Review Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
The black sheep of the family?
Review Kirby's Adventure (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
Kirby's first adventure
News - February, 2007
Tuesday27th Feb 2007
Review Bio-Hazard Battle (Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive)
An army of biogenetic mutants has gone haywire, terrorizing the world and putting the future of the planet in jeopardy.
Released as Crying in Japan, this horizontally scrolling shooter was largely ignored by western Megadrive owners due to the sheer volume of shoot-em-ups available on the console at the time. The unusual organic graphics probably...
Review Chew Man Fu (Virtual Console / TurboGrafx-16)
Fried rice and egg rolls are in danger!
This is no doubt a game that not many will be familiar with. I think an award should go for best named game 'Chew Man Fu'. The Japanese release was called 'Be Ball' so for once the western name is much more fun! Basically this is a puzzle game where you have to push large coloured balls around the screen; the...
Monday26th Feb 2007
News US VC releases - 26th February - Ocarina of Time
Only one release this week for the US Virtual Console - but it's a biggie. We all thought that it might be Zelda: Ocarina of Time as it was made available for Euro Wii owners last week and we were not dissapointed:
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time inspired millions of players around the world with its in-depth game play, rich 3-D visuals and...
Saturday24th Feb 2007
Review The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Close To Perfection, And An Absolute Must-Play
Just in time
This review originally went live in 2007, and we're republishing it to mark the arrival of N64 games on Nintendo Switch Online. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time did for the Zelda series what Super Mario 64 did for the Super Mario Bros. series. It successfully brought one of the most beloved game series in video game history into...
Friday23rd Feb 2007
News Welcome to the Warp Zone!
A cheeky little surprise awaits UK visitors to the Virtual Console. Next time you load up the Wii Shop if you look carefully you'll see a not very discreet smiley face which when clicked will take you to a hidden area with the text as follows:
"Welcome to the Warp Zone! ... Congratulations, you've discovered the Virtual Console's hidden area...
News Neo Geo coming to the Virtual Console
Here's a massive piece of news for fans of the Virtual Console - Nintendo of Japan have confirmed that Neo Geo games will soon be available for download via the service!
The Neo Geo console was released in the days of the NES and Megadrive, and became famous for expensive but high quality arcade games such as King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Metal...
Thursday22nd Feb 2007
Feature GamesTM interview VC Reviews (Issue 54)
VC Reviews get their 15 minutes of fame this month as our favourite UK multi-format videogame magazine GamesTM publish a recent interview we did with them!
Issue 54 of GamesTM will hit the shelves of all good newsagents in the UK on the 22nd of February. We get a 2 page spread in the retro section (pages 150/151) We say our piece about the PAL 50Hz...
News Is There A New Wii On The Way?
Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan seems to think so according to one of her responses to a Game Daily interview.
When asked if the Wii would see a relaunch similar to the DS or GBA he said: Sure, absolutely. You'll see the ways in which we do that. The response is overwhelmingly definitive yet it is not yet clear in what context the console will be...
News Europe VC releases - 23rd February - Ocarina of Time
The dark Lords of Nintendo Tower look favourably at the minions within the EU today as they grace them with one of the greatest games ever! (I don't mean Altered Beast you got that some time ago!) Yes that's right lowly peasants today you are invited to the realm of Sir Link of Zeldashire and play OCARINA OF TIME!
Here's the review: The Legend of...
In other news from the Kaplan interview it has been confirmed that Nintendo will now cease to support their GameCube console.
And although the first party support has officially ended - Kaplan believes there is still a strong market for the GameCube system: "... just like the PS2 sold really well this past holiday, GameCube is a great starter...
Wednesday21st Feb 2007
News Nintendo Wii > XBOX 360 > PS3
Sales data for January has revealed that the Nintendo Wii is totally eclipsing it's competitors in terms of hardware sales at the moment.
The Nintendo Wii sold 436,000 units in January compared to the XBOX 360's 294,000 and PS3's 244,000 according to preliminary NPD data. The NPD data was released by Microsoft and has not yet been officially...
Tuesday20th Feb 2007
Review The Legend of Kage (NES)
This classic ninja-action game first appeared in arcades in 1985 and became instantly popular.
After the recent release of the sublime Kid Icarus you might have expected the quality of NES Virtual Console games to rise, but unfortunately The Legend of Kage is an almost catastrophic true drop in standards. No need for rose tinted specs here, retro...
Review Streets of Rage (Wii Virtual Console / Mega Drive)
Sega's answer to Final Fight
It's tricky to review Streets of Rage and be fair to it in light of the high quality of its sequel. Nevertheless it laid the foundations for even more future greatness, so it is only fair to give the original game the respect it deserves. Basically, Streets of Rage is Sega's answer to Final Fight; the Axel character is a...
Feature Top Five Most Wanted Virtual Console Games
Now that the Virtual Console Archive has a commenting facility we thought what better time to ask what are the games you would most like to see on the Virtual Console. The catch is you can only pick ONE game per format and you have to give a brief reason why this should be released before any other games.
Here's my wish list to kick things off: NES...
News Wii Classic Controller - Hands On
So you've downloaded a few retro titles on the Virtual Console and thanks to the VCA you've made some good choices, but one thing is getting in the way of your enjoyment. Control. The Wii Remote is ok so long as you stick to NES, PCE and Megadrive/Genesis titles, and if you're lucky enough to have a GameCube pad knocking around you can use that for the SNES and N64 stuff, but it's far from perfect. Sounds like you need the Classic Controller!
Ok, so it's a bit of a con that you've got to shell out even more cash for this device but believe me, it...
It has been customary to track the sales figures of Nintendo consoles against that of Sony ones to learn of which company is king of the consoles.
However, today has seen some talk from toy manufacturers Tomy who have suggested Nintendo is shrinking the toy market. The company has cut its annual profit forecast from 5 billion yen to 1.7 billion yen...
News Yesterdays US Virtual Console Releases
Latest and greatest
In some slightly delayed news, we bring you the information on yesterdays VC release (with no puns in the title this time!).. Many will be glad to see that Donkey Kong Country has finally made it to the NTSC systems, after being availible to PAL gamers for quite some time. Streets of Rage has at last hit the system as well,...
Monday19th Feb 2007
A lot of the complaints about Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess was that it wasn't properly orchestrated and instead the music was all MIDI.
While I felt the music in Twilight Princess perfectly suited the game a lot of people who don't really know what they are talking about saw the words MIDI and thought bad. Personally the fact that Twilight...
News Thrustmaster Reveals Their New Wii Accessories
The American accessory-developer Thrustmaster, whose name most of you probably recognize from the firm's long participation in the racing-game accessories market, has just revealed a list of all the unique accessories they are developing for Nintendo's popular gaming console.
With the Wii Nintendo opened up gaming to a whole new audience and...
News US VC releases - 19th February - Finally DK Country!
After what seems like an age Donkey Kong Country has been released in North America! We can all breath a sigh of relief! It was originally thought to have been held up by licensing issues with RARE (now owned by Microsoft) but that all looked to have been sorted out - phew!
Sega have released the mighty Streets of Rage too which is great news...
Sunday18th Feb 2007
News Japanese Only Games Could Get Worldwide VC Launches
Finally Nintendo make some kind of hint that we may see Japanese only Nintendo classics put out for worldwide release.
For a few weeks now the word on then street has been that import favourites will not see a release on the Virtual Console due to problems with translation and such. However, speaking with Wired, Nintendo senior Vice President George...
Saturday17th Feb 2007
Review New Adventure Island (Virtual Console / TurboGrafx-16)
Move over Wonder Boy
The Wonder Boy and Adventure Island games have seen releases on just about every 8 and 16-bit console you can think of, not to mention a few remakes on some of the more recent systems. Having said that, if you want to play the best the series has to offer, you need only download New Adventure Island on the Wii Virtual Console to...
Review Excitebike (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
This bike still excites
Excitebike will no doubt be remembered fondly by older gamers. After all, it was one of the original launch titles for the NES way back in 1985. Some might be dubious and question if a game this old is worth purchasing for the Virtual Console, but worry not — this classic game has somehow managed to retain its appeal...
Either that or TheInquirer.net are seriously in need of some hits to their site this week.
Anyway, according to a post on their website the Wii is in fact capable of High Definition graphics. It's just hidden. Or something. The original article states: It is amazing what you can get out of a drunk Nintendo executive. Who would have thought Nintendo...
News Reggies Talks Shortages And Metroid
Talking to MTV Reggie had some interesting stuff to say about the Nintendo Wii and DS consoles.
Firstly he apologised for the lack of Wii and DS units being made readily available. "We apologize that it continues to be a difficult problem to get your hands on [a Wii]," he said. "The fact is, we manufactured 4 million Wii consoles by...
Friday16th Feb 2007
News Exciting PAL Virtual Console Releases
It's Virtual Console time again! This week Nintendo have given us twice the excitement....
As we all know, today is the official PAL release day for Excite Truck (which is actually a pretty decent game). But what most did not know was that it would also be the release date for Excitebike as well. How... exciting! There are a couple other familiar...
News Reggie hints at magazine downloads on Wii
In a recent interview with MTV Reggie Fils-Aime the president of Nintendo of America made a interesting statement:
An innovative company can't just worry about what fans want but also anticipate what fans don't even know they want. So when the discussion turned to the Wii's 24/7 online service, Fils-Aime threw a curve. Yes, the system will continue...
Thursday15th Feb 2007
News Europe VC releases - 16th February
It's going to be another great week for European Wii gamers. OK so none of these games are going to completely blow you away, but then again none of them are turkeys either! 2 of the best NES games are up for grabs, a classic PC Engine platformer and one of the best horizontal shoot-em-ups to grace the Super Nintendo.
Here's the reviews for the new...
News Wii Sports Replacements Almost Complete
Slowly developers are providing us with full games that centre on the sports featured in Wii Sports.
We all love Wii Sports, maybe some of the five sub-games are liked more than the other; but no one can deny it is a lot of fun on the whole and has perfectly shown off the Wii’s abilities. In its simple state each of the games show off the...
Wednesday14th Feb 2007
News "Everybody Votes Channel" Available
Nintendo released their latest channel onto the Nintendo Wii Shop last night - the aptly titled "Everybody Votes Channel".
The channel which is available for free is likely to run as a customer feedback tool for Nintendo but if only all customer feedback forms were this fun then I'd fill them in more often. The update will require you to run a...
News New Super Paper Mario Wii Details
Nintendo release updated information for the latest Mario platformer and how it works with the Wiimote.
After finally confirming that Super Paper Mario is coming to Wii, Nintendo have today released more detailed information on the game and how it works with the Wiimote, you'll be holding the Wiimote in classic style, like a NES pad with a few...
News Everybody Votes Channel on Nintendo Wii
A surprise announcement has hit the Wii - it turns out there was a secret channel kept under wraps! The "Everybody Votes" channel gives Nintendo Wii owners the chance to vote on various subjects, and then see how their fellow compatriots voted. From the Wii Message Board:
What wish would you ask a genie to grant? Health or Wealth? We're...
Finally some news has come out of Nibris HQ regarding their hotly anticipated survival horror thriller, Sadness.
Within the game you will take control of a character known as Maria who has just survived a serious train crash. Maria is left in control of her brother Alexander, who was blinded from the crash and it is from here that the game takes a...
Tuesday13th Feb 2007
Review Kirby's Adventure (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
Kirby's first adventure
Kirby’s Adventure was released in 1993 when many gamers had packed up their NES in favour of the shiny new Sega Mega Drive / Genesis or a SNES. Those who stayed faithful to the mighty grey toaster and picked up this game at the time would have been in for a real treat. It really pushed the boundaries of the NES hardware,...
Review Kid Icarus (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
Is Pit a hit?
Kid Icarus is one of those games that makes you think 'they sure don't make them like they used to'. Graphically it's very basic - this is from 1986 after all - but the charm simply shines through regardless. This is a game from an era where developers had to really make an effort and use what simple technology they had available to...
Review Ice Climber (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
Ice Ice Baby
Ice Climber is another classic NES title for the Virtual Console — and thankfully, it's decent enough to be worth considering for download. Ice Climber is a fantastic little game, if somewhat basic. Graphically it's exactly what you'd expect an 8-bit game from 1985 to look like — simple. The premise of the game is pretty bizarre. A...
Allow me to pose you with a question. You are armed with a Katana blade and a shotgun. Your enemy is armed with just a sword. Would you have a sword fight with him or would you blow his brains out with your shotgun? Exactly.
I guess Ubisoft thought that sword fighting might be something a bit different – particularly in a first person shooter game...
As I have already stated in my preview the concept for Cooking Mama is utterly fantastic. To think that there are still companies out there that want to be original, that want to make something new and that want make use of Nintendo’s technology is quite heart warming to me.
Cooking Mama might not be the best game you’ll ever play. In fact – I...
News Europe: Military Madness & Mario Kart 64 Update Patch available!
The Wii Shop in Europe now has the first patches for Virtual Console games!
From today there is an update in the Wii shop that finally fixes the scrolling glitch in Military Madness. There's also an update for Mario Kart 64 that fixes a glitch on the character select screen too. Just go to the Wii Shop and find the game you bought then apply the...
News BBC Take Advantage Of News Channel
Just an amusing little snippet to round off the day involving the BBC taking advantage of the Nintendo Wii's news channel.
Wired.com reader "chrominance" claims: So I'm watching the World Business Report on BBC World and there's a story about Google being attacked by media conglomerates because of copyrighted videos on YouTube. Apparently the BBC...
IGN.com have today reported that Okami may well be heading to the Nintendo Wii system.
According to a "reliable industry insider" Capcom are seriously considering bringing their beautiful Okami title, a game which requires you to control an innovative magical paintbrush, to the Wii. While the game would fit perfectly hand in hand with the Wii's...
News Fanboys: EA Say "Buy 360 And/Or Wii, Skip The PS3."
I'm not one to create speculation over which console is the best. As far as I am concerned NintendoLife.com is 100% unbiased and all of us here keep an open mind about the latest video games and consoles.
However the question does always ponder as to whether people within the actual industry (so developers, publishers and the such) have meaningful...
Monday12th Feb 2007
News Peach And Bowser To Marry April 9th?
Haha, Nintendo don't half like doing things a little abnormally. As this press release proves.
Nintendo of America Requests the Pleasure of Your Company at the Marriage of PeachtoBowser on the 9th Day of April 2007 The nuptials will take place at the beginning of Super Paper Mario, which will be available for Nintendo's hot new Wii home video game...
News NES-tacular US Virtual Console Update
Nintendo continues their strong support of the Virtual Console by adding three highly popular NES titles (Whilst I continue my support by using poor whit in my article titles).
As usual, here is the lowdown for those not wanting to read the press release. NES: 500 Points Kirby's Adventure Ice Climber Kid Icarus Full information from the press...
News 12th Feb USA VC releases - Kirby, Ice Climber and Kid Icarus
NES fans will be in their element today as 3 of Nintendo's classic games become available for download on the North American Virtual Console. All 3 are worthy of your attention but Kirby's Adventure steals the thunder easily.
Normally we'd be disparaging of a release week with just three NES games but Kirby is still so much fun 14 years later that...
News Fight Night Could Be Coming To Wii...
... and when I say "could" I mean it's pretty much inevitable that we can expect several boxing games on the Wii this year, right?
In an interview with doghouseboxing.com, producer of the Fight Night series David Blank stated: "We're talking about it right now. We're contemplating and we definitely feel there are some exciting things we can do...
Sunday11th Feb 2007
News Capcom: "Nintendo Is For Teh Kids, Lol."
Nintendo has always been perceived to have an overly "kiddy" image but recent announcements about Mamhunt 2 and other such mature games looked set to straighten the record about Nintendos image.
Cue Capcoms senior director of strategy to get his 15 minutes of fame: "If there is a “core player base” on Wii, within two years, it will be...
News Starfox 2 Footage Hits The Net
The unreleased sequel to Starfox has had a number of bits of footage floating around on the Internet just lately and I thought you might like to share it with me.
Whether this is old news or not I'm not totally sure but I wasn't even aware of a Starfox 2. I'm sure the geeks will be flying over here to set me straight on the record but I'll just be...
News Virtual Console Round-Up: Issue 1
A round-up of the best Virtual Console releases from the months December 2006 and January 2007.
Ok, so this is a new monthly feature that we are going to be running on NintendoLife.com in the upcoming future. Due to the runaway success of the Virtual Console (and I have always been enthusiastic about it to be honest) we are going to be integrating...
News Wii Weights Will Enhance Your Workout
A couple of weeks ago I was genuinely going to do a test for NintendoLife.com based around how fit you can get from playing the Wii. I was not the only one to notice an increase in the size of my biceps.
Unfortunately some American blogger had already beaten me to the idea and recorded himself losing a total of 9lbs just from playing the Wii daily...
Saturday10th Feb 2007
Review Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
The black sheep of the family?
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is often referred to as the black sheep of the Zelda family. Unlike the original Zelda games, the top-down perspective is replaced in favour of side-scrolling platform action, similar to that found in Castlevania. Perhaps more significantly than that, it is the only Zelda game to offer...
Friday9th Feb 2007
Review WarioWare Smooth Moves (Wii)
Smooth like butter
Just the other day I was contemplating how I would feel if my mother walked in on me being intimate with my girlfriend. Horrified would probably be an understatement. I guess it would be a feeling of embarrassment. Those of you that have suffered such a terrible feat feel free to concur with me. See, thing is, although my mother...
Review Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii)
Blitzed.
Let's first clarify that we're big Super Monkey Ball fans. Ever since playing the original on the GameCube we've been totally convinced of the varied and addictive gameplay the series had to offer. We thoroughly enjoyed the minigames such as Monkey Target and thought that the game provided the perfect balance between both solid gameplay and...
News European/ Austrailain Virtual Console Update
This week gamers are in for a real treat, with two classic Nintendo titles.
When you wake up, you can turn on your Wii and download both The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link and Super Mario World. Turbografx fans also get a treat as Vigilante, the side scrolling beat-em-up, has been released too. Here is the breakdown of todays releases: NES:...
News 9th February - PAL VC games - Mario World & Zelda 2
PAL gamers catch with what the USA got 4 days ago with the mighty Mario World and Vigilante. As if that wasn't enough they also get Zelda II on the NES, any true Zelda fan owes it to themselves to plod through the black sheep of the Zelda family, just so they can sit back and say to themselves "well at least I've done that one too!"
Here's...
Thursday8th Feb 2007
News Guitar Hero II Rocking Its Way To Wii
Activision extend their support for the Wii with at least four new games.
TheGameFeed have reported that Guitar Hero II will be coming to the Wii in Activisions next "fiscal year". This effectively means April 2007 to March 2008. The launch window is quite large but heres hoping it will be nearer to the earlier date, even if a late 2007 release is...
Ah ha! Upcoming gaming blog Game People interview Nintendo Life founder on life, games and blogging.
Were you ever curious about who made Nintendo Life? I doubt it - but If you were, now you have a chance to find out about our founding member courtesy of Andy from Game People. Andy approached me last week and told me all about a new regular...
Wednesday7th Feb 2007
Elite Beat Agents are GOO!!! -Commander Kahn Tap, slide, and spin your way through awesome songs in this interactive rhythm action game for the DS!
Elite Beat Agents are GO! Elite Beat Agents is unique, to say the least. It’s a rhythm action game, and the closest comparison would be to the PS1 classic Parappa the Rappa. You only use the stylus...
Nintendo spills the details on its upcoming Mario Party title, the first of the popular series for the Wii console.
With a release due before the summer, Nintendo have today offered out some information on the next Mario Party game, innotively titled Mario Party 8. Official Fact Sheet:The world's most popular party video game is getting a lot...
News Diddy Kong Racing DS Launches Stateside
Today marks the release of the DS remake Diddy Kong Racing DS which expands upon the classic N64 title.
Possibily the finest karting game of its generation, Diddy Kong Racing was one of the many classic titles that came out of Rare in the late 90's. Nintendo have teamed up once more with Rare to bring this 10 year old classic to the portable DS...
Tuesday6th Feb 2007
Review Super Mario World (Wii Virtual Console / Super Nintendo)
Simply superb
It was hailed as the greatest videogame of all time when it was released, and even after all these years it still has a pretty solid claim to that title. Super Mario World is without a shadow of a doubt one of our favourite Mario games, and when SNES was released some members of our staff played very little else until they'd discovered...
Brave the streets of New York City in this side-scrolling beat-'em-up
Essentially Vigilante is a modernised version of Irem's classic Kung-Fu Master. It's the usual damsel in distress routine. Your gal Madonna is thrown in the back of the baddies truck and whisked away. It is your job to go through various stages to finally rescue her from her...
News Dance, Dance Revolution For Wii
A new title from Konami announced, so start dancing for joy now, literally.
Earlier today we showed you of a way of spinning tunes using your wiimote, but now we bring you news of how you can have a dance too. Konami are planning to release Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party on the Wii late this year. The game will make use of the wiimote and...
News Rockstar Games Announce Manhunt 2 For Wii
In what comes as a pleasant (if slightly twisted and gruesome) surprise, Rockstar have confirmed Manhunt 2 will be released on the Wii.
The announcement, which was made earlier today, also points out that the Wii version of the game will get some special treatment from the team at Rockstar Toronto. This must mean that some motion sensitivity will be...
News The First Wii-Chargeable Wiimote Battery
Thats right folks, the Wii is getting a rechargeable battery pack (currently only for Japan mind you).
The pack is manufactured by a Japanese company called Thanko and is due for release there soon. Currently there no news on a release anywhere else. From Joystiq.comThanko's lithium-ion battery and USB charge cradle, which can draw power from one of...
News Super Mario World For US Wii
Mondays virtual console additions saw another Mario title grace the ever expanding Virtual Console archive.
The rest of the update comprised of a couple Sega titles that have been eclipsed by yet another Mario game. For those not wanting to read the press release, here are the basics: SNES: 800 Points Super Mario World Mega Drive/Genesis: 800...
Monday5th Feb 2007
Some weird and wacky Nintendo designs that didn't quite make it into production.
Okay this is old news, but I wanted to post it anyway for those that haven't seen it, here's a except from an article posted on DarkZero last year. "In all honesty we see two remotes that could have worked well - had we not seen todays version - and one lazy...
Just incase you needed another use for your Wiimote.
You've probably already tried the Wiimote on your Mac, using DarwiinRemote, but haven't really found a use for it... until now. Look what we've come across recently, Wii DJing! "Welcome to DJ Wiij. The first and original djing website dedicated to using Nintendo Wiimotes. As much of a gimmick...
News New USA Virtual Console releases for 5th February - Super Mario World / Vigilante
February the 5th is a great day for Virtual Console gamers with a North American Wii. Finally the long awaited Super Mario World joins it's prestigious library. Also not to be overlooked is the PC Engine's classic beat em up: Vigilante. It's sort of like the Kung-fu but a lot more fun! Gain Ground isn't really worth the time these days in our opinion. Here's the reviews:
Super Mario World - Super NES (1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): During a vacation in Dinosaur Land, Princess Toadstool gets kidnapped and a spell is cast on the inhabitants of the island. When they stumble upon Yoshi, a young dinosaur, Mario and Luigi le...
News Super Paper Mario, Wii, April
NintendoPower sets the record straight, Super Paper Mario now confirmed on Wii.
Another catch-up article, if you didn't already know Super Paper Mario has now been confirmed as a Nintendo Wii title by the NintendoPower magazine published by Nintendo in the USA. "Nintendo Power (lest we forget, the official publication of Nintendo of America) is...
Gallery of alternate Mario's has surfaced via Digg
Head on over to the Media Post website to find yourself a nice little gallery of Mario's. If anyone knows of other artwork galleries related to Nintendo feel free to post them in the comments section.
Saturday3rd Feb 2007
It's the 31st Century, and science and technology have progressed to the point that the human race is approaching perfection.
Gain Ground started life as a largely unpopular 3 player arcade game. Surprisingly when taking into account the relative lack of commercial success it was ported to the Sega Megadrive/Genesis and Master System pretty swiftly...
Friday2nd Feb 2007
Recently on eBay a job lot of all 670 licensed NES games, with sought after accessories, went for sale. This auction was scheduled to end tomorrow- that is until a few sour grapes decided to spoil things...
Hijacking auctions is not a new concept, its plagued many legitimate auctions before. What happened in this NES auction was the simply case of a...
News 2nd February - PAL VC games - Megadrive goodies
Some goodies today on the UK Virtual Console - Finally Gradius makes it across (the US have had this for some time!) and 3 Megadrive games also! If you were to download only one game today our tip is Comix Zone, it's the cream of the crop!
As ever here are the reviews: Gradius - NES Bonanza Bros - Megadrive Gain Ground - Megadrive Comix Zone -...
News Europe Says Gracias To Gradius
This weeks European/Australian Virtual Console releases include the highly popular scrolling space-shooter Gradius.
The Full list is as follows: NES: 500 Points Gradius Mega Drive: 800 Points Comix Zone Bonanza Bros Gain Ground As you can see, a few Mega Drive (Genesis to the overseas readers) titles have been added, but nothing too spectacular...
Thursday1st Feb 2007
News Mario Kart 64- Now With Less Ghosts
Those playing the recently released Mario Kart 64 will notice a distinct lack of ghosts.. and, no, I'm not talking about the ones on banshee boardwalk!
It seems that we have the first major Virtual Console issue on our hands, no N64 controller pak support. This problem facing Nintendo is quite a large one- they cannot seem to (or don't see the need...
