2 controversy that was still ongoing at the time, it was clearly just the path of least resistance to go with the Japanese visuals for Europe. I don't know whether any profanity was removed also, but the PEGI content descriptors mention profanity, so at least some made it into the PAL release.

In Europe aren't these games only alloud to be sold to those under 17?  I mean, whats so bad about blood for kids above 17?

Why James? Why?

Sorry.  I finished it last night but I had problems with uploading the feed.  Nobody uploaded it, although Greg did try.

God bless you, Jimmy Jones.

I just wanted to comment on James' suggestion to make Pokemon use real-time battles.

Square-Enix tried that with Dragon Quest IX.  Japan threw a hissy fit and they were forced to change it back.  The exact same thing would happen if Nintendo tried to change Pokemon's core game play.

Don't blame Nintendo for the lack of evolution in Pokemon--blame Japan.

Did you mean Dragon Quest IX?

Yes I did.  Thanks for pointing that out.  ;)

At this rate vudu is going to catch up.

Good!  Then he can send some Listener Mail.

That's the plan!  I've been doing some menial stuff at work that I've literally been putting off for months, so it gives me a chance to listen to the podcast.  I see that episode 116 is a short one and it helped that RFN skipped a week a while back.

After this, it's time to catch up on Retronauts.  I'm all the way back on episode 34 (current episode is 52).