Aside from being adorable and addicting collectables, Nintendo's Amiibo figures are also able to interact with certain Wii U and 3DS titles. We've already made some predictions about what Amiibo we'd like to see in the future, but what if Amiibo had been around in gaming's good ol' days? Here are a bunch of classic Nintendo games that, with a little imagination and suspended disbelief, would have been able to unlock the full potential of Amiibos.
Super Mario Bros 2 –
NES
The ability to play as different characters was the second most memorable
part of Super Mario Bros 2, right after the nightmare-inducing Phanto. While Amiibos will
never be able to protect us from that terrifying flying mask, they could change
up the character-swapping mechanic. By tapping an Amiibo, players would be able
to jump between the four playable characters on the fly, where previously players
were only able to switch between levels. Amiibo integration could have taken it
one step further and equated characters to lives, similar to how things work in
Skylanders. Instead of getting a game over when Toad dies, players would be
forced to rely on the other three characters to beat the level. Run out of
characters and it's curtains for the Mario crew.
Bust-A-Move – SNES
Bust-A-Move deserves a line of Amiibos based on cuteness factor alone. The
game is filled with adorable puzzle solving dinosaurs that would fit into
anyone's collection. Amiibo functionality could work perfectly with the game as
well. Level 100 of Bust-A-Move featured a boss fight that tasked players with
simultaneously destroying colored orbs and shooting the boss directly. With Amiibos,
players could experience more battles like that boss fight. Each Amiibo would
include a new set of themed stages, with a boss modeled after the character
featured on the figure.
Pokemon Stadium – N64
Amiibos could have brought a lot to the Pokémon Stadium series or, at the
very least, streamlined what was already in the game. If Pokémon Amiibos had
been around during the early N64 era, Pokémon could have been transferred from
your Gameboy Color Pokémon games right into Pokémon Stadium without the need
for one of those bulky Transfer Paks. In the same way, players could have saved
their favorite Pokémon teams directly to an Amiibo and simply taken that figure
on the go when competing against friends on a different console.