Normally we lead with our favourite game of the week but as the Sega Genesis choice isn't going to blow you away we'll lead with Square's King's Knight this week just because you know, um it was developed by Square. Think of it as a skeleton in Square's closet! This is no Final Fantasy it has to be said.
Here at the VC:R we admit we do have a bit of a soft spot for vertically scrolling shoot-em-ups but King's Knight really is a dismal example of our beloved genre. It is basically a very poor shooter with the obligatory spaceships replaced in favour of knights and wizards. If you don't find bottomless pit traps and near invisible bullets frustrating then this may be the game for you. We recommend that you give this a miss and hope that Square will give us what we really want from them on the VC!
Namco's Powerball on the Sega Genesis is slightly more interesting. It is basically a futuristic sports game which is like American Football, Rugby and Soccer combined. Whilst we do think that Speedball 2 did this sort of thing much better, it isn't on the Virtual Console (yet!) so this might interest some. It's not a bad game when played with a friend but the single player experience is likely to grow stale very quickly.
So another thrilling week at VC Towers! Oh well at least you have all those Easter eggs to cheer yourselves up don't you?
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
Debuting in Season 9, all players can try a beta of The Crew Motorfest’s new ambitious track creator, TrackForge.
