Yep, its that time once again to peer into the ol' VC Crystal Ball. First, lets see what happened last week. Looks like the Ball got 2 outta 3 again, as both China Warrior (TG16) and F-Zero X (N64) were released, but instead of Super Turrican for SNES, we got the surprise of SFII:Turbo Hyper Fighting. So, once again 2 for 3, and overall the Crystal Ball now stands at 4 outta 6, or, still at 67%. Well, 67% two weeks running isn't bad, but I'd like to see that number climb higher, that percentage get bigger, so with that in mind here's this weeks predictions;
TurboGrafx-16
Dragon Spirit - Namco
Sega Genesis
Ecco the Dolphin: The Tides of Time - Sega
NES
Super Mario Bros. 2 - Nintendo
Three big titles to predict, but I think its gonna be a big update this week. Its a long weekend in the States too, no? That leads me to believe that Nintendo is gonna let loose with some of the big name titles they have in reserve, waiting to be released, and aside from the Mario RPG/Paper Mario games and the Metroid/Super Metroid games, Nintendo's biggest title they have to release would be Super Mario Bros. 2, the cut-and-paste warping of Doki Doki Panic that was re-imagined into 'Mario Madness'.
I think the two RPG's would likely be released together, and with a N64 game just last week we're not gonna see Paper Mario anytime soon, so both of those were out to me. The Metroid games I think we'll see closer to Metroid Prime 3 being released, when we're in the middle of all the Metroid-hype, that seems like the perfect time to release those two. And I firmly believe that we will get an NES game this week, after the SNES & N64 treats last week, so the only NES title that really fills the blockbuster-bill for Nintendo is SMB2, I think. Plus, it was recently mentioned in Nintendo Power, which may be a tip of their hand a bit. Although, PilotWings would be a perfect fit, and I almost picked that, as what better game to release for July 4th weekend than a game in which you can fly over the 'entire' good ol' USA? But like I said, I think it'll be NES, not SNES this week. I would love to be wrong though.
The Turbo game is already known about, but is a big game in the fact it is from Namco, and I believe it is the 2nd game from them on the system (behind Splatterhouse), and Namco is a big name, so sure, that's a big game too. As far as Ecco goes though, this one was tough to finally choose on, as I was also thinking about Shining in the Darkness (recently ESRB-rated) or Vectorman, which has been ready to be released for, like, ever, and both are 'big' games, in that their both great games. But in the end, I chose Ecco because he is a well-known Sega name-character (Ecco 1 was on VC from day one!), and the only well-known Sega character they have ready to be released (if Sonic 3 had been ESRB-rated too, I'd have picked that for sure). I have a hunch this was a real long shot, but I feel 100% that there will be a Genesis game this week too (if not it'll be 2 NES games), like I said this one makes the most sense to me, big-name-game wise.
Last week was a surprise for SNES, as the other two were locks, to me at least, and were met with no surprise at all. I just knew a SNES game would release for sure, but I just kinda jumped on Super Turrican, as it was just esrb-rated (some games (3rd party) seem to come out shortly after they get a rating, well, sometimes anyways), and they rated both 1 & 2 at the same time, leading me to believe that they'd throw one out now, and leave the other languishing in the wings for a while, to see what interest in the 1st one was like, yada yada. But no, they threw out SFII:HF exactly 6 months after putting the original SF2 on VC on Christmas. Totally didn't think that would come out for another couple months, but oh well, I can't figure out what they're thinking all the time.
Wow, long post again just to say I think these 3 games will release in about 9 and a half hours or so, but its my blog so whatever! :) See you next week to see if that % improves, and I hope you all have a great Canada Day or July4th weekend (Canada Day here, eh).
-Kimo
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