Nintendo today continued its push of old-school games onto its new-school console, with the NES classic Kid Icarus making an appearance on the Wii U Virtual Console. The single-player game is now available for download on the Wii U for $4.99. In Kid Icarus, the evil goddess Medusa has stolen the Three Sacred Treasures and imprisoned the goddess of light, Palutena, in her evil plot to control all. Gamers play as Pit, a young angel who has been entrusted with a magical bow and arrow and must fight against hordes of … [Read more...]