Wii virtually love retro!

Written By Seph Stampede 649 days ago
News Category: Console News
Relevant Consoles: : Wii

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Less than 24 hours since the release of Nintendo's Wii, gamers can already treat themselves to its exclusive Virtual Console.

Already, gamers can purchase Wii Points and download some of their favourite retro games from older Nintendo system, not to mention the Sega Genesis and the TurboGrafx-16.

While the games are faithful and virtually unchanged re-creations of the originals, there are a few new perks. The Wii will save the player's progress whenever the game is exited, allowing one to resume play from the very point it was left at.

As a little bonus for Nintendo fans, during game download the player will see a Mario and Luigi themed progress bar, displaying the plumbers hitting coin blocks and collecting coins.

Nintendo announced last month a list of games to be released for the Virtual Console by the end of the year. Games currently available are in bold.

NES
Mario Bros
The Legend of Zelda
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Ice Hockey
Pinball
Soccer
Tennis
Urban Champion
Wario's Woods
Baseball
Solomon's Key

SNES
F-Zero
Sim City

NINTENDO 64
Super Mario 64

SEGA GENESIS
Sonic the Hedgehog
Altered Beast
Golden Axe
Columns
Ecco the Dolphin
Gunstar Heroes
Space Harrier II
Toe Jam & Earl
Ristar
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

TurboGrafx-16
Bonk's Adventure
Super Star Soldier
Victory Run
Bomberman '93
Dungeon Explorer

Be sure to check in for more news and Virtual Console updates.


Tags : console launch : downloads : Nintendo : retro : virtual console : Wii

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Comments

By: Dragonfly On: 12:21 Nov 19th, 2006 Offline	Ignoring the fact that I could just as easily download the ROMs for most of this games and attach a controller to my PC, this is still a sweet selection of games. Gunstar Hereos is one of my fondest gaming memories from my youth, and it's intrigueing to see that the game has made it on to this list. The same goes for Toe Jam & Earl, which is as big a cult classic as you can get on the European gaming culture. It's obvious they're holding back on some of the biggest stuff... my heart is going to ache until the day Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask goes up on the Virtual Console...
By: Corrine On: 06:24 Nov 19th, 2006 Offline	I don't want to play any of these games, because I've played most of them over and over. What's with the conceptual brilliance of the Wii and the boring games to go with it? I don't understand how you can spend money to play the same games.... it just doesn't make sense.
By: Somasu On: 09:55 Nov 19th, 2006 Offline	Claudia;8223 I don't want to play any of these games, because I've played most of them over and over. What's with the conceptual brilliance of the Wii and the boring games to go with it? I don't understand how you can spend money to play the same games.... it just doesn't make sense. Well, not all people have a working NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. And some people might just have been unlucky enough to not have gotten certain games. Now with this, it allows us a chance to get some of those games again, and not have to worry about a cartridge. And the VC collection is looking great =) I can't wait to get my hands (or memory) on some more.
By: The Devil You Don't On: 03:18 Nov 20th, 2006 Offline	"Already, gamers can purchase Wii Points and download some of their favourite retro games from older Nintendo system, not to mention the Sega Genesis and the TurboGrafx-16" Purchase as in pay good hard earned money for nintendo's "Free" access to there classic libary of games.
By: Seph Stampede On: 03:25 Nov 20th, 2006 Offline	The Devil You Don't;8277 "Already, gamers can purchase Wii Points and download some of their favourite retro games from older Nintendo system, not to mention the Sega Genesis and the TurboGrafx-16" Purchase as in pay good hard earned money for nintendo's "Free" access to there classic libary of games. It's not like they're asking for a week's wages. The games are cheap as hell.
By: Somasu On: 03:40 Nov 20th, 2006 Offline	Exactly. And you're only paying for each game once. And if your Wii breaks and you buy a new one, Nintendo will be able to give your downloaded games back, free. Besides, I figured the games would cost something. The only thing I know will be free is the online games.
By: Pedro The Hutt On: 11:04 Nov 20th, 2006 Offline	The Devil You Don't;8277 Purchase as in pay good hard earned money for nintendo's "Free" access to there classic libary of games. Nintendo never made any allegations that the Virtual Console games would be free. And heck, for €/$5 per NES, 8 per SNES/Mega Drive/TurboGFX and 10 per N64 game it's not exactly that they're ripping you off, if I want to go out and get oh, the Ocarina of Time today I'll easily have to pay €30 for it, thanks to the Virtual Console I could get it for a third of that price. Sounds like a solid deal to me. The only free thing that they promised is that their online service would be free, as in, unlike X-Box Live you don't have to pay an annual fee for your online gaming kicks. And once you have the Opera browser (which will be a free dowload), surfing the net is also free. So don't try and make it sound like Nintendo is trying to make you go broke. o:

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