Thursday, March 10, 2011

Online Multiplayer for Virtual Console

Check out this story.

For the franchise's 20th anniversary, Sega plans to release the original arcade version of Puyo-Puyo on the Virtual Console in Japan, complete with online multiplayer.

This is unprecedented. And a great development. Well, Nintendo never added something to any of their Virtual Console games, actually it's more common that features get removed or lost (like Rumble or Memory Pack features of Nintendo 64 games). But this example shows that it would be entirely possible to add something like online multiplayer to a Virtual Console game. And this is great news. Well, actually so far there was no need to do so. You could still play games like Mario Kart in multiplayer with your friends. But this is going to change with the introduction of the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console. There's no GameBoy connection possible with this system and a lot of GameBoy games would suffer from this development. For example you wouldn't be able to trade your Pokémons in the classic Pokémon Red and Blue editions, definitely a potential hit for the Virtual Console. So, Nintendo might be doing something about this. A possibility would be a simple wireless connection to emulate the GameBoy connection. But even greater would be online. And we all know, that there's one Zelda game, which would benefit immensely from such a development...



The least played Zelda game (not counting any spin-offs), Four Swords. I've been harping on and on about this topic, so I spare you the big talk. But this definitely would be a second (or for most people first) coming for this game.

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