I don’t know what you’ve been doing this past week, but I’ve been spending it trying to put a PC together. Well, I say week, it was more like a month if you take into account the time spent previously sending bits back, convinced that one thing after another wasn’t working. After a lot of head scratching frustration, I’m sure you’ll appreciate the irony of the situation when I tell you what somebody told me it might be the very first time I look into it turned out to be what it was: bad memory. Or rather, memory that only worked once you’d fixed it on the PC. Which, if you’ll remember, didn’t work. Unless you had the right memory. Gngh.

One different memory stick later and, thank the Gods, it worked! And then Vista wouldn’t install. But that’s another story. And another couple of days.

Now, I could be saying all of this as a part of an entertaining segue in which I remark at how you don’t get this sort of trouble as far as the Wii is concerned. Downloading a Virtual Console game is like a cold strawberry ice cream on a hot day compared to what I went through. But, really, I’m only saying it to fill up space for yet another one game week on the Virtual Console.

It’s Yoshi’s Cookie (500 Points) this time, a puzzle game for the NES, from Bullet Proof Software (now Blue Planet, the folks who brought Tetris to Nintendo. That would have been enough for anyone, but they also brought us the less well-known follow-up Hatris (match hats to score points), as well as Black Onyx, the game responsible for the future direction of the JRPG for the next few decades. It was their fault! Let’s get ‘em!

You’ve probably already guessed that Yoshi’s Cookie involves matching things to clear lines, in this case biscuits - Jammie Dodgers and Battenberg looking fellas mainly. As ever, it’s addictive in that way that these games are. Yet this is just another puzzle game, which presumably only has Yoshi’s name attached both to sell money and because Mario was too busy whoring his out to some other second rate game (he still manages to make an appearance in this one, though). A curiosity, but its similarities to other puzzle games of this type, hardly make this an essential purchase. Now what happened to those C64 titles, eh?

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm by James Lyon
Misc news, Virtual Console.