Nintendo Wii Virtual Console Will See Battle Lode Runner Monday

via NintendoRevolution.ca

When it comes to the Wii Virtual Console, you have to love Hudson. Not only are they providing quality TurboGrafx16 titles consistently, but they have no respect for keeping secrets.

While North American Nintendo Wii owners have to wait until Monday to find out what's going to be available, Hudson releases info on their TurboGrafx16 titles a couple of days early.

So having a peek on their website, Monday's offering will be the TG-16 title Battle Lode Runner. Up to 5 players will be able to fight it out in "Battle Mode", and the game will cost 600 points.

Details of BLR from Hudson:

PUZZLE MODE: A ladder will appear at the top of the screen after you acquire all of the gold bars in a stage. You can move on to the next stage by exiting the current stage using the ladder. In order to retrieve gold bars from enemies, have them drop into holes then grab the Gold.

If you select GIVE UP after falling into a hole, touching the enemy, or becoming trapped, you will lose one RUNNER. When you lose all your RUNNERs, it's GAME OVER.

BATTLE MODE: You can play with up to 5 players in BATTLE MODE. There are 3 categories of rules, each with its own conditions for winning. When there are less than 5 human players in SURVIVAL mode, the CPU will take control of the remaining characters.

SURVIVAL: The last remaining RUNNER wins.

ESCAPE: The first player to get the enemies' hidden
Gold, the Ladder and then escape, wins.

TAG MATCH: Players 1 and 3 and players 2 and 4 form two groups to do battle in SURVIVAL mode. One team wins when members of the opposite team have been completely eliminated.

SAVING: You can save the game at any time during PUZZLE MODE. Press and select SAVE. Choose FILE SELECT from the PUZZLE MODE start menu to continue your game. You can also continue by entering a password. Passwords appear after clearing each stage.