Do you ever have that experience where you've completely forgotten a game and then someone mentions it and all these awesome memories come flooding back about it. That just happened to me when I saw the news that Aero the Acrobat has been confirmed for a U.S. Virtual Console release this summer. The trailer above was quietly posted on YouTube and revealed the release.
You may or may not remember Aero all that well, but he was EGM's best new character of the year way back when the game landed in 1993, and if my slowly returning memory of the game is any indication he deserved it thanks to some very creative platforming. There's also the fact that he's an acrobat. Get it. He's a bat and an acrobat. They don't make videogame heroes that punny anymore.
While I doubt this signals a true return for Aero we can always cross our fingers that the winged tumbler may rise again.
Nintendo Downloads - July 2010 [NeoGAF, via GoNintendo]
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1:00 AM on 07.12.2010 | 
Is it bad that now whenever I see the word 'Tumbler', I think it's misspelled now due to Tumblr?
Hard as hell, but I was young, so I'm not sure if it was just hard because it was hard, or hard because it was broken. I'm leaning towards the second of those two options.
Never played Aero but it looks terrible. There are bits in the trailer that look exactly like platforming done in Bubsy.
Calm down. It was an innocent mistake when I was typing. I owned a Wii before any other console and I love both the VC and WiiWare. Honest mistake when I was typing, no need to get so upset.
"You're only doing yourself and your readers a disservice not bother learning anything about the Wii..."
You are critiquing someone else's mistakes, yet you can't even go an entire paragraph without fucking it up.
"...but I guess you're like that stupid GameStop employee I heard telling a group of potential customers that he 'sold his Wii'. God damn cliched mother fuckers."
You really should look into law school. Your logic is flawless.
I work at gamestop and I own and play a wii. I wouldn't sell my wii at all. To many good titles that get passed up.
...Better games continue to not be released for the Virtual Console.