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300th game lands on Virtual Console

Something to celebrate?
This week marks the 300th game released on Virtual Console. So what's Nintendo got in store for such an occasion?

Not much by the looks of it as this week's Hanabi Festival games are Smash Table Tennis and Musha.

Smash Table Tennis (600 Points) was released in 1987 for the NES. It was originally released by Konami as Smash Ping Pong in the arcades in 1985 but when Nintendo published the NES version they gave it a different name and put Donkey Kong Jr in the crowd. The press release says that you can play the full range of shots including a smash, forehand, backhand and lob as you attempt to beat your opponent in a best of three match. We'd like to know how you lob someone in table tennis.

Next up is Musha (900 Points), a Sega Mega Drive vertical shoot 'em up that was released in the US and Japan in 1990. Playing as Terri, a girl who pilots a M.U.S.H.A. (Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armour), your goal is to eliminate Dire 51, an Intellicomputer that has gone out of control and is planning an attack upon humanity. You'll have special weapons like the Vanishing Buster, Blazing Beam and Defensive Detonator at your disposal as you fly through seven levels.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Dark Lord (1,000 points) is this week's sole WiiWare release. The sequel to My Life As A King is another strategy game but this time you'll be playing as an evil daughter of a Dark Lord who installs traps and uses monsters to defend her tower against waves of invading adventurers.

Finally there's A Little Bit Of Puzzle League (500 Points) for DSi. It's a block puzzler which has you connecting blocks of the same colour to clear them from the screen in order to prevent your stack from becoming too high. There are four single player modes to choose from: Endless (survive to earn a top score), Clear (eliminate all blocks above the line), Score Attack (score as high as possible in two minutes), and Vs. COM (use items and combos to attack a computer opponent).

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Posted by dannybuoy
95% trash *pulls up flame suit hood*
Posted by altitude2k
You scum! Don't be so f**king retarded! Everyone knows it's at least 98% crap!

:wink:
Posted by davidc
...great, more games no one's ever heard of. Where's all the arcade stuff promised??..space harrier is cool but thats it.....where's outrun, enduro racer, super hang on, powerdrift, nemesis, shinobi, afterburner, smash tv, virtua fighter, virtua racing, final fight, killer instinct...any more????
Posted by Nomad0404
The problem I have with the VC but more with Wii Ware is you can not try any of the games before you buy them unlike XBLA!!!

Nintendo when it comes to letting people demo games on their consoles are in the dark ages!!
Posted by leefear1
I agree completely. I love Wiiware and vc but there are some games I would love to try out first. In fact I may well have bought more than I have already if I could have tried some of them out. How hard can it be to offer demos that unlock once paid for like live does?
Posted by metallicorphan
gotta say i loved FF;My life as a King so i would definitely get FF:my life as a darklord...however,the Wii hasnt been switched on since yesteryear,so i doubt i would ever get round to it
Posted by JuiKuen
But when are we getting Super Mario Kart???
Posted by PTG
"...great, more games no one's ever heard of."

Erm, thats the point. Its the Hanibi festival which features games never released in the UK.
Posted by ricflair
I'm more interested in Super Tennis. But SNES MK would be amazing.
Posted by davidc
PTG....i think thats part of the problem....un heard of games and no chance to try them out. They either need to supply demo's or more recognisable arcade hits / old skool classics
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