Wow, two whole games? Nintendo certainly knows how to spoil their Japanese audience. It's not as if these are the worst games ever, but we would certainly love to see some more games as usual. We'll try not to dwell on it
too much, and instead focus on this week's releases. Both of them.
Both newly-available games are
currently available in the U.S., though they might not be instantly recognizable.
Super Contra is pretty obviously
Super C, the NES
Contra sequel and all-around 500-point-worthy run-and-gun.
Cosmo Gang: The Puzzle is actually
Pac-Attack. It turns out that before it was a Pac-puzzler, the game was a video puzzle spinoff of a
popular redemption game.
Speaking of
Cosmo Gang: it's Irrelevant Anecdote Time! When I worked at a
Namco arcade during college, I got a couple of sheets of Pac-Man temporary tattoos. In addition to Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, some ghosts, etc., there was this one pinkish, antennae-bearing character that I didn't know. It was a
Cosmo Gang character!
I learned something today.
Maybe "monstrous" is overdoing it, but after last week's no-show for the Virtual Console, we're back to five games for this Friday's PAL region VC update. Hurrah! These range from forgettable spin-offs (Pac-Attack -- the first SNES title we've seen in over three months, bizarrely) to a Commodore 64 fan favorite (Cybernoid) to SNK's excellent King of the Monsters, which probably hasn't been bettered in the monsters-breaking-stuff genre since its release.
