Wave Race 64 On Wii Virtual Console
As mentioned last week, I’m now the owner of a Nintendo Wii and said that I’d be doing reviews on Wii Virtual Console games in comparison to the actual cartridge versions of the games.
Well today I’m reviewing Wave Race 64 on the Wii Virtual Console.
Back on March 5, 2008 I reviewed the Nintendo 64 version of Wave Race 64. The game is awesome, so I wanted to try it out on the Nintendo Wii VC.
The Virtual Console version of Wave Race 64 is pretty much exactly the same as the N64 version.
The visuals and game play are perfect, so I won’t be going into a full review again, however I did notice a few things different from the N64 version compared to the Wii version.
Apparently Nintendo did some small modifications to anything relating to Kawasaki. All the in-game Kawasaki banners have been removed and replaced with banners showing Wii and Nintendo DS advertisements instead.
I also noticed that the Jet Skis themselves have also been slightly modified and bear no Kawasaki logos. I’m thinking this was most likely done because of an expired licensing deal.
The funny thing is back in January of this year Kawasaki Jetski was released for the Wii, so it seems Nintendo is back into some sort of licensing deal with Kawasaki.
My personal thoughts on this is Nintendo should put the Kawasaki logos and banners back now and make it 100% like the original N64 version.
I’m sure Kawasaki wouldn’t mind getting a little more advertising love.
I wonder how many other games Nintendo will be doing this with as more Virtual Console games come out? Any thoughts?