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VC Tuesday: Cyber Deer Hunt
This week, the lone WiiWare release is a deer hunting game from Arc System Works. We would have expected such a game to come from an American publisher first, so we're a bit surprised to see ASW premiere it in Japan. Not surprised enough to pay that much attention.Our attention is fixed, instead, firmly on the Virtual Console. Between the proto-strategy game Famicom Wars and Namco's arcade arena combat game Cyber Sled, it's a pretty awesome week to have a Wii in Japan. Even if we're pretty sure the Virtual Console Arcade version of Cyber Sled can't have multiplayer (since the arcade game used separate cabinets for each player).Virtual Console: Ninja-kun: Ashura no Shou (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) Famicom Wars (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) R-TYPE (Sega Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Cyber Sled (Arcade, 800 Wii Points) WiiWare: Shikagari (Hunting) (1-4 players, 500 Wii Points) [Image via The Arcade Flyer Archive]
Final Fantasy available on Japanese Virtual Console in May
May's Virtual Console lineup in Japan may be small in number -- just six games -- but it's packed with quality. Most notably, Square Enix's GDC-announced plan to release vintage Final Fantasies on VC starts next month with the obvious choice for the starting point: the first Final Fantasy. Also very, very cool: SimEarth plus a samurai-themed River City Ransom sequel and the first game in the series that we would come to know as Advance Wars. This one's called Famicom Wars because, you know, it's on the Famicom. Famicom Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki Dayo Zenin Shugou Ninja-kun Ashura no Shou Final Fantasy Famicom Wars Master System R-Type PC Engine SimEarth
