You see the video above? No need to watch—it’s only there to catch your eye so that you hopefully read the text right here. What you’ll see in the above Bit.Trip Beat video is a cool, unique, stylistic game in the never-before-seen Rhythm Pong genre, but nonetheless one that only shows off (presumably) very early [...]
The Monster World series has been released to Virtual Console out of chronological order: we started with Dragon’s Curse on TG16, then moved to its successor of Wonder Boy in Monster World on Genesis, got another version of the Genesis game in The Dynastic Hero on TG16, and now we finally arrive at the predecessor [...]
Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor: also known as M.U.S.H.A. For some people, I don’t think I’d need to say anything else: with a name like that, the game must be good. But for those with just a dose more healthy skepticism, this is a Genesis vertical space shooter by experienced developer Compile, who also created [...]
The SNES’ Super Castlevania IV was first to hit Virtual Console back on Christmas Day 2006. Going backwards from there to NES days, the original Castlevania followed in April 2007, and Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest came in October that year. Fifteen months later, Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse has finally made its way to North America, [...]
Nintendo continues along its path of one-retro-game weeks with the release of Kirby’s Dream Land 3, another entry in the charming sidescrolling action series in which you never have to keep the same moveset longer than thirty seconds. This video comes from YouTube’s SlippyGecko:
In summary: If you’re not a series devotee and only own a [...]
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