Martin Hollis would like to see GoldenEye on the Virtual Console
The man behind the game finally takes his side
Martin Hollis has been a key person of the whole GoldenEye rebirth issue who never ever opened his mouth during the time the story was in the limelight. He couldn’t possibly have any power to make the game get released for one platform or another, but either way it would have been interesting to know about his thoughts on the matter. Now that he is still promoting Zoonami’s Bonsai Barber around the Nintendo circles, it seems that someone eventually got the approval to ask him the obvious question. That someone was Nintendo’s Official Magazine and, naturally, he gave a rather expectable answer.
“There’s always someone with some exclusivity agreement, so there’s lots of lawyers,” Hollis said when inquired about the chance of having GoldenEye on Nintendo’s Virtual Console. “I’m not going to hold my breath. I’d love it to happen, but I can’t see it.”
As we all know by now, it is highly unlikely that GoldenEye may get released for any Nintendo platform for the same reasons it can’t be ported to Microsoft’s ones. So the next question we should ask ourselves is why did Hollis need so much time to comment on the issue? Can we actually believe that nobody dared to ask him about it in 15 months and a half? Is there any connection between the fact that Nintendo just became Zoonami’s publisher and him backing the Virtual Console version of GoldenEye now?
Of course, there is always the possibility that no major website or publication actually contacted him over time, so he didn’t get the opportunity to talk about the Rare-developed Xbox Live Arcade remake or the GoldenEye controversy in general when it was on everyone’s lips. There is even the option that he simply decided not to make any public statements whatsoever until Bonsai Barber was finished. But still, it’s a bit disappointing the see GoldenEye’s project leader washing his hands of the problem in such way, only to eventually support the particular project of the very same company which hindered the task of delivering the game to the broadest audience in the first place.
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2 Comments
This is rather indeed a sad story…But however if you want 007 on the XBLIVE sign this then
http://www.petitiononline.com/rare007/petition.html
It’s a very sad story. Would love to play Goldeneye again on a modern console.
Comment by Verdien geld — 17.May.09 @ 5:29 pm