Latest AU Virtual Console Releases

February 16th, 2007, 23:17 Posted By: wraggster

Via IGN

Australian gamers will find three new Virtual Console titles available for download when they turn their Wiis on today. The games are R-Type III: The Third Lightning (Super Nintendo), Excitebike (NES) and Kirby's Adventure (NES).

R-Type III represented a decent step forward for the classic side scrolling shooter series, with tweaked weapons, two buttons for shooting, and two new Forces. As a shooter fan would expect, it also provided quite a challenge.

Excitebike continued Nintendo's strange NES naming scheme that saw a whole host of boringly literal game titles like Soccer and Hockey hit the streets. At least Excitebike had a little more excitement baked right in. It was a great game too, challenging the player to make it through motocross courses in the best time possible by managing their bike's temperature and landing jumps smoothly.

If Kirby wasn't so pink and so cute, you'd think he was a villain. After all, this is a character that literally consumes enemies to gain their powers. That's not cool. In Kirby's Adventure, HAL Labs made good use of this ability (in fact, it was the first time he had this ability), as Kirby waddled his way across Dream Land to try and restore its inhabitants' dreams. This is a classic NES platformer, and especially notable for its bizarre food-related World names, such as Vegetable Valley, Butter Building and Yogurt Yard.

Nintendo of Australia also released two new Virtual Console titles last Friday - Zelda II: the Adventure of Link (NES), and one of the greatest platform games of all time, Super Mario World (SNES).

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