Ninja Spirit headed to VC, we take full credit
by JC Fletcher 
{ Apr 27th 2007 at 5:52PM }
Have we mentioned recently how much we love Hudson? Not only did they make tons and tons of incredible games for the Turbografx-16 (and lots of other systems!), but they're better than anyone else about actually releasing their games on the Virtual Console. And now we have news that some of the best Turbografx-16 games are coming to the US in May! Also some stuff for Nintendo consoles in Japan, but we'll get to that.
It finally happened. A game we profiled in Virtually Overlooked has been officially announced for the Virtual Console. Even though IREM's Ninja Spirit was one of the best and most popular TG16 games, we're going to go ahead and declare this as a victory.
As if that weren't exciting enough, Hudson announced plans to release a personal favorite, Blazing Lazers, as well as Ordyne (excellent, adorable shmup) and World Sports Competition (we haven't played it, but we'll assume it's great because we're in a good mood).
Nintendo of Japan also has some fantastic stuff planned, including Super Mario Bros. 2 and F-Zero X, either of which would no doubt be the headline if anyone else were writing this. That's Super Mario Bros. 2, the Japanese version, released here as Lost Levels. The really, really hard one, as opposed to the silly one about throwing vegetables.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
blehh @ Apr 27th 2007 6:15PM
congratulations.
hvnlysoldr @ Apr 27th 2007 6:46PM
You're Winner.
soulbreather @ Apr 27th 2007 7:03PM
you win 7 interwebs
Alex @ Apr 27th 2007 7:11PM
Sweet!
Now they need release Aero Blasters (a.k.a. Air Buster) for some two player cooperative shooting, and then figure out a way to deliver Gate of Thunder and Lords of Thunder with mp3 soundtracks, and then I will have reconstituted my TurboGrafx shooter collection (not including imports).
Oh yeah, Galaga '90 as well.
Rubang B @ Apr 27th 2007 7:48PM
I want Lost Levels on my Wii sooooo bad. Now THAT is what I call a "hardcore" game. Poison mushrooms in dead ends and warp pipes back to world 1!
Shogan @ Apr 27th 2007 8:07PM
Ninja Spirit is easily one of THE BEST TG-16 games I ever played. I am so happy about this!!
Hirsbrunner @ Apr 28th 2007 4:04PM
This was the first game I got when I bought my TG-16 waaay back. This game kicks major butt. Great to see it on the VC.