No need to be shy in here Birdorf - you should suggest a couple of games too. I'll add Megaman week next time I paste the schedule in.

It's nice when we choose a game that gets a lot of interest, but I'm happy enough plugging away with a handful of others. Even zero interest probably wouldn't stop me - I've probably completed more games in this thread than I have outside of it this generation, if that makes sense.

Just had a quick skim of the thread and fancy joining in, are the any links to emulators, roms, etc for the current games in the list?

Yoshi's Story is all about finding a certain type of fruit. The honeydew melons are worth the most and you can complete every level just by finding and eating that particular fruit. This is of course quite tough to do. Levels are circular - you keep performing laps around a level until you collect 30 fruits. There are warps that can be used for jumping to particular sections so minimising backtracking over sections that are picked clean.

The main thrust of the the game is to complete Story Mode several times so unlocking all 24 of the levels and then going for perfect scores in the Trial mode (which is essentially a score attack mode).

Yes - it is no Yoshi's Island - but it's no kid's game either - the toughest paths through the game are not to be sniffed at - and can only be unlocked by finding enough super happy fruit on a run through - which quite often are hidden at least as well as the tougher flowers in Yoshi's Island....there are also purple, black and white Yoshis hidden in the game.

It's isn't as good as the mighty SMB, SMW ,YI trilogy - but it isn't meant to be - but I would argue that it is classic Nintendo design with tougher gameplay unfolding out of a seemingly simple game. The cuteness is turned up to 11 and the initial simplicity is more apparent in this title and I guess that is what put people off.

It seems it's hard to actually state what a perfect score would be for a level - as scoring isn't based purely on fruit collecting.

Scanning a gamefaqs article - the scoring scheme in trial mode takes account of enemy colours - scoring more by consuming combos of enemies that are the same colour as your current yoshi - and you can change some enemy colours by ground pounding.

I have the cartridge and the VC version - but the cartridge version will have my scores - will post them to try and generate a bit of interest - always better to have a target - even if it is mediocre.

I'll probably spend the Virtual Console points I transferred over to my Wii U on this, assuming I have enough. Chances are I'll just play it to see the credits, despite knowing full well that's only half the picture.

Cheers davy, you've done a good summary there. It's all come back to me now.

moot you fancy giving it a good go tomorrow evening?

retroking1981 wrote:

moot you fancy giving it a good go tomorrow evening?

I could do Saturday afternoon/evening, but we've got Theresa's niece Thursday night this week.  Still on for gym and a quick curry after work though, if we can do it early enough.

@Moot_Geeza can't do Sat but not to worry, we'll fit it in next week sometime.

I'm up for some Mega Man, I recently complete the OG on the Wii U VC with the help of save states, I have II which most consider to be the best ready to go and have always been tempted with X on SNES. Is that one on the Wii VC yet?

kudos on your acknowledgement of said wiiware games, shame on the gaming world in general for their complete ignorance of them

Mr. Driller on Dreamcast is the only game, to my knowledge, that has given my girlfriend sleepless nights due to insane addiction.  I don't mean just because she was up playing it either; she was having nightmares about playing it when she wasn't, and made a conscious decision to stop.  Bejeweled Blitz and Microsoft Pinball are the only other games that I've ever seen consume her, but apparently Klax addiction was a bit of a problem when she was a kid.

Star Soldier R was another oldie that got the Wiiware treatment. It was around the time these games came out I gave up trying to tell people about games on Nintendo platforms.

Its a real shame none of them sold because instead of getting more of the like on Wii U Konami have completely given up, they don't even support the VC on it.

I admit I never got round to buying Castlevania/Contra on Wii Ware, although I always intended to. I think I just gave up on the whole Wii shop thing after a while and couldn't be bothered to get more points and buy stuff. Shame.

Should I add a specific Megaman game then?  Is a certain one considered the best in the series, or would we prefer another choose your own week?  Actraiser isn't particularly long, so I could slot it in during the second week I had scheduled for that perhaps (16th Sept), otherwise it'll have to wait until January 2014.

Yeah choose you own week but I wouldn't cut Actraiser short for it, that's quite a deep and involving game, 2 weeks would probably be best for that.

@regmcfly What's wrong with the X series?

retroking1981 wrote:

Yeah choose you own week but I wouldn't cut Actraiser short for it, that's quite a deep and involving game, 2 weeks would probably be best for that.

Yeah, there are probably better candidates to cut short - like PC Kid 2 for example. Or GTA?