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Virtually Overlooked: Ghouls 'n Ghosts (Sega Master System)
Welcome to our weekly feature, Virtually Overlooked, wherein we talk about games that aren't on the Virtual Console yet, but should be. Call it a retro-speculative.You can play three different Ghouls 'n Ghosts games on the Virtual Console right now. For just 500 points, you could have the most difficult game in the series, Ghosts 'n Goblins for the NES. Or you could play the two 16-bit sequels on the Genesis and Super NES, with different weapons, levels, and powers (and still plenty of challenge). They're all great.But why play those great games when you could be playing a weird, downgraded, unfaithful version on the Sega Master System? Because it's totally unique!
VC Tuesday: Featuring Nuts and Milk, and other games with less funny names
It's another week of high quantity on Japan's Virtual Console -- but that doesn't necessarily mean that, when employing their shovel, Nintendo didn't pick up some good stuff. In fact, overall, this is a very solid Virtual Console week, featuring five games new to the VC in any region. We're pretty likely to at least get Ghosts 'n' Goblins soon in the U.S., and Eternal Champions's Japanese release makes an upcoming release pretty likely. We're hoping for Nuts & Milk ourselves, just because the name makes us laugh every time we see it. Not because of any prurient reason -- we just think it looks like a shopping list. Ghosts 'n' Goblins (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) Nuts & Milk (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) Eternal Champions (Mega Drive, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points) A-Train III (PC Engine, 1 player, 800 Wii Points) Top Hunter (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
