Metal Marines, Ninja Gaiden II, Gate of Thunder on Virtual Console

That looks crap-your-pants hard!

I remember Gamepro devoting a full spread to loving on this game when it came out, and me wishing I had several hundred dollars so I could get a CD-Duo to play it on. Definitely going to try out when I get home later.

Yes.

Yes... its my favorite Ninja Gaiden game... but I want to try the DS version... hope they do a good work with the controls, ala Zelda Phantom Hourglass.

Uh, Gates of Thunder was one of the best Shooters to come out in 1993.

This game is better than 80% of the crap that gets released on the Virtual Console.

I think the point he was trying to make was that we NEED more Castlevania.

yes, but next to Rondo of Blood, everything is crap. Especially on TG-16.

Rondo is too big.. esp. if they take the CD image... notice they never confirmed TG-CD games.. just the non-CD games.. same with sega and neogeo.

Too bad Wii is gimped with 512mb of built in memory.. you can get a 512mb usn thumbstick for $5 nowadays.

For once I actually agree with Konny - the Wii needs a bigger HD.

The Wii does need more storage space, but Konny is still an idiot because they've announced TG-16 CD games with the full soundtrack (most TG-CD games used the CD portion for audio only). With todays compression techniques they can get the image down to less than 50 meg

Still spacey for the Wii's internal memory, but not so large as to make it impossible, nor impractical.

Symphony of the Night is under 150 MB on the 360. Rondo of Blood is NO WHERE near that size. I think you could fit 10 Rondo of Bloods on the Wii's internal memory

How in the holy hell would they do Virtual Boy games!?

LOL

My guess: You are less than 20 year old and never played the original NES. Newbie.

Seeing as this predates the the first Xbox game by a good 14 years, I'm calling THIS the REAL Ninja Gaiden II.

Wow, Konny. You're really settin' a record for saying stupid things today, aren't you?

Compression. Duh.

Wow, thanks Mega, you really helped me out. Let's try this again. Considering even compression could take 5-10% of the total Wii system memory, anyone actually downloaded this thing yet?

The only thing taking up a lot of space on the CD is the audio. Compression techniques these days can reduce the size of a full 70-minute CD (roughly 700 MB) to about 50 MB or less.

I really don't see many Turbo Duo games being all too large. I doubt they'll ever be as large as a big N64 title.

I still have copies of the Windows version too. A friend of mine and I used to have some intense matches to the point where I would freak out nearly anytime a missile came out from the other window. Good times!

Not sure how the SNES version compares, but at least the PC one was pure gold.

Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!

I'm sick of Sonic & Knuckles lock-on. Sonic 3 is an average game. Sonic & Knuckles is an average game. Put 'em back to back and all of a sudden you have liquid gold? I don't think so.

megaStryke is just sad because he could never beat S3&K, or get a single chaos emerald.

S3&K is epic, and cannot be dismissed as easily as you have just tried.

I've mastered all the Genesis games, and I feel justified in crowning Sonic 2 as the franchise's magnum opus. Sonic 3 was bigger but lacked the heart. Sonic & Knuckles was bland until you locked it onto Sonic 3. Sonic 3 & Knuckles is BIG, I'll give you that, and it offered plenty more than either individual game, but Sonic 2 was the true labor of love. Sonic 2 is to Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles as Mega Man 2 is to Mega Man 3.

Megastryke: I find it odd that you favor MM2 over MM3, as MM2 was significantly easier/shorter IMO, while 3 wasn't revolutionary either I prefer it to MM2.

I do agree with you about Soinc 2 being better than S3+K.

Mega Man 2 set the standard for all future Mega Man titles. Sure, there was that ONE game that came before it, but most conventions began with the sequel. There is also that "almost never was" history behind Mega Man 2. The original didn't sell well, but Capcom decided to give Keiji Inafune one last shot. Inafune used every ounce of his creativity to craft the Mega Man he really wanted. In fact, you can probably find an interview or two where he admits that Mega Man 2 is his personal favorite entry in the series. It shows. It was a labor of love. We were introduced to the best music in the series and some of the best weapons as well (Metal Blades).

Mega Man 3 was a fantastic follow-up. It gave us more of what we wanted. Of course, at this point Inafune was golden, so this iteration wasn't leaps and bounds over its predecessor.

As for Mega Man 3 being harder? I beg to differ. Two reasons (among many) off the top of my head: 1) Quick Man. Everything about him. His level. The fight. Unless you had the Time Stopper, you had to be a master of quick reflexes before even attempting his domain. 2) The boss of Wily level 4. The security room with the wall-mounted laser eyes. You were screwed if you wasted even ONE Crash Bomb.

I prefer Sonic 3 & Knuckles

but Knuckles is the whole reason for that, Hyper Knuckles is awesome, and although Sonic 2 was great, i have never been very kindly disposed to Tails (but remember, i only discovered Sonic in the Dreamcast era, and fell in love with the cool Knuckles while turned off by that idiot Tails)