Yeah, some of these reasons are lousy. Really need lists like this for the other consoles (or just different companies. Where's the 100 Reasons Fanboys Hate Microsoft or Apple lists?), so we can complain about them too.
1. RAM Expansion - Hey, that was cool. Gave the N64 a MUCH needed resolution boost. But it's annoying that I couldn't have smooth framerates along with it. And when World Driver Championship looked fantastic without the expansion pak... well, that all went out the window.
2. Pikachu N64 - If you're talking about Pokemon Snap... mm, well, I don't know, that should be great for Pokemon fans. N64 model of Pikachu, well hey, I like that.
3. Hey You! Pikachu - Yeah. I never played it, but if the microphone peripheral doesn't work well with it, then what's the point?
4. Nine years of B&W Game Boy - After learning how utterly pointless the Game Boy Pocket was, then sure. But back then, the games weren't about color. We didn't mind that we didn't have color. And the reason we liked the Super Game Boy? Well, okay, the color, but also being able to see the games on a bigger screen. But dang the Game Boy Camera was ugly when played on Super Game Boy. Talk about your low resolution.
5. DS Lite has different charger - That would annoy me if I had one. But I've actually never bought a charger for a Game Boy, I just replaced the batteries.
6. "Gamers were bored before Wii" - Ridiculous. Absurd.
7. Still advertising Wii Sports - STILL!? Geez, get over it.
8. Electroplankton - No comment, never played it.
9. Watermelon N64 - Annoyed that they came in different colors years after the first model, so chances are you had an N64 before you could choose the color you wanted. I'm not shelling out another whatever-the-price-of-N64-was just for a pretty new color. I only pay for colors when they come with the introduction of the... thing.
10. Controller Paks - You must be crazy. The only way this is a valid complaint is if you're talking about the official Nintendo controller paks. Nintendo was cheap with space back then, cheap with space for GameCube memory cards, and they're cheap with space now. Even MORE of a valid complaint would be that some GameCube memory saves refused to transfer over to other memory cards or be copied (I'm looking at you, F-Zero GX. For a game as hard as that, that's a really stupid move).
11. Sensor Bar - Never played Wii, so no comment.
12. Burying us in Pokemon... - Heck yeah. Heck. Yeah. Just let the series die already. 151 Pokemon should be enough for anybody.
13. virtual migraine - Never heard of it. I had a migraine from Star Fox SNES though.
14. Super Scope 6 - ...yeah. I was gonna pick up Yoshi's Safari because Yoshi rocks, but then I played it years later and... oy.
15. Solar Jetman - Wasn't that a Rare game that was snuck into Donkey Kong 64?
16. Celebs toting GameCubes - Mm, no, doesn't bother me. I'd be giddy if I saw Topher Grace (Eric from That 70s Show) carrying one around. I know the Homestar Runner guys have a GameCube.
17. "My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass." - When Reggie first appeared, he was described like the second coming of Jesus. Then the fanfare disappeared as quickly as it appeared. But when you hear someone punch through the flowery language like that, you expect a really big payoff, like Nintendo's finally gonna straighten up and wow us. ...and I don't recall that happening.
18. ROB - Wasn't ROB used for just one game? I'd call that a useless peripheral. Looking at you, Steel Batallion with the 50,000-button controller.
19. Excitebike don't work! - The track editor not working. That'd tick me off... if I had ever played it.
20. Mario 2 is a dream - Probably, yeah. The game was no cakewalk.
21. Censoring blood in MK - Yeah. "Sweat" is a ridiculous substitute. What are you gonna say after a guy's spine is ripped out, that the spine's covered in sweat?
22. Play it Loud! ads - I liked those. Nintendo with their own attitude.
23. Super fx chip - Well, sure the games looked kind of weak, but the gameplay and the characters are what mattered. So Star Fox for SNES was still great. Stunt Race FX... that's a personal favorite of mine, although few others seem to think so. I think SMW2: Yoshi's Island had an FX2 chip... it was some sort of upgrade anyway.
24. Luigi's Mansion - I wanted a Mario game, darn it! Wasn't too thrilled with Luigi's Mansion myself. Eternal Darkness got my attention instead.
25. Friend Codes - Even though I've never played the Wii, I wholeheartedly agree that this would be a nuisance.
26. Motion Controls gimmicky - Can't say, but I somewhat agree with it. Kind of defeats the purpose. I remember early reports that the Wii Remote was not as accurate as once thought. They had enough time, they should have hit it out of the ballpark and really made the games translate very closely to remote movement. I don't think Zelda Twilight Princess had this, but I'd like to hold my sword out in front of me so I can run through enemies to stab them to death, or as some sort of protection against oncoming blows. I remember hearing that some first-person shooter was able to let you rotate your gun depending on the angle of the remote.
27. Weak Wii hardware - As far as I'm concerned, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Okami, Zelda Twilight Princess, and Shadow of the Colossus represent all the graphics I ever want. Don't care that the graphics can't go above that, as long as the art style's amazing.
28. No hard drive - From all the complaints I hear of lack of storage space, that REALLY needs to be addressed. Oh wait, maybe you're talking of other Nintendo consoles. No matter, the memory cards are our storage space.
29. 480p max rez - Hi-def TV doesn't wow me much. So I don't care.
30. Lazy designers don't use touch screen on DS - That I would agree with. You're given this great opportunity to do stuff that other handhelds can't, now go ahead and make use of it! Oh, and LucasArts recent claim that they can't port their old adventure games to DS? Complete bull.
31. Industry bully (esp. '80s) - If by bully you mean their ridiculous censorship policy in the early days, then yes. Looking back at what they cut out, some of the cuts are ridiculous. Others I'm thankful for because Japan frankly gets weird at times.
32. Wii Fit - Oh, you shouldn't be saying that.
33. Game Boy Micro - YES. Man that was pointless. What's the point if you can't play... what was it, Game Boy Color games and Game Boy Advance games?
34. The Wizard - PowerGlove scene - I should watch that someday. I wouldn't mind, cheesy scenes can be good.
35. Weak 3rd party support - Maybe. Had I known how much I'd like RPGs later on (thank YOU Super Mario RPG... and EarthBound), I'm just shocked that N64 didn't get RPGs until late in life. I think Rare was a 2nd party, but they took eons to release any games. I believe IGN said that Rare started work on Dinosaur Planet shortly after the Big Bang.
36. Same [dukar], different Zelda - Maybe this is why I quickly lost interest in Majora's Mask. Actually, no, it was because of the difficulty. Can't say much.
37. Starfox Adventures - I loved that game! And there was some topic where we debated it for quite a while. I know the Star Fox license is completely tacked on, but Fox looks great here, and if it hadn't been pushed to GameCube, we wouldn't have the lovely Krystal as we know her today. Er, in her Star Fox Adventures form. Yeah, she's cute in Assault, but... ok, I'll shut up.
38. "High horse" attitude - Maybe.
39. Mario is Missing - Such a stupid game.
40. Miis lack customization - Really? Well, I agree that I don't think they're customizable enough. But then I see some of the Miis out there and wonder how they're able to do that.
41. ****-poor online setup - It took Nintendo entirely way too long to warm up to the idea of online (why was Phantasy Star Online the only game up until then to really use it?), and when they finally did do it, it was weak. Sheesh. Get over yourself and do online right, Nintendo. You know, I remember when Brawl was almost out and people were saying that despite claims to the contrary, online play seemed pretty smooth. Then everybody and their dog started playing Brawl online, and it all went to heck.
42. GameCube modem - No frickin' point.
43. Expensive cart games (N64) - Yes. Yes. Yes. $70 for a cartridge? $80 for some of them? I'm not made of Dad's allowance.
44. Letting Rare go crazy - You mean crazy as in going to make Conker's Bad Fur Day? I wouldn't call that Nintendo's fault. True, after Rare went crazy with Conker I refused to buy that game. I don't need a vulgar-for-the-heck-of-it game to be entertained. But once I played Banjo-Kazooie years later and found how it pushed the boundary of the E rating, it was probably a matter of time. But I'm still deeply sad that I never got a chance to play Conker as it originally was. I don't care if Conker seemed like a kid-like game. Because Berri was really cute.
45. GBA connectivity underused - Always seemed like a gimmick to me anyway.
46. Abandoning the hardcore - Eh, mm, hmm, don't know.
47. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games - It seemed like an April Fools joke at first. Then it became a bestseller. I'm still in shock.
48. N64-DD - I wanted that! Darn Nintendo! The F-Zero X Track Editor would have been the greatest thing ever! And on that topic, I really wanted EarthBound 64 and Mario Artist.
49. Still no portable GC - Uh, use the dinky handle on the back, lug it around, there's your portable Nintendo.
50. Zelda CD-I games (50) - Laughing stock of the world. And home to some really bad animated cutscenes. But at least we got "Mah boi!", ugly-a** Ganon, "I can't wait to bomb some dodongos!", Zelda looking like a zombie as the king laughs way too much, and so on. It may be eye-gougingly bad, but in a way I'm also thankful that we have that stuff to ridicule, it really is one of a kind. Or two of a kind. Or three, maybe.
51. The Dog from Duck Hunt - Stupid taunting dog.
52. Red Steel ad - loser hiding behind couch - I don't remember that. Closest thing I remember was the Daikatana ad, which was offensive and then laughable when the actual game failed to live up to, well, anything.
53. Wiimote condom - No comment. Stop with the jokes already, it's not funny.
54. Wii have a problem - Hmm?
55. Media blacklisting - What? Oh, people dismissing Nintendo games? Probably.
56. Wii Parties (evites) - Hmm II: Electric Boogaloo.
57. Nintendo hates the environment (Greenpeace) - Surprising, but it doesn't bother me. Probably since I don't pay the energy bill.
58. Wii marketing materials - 12yo girl b-day party - Mm, don't know. But some of their commercials are pretty bad.
59. NES controller - rectangular corners - Oh yeah that was annoying. After I saw the "new" NES which looked more like a SNES, with an NES controller shaped like the SNES controller, it just boggles my mind why we never saw this new NES in wide use.
60. N64 Controller 'L' Button - Oh, you know me too well. Probably fitting that the L button was rarely used since it's hard to get to from the right-handed position. But for left-handed people, the L button's a necessity. But I'm left-handed and yet I play right-handed.
61. GC Controller - kidneys, 1 bumper, etc. - No, doesn't bother me. I think this is just another way to arouse controversy. Sounds like whoever made this hates absolutely everything Nintendo has ever done. Really, where's the "no N64 Metroid?" entry?
62. Super Mario Sunshine Graffiti missions - I was more ticked off that Baby Bowser bribed his way into appearing in this game, but still, yeah, mildly annoying.
63. Miis can't do anything! - I'd agree.
64. Shortages - STILL?!? - I SO agree with that. I never thought it'd be this popular. Two years, two frickin' years, what's the holdup?
65. Link looks like the elf from Rudolph - That's the weakest complaint I've ever heard. Go ahead and call Yoshi Rudolph while you're at it.
66. Real games, plz (magnetica, brain age, big brain academy, vision training, flash focus, picross) - Agree'd. This is one reason why I'm not interested in a DS, they keep pushing these original games that I think bargain-bin PC games have probably been doing for years now. But man am I glad to see Picross make a comeback. I'm just sad that no one seems to remember Mario's Picross. Actually, I'm more sad that Super Mario Picross, perfectly playable even in Japanese, was never released here.
67. Mario Party injuries - Paddle Battle and Tug o' War and that light-the-lightbulb-before-Boo-gets-you were the worst challenges I've ever faced in a game. Didn't Nintendo release a glove just to solve a problem that would mostly be fixed in subsequent Mario Parties? I hated those. And I hate them even more than tapping A really really fast.
68. Old Man carrying a load in his pants - Old man, old man... nope, doesn't ring a bell.
69. No online freebies like Japan - Japan always gets the coolest stuff. I was so jealous. Japan had all the stuff that I thought, as a Nintendo Power subscriber, I'd get to take part in. But no. There should be, like, a Japan Nintendo catalog, and that for being a Nintendo Power subscriber you get free shipping... oh, if only. Oh, speaking of which, I desperately wanted to become part of the Nintendo Club or Mario Club or whatever it was. I look back on it now and think there's not many interesting perks to being in the club. Or Camp Zelda for that matter, whatever that was supposed to be.
70. Wind Waker makeover - I didn't like Wind Waker. I think it's the tuft of hair that floats above Link and appears above his hat when running forward that bothered me. Link didn't have tufts of hair sticking out above his hat in earlier games.
I'll respond to the other things, uh, never. But I'll also say that Manhunt 2 should have never been in this ridiculous we're-gonna-BAN-you! nonsense, that releasing it as-is uncensored shouldn't have been as big of a deal as it was (we know Jack Thompson's no threat and that he's actually crazy). And Nintendo Power got pretentious in its later years (it was quite enlightening early on though).
What I'll never forgive Nintendo for is specifically directed towards Nintendo of America: Pretending that EarthBound doesn't exist.
EDIT: Hmm... "Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post." Uh, no I don't. Not gonna change my opinion. Not gonna edit this long thing. *post*
