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For a moment, I thought that Fantastic Cube image was a screenshot from some version of Elite, which really would be a "surprise VCA release".

I did not feel old until just now. Twenty years already, cripes.

of course, in the UK is pointless to have that app

Oh I don't know. Judging from what I see in the street some days, some of us have a shaky grasp of the mother tongue, and could probably do with the help!

That's a fascinating tidbit about Twin Peaks. Regarding Ganon's porcine nature; I thought that was obvious!

With Mario returning to 2D, and with huge success, I'm not surprised to see Sonic following. I just hope it's as good as New Super Mario Bros Wii, or, indeed, the older Sonic 2D titles.

Oh look, an average-at-best movie licence! What a surprise!

You forget; eerything has to be online and HD, otherwise it's no good! Sadly, that seems to be the way of modern video game criticism.

(Or maybe he has no local players, which would be fair enough.)

Right, so if Nyko can do it, why can't Nintendo?

Is that it? No Cave Story? No Super Mario Kart? Sad.

@Ristar42 thanks! I'm still hoping to see the Creatures games on Virtual Console one of these days.

I was hoping it would be an update of Stunt Car Racer

I don't know if I'd give it 10/10, but I do prefer it to Galaxy (which I do like a lot), and it does deserve better scores than it's been getting. Just because it's not in 3D and HD, and is not online, you'd think it's the worst game ever from some of the reviews. Of course, those things are just knobs and polish, and it's one of the most depressing fallacies in modern video game thought that they're anything but.

Well, I've never heard of Pixmania, so I'm not sure what that says about the authority of their prediction.

No Cave Story? Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Thankfully, Sega skipped the Master System port
I think you'll find that the MS port is one of the best of the home versions, although quite different from the arcade incarnation. It's the NES port which stinks more than a truck full of horse poop. The anti-MS bias here is starting to get really old...

Not a lot of love for Pro Evo in the comments; did people not enjoy the Wii version? I thought it was ace, and this is coming from someone who's very critical of any footie game that isn't Sensible Soccer!

There's also a zombie walk that day in Brighton. Nothing to do with Resident Evil, and no free games involved, just a bit of annual undead fun! Beach of the Dead is the name, if you fancy looking it up.

I think the European loyalty programme is NoE's way of saying sorry for screwing us over on all the games.

GAME and Gamestation are now the same company, so I'd guess this is a GAME exclusive, and it's unlikely to hit other UK sellers. I wouldn't be surprised to see it turn up at Gamestop in the US though.

See, now I actually prefer the brighter, bolder colours in this version.

Turbo Genesis, I would argue that this is one of the best of the 8-bit rpgs, certainly on consoles. If we include computer rpgs, that's a different matter!

I think this should be higher than Phantasy Star though.
Now that's fighting talk!

JamieO, did you have a PC Engine then? I knew of them from magazines at the time, but never saw one in the flesh until a couple of years ago; as I recall, it was never officially released in the UK. It certainly seemed to me that the 8-bit console generation here in Britain was led by the Master System, but I could be misremembering; it was twenty years ago now!

Ooooh, Katakis would be lovely! Good call, Omega!

This is a much better treatment than in the news story a few days ago. This is more even-handed, acknowledging the MS port's best features while still noting its weaknesses, rather than the sweeping condemnation we got the other day.

Yeah, a bit unfair on the MS version of R-Type I think. It's actually generally considered one of the best ports, rather than "an inferior version", and has a number of unique features. Bad form, nintendolife, bad form!

Good news indeed, although things could change between then and now.

Count me as one of the ones who actually liked how they used Wiimote control in the first game, so I'm disappointed that we're not seeing an expanded version of that in the sequel.

It's the new Legend of Zelda instalment, you wait and see. That doesn't necessarily mean it'll be the last Zelda, of course; we've had more than twelve "Final" Fantasies, after all...

If they can put the Motion Plus in the same box as the Wiimote, why can't they just put them in the same unit?

I played his a lot on the old Amiga (as Trolls), and it wasn't too bad. Quite fun in its own way, and incredibly colourful and vivid for its day.

It was a close thing, but in the end, I decided that the early grinding was a put-off, so I dropped it to 8/10. If it makes you feel any better, it's a high 8!

I'm surprised that there's so much international interest, but pleasantly so.

mjc0961, it's called a sample size, and every survey uses one. 5000 is a pretty good sampling, in comparison to most surveys.

I was never interested in the X360, and the failures made the decision final, so yeah, not going there.

The only problem I've ever had with the Wii is that it sometimes goes into a black screen when I load the first Wii Sports, and stays there for a long time before the game starts. But I don't need to play it any more, now I have Wii Sports Resort.

I've never had a console failure, now I think about it. The power light didn't work on my Master System, but the machine itself was fine. My PS1 never had an issue, and my PS2 is getting on for nine years old and is just fine, which is crazy. My SNES was bought second-hand, and was covered in muck, and it worked perfectly. My wife has an original NES, and you have to occasionally do the blowy thing to get it to work, but it does work.

I agree it's dated, which is why I reduced the score from 9 to 8. Once you're over that initial grinding hump, it's a great game.

No FM chip emulation as far as I can see, and it seems to be the original translation, too.

Wow, I'm surprised that so many are overlooking Phantasy Star! It's a great game!

Maniac Mansion, Zombies, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and, of course, Monkey Island!

A good series of games, but I'm hoping that this means that stuff like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle might be on their way, perhaps through WiiWare or a VC version of SCUMM. High hopes, I know...

This is one of my most wanted games, definitely.

It may be that this will be Modern Warfare 2, but because the first one didn't come out on Wii, they're just releasing it as MW. I would find it odd if they really were releasing the original alongside the others.

Nintendo stupidly aimed their focus on casual gaming
"Stupidly"? They seem to have done quite well out of it.

Sales are down everywhere right now because of a small thing called the recession. Also, sales were so strong for the Wii at the start that it's bound to tail off at this point in the cycle, and even moderate sales are going to look "poor" in relation to such a strong opening. And if it's doing as well as the PS2 was at this stage in its life, that's not too bad, as the PS2 is still a viable platform, unbelievable as that may be, ten years on.

Talk of a "crash" is just sensationalism.

You wouldn't come up with something weird like this as a console peripheral unless you had some good ideas on how to use it. I trust them.

@WiisWorld, yes, the name was quite deliberate, I'm sure.

Looks a bit like the classic Amiga game Skidmarks, which of course in turn drew from Super Sprint and Super Off Road. Good to see a classic game style make a return, and with a not bad score either.

The Wii has a pretty poor track record when it comes to streaming media outside of Japan. No video rental services for us, no downloads, just the Nintendo Channel and its somewhat hokey delivery of promo videos.
Well, that and the Wii-specific version of the BBC iPlayer...

Ha! I'd forgotten about baseball. Shows how long it's been since I fired up the first Wii Sports!

Yes, the Wii has, in theory, a very good control scheme for the point-and-click genre (just as it has for FPS, but that's another conversation), so I agree that it's a crying shame that there aren't more games of this sort on the platform. I for one would immediately buy some sort of Monkey Island compilation disc, or the originals on Virtual Console (if the Amiga were supported, naturally).

The choppiness of the conversion is certainly bad news, but on the other hand, it might make Nintendo take another look at their WiiWare storage limits. I say "might", although I'm not confident!