One of the best Super Nintendo games ever, Super Mario Kart, will be hitting the Virtual Console this Monday. The classic racing game will cost you 800 Wii points.
Later this holiday season, we can expect a couple of more classics to hit the Virtual Console store. First up will be Pilotwings for the SNES and towards the end of the year, Super Smash Bros 64 will also finally be available.
So yeah, good games! Not to say that everything as of late has been crap, but it's annoying that Nintendo takes their sweet time to release the games people are dying for. Anyone excited for any of these upcoming re-releases?
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2:00 PM on 11.21.2009
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Seriously, Smash Brothers 64 ONLINE? ONLINE?! I would die with a Wii-mote in my hand. The PSN is just as guilty however, releasing "PSOne Classics" with zero multiplayer support: I'm looking at you, SF Alpha games.
The thing is that with these services, they're not meant to provide any enhancements to the games -- Just let you get them if you didn't before. Xbox Originals were the same way -- If you downloaded Halo to your 360, it didn't magically give you online play. It's all emulation, to let you play the games EXACTLY as they were originally released.
For new, online stuff, we have WiiWare, PSN Games, and the Xbox Live Arcade. All the older game downloads are actually supposed to be like this.
My SNES copy of Mario Kart no longer works. That does not mean I am going to buy it again however.
come on nintendo. Virtual console has so much more potential than this.
but sadly (depending on viewpoint) i've the heck w/VC and using HBC.
i would have paid for it 3 years ago but i'm sick of waiting. duckhunt w/wii mote = pureawesomness :)
i really don't understand why companies think they need to hold out on releasing these VC/PSOne classics. what, don't think we'll buy it? wouldn't it be better to have them available for when us gamers are reminiscing we can go...
"Hey! i can go and buy and download it since Nintendo published their WHOLE NES library on the VC.."
in a perfect world perhaps...
Just letting you all know that.
I agree with both sides here. Some of these titles should have been available from the start. I realize that most of us have previously owned or played these games, but not everyone, nor has everyone saved their systems to still play these games. So, for that, the Virtual Console is pretty sweet. However, VC games should, at the very least, come with bonus content of sorts, especially for those of us buying the game for the second time. Bonus content could range from a brief history of the game, remixed soundtrack or some other cool nugget(s)...
Also, not to float my own boat here, but damn I still own at the original Super Mario Kart! Back in the day, my friend and I would play serious marathon sessions of battle mode, I'm talking upwards of 75 or so matches! Too bad Nintendo couldn't somehow, someway implement online play for VC titles. I would have loved to challenge some of you loyal robots in battle mode!
Why? Because I won't be excited until EVERY game that ever was becomes available.
Sure PSN, I loved Tekken 2, but I'd rather be playing Poy Poy or X-Com UFO Defense.
I know XBLA, that I should love seeing that Sonic 2 is dropping in price this month. Unfortunately, I'd rather be playing Star Control or Return Fire.
VC, I know you are three years late to the party with some of these games, but I'd still rather play Yoshi's Island or Ouf of this World.
While I like the mainstream memories of games like Mario Kart, there are so many other games being swept under the wake of time.
Oh well, maybe Apple will sign a deal with Digital Elcipse to emulate every game that I really want to play because the three major console companies don't seem to get it :(
The games I really want are Yoshi's Island, Diddy Kong Racing, and Donkey Kong 64.
did you just call super metroid a shitty game?
Of course I've *not* been using this in the meantime: http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii64