Holy Double Retro Round-Up, Batman!

Delighted to note that Jeremy Parish has returned with a double-sized Retro Round-Up over at 1UP, enumerating and dissecting the various Wii, Xbox 360, and various other retro console offerings made over the past fortnight or so.
Many bonus points for one of the most succinct, lyrical descriptions of Actraiser I’ve seen in a while, recommending it for Wii VC along the way: “Genuinely inventive video games are hard to come by — and apparently they’re a hard sell, too, seeing as Enix’s ActRaiser never really got a true sequel. It was such a simple idea, too: take the nascent “god sim” genre, a la SimCity, make it fast-paced and action-packed (shooting down monsters who try to capture your villagers), and then bookend each chapter of the game with a Rastan-like platformer.”
Parish also makes a good point (referencing Actraiser) on Square Enix’s alleged Virtual Console recalcitrancy: “Hopefully this is an […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back