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Gamertell Review: Retro Game Challenge for DS

If you are old enough to remember the excitement of each and every new NES game being released, no matter how insignificant, then Retro Game Challenge will certainly be a positively nostalgic experience for you.

Comprised of faux Famicom games, Retro Game features a crazed, Max Headroom-esque game master who tasks you with several silly challenges for each game as you thumb through humorously era-appropriate fan mags. It’s silly, it’s appropriately nostalgic and enticing enough to keep even current gen gamers interested.

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Retro Game Challenge release creeps closer

The release date for Retro Game Challenge is getting closer, and soon, on February 10, 2009, we’ll all be able to enjoy classic video games that never really existed on our DSes. In a way, it’s a bit of a blessing that the US is seeing Retro Game Challenge at all, since its based on the Japanese tv series Game Center CX. Luckily, Xseed knows a good game when it sees it.

The game has you playing “classic” Nintendo style games, all specifically created for Retro Game Challenge. There are action, racing, shooting games included, and even a full RPG. The main story of the game has you meeting certain challenges in each game, but you can also just play the full games for fun.

To get people hyped up, a new trailer has been released…

Marvelous and XSeed bring us Retro Game Challenge

A while back in Japan, a truly awesome DS game was released. It was called Game Center CX, and was inspired by a Japanese tv show of the same name. It involved fake NES (Famicom) games that players would have to reach certain goals in. After you achieved those goals, you could play full versions of those games, or read in-game magazines to find secrets about those games.

Now, Marvelous and Entertainment and XSEED have announced that they will be bringing this intriguing game to the DS as Retro Game Challenge It will be in stores before the end of 2008. So this holiday season, you’ll be able to play a bunch of great, retro games that never really existed. Among the games are shoot’em ups, an RPG, action games and a racing game.