Wii-kly Virtual Console Update: 04/07/08
This weeks virtual console line up brings us another exciting Nintendo puzzler, Yoshi's Cookie and a sports title, Bases Loaded. Descriptions of each game resides below along with the number of points they will set you back. Anyone going to be crunching some cookies or stealing home this week?
Yoshi's Cookie (NES®, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): Take one part puzzle game, combine with intuitive game play, add a pinch of multiplayer action and top with a layer of everyone's favorite dinosaur. Mix together and let set for roughly 100 stages' worth of time. If that sounds like a winning recipe to you, then step into the kitchen and get ready for a batch of fast-paced puzzle action. Hunker down to move rows and columns of randomly placed cookies in an effort to align all the cookies of the same type. Successfully assemble a row or column to make the line disappear, then move to a new one. If you're good enough, you may even be able to make a Yoshi cookie appear! Feel like taking on a friend? Fire up the two-player mode, where you can attack your opponent while competing to match as many cookies as possible. Be careful, though--if your timing is off, you could end up attacking yourself. Who knew dinosaurs had such a weakness for puzzle games and sweets?
Bases Loaded (NES, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): Bases Loaded is a baseball game with an arcade feel and plenty of options from which players can choose. Select one of 12 teams, set your lineup from the 30 players available (each with different strengths), then play a single game or try to win the pennant. During game play, the screen shows two different viewpoints: one from behind home plate as you're batting, and the other from the pitching mound in a television-style shot (unique for its time) as your team plays in the field. Strong play control and excellent graphics add to the excitement as you decide what pitch to throw (you can even try to provoke the opposing batter into charging the mound), control all positions on the field, or do your best to get a hit. So step to the plate and find out why this is one of the most popular baseball games on the NES. Can you pull through in the clutch?
Fruit Brute
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 7 April 2008
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Name: Dave
Yoshi's Cookie has been on my VC wishlist for a while. I think the game ages pretty well because of the basic design and amount of content. It also kinda helps that this was made on the tail end of the NES's lifespan, so it's one of the better looking puzzle games for the platform.
Yoshi's Cookie is definitely much better than the other Yoshi puzzle game. But still.... pretty dull offerings.
I've been waiting for Yoshi's Cookie, but why wouldn't they release the SNES version? That was the one I played endlessly, and it looks better, obviously, plus they'd make more on it.