VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Super Mario Kart and ... streaming game music

We were all set to gush over Super Mario Kart and the promise of some charmingly retro party gaming (for two players at a time, of course, which we suppose is part of the retro charm), but Gust disrupted our plans by releasing something on WiiWare that is weird and ill-advised enough to demand our attention. Game Sound Station is a subscription-based music streaming service available on WiiWare -- almost exclusively for listening to Gust game soundtracks. If you'd like to pay for a week of unlimited Atelier and Ar Tonelico game music, here's your chance!

The other WiiWare game, peakvox escape virus, is sort of a Snake crossed with Geometry Wars experience. As a DNA codon, you pick up other DNA around a level to form a chain, carefully navigating your increasingly long chain around enemy viruses. The game has a variety of other modes, including one that turns it into a shooter.

Virtual Console:

• Super Mario Kart (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

• Assault (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

• Game Sound Station (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
  

• peakvox escape virus (1 player, 500 Wii Points)