Seeing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game on the ESRB's list of upcoming Virtual Console titles should bring joy to our nostalgia-ruled hearts, but we're finding it hard to not be pessimistic about this particular release. We've put more hours into Konami's beat'em up than you can shake a bo staff at, so it's not the actual game that we have problems with.No, it's just outright jealousy over the XBLA port of the arcade version. While we're stuck with 8-bit graphics and support for only two players, the 360's turtle fans have the original cut scenes, arcade graphics, and online co-op for up to four players! Inconceivable! To add insult to injury, we might have to shell out 600 Wii points for the NES game instead of the usual 500 because of licensing issues. If that'll be the case, we would actually be spending more than what 360 gamers are paying!
We can at least find solace in the NES version's extended levels, extra stages, and Pizza Hut advertising. Also, TMNT II wasn't the only new ninja release spotted on the ESRB's Virtual Console catalog. Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo's 1989 platformer, will also be stabbing its way onto the Wii. Let's see the Xbox try to top us with a game like that! Oh wait...
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5-03-2007 @ 4:49PM
hvnlysoldr said...
This is iocane powder. I'll put them in the goblets, we drink, and someone dies.
"There are two well known things. Never get into a land conflict in Asia! But only slightly less known is never bet a Sicilian when death is on the line. HAHAH...."
Yeah real smart trying to trick a poison master at his own game. The inconceivable, it's not what you think it means, Sicilian was subtly referring to Vietnam but given the modern days' context...
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5-03-2007 @ 10:36PM
steve said...
TMNT 2 and Ninja Gaiden FTW!!!
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5-03-2007 @ 10:53PM
Infe said...
It makes me just kinda mad when I see how cool XBLA is. I'd hate to buy an Xbox 360 just for XBLA, but it's frickin awesome! All that online support in all the cool 2d games just rocks. And on the other hand, here we have Nintendo not doing anything but making an emulator and basically sitting on their tail end, doling out roms as they see fit, all of which I could download any time I felt like it for the PC. It's not that I want to pirate anything though, I want Nintendo to give me a reason to buy some of these games! I want online multiplayer like XBLA, and I want new levels for these old games. I want some original content downloads, and so on. Even PS3 has some of this already, so...what the heck? Get with it Nintendo.
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5-04-2007 @ 12:39AM
Tim said...
The CLIFFS OF INSANITY
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5-04-2007 @ 9:29AM
EvilChris said...
B,A,B,A,Up,Down,B,A,Left,Right,B,A,Start - Awesomeness!
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5-04-2007 @ 2:41PM
JIB said...
We better get Turtles IV soon, or I will be forced to jam my SNES cartridge into the front of my Wii...
...or I guess I could just play it on my perfectly working SNES right next to my Wii.
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