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Download Services Have Missiles, Dolphins

Posted by Zonk on from the combine-both-for-maximum-fun dept.

This week both Nintendo and Microsoft's downloadable game services have some great titles to offer. The Wii will soon be playing host to Super Mario Bros. 2, Ecco: Tides of Time, and Dragon Spirit . Xbox Live Arcade, meanwhile, has up an update of Missile Command . This latest follows on the heels of Pac-Man: CE , a worthy and well-received updating of the arcade classic. Ars' comment about Ecco is dead on: "I used to love this game, just swimming around and doing those flips out of the water as Ecco was pretty calming. Then you tried to actually play the game and found out just how excruciatingly difficult it could be. While the Dreamcast update lost some of the magic, the original Ecco is still a neat twist on 2D games. Who knew that taking a platformer and setting it underwater would be so much fun?"

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  1. *smirks* by morari · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Missile Command is supposed to compete with Super Mario Bros. 2 and Ecco the Dolphin?! Sucks to be Xbox Arcade.

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    "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
  2. Step backward by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I got the original Super Mario 2 near release, bought Mario All Stars for SNES, the Mario 2 Advance for Game Boy (the latter both coming with some sort of enhancement)...

    And now they expect me to pay for the original game locked on a single console? No thanks. I was playing emulated mario 2 off 3 1/4 floppies when the Wii's great grandfather was still in diapers.