Final shipment of Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition for Wii

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Final shipment of Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition for Wii

Looks like Nintendo is shipping one last run on this, which is cool for those who missed out. Gonna piss a lot of ebayers off, though :p

Anyway, I'd preorder now if I were you (which I was you as of a few minutes ago :D)!
 
Awesome. If I spot this, I'm going to pick it up, but since I already have the SNES cart I'm not going to pay eBay prices for it.

- James
 
Well... I hope they don't release too many of them. I don't really like to sell my collection, but I do like to know it's worth something.
 
Well... I hope they don't release too many of them. I don't really like to sell my collection, but I do like to know it's worth something.

Well, I assume this is another pressing, too, so the first pressing would presumably be worth 'more' than a second pressing if there is some indication of which is which (though this is more common in the music industry...I only assume it might apply here).

But yeah, watch them say 'one final run' and ship out like 5 million copies or some shit. That would actually piss me off since I'm planning on trying to get two, though Amazon only let me order one.

Speaking of which, now that you know they'll be shipping more, how much you want for that opened copy of yours? :D
 
I haven't bought a copy, and don't plan on getting it, so if you want me to order your second one for you let me know.
 
I haven't bought a copy, and don't plan on getting it, so if you want me to order your second one for you let me know.

I'll probably just go out to Target or something on release day. If I see one, I'll pick it up. If not, no biggie. I generally don't plan to sell these things, so damn near all my collectible titles that were once sealed no longer are :p
 
Who actually gives a rats ass for this thing?
They did absolutely NOTHING with the game, it's the SNES Allstars without even so much as any filtering and it looks like ASS on today's TVs.

That's it, that's all that is on the game disc, they could have shipped it out on a tiny little 128MB SD card as there isn't even that much data on the disc.

The extras aren't worth the money either IMO

If anyone thinks this is going to be a collector piece that will net them big coin years down the road, think again...most people can't be bothered with it.
 
I totally agree. Nothing but a cheap cash-in. An extra disk with coin sounds? Gimme a freaking break. I was hoping they would make everything 4-player like New Super Mario Bros. Instead, they just dumped the ROMs. I hope it does become a collector's item so you guys get some worth out of it.
 
It is actually cheaper to get the games on the VC service - and they are the originals.
 
What's with all the haters?

It's a $30 game. At least they aren't trying to sell it for a lot more. And it should still stay "limited."

Not like the legendary edition of Halo 3 that was, what, $150 new? And now you can find it all over the place, still stockpiled.
 
No lie...I had a dream that the second run of these was in a different box with "second edition" stamped on it. How weird is that.

In my dream I was happy because I have my first one sealed in box...but I don't think I'll be so lucky in real life.
 
What's with all the haters?

It's a $30 game. At least they aren't trying to sell it for a lot more. And it should still stay "limited."

Not like the legendary edition of Halo 3 that was, what, $150 new? And now you can find it all over the place, still stockpiled.

Yeah it's $30...for what equates to a soundtrack and a little book, with an SNES game they couldn't even put button prompts on to match the Wii controller.

I have the Japanese Dreamcast Sonic Adventure collectors edition, which I only bought because I got it for like $8. It comes with all that, a gold coin and some other stuff.
Will it ever be worth anything? Probably not, and neither will this. It was never worth $30...neither is this.

If you're gonna put out a 25th Anniversary game, how about at least putting Mario 64 on there? Where's the original Mario Bros?
Repacking Super Mario All-Stars with a little book and a soundtrack CD, isn't much on the value.

The hate? I hate the blatant cash grab by Nintendo, this thing is LAME.
 
While I can agree, it's like I tell chicks that are disgusted by other chicks stripping on webcams for the whole world to see - if they can make money doing it, why the hell not (wow, that was random)? And if we're suckers enough to buy it, then all the more reason to slack at it as much as possible.

I'm just hoping that the success of this collection might prompt anniversary collections of Zelda and Metroid.
 
I was also pretty disappointed with what came in the package. You would think they would have made the game at least somewhat different or with some added features. It's just a straight port of the SNES version. Lame.

But it wasn't anything surprising if you're familiar with Nintendo's marketing tactics. They saw an opportunity to cash in on the anniversary and they took it without much effort. The price was right in comparison with standard Wii games so you can't really complain. If it had been $50, then there would have been some pissed off customers including myself.

We always ask ourselves "Why?" when Nintendo releases certain games and consoles, but we buy them anyways (most of the time) because it's Nintendo. A Nintendo product may lack substance or validity, but it's almost a culture to collect and enjoy whatever they put out.

I do think they go a bit overboard with "updated" handhelds. GB, GB Light (JPN), GBP, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, GB Micro, DS, DSL, DSi, DSiXL. I mean seriously? How many handhelds do you really need? I think the DSi and DSiXL were a waste. I admit, I traded up for a DSi when it came out, but it was disappointing. I was thinking, "So it's a DSi with a two cameras that serve no real purpose? So this is all the content they have for DSiware?" When the DSiXL came out, I was thinking, "So it's a DSi for people who can't see well that have big hands?"

I'm glad they are finally coming out with a "new" handheld with the 3DS. Though, you know they are going to do like 3-4 variations of it as well in a span of 10 years. And we're all going to buy/trade for them. :)

To Matt's point, I hope they do come out with Zelda and Metroid anniversary sets. Maybe they will be better since there was never "All-Star" releases of those franchises so they'd need to develop and think it out a bit more than just port a previous release.
 
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While I enjoy Zelda, every game is essentially the same. Link to The Past seems to the story taken for almost every game since. The only different one I've seen was Twilight Princess, and even that was just a twist.

Metroid? They've already done a remake of Metroid for NES. I want RoS and Super Metroid REMADE for consoles, not roms slapped on a disc.

What's with the word "ported" being tossed around? This is the Super Mario Allstars ROM running on an emulator, nothing more. If they're gonna slap ROMs on a disc, fucking do something with em! Filtering options, nice menus...not just a bare running ROM without even so much as an indication of what buttons do what.
 
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