10-24-2006
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 We look at the future of past games on the Nintendo DS with this newly announced arcade collection from Konami.
From courtroom adventures to cooking sims, you can find just about any type of game on the Nintendo DS by now. But surprisingly, the seemingly ubiquitous retro games compilations that have appeared on just about every platform are nowhere to be found on the DS...yet. The first classic game compilation announced for US release is Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits, and we took a look at a couple of the titles in this collection to see how they hold up after all these years.
The Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits compilation includes more than a dozen games from the publisher's stable of arcade titles from the 1980s. The list of games isn't final yet, but the titles that have been confirmed are Circus Charlie, a side-scrolling platformer where you have to guide the hapless Charlie through six circus events such as the tightrope walk; Contra, the classic side-scrolling shooter that has you wielding a variety of guns as you mow down enemy soldiers and aliens; Gradius, the horizontally scrolling space shooter; Roc 'N Rope, a platformer that has you climbing across ropes and avoiding enemies to reach the top of the screen; Rush'n Attack, a side-scrolling shooter where you can use knives, guns, grenades, and more to dispatch dozens of enemy soldiers; Time Pilot, a scrolling shooter that has you blasting everything from biplanes to UFOs; Track and Field, the classic sports game that lets you compete in six Olympic events by furiously mashing buttons; and Yie-Ar Kung Fu, an early one-on-one fighting game. ...
Source: GameSpot
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