VC Update: Monkeys and Ninja

It's President's Day here in the United States of America, and while a quarter to a half of the country takes a day to exchange presents, dress up like their favorite head of state, and generally celebrate until the kids go to bed and the fake Abe Lincoln beard and fishnets come out (just me?), Nintendo is busy bending space and time to bring you the latest in old stuff for you to play on your Wii.

This week features the highly overrated Donkey Kong Country, where you get to maneuver plastic simians of varying size and shape around a plastic world, collecting plastic bananas. The series always struck me as slightly creepy...if 2D had an uncanny valley, this was probably it.

Then there's the 1-2 rhyming punch of Streets of Rage (Genesis) and The Legend of Kage (NES). The first is one of the classic side-scrolling beat-em ups, and the second is game starring a ninja desperately in need of pants on a quest to save a princess from some evil. Darn that evil.

Finally we have New Adventure Island (TG16), the fourth Adventure Island game which plays almost exactly like every other game in the series, only this one is much more...Turbo-Grafxy.

There you have it, four old games made new by the magic of having to pay for them again!

via kotaku