Nintendo Life writes: "Poor Alex Kidd. The pint-sized, big-eared wonder never really caught on as a mascot, although it was not through lack of trying on Sega's part. Alex appeared in a number of games featuring vastly different forms of gameplay and, with this last throw of the dice, Sega tried to pair the ailing character with one of their more successful franchises, in the (perhaps desperate) hope that something about the combination would catch the gaming public's attention. It is something of a shame that this last attempt also failed, because they very nearly got it right with Alex Kidd in Shinobi World."
Sam Hewitt of Level Complete looks back at Alex Kidd in Shinobi World on the Master System.
James Walker writes -
Throughout the history of gaming we have seen more than a few unique crossover titles. Battletoads & Double Dragon, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, Super Smash Bros, Street Fighter X Tekken… Tekken X Street Fighter. Okay, so not all of them are unique.
Here are some more crossovers I’d like to see. Feel free to suggest your own in the comments.
Entering its fifth calendar year of existence in the States, the Virtual Console seems to have evened out. It's locked into a pretty regular update schedule of one new game per week, and the bulk of these releases are good, if not great.
