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Dates back to last July, the news of the drastic price reduction, just a month later, he hit the 3DS. A move strong, determined, not in line with the strategies typically pursued by Nintendo, the daughter of successful well below expectations for the car put up for sale earlier this year. Along with the announcement also came the apology from the president Satoru Iwata, who has decided to halve his salary and announced the implementation of a loyalty program designed to not to feel too cheated the "early adopters". Buy a console at launch, left with very few titles worthy to play for months and months and then see a reduction of about one third of the price, when, among other things, the first real big shots (from Mario Kart 7 in Super Mario Land 3-D ) have yet to manifest itself, is not very pleasant indeed. And here we get twenty free games in digital delivery.

Ten games dating back to the NES, caught many by the Game Boy Advance, available in advance of the official exit in the catalog Virtual Console, in a sort of beta version lacks some features outright (including full versions of the manuals at the time available at a reduced size, and some games even the multiplayer), which will be added at the time of final update through the rest of the audience. This offer to make amends. And now came the first group: the ten NES games are indeed available for all those who have access rights to the offer. But let's step back: to be able to download these games is not enough to have the console. You have obviously bought it before the price cut and - important - you also have jumped sill’s Shop, always before the fateful date of August 12. Simply be passed in order to communicate to the central server that yes, your Nintendo 3DS was clever and enrolled before starting to be much less.

If you did this, now you will get the surprise.

To decide whether it is a welcome surprise or not, just check the list of titles: Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong Jr., Ice Climber, Mario & Yoshiro, Metric, NES Open Tournament Golf, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Wrecking Crew, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. A good dozen or so titles which brings us back to the past and includes timeless masterpieces, Rosette nice and fun and maybe even a couple of things that we could do without. We appreciate, however, do not give me the choice to once again convert NES Donkey Kong, the hub of a level, especially considering that on the Virtual Console 3DS is an excellent modest price of 1994 Donkey Kong Game Boy . It is clear that the value - historical, emotional and actual - of most of these games is difficult to challenge, but it is equally clear that Nintendo has already sold them to us several times and the fans really interested will probably already have copies in several. Or maybe not. However, of course, free to play them when you see fit on 3DS, maybe they always carry in your pocket to enjoy the Street Pass, does not suck.