VC Tuesday: Super Darius finds Fun! in The Lost Stars
To NES-only kids, Sega's Alex Kidd games must have seemed like a really weird choice for Sega's flagship series: some rambling platformers with a not-so-appealing main character, completely different settings each time, and rock-scissors-paper for some reason. To people who grew up with Master Systems at home, however, they were ... still really weird. The Lost Stars is the most Mario-like of the bunch, with simple running and jumping in place of Miracle World's block-breaking and janken, but it is really, really freaky. Like "nude, mohawked enemies who shake their butts at you, somehow resulting in skull projectiles" freaky.
Super Darius 2 lacks rump shaking, but manages to be a good shooter regardless. Both games are out in Japan on the Virtual Console today.
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars (Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Super Darius 2 (PC Engine Super CD-ROM, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
The single WiiWare release is Shin'en's Fun! Fun! Minigolf, whose title actually increases the fun content of the game.
Fun! Fun! Minigolf (1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
