EU Wii Virtual Console: 03/21/08: Super Transformed Into Mega

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EU Wii Virtual Console: 03/21/08: Super Transformed Into Mega

March 21, 2008 in News comments

A few weeks ago, Europe got the Contra and Metroid bastardization, Super Turrican. Not really content to limiting themselves to just that, Europe gets another one of those games to their Virtual Console.

The game is Mega Turrican for the Sega Mega Drive, with the alternate title of Turrican 3. If you were a fan of Super Turrican, then Mega Turrican should be a treat.

Also of note, is that there's a Wii Shop Channel update that just preps the channel for WiiWare.

One-game recap:

SMD: Mega Turrican, 1 Player, 800 Points

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

Tomorrow's Good Friday in most of Europe - Last year, Nintendo of Europe updated the VC a few hours earlier than normal because of this. Not this year though, the update was at the regular time!

Super Turrican was only added 3 weeks ago - But now you can get the game that was originally released before it: Mega Turrican! This game's a bit more similar in feel to the original duo of games on Amiga and Commodore 64 (In fact, it was released on Amiga as well, as Turrican 3), but features some small additions and alterations to make it different enough to warrant a purchase if you liked the other games in the series.

It's just one game, but surely the new fans Turrican has gotten with Super Turrican will be all too eager to download this one too! Check out the review:

Mega Turrican - Mega Drive - 800 Wii Points

Note: There's also a new Wii Shop update available worldwide, which you'll have to download in order to access it again. This update does nothing useful for us, but readies the Shop for the upcoming WiiWare games.