Archive for October, 2008

The Top 25 NES/Famicom games that need to be on the Virtual Console

October 18, 2008

The Virtual Console started off great in 2006, and in 2007 the sucess and great titles kept coming (for the most part). However in 2008 we had a long drought after Crusin’ USA and the Secrets of Mana’s release in early 2008 (mainly due to WiiWare, with great titles like Dr. Mario RX, Defend Your Castle, Wario Land: Shake It!, Mega Man 9, and World of Goo), although Double Dragon and River City Ransom did a okay job at stopping any “short death” of the Virtual Console. But then this “drought” ended in June in Japan, August in Europe and Australia, and September in North America (as it’s 250th Virtual Console game) when these regions all got a massively amazing game: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, which started a mainstream Virtual Console comback (which I might add SMRPG is the best-selling game on the Virtual Console). Since then the Virtual Console has made a comeback, with Clu-Clu Land (Nevermind. It’s okay at best) Mega Man 1 and 2 being released on the Virtual Console (despite being released in Europe in 2007), and Mario Golf being released about 4 weeks ago in Japan, about 3 weeks ago in North America, and will probably hit PAL shores soon.

Still, there are tons of Virtual Console games from Nintendo consoles that need to be added to the list of available list of games. That is why I made this list. I’m going to list the top 25 most worthy Nintendo Entertainment System/Nintendo Famicom NES that need to be on the Virtual Console that currently are not on the Virtual Console.

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New “HD Wii” to come out in 2011!?!?!?

October 6, 2008

 

We all know the Gameboy same generation hardware upgrade syndrome. First it was the Gameboy, with the original Gameboy, then Gameboy Lite, then Gameboy Light (a Gameboy lite with a light), then Gameboy Camera. Then with the Gameboy Advance we got the SP and then the Micro (which couldn’t even play GB or GBC GAMES=LAME!!!). Then with the DS we got the much improved and sales-changing DS Lite, and now we’re getting the DSi(Pod). So seeing as how Wii sales pwn DS sales, and DS sales pwn everything else, this is to be expected. But will this be the end-or will we get 1 or 2 more new “Wiis” after this=???

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Top 25 Games that need to be remade with Wii Virtual Reality Controls

October 4, 2008

Well guys, the Nintendo Press Conference has come, and we’ve learned a lot. Club Nintendo is FINALLY coming to America, the new DS, Punch-Out is going to get a 7th generation of gaming entry (that looks like the originals, only cel-shaded), as well as several titles. However, nothing struck my eye more then what Nintendo of America Vice President Cammie Dunaway told IGN, and what was shown at the conference. Pikmin (the original) is coming out on the Wii with a remade control scheme. Yes-Pikmin. And so this made me think “Geez, what other games would be great with a Wii Virtual Reality control scheme?” So far Nintendo has confirmed this with only GCN games, but I thought I would expand to N64 games (as I image they will AT LEAST expand to that as well), SNES and Super Famicom games, NES and Famicom games, and heck-even Virtua Boy nevermind, the Virtual Boy is fail! Game & Watch (that’s a handheld system! Nevermind!) and old Nintendo arcade games! So I compiled this list of the 25 games I think would be the best games remade on the Wii, first, second, and third party (and even some games that were ported to Nintendo systems, even! o_O).

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