This week shows another pair of titles hitting the Wii's Virtual Console service, providing gamers with some NES and SNES action. Sadly, we get another shooter, but the other title on offer is a fairly unique title. Hit up the video above, then head past the break for some more.
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VC Monday Madness video wrap-up 3/17/08
This week shows another pair of titles hitting the Wii's Virtual Console service, providing gamers with some NES and SNES action. Sadly, we get another shooter, but the other title on offer is a fairly unique title. Hit up the video above, then head past the break for some more.
VC Monday Madness: Super R-Type and Spelunker
This week's releases are:
- Spelunker (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Super R-Type (Super NES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
VC Friday: 'R you ready?'
So asks the front of Super R-Type's box. Of course, you won't get the box when you purchase Super R-Type on the Virtual Console (you are purchasing Super R-Type ... right?), but we couldn't resist revisiting such a deliciously bad pun. You just don't get that kind of cringeworthy wordplay on today's boxart!The NES version of Operation Wolf also makes an appearance today, and if you ask us it's one of the very few Virtual Console games that would actually benefit from added Wiimote functionality.
- Super R-Type -- SNES -- 800 Wii points
- Operation Wolf -- NES -- 500 Wii points
VC Tuesday: Japan wins at having VC games
Sometimes, we can't help but compare the Japanese Virtual Console releases to the American ones. In some cases, they're about equal in quantity (which, lately, means low). Not this week. In the U.S. we got one game. Japan? Four. And one of them is Phantasy Star II. We desperately wish that we could say this marks a return to 2007-level release density, but we really can't predict that. Next Monday and Tuesday could roll around and drop one game on us again. Let's just try to be optimistic!Anyway, Phantasy Star II is really awesome. It's a beautiful futuristic RPG that is totally worth eight bucks (if you don't have a PS2). It makes us sad that Sega isn't really doing much in the way of RPGs these days.
We certainly wouldn't mind seeing Super R-Type, either.
- Mappy (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
- Super R-Type (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
- Phantasy Star II (Mega Drive, 1 player, 700 Wii Points)
- CD Denjin: Rockabilly no Tengoku (Air Zonk: Rockabilly Paradise) (PC Engine CD-ROM,
