Your Nintendo dream list

[A Black Falcon]

But anyway, the original point WAS whether SNES were adequate eight years after the machine was replaced. I still say, no.

Yeah, but I kind of got away from that... :)

And as I said if you were to make a game today I'd like to see it as nice as possible, but if it's on an old system I don't mind playing it... even if it has Atari 2600 graphics. :) But that should be obvious given how many roms from old systems I have. Now I admit, I don't play the really old stuff (Atari 2600, IntelliVision, etc...) much at all, but NES and up I play at least sometimes... and yes games with better graphics are nicer. But if the gameplay in an old one is fun I don't have any problem with playing something with badly out of date graphics. I think that if you do you're somewhat shallow...

The only way I would ever favor an original over a more polished remake is if there were some deficiency in the newer game. Like REmake's crappy controls, that is bad enough to override the prettier graphics for me. It's a prettier game but an inferior game because it doesn't play as well, and I think that's the angle you're trying. I agree that some remakes need to be done better (though in all fairness to Resi, it's the controller design that's at fault, not the game designers).

Almost all remakes/sequels change things, as I proved with that list if you've played many of the pairs. Which one (old way or new) is debatable, but they do change things. And that means that you can't judge them just on graphics quality.

But All-Stars? No. Those games are absolutely identical gameplay-wise. I noticed no alterations whatsoever, good or bad (except how in Mario 3, you didn't get the 28 P-Wings after winning). The only differences between All-Stars are the graphics and the sound, which are quite superior to that of the originals. That, and the ability to save, which only made it better. Thus, the remakes are superior games. It's a purely personal bias to add that the SNES was a better controller than the NES was. It was nostalgia coupled with the excitement of seeing the prettier sights and hearing the prettier sounds... it was like seeing an old girlfriend with a face lift and a boob job.

And as I said, remakes that are identical in all ways are extremely, extremely, rare. They almost always change things. Like the SM Advance games, where they made Mario and Luigi different and added the red coins and in SMB3 added the E-Reader for new levels and getting free items to make the game easier...