Gameplay Videos:

Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Super Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Ghoul Patrol
Big Sky Trooper
Metal Warriors

Sounds to me like he was just humoring you. I don't think anything will come of this. Not that I wouldn't celebrate seeing some SNES goodness on GOG, of course. And I think it's great you asked, just on the off chance they go through with it.

LOL that's what I thought too.

Doesn't each SNES game contain some type of coding that was licensed by Nintendo created using the SNES Development Kit? I hope I'm wrong, but they would probably have to pay huge fees to release those old games on non-Nintendo platforms.

I know it doesn't really count but Wisdom Treehave a bunch of Nintendo games for sale on their website.

Also, Daikatana for the Game Boy Color is available for free from John Romero's website.

But really, before Gog begins thinking about Snes games, they should start selling the Mega Drive/Genesis games that are available almost everywhere else.

Well, the Super Star Wars trilogy, Indy, Ghoul Patrol and Zombies were released for the Virtual Console.

"We'll look into it" is pretty much just "We'll forget about it next week."

Not to be a pessimist here, but don't get your hopes way up. That was about as non-committal as saying "Lucas released SNES games?"

I think he has no idea what it would involve, so he plans to ask someone who does. He'll then be told about the obstacles on the way and forget about it, but will have looked into it which is what he said he'd do.

I doubt they can release SNES games on pc without getting approval from nintendo

Don't care. Me wants arcade games ROMS.

That sounds dumn, mainly if you consider that the SDK could just basically be the API calls needed. You can't sue someone for using a function called drawSprite(), and general algorithms are replaceable as long as they do the job. The only code they might be stingy with is the bootup code, or video/sound specific code. Quite often general code is left as public domain so you can use it freely, otherwise using malloc/free would be locked to whatever license the compiler you used rather than letting you code your own program(s)/game(s).

If they still have access to the sources it shouldn't be too hard to recompile to x86, then find what doesn't carry over and replace that code with what will, mostly by replacing API calls to what's on the target system. Almost no code will have to be built from scratch, they can resource all their other games for menu code, handling controllers or joypads, etc.

As for Nintendo... unless they own the IP, or have a contract saying not to re-release it ever again, they shouldn't be able to prevent it. But i'm guessing based on logic, not by what the law might say.

SNES and PS1 games is probably the number one feature I would love to see GOG reveal. There are so many games I would be very glad to pick up digital copies of.

WOW! Super Star Wars (Series) are some of my fondest SNES memories! Passing the controller between friends and family with each death / level completion. Loved all these games! Amazingly I didn't own a single one, but must have rented (From a store you younguns! We had those! So odd to think they're extinct now LOL) the series dozens of times.

Also, Zombies Ate My Neighbors was a co-op classic. I know there are games in that vein today, but I've never gotten into them. ZAMN just clicked for some reason.

Wow, thanks for the tips. Not that I'm gonna go all Wisdom Tree now :P