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[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

Just the Mario part, I think you could make a clone with just different scenarios and characters (even the same track shapes) and be 100% legal.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

piracy makes for the easiest boycotts ever.

just saying.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Excuse me, it's not piracy if it's Nintendo.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

nintendo is one of those companies where ill take pride in STEALING from, even if piracy isn't stealing.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still busy enjoying their older consoles. They probably hate that.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

judging by how hard/expensive it is to obtain their older games on their newer consoles, yeah you bet they hate it.

luckily those are both easy to emulate and buy second hand.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yep, I like to play their older games on a mix of original hardware, modding, and emulation.

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

Modded Wii U playing online on Pretendo Network 😚👌

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 22 points 22 hours ago
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The Wii is still a good platform

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 52 minutes ago

Wii U also. You can download pirated games directly from Nintendo official servers.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The Mario part. You can copy the Kart part all day. They've been doing so since at least the 64. See:

  • Diddy Kong Racing

  • Crash Team Racing

  • Burger King Pocketbike Racer

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] applemao@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I love tuxcart but I can never find anyone else playing? Is the player base just that small?

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 points 42 minutes ago

Most of people are self-hosting the server. You can go to the official Discord or Any STK commmunity to find friends to play together :)

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Tbh I have no idea. I've only ever played single-player!

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

The crash racing games are actually amazing, their boost system is the best

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[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Basically every kind of game needs a "MUGEN" for that genre. Then we just put in the content we want and theme it appropriately.

[–] hexabs@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does SuperTuxKart fit the bill?

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[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 0 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

So, like Switch 1 games were/are $80, I don't understand the uproar?! They've always been this expensive, they haven't gone up. Maybe I have it wrong as a Canadian?! I don't get the big deal?

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

I think this is the first time base games are $80

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 11 hours ago

No game for any platform has ever been $80 USD base price.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (18 children)

Edit: Some salty commenters here. This isn’t my graph, just one I grabbed. Notes aren’t mine.

I’m a huge proponent for inflation adjusted livable minimum wage- which should be close to $30 an hour these days. Also hugely worried about our housing cost trends.

I’m only pointing out that expecting games to cost 40-60 for life is a little silly- yall still paying $.10 for a loaf of bread? I remember when games inched from $40 to $60 and everyone lost their minds- no one complains about it anymore. Don’t wanna pay retail? Wait for sales, bundles, used copies.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

The thing that graph doesn't take into account is barely anyone payed full price for those older games. Games used to lower prices to increase sales volume and those sale prices are significantly less than $80 even accounting for inflation.

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 73 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Okay, but now do housing and groceries and you'll see why people don't have extra money laying around for another Nintendo and its Mario kart.

Economics is significantly more complicated than a bar graph of inflation-adjusted video game price tags lol. Hell, even just value of each game in their respective release time period is more complicated than that. I doubt there's anything unique to this new game (other racing games have done the open world thing several times starting like 15 years ago), but the kart racer genre itself was new back in the 90s.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is a valuable way of seeing how prices have changed in different ways for different categories, just since 2000.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Why are TV's listed as "100% cheaper"? I'm a little confused about that number.

[–] theolodis 6 points 18 hours ago

Looking up the source, they state: "At the turn of the century, a flat screen TV would cost around 17% of the median income of the time ($42,148). In the early aughts though, prices began to fall quickly. Today, a new TV will cost less than 1% of the U.S. median income ($54,132)."

So a Flat screen TV used to cost around $7165, and does now cost around $541, which is about 7.5% of the original value. That means a deflation by 92.5%.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 18 hours ago

In fairness here, it's not Nintendo's fault we let landlords gobble up all our spare money.

Maybe they need to send Luigi to have a word.

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