VC Tuesday: Too Many Games Tuesday

by JC Fletcher { Aug 5th 2008 at 10:58AM }

We aren't sure if Nintendo of Japan operates like Nintendo of America, but if their website can actually be trusted to predict the VC and WiiWare releases for a given week, this week's crop of games is embarrassingly huge. Five Virtual Console games, only two of which are shooters (and one of which, Twinbee, is genuinely worth five hundred points, even if it is a not-so-great port of an arcade game), and three WiiWare games. Of course, one of the WiiWare games is the second Go game on the service, but it's Nintendo's version, and is thus pretty nice, with online play and instruction and such.

The less familiar VC games include Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi, a horror visual novel about a school; Eikan no Kimi ni, a baseball management simulation from A-Train developers Artdink; and Dragon Saber, the sequel to Dragon Spirit.

Virtual Console:

Twinbee (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Eikan no Kimi Ni: Koukou Yakyuu Zenkoku Taikai (PC Engine, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Dragon Saber (PC Engine, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points)