VC Monday Madness video wrap-up 3/17/08
by David Hinkle 
{ Mar 17th 2008 at 8:00PM }
This week shows another pair of titles hitting the Wii's Virtual Console service, providing gamers with some NES and SNES action. Sadly, we get another shooter, but the other title on offer is a fairly unique title. Hit up the video above, then head past the break for some more.
Super R-Type (Super NES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Wii Fanboy says: download it!
Super R-Type is a good game, but it comes at a bad time. The Virtual Console has been flooded with shooter after shooter, so I find myself to be a bit sour on the genre right now. The game has a lot to offer fans of the genre and likely fills a large part of many a gamer's nostalgic heart, but if you're only going to go with one game this week, I'd suggest Spelunker.
Spelunker (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Wii Fanboy says: download it!
Spelunker is both a fun game, and an unforgiving one. You die a lot in Spelunker, so those that may find themselves frustrated at that concept need not apply. It has some very tight controls and has been largely playable for the entirety of the time I've had with it. Sometimes it's really aggravating to slip on a jump or walk off of the edge of a platform, but you keep coming back for more.
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!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ArmorForVictor @ Mar 17th 2008 8:42PM
not buying anymore vc games until nintendo gives me a solution for more storage. i currently have 423 blocks left and brawl took a big chunk with it's 128 blocks.
Paul @ Mar 17th 2008 10:28PM
Why don't you buy an SD card. I picked a 2GB card up for 6.99 online. It has over 15000 blocks, I think that's an ideal solution.
MBJ @ Mar 18th 2008 7:31AM
@ Paul: SD cards would be a viable solution if Nintendo would release a firmweare upgrade to make them as easy to access as the Wii's internal memory but for now it's a nuisance to move things onto and off of SD cards whenever you want to use them. When I first loaded SSBB, it told me that I was out of space so I deleted the Internet channel.
ArmorForVictor @ Mar 19th 2008 4:23PM
sd cards can't be read from the wii as memory. i want something i can store my vc games on and not have to delete and copy them so i can access all my games without having to copy them back onto the wii's memory.
Haohmaru @ Mar 17th 2008 9:31PM
David Hinkle sour on the schmup genre? It cannot be!
In all seriousness, though, I'm glad to hear at least SOMEBODY besides me enjoys Spelunker, despite its oh so unforgiving nature.
David Hinkle @ Mar 18th 2008 9:00AM
I know, I had to take a shower after recording the video. I felt dirty. :D
Dopple Boppler @ Mar 17th 2008 9:44PM
I'm surprised a game of Super R-Type's quality came out so soon after Smash Bros. Still, I don't plan on buying any more Virtual Console games for a long while unless something really awesome comes out (I'm talking Zombies Ate My Neighbors type of awesome). Smash Bros. and Mario Kart are gonna be enough to keep me busy for a long, long time~
3cubed minus 3squared plus1 @ Mar 18th 2008 1:05AM
I'm not buying another one until they give me a good RPG game or Mortal Kombat 3. I'd also buy the first Mario Party and Mario Golf 64, but not right away.