Mayhem in Monsterland on Wii VC News
Wii News by Tom Bramwell
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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BiscuitBase
17/10/08 @ 09:05
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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
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paralipsis
17/10/08 @ 10:24
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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.
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"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. |
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illusiondance
17/10/08 @ 10:40
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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... |
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NunianVonFuch
17/10/08 @ 11:34
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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!!! |
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