There's a new Nintendo Handheld Gaming News newsletter for this month, and inside I found a couple interesting games I hadn't heard about: Honeycomb Beat and Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits.
Honeycomb Beat is a puzzle game from Konami/Hudson Soft featuring "a cool fusion of music and addictive puzzle action" and presumably named for the hexagonal play units and Hudson Soft's bee logo. It seems to be like some of those non-video puzzle games of yore, flipping sets of colored blocks until all the colors match, but presented for today's synaesthetic post-Lumines world. Judging from the mixed reviews it's definitely a budget-quality title for your $20, but sounds like a decent title for puzzle fans. Probably not something I'd pick up personally.
Also from Konami (coincidence?), Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits certainly fits the title, bringing Contra, Gradius, Track & Field, and twelve other Konami "arcade classics" to the DS. The most interesting features to me are wireless LAN multiplayer for the two-player games and "Jukebox Mode" if you want the classic arcade music without having to play the actual games. I mostly missed this era, but I'm sure $30 is totally worth it for some of you out there.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have more Mario 64 on the Wii to play. I already finished Mario Sunshine again and I gotta keep those mad skillz up for Galaxy...
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