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JP Wii Virtual Console: 01/15/08: Doing Some 1080s with Wonder Boy

Akira_EX | January 16, 2008 | News | Wii 
Japan gets a three-game update this week, consisting of Famicom, Mega Drive, and Nintendo 64 games. One is more thematic with the cold weather most of us are getting, and the other two are thematically related to each other.

The cold game is the Nintendo 64 game 1080 Snowboarding, one of the few Snowboarding games on the N64 that was fun to play, and a game that I have good memories of. It's a game I would consider getting once (if?) it reaches stateside.

The other two games are a part of that large and convoluted Adventure Island/Wonder Boy series. One of the games is the Famicom version of the first Adventure Island, also known as Hudson's Adventure Island. The other game is the slightly-related Monster World IV, for the Sega Mega Drive.

To recap:
  • FAM: Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima (Hudson's Adventure Island), 1 Player, 500 Points
  • N64: 1080 Snowboarding, 1-2 Players, 1000 Points
  • SMD: Monster World IV, 1 Player, 600 Points

    Keep track of the latest VC releases in the new 2008 edition of What's New on VC? in the Virtual Console forum.
  • This week brings another rare (not Rare) Nintendo 64 release, and a seasonally appropriate one at that. 1080 Snowboarding is making its appearance on the Virtual Console for the first time. When it hits the American download service, we look forward to playing it and pretending it's cold outside. Until then, we can just look at screenshots and pretend we're playing it and pretending it's cold outside.

    The other two releases are distant cousins. Adventure Island is a remake of Westone's original Wonder Boy game with a different protagonist (which, of course, spun off into its own series), and Monster World IV is part of a Wonder Boy spinoff series. It's ... a lot more confusing when they release two of them at a time like this. We're all familiar with Adventure Island, at least.

  • Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima (Hudson's Adventure Island) (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
  • 1080 Snowboarding (Nintendo 64, 1-2 players, 1000 Wii Points)
  • Monster World IV (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)

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      Remino52 | January 17, 2008
      Snow boarding would be cool.

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