VC Friday: Mixed Messages about whether this is a Rambo game

by JC Fletcher { Apr 17th 2009 at 9:00AM }

This week on the PAL DSi Shop, Vicarious Visions' Mixed Messages allows players to enjoy a game in which ideas become increasingly warped over time. Kind of like what happened to one of this week's Virtual Console games! Sega of Japan made a top-down commando game and called it Ashura. Sega of America heard "Ashura" as "Rambo" somehow, while Sega of Europe heard "Secret Command." For that matter, miscommunication is one of the only possible explanations for Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, which is almost too freaky to have been made like that intentionally.

Mixed Messages -- DSiWare -- 500 Points
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars -- Sega Master System -- 500 Points
Secret Command -- Sega Master System -- 500 Points

Videos of each game are available after the break. Write descriptions of them and send them to a friend!

(US version)

Tags: dsi, dsiware, friday, mixed-messages, nintendo-dsi, secret-command, virtual-console

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bowser Rogozhin @ Apr 17th 2009 10:55AM

Secret Command was a good game back in 1992, or whenever it was when I first played it. Not sure if it's worth 500 points today.

Bowser Rogozhin @ Apr 17th 2009 10:56AM

Decent game, I mean.

atastysammich @ Apr 17th 2009 11:29AM

A DSi Ware game you can do by hand with a seventy-five cent notepad?! Sign me up!

Roto13 @ Apr 17th 2009 12:28PM

You don't even need a notepad. You can do it with Pictochat.

DeoWulf @ Apr 19th 2009 3:52PM

You don't need anything. You can have more fun playing Telephone Charades- divide into two teams. Team A comes up with a sentence. Team B goes into another room and sends one person out. That person is told the sentence. Another person from Team B is then sent out, and the first person has to act it out for them. Person 2 then tries to mimic what Person 1 did for Person 3, and so on. The very last person from Team B has to guess the original sentence. Then the teams switch places. Best of all, it's free (friends required, though).