Jun 23
Virtual Console/WiiWare Monday: 6/23/08
Another Monday means that Nintendo’s added new games to their online store. This week America gets a grand total of 3 new games to wreak havoc on your Wii’s internal memory. What will YOU be spending your hard-earned Wii Points on? Find out after the jump!
First up is the first game featuring SEGA’s long-since defunct mascot, Alex Kidd in Miracle Land (500 Wii Points). Originally released for the Master System, Alex Kidd was SEGA’s attempt to emulate the success of Super Mario Brothers. Basically you run around as the illustrious Kidd jumping on platforms and punching the daylights out of anything and everything that gets in your way. For those of you interested in downloading this game, beware: Alex Kidd is notorious for the rock, paper, scissors matches that occur before every boss fight. Essentially, you’re forced into a game of chance and if you win you get the opportunity to fight the boss. If you lose, you die instantly. I would only recommend this game to SEGA fans that want to get a good glimpse at the company’s roots. (Wait, are there still SEGA fans?)
Virtual Console’s other game this week is Neo Geo’s Burning Fight (900 Wii Points). Burning Fight is yet another side-scrolling co-op beat-’em-up game in the same vein as Golden Axe or Streets of Rage. Actually, Burning Fight is basically just a worse version of SNK’s Final Fight, and at a whopping 900 Wii Points, I can’t possibly recommend this game and keep a clear conscience. I don’t see why Nintendo keeps putting games like this up on Virtual Console when there’s still a backlog of really good games that people would actually download… maybe I’m just sour because I’m still waiting for Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and Chrono Trigger.
Lastly is Gyrostarr (700 Wii Points), which is my personal favorite of this week’s bunch. Gyrostarr looks like Galaga on crack. The game has you and up to 3 friends flying through an F-Zero-like “technoplasma” track gathering energy in order to activate some sort of gate at the end of the level. Boasting 50 stages and the unique ability for two players to play on the same controller, not to mention some classic shoot-’em-up gameplay, this is a must-download.
[Via Virtual Console Reviews]
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Funny you should mention Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and Chrono Trigger. I got sick of waiting, and with the whole “Microsoft pays 25% of the Buy It Now price on eBay” thing going on right now, I bought a SNES, those three games, and Final Fantasy III/VI.