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VC Friday: More Hanabi Festival shooting goodness

Posted May 16th 2008 10:15AM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Virtual Console

This current Hanabi Festival is proving a treat for shmup fans. Of the ten games released so far under the Hanabi banner, half have been shooters, including the two released today, Japan-only pair Star Parodier (in which you can use Bomberman or a giant PC Engine as a ship!) and Gley Lancer. They're joined this VC Friday by Digital Champ Battle Boxing.

Oh, and fun fact: the name Gley Lancer was (allegedly) supposed to be "Grey Lancer," but ended up as Gley Lancer due to a pronunciation error (the Japanese language can't tell the difference between the English "r" and "l" sounds). Either that, or we've just been duped into believing a rather racist joke.
  • Gley Lancer -- Mega Drive -- 900 Wii Points
  • Star Parodier -- TurboGrafx-16 -- 900 Wii Points
  • Digital Champ Battle Boxing -- TurboGrafx-16 -- 700 Wii Points
As usual, footage of all games follows the break!

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VC Friday: The Hanabi Festival returns! [Update]

Posted May 2nd 2008 10:30AM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Virtual Console

An immensely pleasing sight greeted our bleary eyes when we inspected the PAL Virtual Console this morning -- the revival of last September's Hanabi Festival! What does that mean? Simple: for the next few weeks, the VC will feature games that were previously unreleased in Europe or Australia, which we suppose justifies the slightly higher price tags.

Best of all, we're promised that this will continue for the next few weeks. Wonder what else we'll get? Here are this week's trio:
  • Columns III: Revenge of Columns -- Mega Drive -- 900 Wii Points
  • Final Soldier -- TurboGrafx-16 -- 700 Wii Points
  • Gradius II Gofer no Yabou -- TurboGrafx-16 -- 900 Wii Points
As usual, make the jump for footage of all three.

[Update: There's much excitement here, as further inspection of Nintendo's press release reveals that Speedos-clad TurboGrafx-16 shooter Cho Aniki will be one of the future Hanabi Festival releases!]

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VC Friday: Hanabi Festival goes sci-fi

Posted Sep 28th 2007 1:00PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News, Virtual Console

European Wii owners get a crack at two games never-before released locally this weekend, thanks to the Hanabi Festival! If only Nintendo decided to celebrate with us all the time, eh? Perhaps the best part of this week's new VC releases is the debut of the long-awaited, much-lauded Sin & Punishment. We expect quite a few people are going to be downloading Treasure's shooter and giving it a shot this weekend. It's pricy, but seems so very worth it.
  • Gradius III -- SNES -- 900 Wii points
  • Legend of Hero Tonma -- Turbografx -- 600 Wii points
  • Sin & Punishment -- N64 -- 1200 Wii points

VC Friday: Nintendo chooses their horse

Posted Sep 21st 2007 12:44PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Video

Hmm. In the age-old debate regarding pirates v. ninja, it seems Nintendo clearly prefers the latter. What possible other reason could they have for following up International Talk Like a Pirate Day with ninja games? The two must be linked!

Now that we've had our daily conspiracy theory moment, let's get to the subject of what European gamers have a shot at this week, as the Hanabi Festival continues.
  • Ninja Gaiden -- NES -- 600 Wii points
  • Ninja JaJaMaru-kun -- NES -- 600 Wii points
  • World Class Baseball -- Turbografx -- 600 Wii points

Wii Warm Up: Hanabi Festival

Posted Sep 15th 2007 10:30AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Wii Warm Up

Nintendo's releasing rare games like the Japan-exclusive Super Mario Bros. 2 and Mario's Super Picross in PAL regions, as part of a special "Hanabi Festival." Each week in September, awesome Japanese games will be released in themed groupings.

This week's Mario games comprise Mario Week. Next week is Ninja Week, featuring the U.S. version of Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Jajamaru-kun. The following week, starting September 28, is Sci-Fi Week, with Gradius III and Sin and Punishment. This is currently PAL-only, but now that these previously unreleased games are on their way to Europe and Australia, the U.S. could be close behind.

Pretty simple discussion topic this morning: how freaking awesome is this? Bonus discussion: how freaking awesome is the PC Engine CD/Super CDRom announcement? (Simple answer: DUDE CHO ANIKI)

VC Friday: Tons of mega - also, games

Posted Sep 14th 2007 2:10PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Virtual Console


Here it is, folks -- the very best thing about the Virtual Console -- games that have never been released in a particular territory debuting after years of neglect. Nintendo has named this explosion of new games the Hanabi Festival, after summer fireworks celebrations in Japan. This first week is all about Mario, so expect a theme when you check out the latest releases on your Virtual Console. Expect more all new (to you) titles over the next few weeks as well!
  • Mario's Super Picross -- SNES -- 900 Wii points
  • Neutopia II -- Turbografx -- 600 Wii points
  • Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels -- NES -- 600 Wii points

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