Smart marketing move by Nintendo: Just as it looks to revive one of its more niche characters for a full-fledged 3DS outing, it releases one of the classics on the 3DS eShop to get people interested. And interested they should be if the quality of Kid Icarus: Of Myth and…
Read MoreMore Virtual Console NES goodness this week in the Nintendo Download as the boxing classic makes it’s way to the eShop- minus Mr.Tyson of course. Even though the version of the game with Iron Mike is the one that everyone remembers so fondly, legal ranglings prevent Punch-Out!! from (probably) ever…
Read MoreMore Virtual Console NES goodness this week in the Nintendo Download as the boxing classic makes it’s way to the eShop- minus Mr.Tyson of course. Even though the version of the game with Iron Mike is the one that everyone remembers so fondly, legal ranglings prevent Punch-Out!! from (probably) ever…
Read MoreBack when I was a young ‘un, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 was, if not my favourite platformer, my favourite game overall. It’s still a damned fine game. Before Wario games became over-the-top exploration/ puzzle games, Wario Land was a strange kind of mix between those later franchise elements,…
Read MoreBack when I was a young ‘un, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 was, if not my favourite platformer, my favourite game overall. It’s still a damned fine game. Before Wario games became over-the-top exploration/ puzzle games, Wario Land was a strange kind of mix between those later franchise elements,…
Read MoreTake breakout. Add Kirby. You have Kirby’s Block Ball. Now for the review: It’s better than Alleyway, but not worth buying. There’s two big problems this time around. First, the game is way too easy. Anyone who saw the “Kirby” in the title should realise that already, but the levels…
Read MoreTake breakout. Add Kirby. You have Kirby’s Block Ball. Now for the review: It’s better than Alleyway, but not worth buying. There’s two big problems this time around. First, the game is way too easy. Anyone who saw the “Kirby” in the title should realise that already, but the levels…
Read MoreBalloon Fight is a pretty neat game, as primitive as it is. Ambassadors have been able to play the NES original for free on their 3DS for some time, and indeed of the ten NES Ambassador games, Balloon Fight has ended up being my second most-played game (after Yoshi, naturally).…
Read MoreBalloon Fight is a pretty neat game, as primitive as it is. Ambassadors have been able to play the NES original for free on their 3DS for some time, and indeed of the ten NES Ambassador games, Balloon Fight has ended up being my second most-played game (after Yoshi, naturally).…
Read MoreWhile 3DS ambassadors received their ten free NES games back in early September last year, a new game is en route for the handheld Virtual Console in Japan – Punch Out. Indeed, the game is not a 3D classic, but a basic port of the original sports-puzzle hybrid. So long as this is…
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