VC Tuesday: Party time! Excellent!

by JC Fletcher on Oct 14th 2008 8:55AM

How can the Wii have been in stores for two years without a Tetris game? At least Hudson is compensating for the lack of the staple video game with one that is both awesome-looking and cheap. It's being joined on WiiWare by a cheapo darts game and Brain Challenge -- which was actually pretty good on the DS.

On the Virtual Console, a super old sidescroller from Sunsoft that looks like a slowed-down, more awkward Legend of Kage, and a totally cute Taito classic!

Virtual Console releases:

Kanshakudama Nage Kantarou no Toukaidou Gojuusan Tsugi (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
The New Zealand Story (PC Engine, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)

WiiWare releases:

Darts Wii (1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Brain Challenge (1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Tetris Party (1-6 players, 1,200 Wii Points)

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Tags: brain-challenge, darts-wii, gameloft, hudson, kanshakudama-no-nage, sunsoft, taito, tetris-party, the-new-zealand-story, vctuesday

Reader Comments (5)

No Tetris for US yet??

Your lucky World of Goo is one of the greatest games in the world...Or I might actually be jealous :P

Yeah, I hunger for Tetris too, but I'm not sure "cheap" is the word I would apply, as $12 is a bit steep for...well...Tetris...that I had on my TI-85 a decade ago...

Multiplayer or new game modes aside, it's still Tetris. Is it really worth $12?

I'm really sick of the PC Engine/TurboGraphx pricing. They slap 800 points on any title worth owning, while most of the titles are usually billed as costing 600. It's annoying, because i kinda want to play some of these games, but it's just hard to lash out on a game i haven't heard much of when a SNES classic can be bought for the same price.

I hope this means that Tetris is coming next Monday for the US. Of course there are already soo many WiiWare games that have come out recently that I would like to get, that perhaps I can wait a little bit. This fall has really been a great period for WiiWare.