Gamers who download Wave Race 64, the 1996-vintage N64 jet ski racing game that hit the Wii's Virtual Console download service this morning, might be shocked to find something not-so-retro in the $10 game.
Banners for the Wii and Nintendo DS Lite systems are hung up all over the game's race tracks. The reasoning is clear, if you've played the original game: the banners used to be ads for Kawasaki jet skis. Rather than renew a 10-year-old advertising deal, Nintendo swapped it out with very anachronistic replacements. Sure, they could have added generic Nintendo 64 logos, but why waste precious marketing opportunities?