Data East Arcade Classics (Wii) Part 1

15 arcade games from Data East's history are collected in one very niely-done compilation. There's a good amount of solid games here to make it worth buying, especially if you're a fan of retro games. Plus, it's only $20!

In this part I give a basic idea of each game in the collection and my personal opinion on each.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Nintendo
• Wii
• Majesco
• Data East
• Arcade
• Classics
• colelction
• retro
• G-Mode
• G1M2
• review

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Too bad they didn't put Karnov in that collection.

[ringnikakero1]

@NinjaGhostScorpion Yeah, but G-mode doesn't have that title. Karnov is one of the few Data East games that Paon now owns. That doesn't mean that games that include Karnov aren't allowed to be released by G-mode, though.

[sidearmsalpha]

I wanted to get this just for Heavy Barrel. How does it control? Do you use a combination of the buttons on the classic controller to control the direction in which the characters shoot like Smash TV on the SNES?

[ringnikakero1]

@sidearmsalpha Heavy Barrel controls using the classic controller analog sticks, one for movement and the other for aiming, while using the shoulder buttons for firing and throwing grenades.

[GojiGuy]

you dont adjust the aspect ratio of your TV when you play 4:3 games?

[ringnikakero1]

@GojiGuy If you didn't notice already my screen is already adjusted for the Wii to fill the screen. It's just that most of those games, at least for me, stick to 4:3 when I play them. In fact, the only ones that actually play full screen are the NeoGeo games on the collection. I personally have no problem playing in 4:3, and will probably stick with that for my older systems from now on.

[DanZero77]

Also, were you able to customize the individual games, like set difficulty, lives, or continues in this collection? Many of them allow you to do that.

[DanZero77]

This is a REALLY good review video. I've seen lots of other review videos which were just really amateurish in quality, but you took the time to explain EVERYTHING, right down to the alternate titles of the games. I noticed in this collection that they used the International titles of the DE games here, where we'd know them by their American names. Also, I wasn't aware that G-Mode doesn't have ALL of the DE properties, so that's why games like Karnov or Windjammers don't show up here.

[darkzombieslayer11]

nice job on the video man=]

[sidearmsalpha]

@ringnikakero1 Thanks. That's going to take some getting used to as I'm not very good with that setup. I wish they would have stuck with using the D-pad for movement and button combinations for firing. I think that setup worked best for games like this. What do you think of the controls for it?

[GojiGuy]

@ringnikakero1 The whole collection is supposed to be 4:3. I know when I play older games on my HDTV they looked stretched unless I adjust the aspect ratio from Wide (16:9) to Normal (4:3). So the collection actually re-adjusts the aspect ratio for all but the Neo Geo titles? Weird.