Don't think I found everything, so I wasn't sure what did and didn't. Maybe they ran out of ideas, or the ideas they had were good enough that they didn't want anyone to miss them.

Didn't I? It's 2, by a good bit.

@@ExploDjinn I believe you said 1 had better music and 2 had better graphics but not which one was the better game.

There's an intro stage, you have to start with. After that, you can tackle the zones in any order.

@ExploDjinn No the English thing.

@@PowerSimplified1871 I read left to right, so I tend to start on the left.

I think I like this one more than the first, but Wario Land would probably top them both. My brother and I did have 1,2, and 4 of those, though, so they definitely have an edge, due to nostalgia.

I think that's a good bit of its charm, though. Not sure where you land on it, but I could see the differences being a make or break for a lot of people.

Seeing the Gordos in the submarine did make me think of Link's Awakening, since those were enemies from another Nintendo franchise. That both of them were so weird makes me kind of think that they were more comfortable experimenting on the Gameboy in which case might be why we didn't get anything like this on the NES.

@ExploDjinn At least for Link's Awakening, it was because the game was originally an unauthorized project. Dunno about SML2. I assume we didn't see anything like these on the NES because the Super Mario World and Link to the Past released *before* SML2 and Link's Awakening. It just makes me wonder what could have been...

@@KamisamanoOtaku Didn't know that about Link's Awakening. Might look into that.

Maybe it was considered harder on original hardware, just because of the small screen and limited colors, blending together. Last time I pulled out my original DS, I had to question how I ever could use such a tiny display.

@@ExploDjinn Well not to flex too hard but I played on og hardware. Ok well not on an og gameboy, I don't own one of those, but I used an actual cartridge on my gameboy player/gameboy advance. I played most of it on my gameboy player but I played the final level on my gameboy advance with a stupid wormlight so I could see the screen. But yeah if you ask me tiny handheld screen basically always makes things harder

While I'm quite partial to Wonder, I think this might take second for me.

Funnily enough, I actually wrote something pretty similar about Mario for an upcoming video, so it's almost like you're reading ahead. I only played this one when it came to NSO, but for home console Mario, I think the first one that really grabbed me was Galaxy. Up until then, I always thought, why not play a platformer with a hook, like Mega Man, Sonic or, now that you mention it, Wario, so I get what you're saying. Also, not really an ASMR guy and I assume you're joking, but if there's ever enough demand...

Sorry, but I have no clue.

@4:00 Don't have one myself, but I've played a _lot_ on my nephews' Switch. I don't think they ever bothered, but there are dongles so you can plug multiple, unofficial accessories at once. At least, that's what a video I watched earlier today claimed. XD Even if the extra port is just intended for orientation purposes of a single, official peripheral, still appreciate. As is the fact that a standard headphone jack is still there. While even I have multiple pairs of relatively inexpensive, wireless blue tooth headphone... sometimes you just want something simple, durable, and cheap enough it isn't a huge blow when you lose/damage it on the go. Since the Switch 2 is still doubling as a portable, seems relevant. @4:30 Having noticed my nephews' (regular) Switch missing its kickstand, a more robust model is appreciated. Might be nice if you could intentionally remove some or all of it. Or maybe it is a bad idea. Not sure what is worth, having a kickstand break off (and sometimes get in the way), versus a removable one you could lose? @5:19 Besides covering Nintendo in case something they expect to work _doesn't,_ *remember Labo.* Oh, and isn't there some kind of AR Mario Kart "game" out there, that you'd get when buying some kinda remote controlled Mario Kart "toy" that has a camera so you can actually play as if you were in the driver's seat? I'm betting those are the kinds of things that won't work in it. Maybe some third party stuff as well. Or stuff that used a feature that didn't carry over. No one has told me whether or not it looks like the Switch 2 has the sensor _thingy_ needed for Amiibos... @5:54 I more or less agree. I was _not_ hoping for the Super Switch, but it reports suggest that some folks back in the day *were* confused by the NES/Super NES naming scheme. I mean, long _before_ the SNES was released, lots of games and peripherals for the NES had "Super" in their titles. I mean, notice how we got "Super Metroid" on the SNES, but since "Super Mario" series _already_ have "Super" in the name, they called their SNES debut game "Super Mario _World_ ". Oh, and "Land" has already been taken by the Super Mario _Land_ series on the Game Boy. XD And the confusion was even worse for the Wii/WiiU. Around half of adults own smartphones back then, and _most_ were online in some capacity. Yet the brand confusion seemed _worse_ than the NES/SNES debacle. The SNES released in Japan in (late) 1990, and in the USA it released in 1991. I went to see what Pew Research said about how many Americans had home internet back then... but the record I found with a quick web search only goes back to the year 2000. Not sure how well my experience represents things, but the first time a school I attended actually assigned me an email for me to use was in college... which was indeed in the year 2000. @6:11 I'm something of an anti-Sony "fanboy", but even I have to give them credit; just slapping a number to the PlayStation name is _boring,_ but it is also _super-effective._ Slapping "Portable" on for their first handheld was _also_ good. I had to another web search to confirm that the PlayStation Vita was indeed the name of their second handheld, because it sounds more like their take on Nintendo's abandoned "Vitality Sensor" for the Wii. Speaking of which, just a reminder that calling the follow-up to the Wii the "WiiU" wasn't just bad because it was trying to be cutesy (We and you), but because *Wii was a bad name.* Nintendo projects have always (or almost always) had codenames in development, and the Wii's was the Revolution. A name it would have lived up to, for better and worse. I still wonder if no one told them that their name sounds like childish slang for urination... And yeah, Microsoft. They're bad at naming. I mean, X Box is/was a _great_ name. Maybe not now, but it was very 90s/00s. Almost literally what I would have named a video game console. Also why, even if I don't like it, I at least _get_ why Elon Musk changed Twitter to "X". He'd have been in his 20s during the 90s e.g. when calling something "X" would have been super trendy... *Back on topic:* I had to be reminded by a video earlier that it goes X Box => X Box 360 => X Box One => X Box Series S (and X). I *still* had to do another web search because "S" and "X" sound so similar (with my hearing, at least). I wasn't sure if it they were what I vaguely remembered (S is the budget version, X is the real thing). And that they were the console's actual names and *not* some just their model/iteration. Like, they could be the X Box Two for all I know, available as Series S and Series X. >.>

@7:28 Nintendo does - or maybe _did?_ - sell an official Joy-Con Charging Dock. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I seem to recall the _official_ one (not the 3rd party versions) releasing oddly late in the Switch's life. Which led to speculation that the Switch 2 was on the way, could _use_ the old Joy-Cons *but* not charge them. So... there's hope, at least, that the old Joy-Cons will at least be _partially_ compatible with the Switch 2. @7:50 Think I said before that I don't have a Switch of my own (finance issues), but *have* played my nephews' Switch a lot (and their Switch Lite a little). I haven't had to mess with memory cards at all for the console *but even I want there to be more than one slot for them.* Just from general technological experience. Unfortunately, general Nintendo (and going all the way back to audio cassette tapes) experiences make me think it unlikely, in case it made pirating easier... which it might not. I don't know the technology involved _that_ well. @8:00 Again, agree strong enough to justify the comment. I've actually _used_ that shop, again for my nephews. Purchased a game or two, got them as much of the DLC for Smash Bros. Ultimate as I could afford, and also snagged the Mario Kart 8 DLC as an early (November) Christmas present. Shortly before their Switch stopped working around _actual_ Christmas. >_< @9:07 I've heard talk it'll be around PS4/X Box One in terms of what it can do, *except portable.* People disappointed by the first part of that sentence tend to neglect the latter. Yes, the Switch is _both_ a portable and a home console, but that means the constraints of *both* often apply, not whichever is more convenient. Plus, while there's a difference between generations of hardware we're at a stage where it isn't so... dramatic. Y'know, like NES to SNES, let alone SNES to PS1 to N64 to Game Cube and *yes,* I know I tossed a Sony console in there, but even Nintendo wanted to skip ahead.

@9:59 Yes, people want to see the games. But this isn't like the PS5 versus the PS5 Pro. Nintendo picks and chooses when to show off their next generation titles. Tech demos are - or at least were - pretty normal. Though maybe the misunderstanding I mentioned earlier means they've been avoiding it? I certainly *want* to see what they'll do, but the Switch has such a strong library, and at least Nintendo customers are used to (if not almost wanting) dual launches of the last big Switch games. As in, a Switch version and an (allegedly) enhanced Switch 2 Port. Like Twilight Princess with the Game Cube and Wii. Which you go onto say; I just only "mostly" agreed with you. XP And yeah, I think the leaks forced the Switch 2 Launch Trailer to be earlier (and thus smaller) than originally planned. @12:28 Yeah, Rockman Taisen. Since rumors had it as a "fighting game", which we've always expected but never actually received for the Blue Bomber, I'd like to at least get some details about it, even if it was canceled. Then again, I'm the weirdo who has some sort of Final Fight/Mega Man amalgam that lives rent free in my head, and has for almost a decade now... ...and yeah, *in general* something new for Mega Man would be appreciated. A friend of mind was (rightly) pointing out how long it has been, when Capcom _said_ they had something in the works for him that was - presumably - *not* the last batch of Collections or Mega Man X-Dive Offline. I'll resist the urge to be a dork and make an all-but-empty follow-up post for the brief ending section. ;)

I heard Arlo talk about the mouse thing, but since it wasn't something I thought of on my own, I didn't want to just yoink the idea from him. And I think the date's actually for a Direct, though I originally confused it for a launch date as well. I had various Gameboys, the DS was just fresher in my mind. Labo and Ringfit were the names I heard tossed around for the compatibility issue, so I think a lot of people are on the same page, and I even got confused with the Wii U thing, and I'm a Nintendo fanboy. As for the games, one of the nice things about Nintendo is, even if you don't know what they're working on, you never have to worry about whether they'll have a strong library of exclusives.

@ExploDjinn Ah, the date is probably a direct. At least one video game KZbinr I watch who thought it was the launch date as well, suggested it was because Nintendo timed it to bolster the fiscal year numbers. As for the mouse thing, I don't think it originated from Arlo, but I could be wrong. I watch most of his stuff, but not all of it. I think I got it from someone who just showed up in my feed, and they talked like it was general speculation from the leaks. And that the animation of the skittering Jor-Cons was a nod to it. Of course, could be remembering incorrectly, or they could have gotten it from Arlo.

"Maybe its just nostalgia and bias talking" ohhhhh ok i get it now

Well, they did change Needle Man's name to Spike Man in the NT Warrior dub.

Fair enough. Mr. X was so obvious, that it kind of felt like even Capcom was making fun of it at that point.

Good point. You could definitely call it the prototype.

Thanks!

I actually kind of like Wily as the villain every time, since it kind of gives the series a Saturday morning cartoon vibe, though I do hope they do something big with Lumine, if we ever get an X9. As long as the gameplay's good, though, I won't complain.

Yeah, but when spikes are bad, they're bad. There was a lot of yelling when I got to Dive Man's stage on Gameboy.

I think the Cossack and Proto Man fake out probably did get a lot of people when the games first came out, but them being retro makes it pretty obvious these days. The drop platforms just feel like a little much for a regular stage, especially one that could be the first Mega Man level someone ever plays. I also did a lot of runs of Powered Up around the time I did the previous video and the longer ones in the final stage are really infuriating, though hey, at least they saved those for the end.

@@ExploDjinn the sad reality is that Megaman just isn't beginner friendly, it's an investment game where you get better at it over time, and not something to breeze through like say Kirby, so if we were to point out everything that isn't beginner friendly in the series, we'd be here for a while. Of course, that's not to say it shouldn't be beginner friendly, but to only select a few examples of a greater issue within Megaman's design philosophy (that is limited resources mixed in with trial and error) feels somewhat unfair to me. But who knows, maybe I'm tripping and we really should just make drop platforms easier to ride, or ideally, keep them for optional areas with extra items only... which would probably be the best way to use them now that I think about it.

I think Mega Man's established the two stage thing enough that it's fine, but other games do the same health bar thing and it works. Not opposed to either, I'd just rather Mega Man stay the course, because I'm very easily confused.

II's the only one made by a different company. For what it's worth, I think III's by far the worst, though a lot of people, myself included, do like IV and V. Hope you can have some fun with them, at least, though I won't deny that they still have some of the malarkey included.

Played Mario Party with my mom recently and we had to constantly remind her to push A to advance stuff, and I once watched a friend slam through a rhythm game I could barely beat a level in. Different people are good at different things, which I don't get why it's so crazy to acknowledge.