SNES News

October2007

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  News US VC Releases - 15th October - Gate of Thunder

  You only got Neo Geo games last week, but now it's time for another treat - The first TurboGrafx-CD game! Gate of Thunder is a stunningly good shoot 'em up that has the power to pretty much destroy any other shmup on VC. A fantastic soundtrack, great graphics (Check out the parallax scrolling!), and fair, fun gameplay (Nothing overly cheap!) all make this a great game to have for any shmup fan. Not one to miss!

  Second today is the second title in most peoples' favourite NES ninja series - Ninja Gaiden II. It's a g...

  • Mon 15th Oct 2007
  • Virtual Console
  • US releases
  • NES
  • SNES
  • TurboGrafx-16
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  News EU VC Releases - 12th October - Super Metroid

  After many long, long months, the time has finally arrived for Europeans: The legendary Super Metroid is now available on VC! In the third Metroid game, Samus travels back to Zebes to dispose of the Space Pirates once and for all. It's one of her longest and greatest adventures ever, and if you haven't played the game before, you honestly owe it to yourself to experience it, as it is often classed among the top games in Nintendo's history. Also, this is the 150th game on the European VC!

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  • Fri 12th Oct 2007
  • Virtual Console
  • EU releases
  • SNES
  • NES

September2007

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  News EU VC Releases - 28th September - Sci-Fi Week

  Get to your Wii! It's Sci-Fi Week! Part of this final Hanabi Festival update is Sin and Punishment, the highly anticipated N64 action game never released outside Japan! It has an inflated price like most Japan-only games before it - 1200 Points. If you love yourself, get this. It's an extremely good game, somewhat like Star Fox 64/Lylat Wars, except even better. This is the first Japan-only game to be translated! All menus and such are in English!

  Gradius III for SNES makes up the middle of this week's p...

  • Fri 28th Sep 2007
  • Virtual Console
  • EU releases
  • N64
  • TurboGrafx-16
  • SNES
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  News US VC Releases - 24th September - Streets of Rage 3

  The long-awaited final part of Final Fight's rival series, Streets of Rage, hits the American VC today. Yup, it's Streets of Rage 3! The game's had quite a lot of criticism over the years (Especially compared to Streets of Rage 2), but it's still a great game and any beat 'em up fan should check it out (Though SoR2 should still take priority).

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  • Mon 24th Sep 2007
  • Virtual Console
  • US releases
  • SNES
  • TurboGrafx-16
  • Mega Drive

August2007

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  News Hardware Focus - Super Nintendo

  Though Nintendo's domination of the 8-bit era - attained through a combination of the company's business acumen in entering the market when most other were hesitant at best and the practices employed post-success to ensure the monopolistic domination of said market - had, in terms of units sold, been their most successful, the 16-bit era brought...

  • Wed 22nd Aug 2007
  • Virtual Console
  • Hardware Focus
  • SNES
  • Retro