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If you like shooting the crap out of everything you see in a walking tank, Cybernator is for you. It's varied in its pace of slow and fast gameplay segments and is a pretty fun and action-packed 16-bit title. For 800 Wii Points, it's been a pretty fun ride for myself. If you enjoy the destruction, give it a whirl.


This game is a lot like Golden Axe, but the actual fighting isn't as sound. The button-mashing combat segments are broken up by other bits, however, like the first-person shooting segments, adding some depth to the title. So, where the combat fails when compared to other, better 2D fighters like Streets of Rage and, as said, Golden Axe, its overall package makes it very appealing from a multiplayer point of view. If you're going to play it yourself, you can probably be fine ditching it.


Monster Lair is an awesome shooter-platformer hybrid of a game. It's an entry in the Wonder Boy series of games and is a lot more fun than the others available on the Virtual Console right now, to me at least. The action is fast-paced and fun, and the graphics are great (love those sprites). It's an overall appealing package, providing myself with lots of fun for minimal bucks (although it would've been nice if it was 600 Points, we're not complaining).

That concludes our look at this week's Virtual Console games. As always, if you have any tips or rumors regarding Nintendo's Virtual Console service, be sure to let us know and come back next week when we take a look at the latest titles available on the Nintendo Wii.