@BlueNintendo11 that's UK English for you my friend

Nate tomorrow...

@longtimegamer No there are no saving points in Strider, as with most Mega Drive action titles. They are not really needed anyway, if you have the skillz you can complete this in one sitting anyway. To my knowledge the MD/Genesis port hasn't ever been made available on a compilation, don't quote me on that thou

Great review @Damo. I remember importing the JPN version of this back in the days, great times. You're right that the graphics were that little bit better than the arcade, yeah there was some sprite flicker at times but nothing that took away from the game too much. At the time it felt as good as having the arcade in your home, it played like a dream.

Along with Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Golden Axe this was one of my favourite Sega conversions of its time. Of course I loved ESWAT too, but that was nothing like the arcade! hehe

It's crazy to think that we've had to wait over 5 years for Sega/Capcom to get their act together to release Strider on the Virtual Console, madness!

Poor old GAME, they don't seem to be having an easy time of it lately. I expect this has something to do with the line of credit thing from a few weeks back. Not good!

Strider, finally! I can't believe its taken over 5 years for Capcom to sort this one out. Such a great game.

For those too young to remember this, please don't judge this on the awful 'beefcake' US artwork! Here's how Strider should be remembered

Tingle's dating profile really cracked me up! Hilarious stuff @Chicken_Brutus

Nice work @antdickens - looks amazing!

I agree with Ty, the eShop is a big step forward for Nintendo.

Mostly because of this!

Nice write-up @Damo - I must admit I have mixed feelings on this device. It's flustrating that the big N didn't have the foresight to include a second circle pad from day one. They must have seen this coming!

On the positive side, I personally find the square edges of the 3DS a bit uncomfortable to hold for long gaming sessions so the rounded bulk of this add-on is a welcome addition.

Whatever you feel about this attachment, at least it isn't as bad as this!

Epic fail! The first print run will be a great collectors item in years to come

@Gavin_Rozee good job someone told her to "drop the 'the'. Just Wii Fit. It's cleaner"

@BalrogtheMaster - the title is correct, Europe won't get these games until Thursday. NL just get the press release a few days early

@Drake - of course, you're right! (sneakily changes James' news to use better box art)

Prince of Persia on the SNES is an absolutely fantastic game, as tough as old boots though!

The PAL boxart is really dreadful, I had the Japanese version back in the days. How much better does this look?

@warioswoods I affectionately call it #c2543d

Great review Corbie, I really hope this hits Europe soon (with Flip mode fixed of course!!). I'd love to play it on the 3DS!

Good games tonight @picpik - was great fun!

This is great news, I can't wait!

Yeah the western boxart sucks, this was so often the case back then. Thankfully I had the Japanese import as a kid hehe

@shinobi88 - I agree that the Mega Drive Shinobi games were a challenge to complete, especially Revenge of Shinobi. But I always found them fair, they required skill but never felt like a chore to play through. I just didn't enjoy the later levels much due to uninspired level design. It's a shame really as I felt the early levels started out quite strong.

Great news! This is one of my favourite Mega Drive games of all time, wonder why its taken so long!!

@JamieO - thanks for the kind comments chief, always appreciated. BTW logs also plummet down a waterfall to test out ninja skillz in this reboot too!

@zeeroid - the graphics are definitely not atrocious, sure they are not using sprites like the Mega Drive games but that's to be expected really. My only gripe with the visuals is that the backgrounds look a bit pixelated on some levels, but that's not really a big deal.

I really loved playing the preview levels at Eurogamer Expo. Can't wait to play thru the whole thing soon. Nice review Corbs, you have confirmed my suspicions that this is full of WIN!

Strider!! Hell yeah, please let this come to Europe soon

Great feature @Chicken_Brutus - reading this had me in stitches. I can't wait for the next one!

This is a frustrating precedent for the Virtual Console, but no big loss in this case. The TG-16 port is much better. But the Master System version did have that secret bonus level not found in the arcades!

@ejgamer (and others) - Nintendo asked us if we'd like to do this promotion and we happily accepted. All of the choices are completely the choice of the Nintendo Life team and no one else.

@Corbs yeah, someone wanted the top 3 games to be from WayForward - not naming any names!

We've gone live in US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil now - hello world!

@ImDiggerDan sorry dude, there were so many worthy DSiWare games to consider. Not all could make the cut

@ueI 10 Second Run was a last minute wildcard we threw in for fun, it just seemed to fit

@Kirk you have quite the suspicious mind don't you? hehe

I can assure you that this selection was made by jointly by Nintendo Life's core admin team. The choces were completely at our discretion, the only difficulties we had were due to regional availability where we had to make a few substitutions.

@Monsti Ja, es heißt 'Favoriten von Nintendo Life'

There are some regional differences as some of the games aren't available in Europe and Australia

@Chicken_Brutus hahaha!!!

@Squiggle55 I understand that the big N will be able to tell how successful the NL shelf is in one way or another compared to other shelves. So get buying and perhaps we'll get the chance to do our retro selection next!

@Kirk we chose a mixture of DSiWare, eShop and VC - as there aren't many eShop original games to pick from yet we picked the one we liked the most.

This isn't a intended to be a list of all of our 10/10 and 9/10 rated games, think of this more as a mixtape compiled for a friend with a few wildcards thrown in to liven it up.

@lz20XX yep North America will be able to see this in a few hours

MotoHeroz looks like an insta-buy to me. I loved Trials HD on x360 and DrawRace 2 on the iPad. Can RedLynx ever disappoint?

@timp29 yeah I'm still around, busy as ever behind the scenes. Prepare for my triumphant return to reviewing when Shinobi 3DS comes out!

Gargoyle's Quest is one of my favourite GB games, this is definitely worth buying. It's gonna be even better with the 3DS suspend save so you don't have to write those troublesome passwords down

As a big-time Ikaruga fan I was wondering how this one would turn out. Sounds pretty solid, I'll take a punt on this if it makes its way to the UK soon.

Good job on the review Corbinator

Great review Phil. I'm not familar with this one from back in the days, but the premise does sound intriguing indeed.

I love it when Virtual Console throws up a hidden gem such as this

@B4SDR4G - I heard that eShop cards are already on sale in Ireland so I guess it's only a matter of time until the rest of Europe gets them too

This really does look like it's going to be amazing, kudos to Nintendo for going all out on this one and not just taking the easy way out and rereleasing Mario 64 on 3DS (which they totally should do of course!)

@cheetahman91 it looks like you got your wish! Super E.D.F. Earth Defense Force is now in the US store!

@ZueriHB good choices there, I'd quite like Ice Climber myself

Great review @ThomasBW84 - with a game as legendary as this it's hard to know where to start! You've done a great job in summing it up so well.

Credit to Grezzo and Nintendo for ensuring that Link's transition to the 3DS was as smooth as possible. Zelda fans deserve no less

Sign me up, I'm looking forward to getting acquainted with the ninja skills of Jiro!

@pixelman you make a good point. Who knows it could be a brand new game inspired from the classics, or a compilation. This trailer isn't really telling us anything!

Time will tell eh?

I'm most excited about Shinobi of course!

Best news ever, I hope it's true!

Also please make it 2.5D, not like the horrible PS2 game

When you view the customer reviews in date order it's actually quite shocking.

2008 - 2 reviews (both 5 stars)
2009 - 2 reviews (both 5 stars)
2010 - 2 reviews (both 5 stars)

Then 3rd May 2011 then fun starts, right after Joystiq's review went live!

"I had more fun reading the directions on a bottle of aspirin I had to take after going trough this below fan-fiction garbage Mr. Murdock calls a book"

No doubt this must be from someone at HVS. Then between the 19th and the 21st the trolling just gets really silly.

This whole thing has really blown up in HVS' face as it's drawn attention to the most negative review of Conduit 2 AND directed people to the author's 5 start rated book.

Maybe they should hire Max Clifford to do their PR from now on