Retro Gaming Australia

Fatal Fury was one of the early successful fighters that came out in the wake of Street Fighter II. In fact, it was actually designed by the creator of Street Fighter. The SNES version isn’t as good as the Neo Geo original, but it captures most of the spirit of the game.

Prince of Persia has been ported to just about everything. The NES version is decent, but probably not the best of the home console ports.

Did you know that there were two Ghostbusters II games for the NES – one by Activision and one by HAL Laboratory? HAL’s version was never released in North America due to Activision tying up exclusivity there. Neither was particularly well received.

Adventure Island II is the follow up to the successful Adventure Island, one of the games which really cemented Hudson Soft as a force to be reckoned with in the 80s and 90s. The second game features a much larger variety of dinosaur partners to ride on.

Big week for Nintendo stuff.

Resident Evil 2 (Nintendo 64)

Probotector 2: Return of Evil Forces (NES)

Lufia (SNES)

Secret of Evermore (SNES)

Super Metroid – Big Box (SNES)

Mario Party (Nintendo 64)

Probotector (Game Boy)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)

Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo (Nintendo 64)

Mario Party 4 & 5 (GameCube)

Mario Paint (SNES)

Xbox Ultimate Entertainment Pack

NES Control Deck

Super International Cricket Cricket Kit SNES Bundle

Final Fantasy X-2 is the first direct sequel in the series, taking place about 2 years after the events of Final Fantasy X. Some felt that the game’s J-Pop thematics and costume change mechanics were a bit too much of a departure for the series, but it remains popular with most fans.

Keeping it simple this week.

StarCraft 64 (N64)

Mario Tennis (N64)

Sega 32X

Killer Instinct + Watch (SNES)

Resident Evil 4 Collector's Edition (GameCube)

Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)

Soleil (Mega Drive)

Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive)

Kula World (PlayStation)

Halo Elite Force Xbox Bundle

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island is one of the most imaginative and well-executed games of all time. Its art style is utterly amazing. And yet this is the best the marketing department could do.

Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (or Sonic 3D Blast in North America) is an isometric Sonic game developed by Traveller’s Tales for the Mega Drive and Saturn in 1996. The Saturn version advertised here was a desperation effort by Sega to cover the gap left in their holiday lineup by the delay and later cancellation of the planned 3D Sonic game, Sonic Xtreme.

James Pond II: Codename RoboCod sees the piscine secret agent on a quest to save Santa and his elves from the evil Dr Maybe. Popular in its time on the micros and Mega Drive, RoboCod has become a bit of a mainstay of the bargain bin with stealth re-releases on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2.