Virtual Console Christmas is Retrotastic

1up reports the good news that we're finally going to be seeing some of those great Virtual console games here in the U.S.. You know, the ones the Japanese have been enjoying since launch? Christmas day should see the release of Super Mario Bros, Toejam & Earl, R-Type (Turbografx 16), Street Figher II: The World Warrior, and Super Castlevania. The scintillating Baseball and Urban Champion will be making an appearance on New Year's Day. These last two dubious additions will put the Virtual Console lineup at 33 games.

Re:So I'm dim...

[sinclair44]

Wikipedia is your friend [wikipedia.org] (basically, it's a service where you can buy downloads of older games and play them on the Wii)

Re:dear nintendo...

[MysticOne]

1) Who cares? It's locked to your individual Wii anyway. So it's not like you can buy a VC game and then go play it elsewhere. It does suck that the games are different depending on the region, but it seems the game companies always do that.

2) I agree it would be cool, but they'd probably have to implement it in such a way so the whole VC realm of games uses friend codes. They probably just didn't feel it was important enough to include, and would rather people just play it with those sitting next to them.

3) Dunno why they didn't implement that. There's probably a reason, but I can't see that it'd be a good one.

4) I don't think they wanted to particularly modify the games. The N64 stuff probably doesn't remove the rumble functionality from the games, but the system just doesn't honor it. That's different. I've not played with any N64 games in the VC, though, so I may be mistaken.

5) I do think the pricing is a bit much. But, I don't think it's outrageous. Outrageous would be if all the retro games cost the same amount as the Wii games. But, my opinion is that it's reasonable, but a touch on the high priced side.

Re:Any "gifts"?

[barjam]

It is not a rumor, Madden already does this. Switch your weather type to Sys:(something or other).

Super Mario Bros.

[7Prime]

Wait, wasn't SMB one of the launch titles? I've seen it on the Wii Shop area every day since its launch! This isn't new.

And please... good times is when they finally release Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Mario 2 & 3, Mario World, Megaman. And some more obscure goodies like Gardian Legend, Kid Icarus, Karnov, and such. 90% of the games I've seen so far are either generic NES sports titles, or the same kinds of shit I could get for my iPod for a dollar.

And why are there 4x as many Genesis and TG16 games as SNES games? The SNES is OWNED by Nintendo, and it had more games, period. Something fishy is going on here. Seriously, I was more concerned, back when they talked about "fan favorites", that all they would have would be the big titles that everyone's already played, so I'm glad to see them jump on board with more obscure titles, but they haven't released very many large, and more lengthy titles yet. Give me my SNES epics... PLEASE! Stop giving me generic sports games, block puzzles, and arcade bullshit.