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Five new games for Virtual Console News

Wii News by Robert Purchese

13 June, 2008

This week Nintendo has swamped the Virtual Console with five cherished oldies.

Those with a Master System fetish will like Alex Kidd in Miracle World. He's a monkey boy with big ears and is not to be confused with Alex Mack who got some chemicals on her and could dissolve into a pool of liquid. Alex Kidd costs 500 Wii Points (roughly GBP 3.50 / EUR 5).

Or you could be like Kristan and enjoy really old games in cardboard boxes. If you do, Last Ninja and Nebulus for the C64 may be up your alley. Kristan actually had a boxed copy of Last Ninja delivered the other day. These also cost 500 Wii Points (roughly GBP 3.50 / EUR 5) each.

But we think the two NeoGeo games are the best: Ninja Combat and Fatal Fury 2. We always wanted a NeoGeo and used to thumb through magazines drooling over the exotic graphics. Make your dreams come true for 900 Wii Points (roughly GBP 6.30 / EUR 9) a pop.

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Rpt81
13/06/08 @ 11:01
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Got Alex Kidd when it came on last night. Remember having that built into my Master System 2 back in the day.

Correct me if I'm wrong though, but I'm sure that he used to collect burgers at the end of a level, but it seems in the VC version that he's getting boxes of rice instead. Perhaps it's just my memory playing tricks on me.
HEAVYface
13/06/08 @ 11:07
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ninja combat is - ahem - shite.
JimmyC
13/06/08 @ 11:09
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Alex Kidd ate burgers in the built in version, but rice cakes in the (rarer) cartridge version.
Adam_T
13/06/08 @ 11:16
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Rock Scissors Paper!
krudster [mod]
13/06/08 @ 11:18
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It was actually Last Ninja 3 C64 disk, and cost me a bloomin' fortune. Mint C64 disk stuff really can cost an arm and a leg these days.
peterfll
13/06/08 @ 11:18
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^

You're so not hardcore, you got the Master System II, I had the first one and had to buy Alex Kidd, it had none of this in-built-nonsense.

;-)

ps You're right, those were BURGERS.
monkie_king
13/06/08 @ 11:19
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Nebulous was a jolly decent game, in its day.
bunglebonce
13/06/08 @ 12:14
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I thought they were buns until I played it again very recently.

It's hard as nails too. As with most 8-bit era games, I couldn't do it again now without the save state facility.
Stuz359
13/06/08 @ 13:08
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Bring on Alex Kidd in Shinobi World!
IronCladChicken
13/06/08 @ 13:15
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@peterfll
Sure there was - The mast system 1 had the snail in a maze built in game thing.
It was pretty crappy, but it was free.
dr_faulk
13/06/08 @ 13:46
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lol, NeoGeo FTUW!
brooza
13/06/08 @ 13:54
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Woo Alex Kidd!!

Never had a Master System myself, but my Nanna had a MS2 :)
convercide
14/06/08 @ 08:47
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Alex Kidd in Miracle World was awesome. How many people here actually saved his brother and saw the ending?

I did. ;)
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14/06/08 @ 10:41
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Oooh, the Wii keeps tempting me in for an impulse purchase.

Shame I'm after a US model, and my 360 is DOMINATING my gaming time.

Soon(/eventually)...

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