Space Invaders and others for Wii VC

By Tom Bramwell Published 28 November, 2008

Others: Forgotten Worlds, Metal Slug 2.

Gamers may be nearing the end of the annual road to where's-all-my-money-gone, but that hasn't deterred Nintendo from updating the Virtual Console with three more treasures from the retro archives this Friday. Although your treasure may vary.

First up is Space Invaders: The Original Game for the Super Nintendo, which at 800 Wii Points (GBP 6 / EUR 7.70) sounds a bit overpriced, but let's hear it out. There's four game modes with different orientations, and, er, that's it. Perhaps you'd be better off putting that money towards discounted copies of Space Invaders Extreme on PSP or DS.

Next there's Forgotten Worlds on the Megadrive, also for 800 Wii Points, which is a side-scrolling shooter from Capcom, although not the best version of it according to our extensive research on Wikipedia. It's also worth noting that this made it into the Capcom Classics Collection on PS2/Xbox and the remixed PSP release.

Finally there's Metal Slug 2 for the NeoGeo at a slightly higher 900 Wii Points (approx. GBP 6.30 / EUR 8.10). Much as we adore all things Metal Slug, we expect others who adore all things Metal Slug have probably already adored Metal Slug Anthology, of which this is also a part, and which is also out on the Wii.

Oddly we never reviewed it (we'll see about rectifying that, if you like - we know you enjoy two-year-old reviews), but we'll be taking a look at MS2 and its counterparts in a forthcoming Virtual Console Roundup, as per.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • locus2k1 #1 3 years ago

    Still no Secret of Mana though lol.

  • Sean.Aaron #2 3 years ago

    The Space Invaders game was available in Japan on the Playstation and I did in fact import that when I owned a Playstation a million years ago and it is the business. I don't know why, but I really like a good game of Space Invaders -- not some bs clone, but the real deal with sound effects and all. I don't own a PSP or a DS; even if I did they're not on my TV, so I'm still going to buy this.

    Forgotten Worlds is of interest, though gun rotation is via button presses as in original MD controls; not ideal, but until someone starts putting arcade ports on there, if you really want this game, then that's what it takes. I can live without it...

    One reason to get either Metal Slug or Metal Slug 2 on the VC rather than the Anthology, is that's the only way to use the Classic Controller. Otherwise you need to break out a Gamecube pad or live with some needless motion control on the Anthology; when I didn't have a 'cube pad I did in fact throw down for the original; I have to say I'm surprised to see MS2 on the VC.

    So where's Sengoku? And do I really have to buy Elevator Action from the Japanese Wii shop?

  • Dirtbox #3 3 years ago

    Oh hai

  • Incarta #4 3 years ago

    What poster #1 said

  • canIdoyabombsforya #5 3 years ago

    For a long time SNES Space inavders was more faithful than even the MAME emulated version.