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Indy Jones wiips his way to Virtual Console 16 Nov, 2009 / Comments: 19

By jp-30


As reported by Nintendo Life, the Wii's Virtual Console service now boasts Super Nintendo's "Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures" a side scrolling action game, not unlike the previously added Super Star Wars series.
[LucasArts] gave Factor 5, most well-known for their Turrican games on SNES and Mega Drive exclusive rights to develop a game based on all three movies in the Indiana Jones trilogy. We don't know what led them to this choice, but it was definitely the right one, as Indy's Greatest Adventures still live up to its name as one of his best action-based games.

Check Nintendo Life for their review of the game.

Also, as a side note, Wiiware in Europe / Australasia now has demos for some games, with US no doubt following close behind, so hopefully we'll see some Mojo-friendly titles being demoed on Wiiware in the future.

Source: Nintendo Life

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19 Comments

  • Melancholick on 18 Nov, 2009, 22:24…
    Have you guys happened to pick it up, yet? My buying impulse is based on the afternoon I spent playing it in what must have been middle school, and I'm wondering if the nostalgia for giant, Mode-7 enhanced boulders is worth ponying up the dough...
  • Udvarnoky on 18 Nov, 2009, 23:21…
    I'd say it holds up. I may write a review in the nearish future.
  • Melancholick on 19 Nov, 2009, 06:44…
    Awesome. I'd love to see that.
  • Capn_Nacho on 17 Nov, 2009, 04:38…
    JP, that headline is just a biiit of a stretch. Good try, though. :)
  • jp-30 on 17 Nov, 2009, 09:26…
    You can vote against it in 2 months time... :p
  • The Tingler on 17 Nov, 2009, 12:33…
    The sad thing is I think we used it before for Staff of Kings...
  • jp-30 on 17 Nov, 2009, 18:52…
    Mojo search and Google disagree.
  • The Tingler on 18 Nov, 2009, 08:13…
    Well, we've certainly used similar ones before, surely?
  • clone2727 on 18 Nov, 2009, 14:58…
    Of course!
  • neon_git on 17 Nov, 2009, 18:33…
    It makes me wiip.
  • Icebox on 17 Nov, 2009, 21:21…
    Personally, I think it is full of Wiin.
  • Capn_Nacho on 18 Nov, 2009, 02:22…
    You might want to try to... wiin off this kind of joke.

    That didn't quite work either, did it.
  • clone2727 on 17 Nov, 2009, 04:13…
    Still waiting for some of the later LucasArts console games... :P
  • The Tingler on 17 Nov, 2009, 12:35…
    I'm really hoping for the rare Indiana Jones Infernal Machine N64 edition!
  • clone2727 on 17 Nov, 2009, 13:49…
    I was hoping for that too, actually. Though, it's actually not that rare...
  • clone2727 on 17 Nov, 2009, 13:50…
    I was half asleep when posting this and didn't realize "actually" was in both sentences...
  • Udvarnoky on 16 Nov, 2009, 23:22…
    This is a quality platformer.
  • Udvarnoky on 17 Nov, 2009, 03:08…
    Or sidescroller, I should have said.
  • jp-30 on 17 Nov, 2009, 03:11…
    I wasn't sure what to call it myself!

    Sidescrolling Action Platformer seemed a bit verbose. I hope the nod to Super Star Wars will give people an idea of what to expect.