Donkey Kong! Mario! Sly! BlazBlue!
Don’t say you never get core releases on Wii because look, it’s Super Mario Bros.! Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 and 3, actually. They’re stuffed like chickens into Super Mario All-Stars, a boxset to celebrate 25 years of the portly plumber. There’s even a snazzy booklet to read while you reminisce. And Eurogamer wrote a Super Mario Bros. 3 retrospective at the weekend, so you know it’s good..
The old games don’t stop there: Donkey Kong Country returns this week in, er, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Sly Cooper has come back to life on PlayStation 3! More on those below.
Also of note: the fantastic Air Traffic Chaos under the name of Air Traffic Controller on DS. Simply keep those planes on schedule and not on top of each other or crashed into a tropical island beach. Questionable body scanning and frisking allowed, probably.