North American Virtual Console Update (03/03/08)
The Optimist’s perspective on this week’s VC release: “Super Turrican is great! The music is so awesome!”
The Pessimist’s perspective: “WTF Nintendo. Betrayal-aton-athon total. One game? Hell, I don’t even buy these games as I just emulate them on my hacked Xbox, but this is still pretty shitty, Nintendo. C’mon.”
The Indifferentist’s perspective: “I am neither offended nor pleased.”
Super Turrican (SNES; 800 points) - While a much loved game in its own right, Super Turrican is unfortunately the only release set for this week. If you’ve never played the game, it is sort of like Bionic Commando and Contra thrown together with impressive Mode 7 graphical effects. The game is generally seen as being pretty great, so that should help sooth the sting of it being your only choice this week. VC-Reviews gave this game a 5 out of 5, so if you’re even remotely interested, give it a shot.
And that is all she wrote. I’ll let the Indifferentist write the closing for this week: “see you next time, or not. I don’t care.”
- Rob O’Reilly
