We love it when
import-only games find their way to our Virtual Console! We
also love Sega classics. So we're thoroughly pleased to see
Super Fantasy Zone and
Pengo, Genesis entries in two iconic Sega series, rated on the ESRB.
Super Fantasy Zone is the last in a series of brightly-colored,
Defender-like free-scrolling shooter starring the Opa-Opa.
Pengo is a remake of a 1982 arcade puzzle game of the same name, about a penguin who pushes ice blocks around to destroy enemies, much like
Kickle Cubicle or
Adventures of Lolo.
What's most surprising about the appearance of these two games on the ESRB is that they haven't been released on the Virtual Console in any other region! Sega
said they were planning to release more imports; we just assumed they'd be things that were already on the Japanese VC.
[Via
Siliconera]
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.
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