Nintendo's next 3D Classic is...Urban Champion?
Creaky NES brawler up next on eShop
Nintendo's 3D Classics series is one of those things that's a nice idea in theory, slightly less so in practice.
So far we've had ExciteBike and Xevious, the former really looking its age but getting away with it thanks to its present price tag of zero pence - albeit only for one more day - and the latter also feeling a bit old hat.
The next game set to sully our rose-tinted memories will be side-scrolling beat-em-up Urban Champion, a game which has already appeared on the Wii's Virtual Console service.
The 1984 brawler hits the eShop in Japan a week today, priced at 600 yen. It adds a local two-player mode which requires both players to have downloaded the game.
As our screenshots show, the 3D effect is quite nifty, shifting the camera from a flat side-on view to what would in the past have been termed an isometric perspective but which isn't strictly isometric because isometric projection is a method for representing 3D objects in 2D and this is actually 3D and this sentence has gone on for far too long and we're all confused now.
No word yet of a western release, but Urban Champion was inexplicably popular in its day so we wouldn't be surprised to see an eShop release on these shores soon.
Andriasang