Top Five: Virtual Console Games Most Wanted
We here at The Weekly Geek are a might frustrated at Nintendo's paltry Virtual Console offerings, and even though we know that they will never read this and take our advice, this week's Top Five List is a rundown of the Virtual Console games we want to see, or someone's gonna pay.
Frodo's Top Five:
5. Tricky Kick: This was an excellent Turbografx puzzle game, where you go through levels as different characters such as a fox or a schoolgirl, and you have to kick boxes toward a goal. It's seriously more fun than it sounds.
4. Goldeneye: This one is obvious. Pretty much the best FPS on any console period, Goldeneye defined the genre and revolutionized multiplayer gaming. Unfortunately this will never be released because of Nintendo and Rare's current anti-partnership. I'd love to see this online-enabled. Guess I just have to play Goldeneye Source.
3. Chrono Trigger: One of the best RPGs of all time, Chrono Trigger is a natural for the VC. We got a crappy version on the Playstation a couple of years ago, I'd like a good clean copy of this rare title to play whenever I want to, without having to sit through loading times.
2. Starfox 2: Nintendo has hinted that they may release a VC title that has a niche internet following, and I think this one is it. Starfox 2 was fully complete when Nintendo pulled out for whatever reason, so it's in the realm of possibility they'd try to get some money out of their investment.
1. Super Mario World/Mario All Stars SNES all in one cart: This was the ultimate cart, packed with so much Mario it boggles the mind. Not only did it include Super Mario World, but Super Mario All Stars, all in that teensy gray plastic box. This one most definitely won't be released, since Nintendo likes money, but a geek can dream.
Caspian's List:
5. Mutant League Football - Genesis: There's a normal sports game (i.e. Madden, NFL 2kWhatever, etc.) and then there's a game where you step out of bounds and into a black hole, you avoid being tackled only to fall into a lava pit, or you get penalized for "booger flicking." Greatest football game of all time? I THINK SO!!!
4. Super Empire Strikes Back - SNES: Until KOTOR 1 & 2, this Star Wars series was the most accurate, I think, in making you feel you were a Jedi. I very much liked the back and forth switches between movie characters and between vehicle and walking scenarios.
3. Secret of Evermore - SNES: I'm an admitted huge SNES gamer. That's what got me deep into gaming, and with the exception of Zelda and Final Fantasy, I think this RPG really captured my imagination (and a lot of my time). It'd be nice to relive some of the moments, and have it available for the new gamer generation to experience.
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES: Okay- so they've released the original Super Mario Bros. That's awesome! But... the one I really miss and would really appreciate from Nintendo is Mario 3. Frog and Raccoon Mario would really bring me back to a time when my smiles knew no bounds.
1. Golden Eye - N64: It's shameful to say, but this is the only FPS console game I've ever been good at. (I mean, I could tear it up on Area 51 in the arcades, but that doesn't really count) Oh, to have a multiplayer victim walk into a masterfully placed remote mine again. That would take the cake! And please Nintendo... ONLINE multiplayer would be fantastic with this. Would it kill ya to throw that in?
The Geek's List:
5. Renegade - NES: One of those little fighty brawly games on the NES that I always just loved for some reason. Kind of like a precursor to Final Fight and such games. It's a classic I never owned myself, but I would gladly shell out the 5 bucks for it on the VC.
4. Earthbound - SNES: This is one of those games that everybody loves but I just haven't ever gotten to really sit down and play it. Over the many years it's been out, I've tried several times to play it, either at a friend's house or just borrowing their game, but something always keeps distracting me. I think if I actually owned it and it was on my Wii, I could finally play this bad mamma jamma.
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Figher - SNES: I had to toss this one in the list because I remember just really loving this game back in the day, as it were. It was a pretty solid fighter with good 16 bit sprites and lots of characters to choose from.
2. Shining Force I & II - Genesis: I put these two together because I didn't wanna take up two spaces with them and it's my damn list so nyah. I loved, loved, loved the first two Shining force games and I've been half-heartedly trying to score them on eBay ever since I picked up my very own Genesis from there a few years back. They are a wonderful tactical RPG and probably why I loved Final Fantasy Tactics so much. The story is fun, though I can't remember if I ever fully beat either of them.
1. Super Mario RPG - SNES: One of the best RPGs of all time, Super Mario RPG is an amazing game. Taking the mythos of the Mario universe and expanding on it enough to create a full RPG storyline with towns and items and abilities and such was nothing short of brilliant. On top of that, the game was pretty and played very solid. This is another one I had to borrow from someone else but I never got through. I think the furthest I got was up to the point of going into that other world, but I could be imagining that. I have a mighty need to own and beat this game, even if it's only on the VC.
What say you?!