Mayhem in Monsterland on Wii VC

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 October, 2008

Plus another SFII and Space Harrier.

Nintendo has updated the Virtual Console with three more games from the wonderlands of yesteryear: Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition, Space Harrier, and Mayhem in Monsterland.

SSFIISCE is the Megadrive version of Street Fighter II, basically, and costs 800 Wii Points (GBP 6 / EUR 7.70). Whether you'll be up for paying that is another matter, however, since beat-'em-up loving retro-heads have surely already bought Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Turbo or Super Street Fighter II from the SNES pages already.

Other options are Space Harrier (Master System, 500 Points, GBP 3.50 / EUR 4.50), which is probably rubbish. Space Harrier II came out almost two years ago in its Megadrive incarnation, which is also worth bearing in mind.

Finally, there's Mayhem in Monsterland (C64, 500 Points, GBP 3.50 / EUR 4.50). We said the words "Mayhem in Monsterland" to Kristan and he started rambling on about it being mail order only, "a phenomenal achievement", and all sorts of other cack. VC guru Dan Whitehead says it had lots of cool ideas, including playing each level twice - once to make it happy, and then to collect stars. We like the sound of that.

Find out if our ears deceive us, and our thoughts on the others and whatever came out last week, when we round up the latest WiiWare and Virtual Console releases early next week.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Duckula #1 3 years ago

    I wish they would put the proper arcade Space Harrier up. Wiiware or XBLA I don't care just get it up. Even the PC Engine version would be better than the gash master system one.

  • locus2k1 #2 3 years ago

    where the hell is Secret of Mana :(

    EDIT: lol that sounded grumpier then it was meant to, but still, can i Haz Secret of Mana now please Nintendo? My SNES cart is dieing... a lot.
    Edited by 1 at 17/10/08 @ 09:57

  • Colin8703 #3 3 years ago

    @ Duckula.

    I agree. The PC Engine version sucked arse too. Arcade version please, or how about Planet Harriers?

  • Santino #4 3 years ago

    feels like i have been waiting ages for Yoshi's Island to come out, ive never played it ffs.

  • Canyarion #5 3 years ago

    You can also buy Yoshi's Island for the GBA...

  • BiscuitBase #6 3 years ago

    Aw crap I wish I hadn't sold my Wii now. I missed Mayhem in Monsterland when it came out. The Rowlands brothers were one of the main reasons I wanted to get into the games industry in the first place

  • Cadence #7 3 years ago

    What's this version of SFII like then? Is it better than the SNES versions? I never played it on the Megadrive!

  • paralipsis #8 3 years ago

    I am disappointed to find that Nintendo are not following up the release of Mario Golf to the PAL VC, considering it has now made its way to the Japanese and US services. It was my favourite N64 game, and I would like to play it again sometime.

  • mashk #9 3 years ago

    "What's this version of SFII like then? Is it better than the SNES versions? I never played it on the Megadrive!"

    Debatable. The best thing about the Megadrive versions was the fantastic six button pad designed especially for SF2. Without them, SNES versions are better, as the Megadrive versions suffered from hilariously awful sound effects.

  • illusiondance #10 3 years ago

    having played more Street fighter than i probably should have i can attest that the MD version was superior.
    In terms of control, speed and overall gaming options it easily beat the snes versions. Its true the sound is rougher and there were less colours but if you wanted to play something closer to the arcade original this was your best bet.
    i think this was the last game i ever pre-ordered...

  • Cadence #11 3 years ago

    Might get it tonight then, although I'm wondering how it's going to feel playing using my Wavebird.

  • LazyDan #12 3 years ago

    WANT:

    Rainbow Islands (TGFX-CD)
    Mario Tennis (N64)
    Yoshi's Island (SNES)
    Super Mario Kart (SNES)

  • NunianVonFuch #13 3 years ago

    Mayhem in Monsterland? NERDGASM!!! Game was better than Sonic, Mario, any platformer you can care to name and had some of the best music on the C64! Hopefully this'll convince the Rowland Bros to do a HD update rather than just a phone version where he doesn't charge? Just jumps on people? What were they thinking???

    Still have their autograph stashed away somewhere too. FUCKING LEGENDS!!!

  • mcbain23 #14 3 years ago

    Where the hell is the C64 version of Airborne Ranger?

    /sarcasm mode off. I think.

  • YenRug #15 3 years ago

    The US seems to have finally geared up to 2 VC and 2 WiiWare each week, now, so why the hell are we still flip-flopping from one week to the next, especially as we seem to be getting the dregs of the possible releases compared to the good stuff that they're getting across the pond.