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VC Monday Madness: Hot whipping action
If you dig games from Konami, than this week's offerings on the Virtual Console are sure to tickle your fancy. Personally, one of our favorite games of all time is available this week and it's not the title you may think it is. Without further ado, here's what you can get your hands on: Castlevania (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Super NES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points) Shockman (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points) In case you were wondering, that game we love so much is The Legend of the Mystical Ninja. That little Goemon is such a hoot! We can still remember getting the game on our birthday, squealing with joy as we inserted it into our SNES. Of course, be sure to stop back later for our video wrap-up.
The golden age of ninjas
We won't look down on you if Tecmo's announcement for Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword was the first time you'd ever heard of ninjas sneaking onto a handheld console. The stealthy assasins carry out their orders so efficiently and silently, most people aren't even aware of a ninja's presence until they see their own blood on the wall sprayed from an expert slash across their necks. Modojo has a lengthy feature tracking portable appearances by ninjas like Shinobi and Goemon, following their shuriken-throwing adventures from the Game Boy all the way up to the Nintendo DS. Our favorite game from the bunch is Ninja Five-O, a Bionic Commando-esque side scroller that was released for the GBA. If there's one thing terrorists fear, it's ninja cops swinging through their defenses!
Europe gets Punch Out, other virtual console classics first
OK, we're used to Japan getting cool stuff before us. That's OK -- they saved the game industry after Atari botched things up, so it's only fair that they get Final Fantasy and Gundam games early. But now we hear that Europe is getting Virtual Console games like Punch Out, Legend of the Mystical Ninja and Dragon Curse before us red-blooded Americans. Doesn't Nintendo know that Europe is supposed to get everything last? Maybe they can take some pointers from Sony on that score.I suppose we shouldn't be too mad about this, since all these games have been available for other systems for over a decade. But it's the principle of the thing. We declared our independence from European mastery back in 1776, and yet those old-worlders still get to lord their downloadable classics over us hundreds of years later. It's just not right!
