The Nintendo Sequels We're Still Desperately Missing

An anonymous reader writes "While the Wii U struggles, Nintendo's been raiding the archives and resurrecting some of its lesser known stars from yesteryear, including Chibi Robo, Steel Diver, and yes, Mario's oft-ignored brother himself — the company is going so far as to call 2013 the "year of Luigi". But as an article published today points out, there are still many more forgotten heroes in Nintendo's IP back catalogue. Series like Excitebike, Waveracer and 1080 used to be trusted to launch a new console, while NES classics like Ice Climber have all but been forgotten, alongside some of GameFreal's lesser known creations. Will they be enough to save Nintendo this generation?"

Excitebike? Do your homework.

[medv4380]

Look, if you're going to make a claim that they should resurrect old and dusty IP you might actually bother to look to see if they haven't already re-released it on prior systems.
Excitebike - 1984
Excitebike 64 - 2000
Classic NES Series: Excitebike - 2004
Excitebike - 2007
Excitebike: World Rally - 2009
3D Classics: Excitebike - 2011
1080: TenEighty Snowboarding - 1998
1080 Avalanche - 2003
1080: TenEighty Snowboarding - 2008

Can you mention NES sequels without

[TheModelEskimo]

...mentioning Megaman Sequelitis [youtube.com]? Not sure. Anyway be careful where you play this because IIRC there is lots of swearing. But pretty amazing game dissection.