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NintendoWare Weekly: Zaxxon, Military Madness
[The Arcade Flyer Archive] The original arcade version of Zaxxon is available on Virtual Console this week! Trust us: this is very exciting if you're old. However, as we like to do when this sort of thing pops up, we're offering this public service announcement: if you have either the PS2 Sega Genesis Collection disc or Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, you already have this game! Check out all the WiiWare, Virtual Console, and DSiWare offerings after the break.
This Wednesday: Military Madness and Football Genius Bust-a-Move onto XBLA
This week's Xbox Live Arcade lineup is Madness -- Madness, we tell you! Well, okay, so it includes Hudson's revival of the TurboGrafx-16 classic Military Madness, but also two other releases. Still: Madness! Military Madness: Nectaris takes the hex-map strategy game into the era of polygons and -- better yet -- four-person online play. It's going to run 800 ($10), which is considerably less than a used TG-16, a TurboChip (remember those? If so, you're old) and the original game will cost you on eBay.Another classic strikes back in the form of Bust-A-Move Live, the latest retooling of the bubble-shooting puzzle game that's appeared on every system dating back to the abacus. Did you know it's a spin-off of Bubble Bobble Neo from two weeks back? Well, it is. It's also 800 ($10).Rounding out the bunch -- and making us thankful that every XBLA game has a trial version -- is Football Genius, a football trivia game about that kinda football; otherwise known as "soccer" up in here. We'd give the 800 ($10) release a shot ... if our goal was to be bored. (We love you, soccer/footie fans, but c'mon, seriously?)
Squeezing some details from Military Madness: Nectaris
Turn-based strategy title Military Madness: Nectaris is having its layers peeled away on the PlayStation Blog, but don't let the prominent Sony placement confuse you -- the game is also coming to Xbox Live Arcade and WiiWare. The moon-based military action, which is actually an update of TurboGrafx-16's Military Madness from 1989, allows up to four players to battle on 10 maps. The single-player campaign includes 32 levels and is "essentially a remake" of the original game, with updated AI and graphicalz.Military Madness: Nectaris has no need for such highfalutin concepts like an "economic system." No sir, this game is about tactics and "decisive military action." For way more detail about Nectaris, check out the full piece by the game's designer, Kyle Tunison of Backbone Entertainment, over at the PlayStation Blog.
