THE GLISTENING ECSTACY OF NAMCO’S WIIWARE MUSCLE MARCH

Videogames are brilliant, aren’t they? Namco brings a port of its original arcade game Muscle March to WiiWare in Japan on May 26th. The premise? If it’s not abundantly clear above: after a pro football player steals the all-important protein powder, it’s up to March‘s rippled stars to strike the pose of the wall-smasher in front of you to keep the march moving and bring the thief to justice.

The downside: there but for the grace of Namco do we ever see this leave Japan, and the various regions’ WiiWare channels are hard-locked to each piece of hardware. Namco, if anyone’s reading: of course we do want this. It worked for Katamari, right? And even partners-in-fitness Cho Aniki earned itself a Virtual Console release. Let’s see what we can do.

Muscle March [Namco, thanks to Kotaku for the original video]