Cast your mind back to the January 23, 2013 edition of Nintendo Direct when we first saw GBA support for the Wii U Virtual Console, now over a year later the silence has ended. Europe and North America as well as Japan have received a launch lineup and date for the service. The odd thing is the release schedule differences between the territories. In Japan all the games have a simultaneous release while in Europe and North America a few games get released every Tuesday.
Here is the Japanese line up:
- Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
- WarioWare Inc
- Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
- F-Zero Maximum Velocity
- Advance Wars & Advance Wars 2
- Golden Sun
And here is the European and North American lineup:
- Advance Wars (April 3, 2014)
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (April 3, 2014)
- Metroid Fusion (April 3, 2014)
- Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (April 10, 2014)
- WarioWare Inc (April 10, 2014)
- F-Zero Maximum Velocity (April 17, 2014)
- Golden Sun (April 17, 2014)
- Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (April 24, 2014)
So good news for fans of the GBA, but does this mean the DS Virtual Console won’t be seen until 2015? Leave your thoughts below.