You may recall the original Super Star Soldier—you know, that top-down ship shooter game that had you curled up and crying in the corner for days thanks to its asinine level of difficulty? Well, the original has been available as a Virtual Console download for some time now, and even though 97% of the world has not completed the game in spite of its relative age, developer Hudson Soft has seen fit to update the franchise with a quick pick-up-and-play version available only through Nintendo’s brand-new WiiWare games download service.

Bomberman has definitely received the short end of the videogame mascot stick.  Yeah, he's been around since the 80's, but he's never been able to compete with Mario, or (even with his recent crapfest) Sonic.  Despite climaxing nearly ten years ago in Saturn Bomberman, the core multiplayer battle gameplay is still the best and most fun place to commit dastardly acts of sabotage upon your fellow man.  In a perfect world, Hudson could just use the MiB memory eraser thing on the general populace and repackage Bomberman every couple of years.  Instead, they keep taking their beloved mascot in frightening new, and often unwanted, directions.  From the sort-of-fun adventure titles on Nintendo consoles to the abomination (Act Zero) on XBOX, Bomberman's non-battle mode exploits are rarely anything worth remembering.  The classic mode is usually shoehorned in somewhere, but it's clear that Hudson is looking for a winning formula when it comes to their always average franchise.  Bomberman Land, the second PSP effort in as many years, is their latest effort it doing so.