After months of writing about painfully bad lineups on the “Virtual Console Round-Up,” the revamped monthly article “The Newest Oldies” has demonstrated that there are still plenty of good titles on the way for the Virtual Console. Meanwhile, PSOne Classics lags behind, and XBLA gives us the occasional gem. Let’s start with Virtual...

(This time with no images, because I think my clever writing trumps screen shots.) February had one classic-ish game on XBLA, three good ones on VC, and a ridiculous load of PSOne Classics (only one of which is worth talking about). Starting with the XBLA release, DARWINIA+ (released Feb. 11) is a repackaging of two games: DARWINIA and MULTIWINIA. We mentioned it on...

This monthly article used to be the “Virtual Console Round-Up.” But you and I both know that old games are being directly ported to all kinds of current-gen platforms. The Wii doesn’t exclusively hold all the good stuff. PSN, XBL, even iPhone / iPod touch has “new” releases of old stuff, including HD remakes of classic games. The point...