Shrygue
March 28th, 2008, 15:02
via IGN (http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/862/862816p1.html)
At long last the previously announced inclusion of Commodore 64 titles on Nintendo's Virtual Console has borne fruit, with both Uridium and International Karate available for download in the UK today. Bringing up the rear is Midway's N64 racer Cruis'n USA, ensuring that there are a generous three titles for your delectation this week.
For 500 points you can grab either of the Commodore 64 titles, Uridium being a classic horizontal shooter, while International Karate is widely credited as kick-starting videogames' obsession with placing two men on a 2D plane and making them hit each other.
And then there's poor Cruis'n USA. For 1,000 Wii points you can get your talons into Midway's arcade port for the N64, though seeing as it barely scraped a four back in 1996 you may want to steer clear, and we very much doubt that 12 years spent lingering in pits of a bargain bucket have matured the gameplay too much.
Virtual Console European Releases, March 28
Commodore 64 - 500 Wii Points
Uridium (1986)
International Karate (1986)
N64 - 1,000 Wii Points
Cruis'n USA (1996)
At long last the previously announced inclusion of Commodore 64 titles on Nintendo's Virtual Console has borne fruit, with both Uridium and International Karate available for download in the UK today. Bringing up the rear is Midway's N64 racer Cruis'n USA, ensuring that there are a generous three titles for your delectation this week.
For 500 points you can grab either of the Commodore 64 titles, Uridium being a classic horizontal shooter, while International Karate is widely credited as kick-starting videogames' obsession with placing two men on a 2D plane and making them hit each other.
And then there's poor Cruis'n USA. For 1,000 Wii points you can get your talons into Midway's arcade port for the N64, though seeing as it barely scraped a four back in 1996 you may want to steer clear, and we very much doubt that 12 years spent lingering in pits of a bargain bucket have matured the gameplay too much.
Virtual Console European Releases, March 28
Commodore 64 - 500 Wii Points
Uridium (1986)
International Karate (1986)
N64 - 1,000 Wii Points
Cruis'n USA (1996)