Wii VC Monday
Nintendo has announced that three more classic titles will be posted on the Wii Shopping Channel, later today. Here are the titles and their descriptions:
Tennis (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): Players slam a serve, fire a blazing backhand and smash a forehand volley on their way to winning the victory cup. Players can choose between five different levels of difficulty, ranging from Beginner all the way up to Advanced. If players want to become true champs, they should be ready to show off their most brilliant lobs and most powerful smashes. Play a singles match or grab a partner for doubles, and then choose an opponent. Players control the moves in tennis action so intense, they’ll almost believe they’re at center court.
Space Harrier II™ (Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Fantasyland has been taken over by destructive forces, and a call for help comes from deep in the universe. Space Harrier is quick on the scene, armed with his laser, to defeat wave after wave of destructive forces through 12 thrilling stages, with a dangerous boss waiting at the end of each round.
Military Madness™ (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points): Military Madness is a futuristic simulation game that throws the player into the middle of a war on the moon’s surface. The rules are simple, making it easy for newcomers to enjoy the thrills of this war-strategy game. Players can see easy-to-understand, detailed instructions from the Title screen. Military Madness is also turn-based, allowing players to devise their strategy before they move. To top it off, the units players have for each stage are already decided, allowing them to concentrate on commanding. Use the terrain and surround enemies to claim victory. Fight through all 16 stages and thwart the enemy’s ambitions!
I have not played any of the above three, but Space Harrier and Military Madness sound fun! I mean, how can you go wrong with a strategy based military game that takes place on the Moon? As for Space Harrier, I’m a sucker for ‘shmups’.
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 18 December 2006
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points to dollars conversion, s’il vous plait.
100:1, have you not read anything about VC before?
Space Harrier is one of the few games I got to enjoy in the arcades and man did I love it. Fast-paced 3-D action FTW! And you can also run on the ground!! I bet the Starwing series is heavily inspired by this gem…
i really wonder if I want to spend some money on soem old fasioned game for my wii? And by the way they really are expensive comparing the quality of a modern wii game.
(sigh) * wants N64 games sooo badly… *
military madness is a real classic – one of the first round-based console strategy-games ever.
space harrier was brilliant as an arcade machine and i still play it sometimes in shenmue or emulated on mame – the genesis version of space harrier 2 sadly is not half as much fun.
If you could use the Wiimote with Space Harrier, it would be perfect. (The arcade game had a big Tron-like joystick with a trigger.) Using NES-style controls…. not so perfect.
Military Madness is a great game. If you like DS Advance Wars, you’ll like this.
I gotta agree with ‘Wii king’ though, don’t know if I’d want to spend money on 8-bit oldness when most of these games have much better modern counterparts.