Best Wii news in ages!! Bring it to the US, and I may just keep my Wii, after all.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/21/co...nsole-in-2008/
Best Wii news in ages!! Bring it to the US, and I may just keep my Wii, after all.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/21/co...nsole-in-2008/
The £3.75 price point per game scares me.
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Meh, half the fun of C64 games are the little intros the crackers put on them. Now that I think about it, I probably enjoyed the intros more than most C64 games.
Odd that they wouldn't bring the Speccy to the Europe first...
Why? The C=64 was huge in mainland Europe...the Sinclair Spectrum only really dominated in the U.K. You do have a point though, as it would be very easy to bring Spectrum games to the VC...all they'd have to do is port over some of the pea-soup green original Game Boy games and colorize them a bit.
Can you play the games with the Wii mote as well? Would be awesome. Playing games of the past with the future standard control scheme perfected in 2018. WOW. N RULEZ, I'm telling you!
It's about time... they announced this ages ago.
International Karate is pretty weak IMO. And what the hell is Uridium?
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I believe it's actually IK+ (known in the US as Chop 'n Drop Karate) not the original IK. The sequel is one of the greatest (non special move) fighting games ever. Still we'll find out which one it actually turns out to be.
As for Uridium... another of the C64's more well known shooters. Ever play Last Starfighter on the NES? It's that but a hell of a lot better executed
I like the idea, but I get the feeling that the games I loved would never get ported...I feel like I may be the only Skate Rock fan out there
Still, always good to see the Wii getting more interesting content.
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Plus it doesn't seem like Amstrad has any interest in pimping out the Spectrum or CPC like whoever owns the C64 these days. I wonder if it'd be more difficult to license out popular Spectrum games, too, since most were published by companies that aren't around anymore. But even if they could get all the Codemasters, Hewson, and Ultimate PTG releases it'd be pretty sweet.
World Karate Championships (which is a lot like International Karate) and Uridium were both on the 30-in-1 Commodore joystick that came out a few years ago. They're both pretty popular games. Here's my review of Uridium. (Summary: it's a really fast, side-scrolling Zaxxon.)
heh - I just got done converting a ton of C-64 games to the PC, with period accurate "Cracker Intro's"
I love the idea of the Virtual Console, but with emulation - I've yet to buy a single game.
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I don't know, somehow I think that a lot of the charm will be lost without the crack screens that precede many of my favorites. Then again, those crack screens contain lots of period humor and off color statements that probably wouldn't do well with the Nintendo crowd.
Think I'll stick with PC emulation on this one, the selection is far better anyways.
Since Uridium is on the list, hopefully Paradroid and Heavy Metal Paradroid (also by Andrew Braybrook) won't be far behind.
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Man, you and I are on the same page. I've been doing 10-20 disks a night, when I get the chance. Only 400 more to go! When I'm done I'm going to rearrange everything (sort the pictures, seq files, music files, etc) and share them to the world. The Flack collection will once again live -- and I won't be charging Wii points ...
If you're not into emulation but love Paradroid, also check out Project Paradroid, a freeware remake (with updated graphics) for the PC.
Trevor Storey did a superb job on this remake by upgrading the graphics but not messing with the game play. An awesome remake of an awesome game.