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JP Wii Virtual Console: 01/29/08: Screw the Witty Title, Japan Got Phantasy Star II

January 29, 2008 in News comments 5

Not going along with the rest of the crowd, Japan gets a welcoming four games added to its Virtual Console this week, highlighted by a classic.

This classic is Phantasy Star II, the second game in the vaunted Phantasy Star series. Having wanted to play this, I personally cannot add much, other than the couple hours I did play it, I had fun.

However, that isn't the only game joining the ranks of the Japanese Virtual Console this week. There's also Mappy, an arcade game featuring the titular mouse retrieving stolen goods, that was ported to the Famicom. Fans of the shoot 'em up genre will recognize Super R-Type for the Super Famicom. Last, but not least, is the PC Engine CD game, Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly Paradise.

To recap:

  • FAM: Mappy, 1-2 Players, 500 Points
  • SFC: Super R-Type, 1 Player, 800 Points
  • SMD: Phantasy Star II, 1 Player, 700 Points
  • PCE: CD Denjin: Rockabilly no Tengoku (Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly Paradise), 1 Player, 800 Points) - CD Game

    Keep track of the latest VC releases in the new 2008 edition of What's New on VC? in the Virtual Console forum.

    Sometimes, we can't help but compare the Japanese Virtual Console releases to the American ones. In some cases, they're about equal in quantity (which, lately, means low). Not this week. In the U.S. we got one game. Japan? Four. And one of them is Phantasy Star II. We desperately wish that we could say this marks a return to 2007-level release density, but we really can't predict that. Next Monday and Tuesday could roll around and drop one game on us again. Let's just try to be optimistic!

    Anyway, Phantasy Star II is really awesome. It's a beautiful futuristic RPG that is totally worth eight bucks (if you don't have a PS2). It makes us sad that Sega isn't really doing much in the way of RPGs these days.

    We certainly wouldn't mind seeing Super R-Type, either.

  • Mappy (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
  • Super R-Type (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
  • Phantasy Star II (Mega Drive, 1 player, 700 Wii Points)
  • CD Denjin: Rockabilly no Tengoku (Air Zonk: Rockabilly Paradise) (PC Engine CD-ROM,
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    • 0
      m xdogz Jan 30, 08
      Virtual console + phantasy = fun for me
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      Jaw Knee Jan 30, 08
      Lucky Japanese bastards. Our day will come, fellow North Americans...
    • 0
      The New Era Jan 30, 08
      Is it just me or those Japanese mother*bleep*ers get every good thing we "others" don't
    • 0
      Rinkydink* Jan 31, 08
      Wow, so Japan get Brawl and a fantastic classic game within the same week.. lucky bastards. Still hating the amount of time I have to wait for Brawl too..

      *Flies to Japan*
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      Remino52 Jan 31, 08
      PSO is fun as balls.I can wait to get it.

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