Late Tuesday night Nintendo quietly informed CNET that the Wii would see a very healthy 62 titles in the first five weeks following the Nov. 19 launch. Thirty-two of those titles will be classic titles available via the Virtual Console, Nintendo said.
And, wouldn’t you know it, Cubed has some breaking news tonight regarding those Virtual Console titles (available in December 2006):
NES: Baseball, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Ice Hockey, Mario Bros., Pinball, Soccer, Solomon’s Key (Tecmo), Tennis, The Legend of Zelda, Urban Champion, Wario’s Woods.
SNES: Donkey Kong Country, F-Zero, SimCity
N64: Super Mario 64
SEGA MEGA DRIVE: Sonic the Hedgehog, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Columns, Gunstar Heroes, Ecco the Dolphin, Space Harrier II, Toe Jam & Earl, Ristar, Dr. Robotonik’s Mean Bean Machine
Turbografx (PC Engine): Bonk’s Adventure, Super Star Soldier, Victory Run, Bomberman’93, Dungeon Explorer
pretty starved for SNES and N64 especially… all around a little disappointing…
i must add… no megaman anywhere (thumbsdown)
COLUMNS!!!!!I love that game!
Hahahaha.Recycled games count huh?Well screw it. Why not add all of the Game Cube titles to the launch list?If thats the case then the PS3 will have the most insane number ever.
You guys know they are periodically adding titles to the VC right? I would have been very surprised to see all the most classic titles, like Earthbound, available right away. Of course Earthbound (and others) will be there eventually.
Oh, I must laugh! Yet again the internet is rife with outbursts like 'WTF, they didn't add all those Metroid remakes I promised myself, what a gay launch ninetndo sux!'I, on the other hand, count my blessings. Their names are Solomon's Key, Mario 64, Donkey Kong Country, F-Zero, GUNSTAR HEROES (probably Bozon's mystery title), and Bomberman '93. Let's see that's… too many Wii points!!!BTW, weren't the Earthbound games confirmed early on?
So…are people more interested in the VC games than Wii games?
VC games are a big thing with wii, it's what nintendo are using to entice old nintendo gamers back to them. nostalgia and all that. the games look alright to me. but japan get all their games like fire emblem… i really wanna play the old FE games so intelligent systems or whoever wants to do it had better localize that… also, street fighter 2?? why aint that in the US or more specifically EU. i was looking forward to getting super mario world straight away in EU too… >_
I'm counting my blessings too this morning. I, for one, do not own all 32 of the VC titles being offerred at launch, so I'm going to count them as launch titles.
One more thing. I'm actually happy there's no mega man, metal gear, metroid, super mario, street fighter, ghouls 'n ghosts, etc. at the VC launch. Those games have compiled to death already! No mega man? Well you can get mega man 1-8 with extras for a nickle and a dime, it's called Mega Man Anniversary Collection. Why on earth would you want to buy Mega Man on VC? I'd rather have a catalogue of games that are GOOD and difficult to come by, and have all the usual suspects stretched out over the coming months.
I'd rather have new content developed for the VC. In my mid 20's, I've already played these games on the original systems as a child, and on emulators over the past few years. As nifty as Mario is, I've beaten the games a dozen times, and see no need get them again. Bringing back old gamers is great, but the people buying the Wii are going to be people who want new games and new experiences; Super Mario Bros can be a nice little diversion you download for your sig other or parents. The Wii needs something that can generate sales to new customers like Geometry Wars, Uno, or some of those shit-hot PS3 "live arcade" games I've been reading about.
Something's not right here: why are people all of a sudden so excited about these old games when they've been shunning the GBA so much lately? All these games and many, many more are available on the GBA, in case you didn't have them. Just use the GameBoy Player on your old GameCube if you want to see them in a big widescreen! (That's what I do!)I would like to see old games on the VC that are NOT available on the GBA, like Vectorman!The most promising old-school offering I see, but it is NOT on the VC, is the Metal Slug Anthology, and only because it allows you to use the Wii-mote to play it…Now, if all of these VC games allow you to map the controls onto the Wii-mote, THEN I would probably almost understand the hoopla!
Here here, I-man. I played these games 15 years ago. In 2006, i wanna play something else. And new.Nintendo has you guys all figured out.