Training, retro collections and minigames converge, form a DS singularity
by JC Fletcher 
{ Dec 12th 2007 at 6:00PM }
After Namco Bandai's Our Video Game Exams, most DS games will just be redundant. The game, coming March 20th, is a series of WarioWare-style micro-challenges based on classic Namco games. According to a translation from GAF's duckroll, the featured games include "Xevious, Mappy, Galaga, Tower of Druaga, StarLuster, Sky Kid, Valkyrie, Family Stadium, Metrocross, Dragon Buster, Shadow Land, Wagyan Land, Idolm@ster."
The challenges include activities like perfectly completing a Challenging Stage in Galaga and getting a home run in Family Stadium. At the end of each session, you're graded on your gaming performance. Normally we're pretty down on minigame collections, but this sounds awesome. The best games in Wario Ware were the concentrated versions of classic NES games anyway, and that's all this is. And if any task is worthy of a training game, it's playing old games. We love it.
The challenges include activities like perfectly completing a Challenging Stage in Galaga and getting a home run in Family Stadium. At the end of each session, you're graded on your gaming performance. Normally we're pretty down on minigame collections, but this sounds awesome. The best games in Wario Ware were the concentrated versions of classic NES games anyway, and that's all this is. And if any task is worthy of a training game, it's playing old games. We love it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WhatIsThatThing @ Dec 12th 2007 7:12PM
I wish we lived in a world where this could be easily made into a collection for ALL games. And: trivia.