Retro Wrap-Up: Star Fox Edition 2

For those of you who don’t remember, I did a Retro Wrap-Up for the Star Fox franchise with almost every commercial that Nintendo of America has ever done. I say “almost” because there is one glaring omission that I completely neglected. Nintendo of America made a 10-minute VHS promotional video for Star Fox 64. It’s absolutely stupid and cheesy and I feel terrible for not mentioning it before. Thus, the Operation Rainfall Retro Commercial Research Team (in other words, me) shall present to you the video in all of its hilariously cheesy glory in this week’s Retro Wrap-Up.

Here are the highlights of this past week.

We list our Top 10 most wanted SNES games for the Virtual Console.

The Mighty No. 9 KickStarter blew past its online co-op stretch goal and continues to chug along, hopefully to its new PS Vita/3DS stretch goal.

Josh Speer reviews Rayman Legends for the Wii U, Steve Baltimore reviews Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, David Fernandes reviews Killer is Dead and Justin Guilou reviews Jumping Flash! for the PS1 in this week’s Retro Review. In addition, Josh Speer reviewed the Okami Official Complete Works and the MM25: Mega Man & Mega Man X Official Complete Works art books.

Jon, Jared and Randy decide to host a Legend of Zelda roundtable in this week’s installment of The Downpour Podcast, which will now be available every two weeks.

Not only has Valve announced a new operating system called SteamOS, but they also revealed a new controller for use with its various Steam machines.

Crystal Baltimore examines Vivi Ornitier from Final Fantasy IX in this week’s Building Character.

Atlus releases a new teaser website, possibly Persona related. What could they have up their sleeves?

Speaking of Persona, a new expansion of Persona 4: Arena called Persona 4: The Ultimate Ultra Suplex Hold has been revealed for a Japanese release sometime this winter.

In addition, both Atlus and Aksys have permanently dropped the price of some of their eShop titles, including Etrian Odyssey IV: The Legends of the Titan and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers.

Tyler Lubben takes a look at VIZ Media in this week’s Publisher Spotlight.

Nippon Ichi Software president Sohei Niikawa shows interest in trying to adapt some of its franchises into anime once again.

Jeff Neuenschwander takes a look back at stories in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise in this week’s Jeff Musings.

Hajime Isayama, the man responsible for Attack on Titan, stated that he’d like to finish the manga in 20 volumes.

Justin Graham takes a look at Kimaure Orange Road in this week’s Anime of the Past review.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has officially reached its KickStarter funding goal. To celebrate, WayForward has made the iOS version of Shantae: Risky’s Revenge free for a limited time.

Guy Rainey takes a look at River City Ransom: Underground in this week’s Crowdfunding Spotlight.

The RetroN 5 is officially set for release for December 10^th of this year.

Finally, there will be some changes coming to OpRainfall. Don’t panic! Everything’s going to be fine.