When first announced way back at E3 2005 the Virtual Console was envisioned as “the” ultimate digital library of Nintendo platform games. While not expecting the company to release the entire catalog day one, we knew all our favorites would eventually make their way into the shop channel.
Fast forward.
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Top 5 TurboGrafx games by MSNBC. Too bad Legendary Axe isn’t available on virtual console yet. Whatever you do, stay away from Neutopia 1/2. That game is a stinker (you’re much better of with Zelda).
With an itch to play some oldies, I downloaded Donkey Kong Country on Virtual Console over the weekend. Man has this game aged well. It’s awesomeness is three fold: Big jumps, superb sound, and enemies that are fun to stomp on. It’s just as entertaining today as it was in 1994. If that’s what some critics call overrated, I’ll gladly take it. Just know that Donkey Kong Country stands the test of time in spite of its graphics, not because of them.
See also: Retro Profile | Donkey Kong
The DS wins the week with both Bowser’s Inside Story and Scribblenauts making their debut. Over on the Wii there’s NHL 2K10 and Toy Story Mania that look interesting. Still no word from Nintendo yet on the WiiWare, DSiWare, or Virtual Console games. DSiWare titles this week are Art Academy and Oscar in Toyland, for WiiWare it’s Texas Hold’Em Poker, Spaceball: Revolution, and Mart Racer, and for Virtual Console it’s Crash ‘n The Boys.
Despite most of August being a bit slow for physical copies of new games, the Wii and DSi have received a nice share of downloadable games. (Well, the Wii has ..) Virtual Console got the SNES Star Wars trilogy; WiiWare received fun stuff like Contra Rebirth, Monkey Island, and NyxQuest; and even Nintendo showed some decent DSiWare love with Puzzle League, Clubhouse, and Brain Age mini-games.
Any new NintendoWare that you’d like to let us know about? What are your favorites?
[Full list of recent WiiWare and DSiWare is below]
This week’s big release is The Beatles: Rock Band, but you have to admit that Muramasa looks pretty awesome, too. Guitar Hero is switching their downloadable content exclusively to GH5 and it looks like they’re trying to counteract Beatlesmania with some Rolling Stones. Rock Band 2 continues to get a ton of DLC with some Talking Heads and some Penny Arcade Expo tracks. And OMG … Contra Rebirth!!
The free, then un-free Wii Internet Channel is now free again, reports GameIndustry.biz. Those of you who didn’t download in time and were forced to pay the 500 Wii Point to get this oft-unused Wii Channel will have the option of downloading a free NES Virtual Console game come October. That is all.
This is actually a pretty amazing week for a Summer release date. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is awesome. Metroid Prime Trilogy is guaranteed awesome. Super Empire Strikes Back is virtually awesome. And Cursed Mountain at the very least has an awesome title. Check on in for more new games and DLC for Rock Band & Guitar Hero.
This week is all about the downloads. After watching some video footage of this new Nintendo title, I plan to check out PictureBook Games™: Pop-Up Pursuit. It looks like it might fill the Mario Party hole we’ve had for a while now. Revenge of Shinobi for Genesis and some great Rock Band songs round out a decent week of downloads. Too bad the regular Wii and DS games this week can’t keep up!
It’s that time of year again for a new Madden game. Nintendo has a new game out called Fossil Fighters, too. A lot more Rock Band back catalog songs are released while Guitar Hero World Tour has a bunch of free tracks. In other download news, WiiWare gets NyxQuest and a new game from Nintendo called Rock N’ Roll Climber, DSiWare gets a Brain Age minigame, and freaking Super Star Wars comes out for Virtual Console!
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