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Virtual Console EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Michael Jackson's Moonwalker heading to Virtual Console 19 Moonwalker, the game everybody found an excuse to keep talking about after Michael Jackson died, finally has some relevant news attached to it. The game is scheduled for release on the Wii's Virt... Nintendo DLC Update: Fighting Street and stuff 18 There isn’t a nice package to wrap the Nintendo downloads in this week, unlike the previous two which had Halloween or Domo themes. Still, games came out and the point of this is to tell yo... Nintendo DLC Update: Ghosts and pirates 13 Another week, another set of Nintendo downloads. No Domo is coming our way, but there are a few treats among the Halloween-themed downloadable offerings across Nintendo’s three digital plat... Nintendo DLC Update: LostWinds sequel and tons of Domo 8 Those hot for Domo are in for a surprise this week as Nintendo is unleashing not one, not two, not even three Domo downloads on DSi -- but four complete, absolutely thrilling and satisfying Domo ... Rare not sure why Donkey Kong 64 isn't on Virtual Console 30 Why hasn’t Donkey Kong 64 crept onto Nintendo’s Virtual Console? Most of us aren’t wrenching our bed sheets late at night in haunting thought, but at least one Rare fan is curio... Nintendo Wii downloads: Final Fight 2 and stuff 10 Things have happened on the Nintendo downloadable front. This morning ushers in one title on each of the publisher’s three digital platforms. Don’t expect the amazing, but don’t... Nintendo DLC Update: Final Fantasy, tanks, and words 17 A bright spot on a dreary Monday, Nintendo has updated the offerings on its various digital download services. This week delivers a bite-size of fantasy, and even some a touch of word search acti... Nintendo DLC Update: Dragon Quest: Wars and Altered Beast 11 It’s Monday and that means more stuff is hitting Nintendo’s various digital distribution services. Prepare for the below.Looking forward to looking backward again this week on WiiWare... Nintendo DLC: Cubes, tennis, ninjas, sims, and cards 11 Nintendo surprises (at least me) this week with an original WiiWare title called You, Me, and the Cubes (1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points). The physics-based puzzle/action game where players control... A port of GoldenEye 007 still doesn't seem likely 29 The chance of a GoldenEye 007 revival via Xbox LIVE Arcade or Virtual Console appears no more feasible now than it was around a year ago. Speaking in response to a fan question about a port comin... Nintendo DLC Update: Star Wars, Contra, and stuff 21 It’s yet another thrilling week on the Nintendo Downloads front, people.Look forward to going backward again this afternoon as Super Return of the Jedi hits Virtual Console. Priced at 800 W... Nintendo DLC: Monkey Island, Phantasy Star, Puzzle League 9 While you might already have Planet Puzzle League on your DS, that might not stop you from buying the DSiWare Puzzle League Express (1 player, 500 DSi Points). Hell, it won't stop me. For five bu... Nintendo DLC Update: Star Wars and puzzle stuff 9 Prepare for a thrilling week on the Nintendo downloadable front, folks. Look forward to going backward with Super Empire Strikes Back. Releasing soon on the Virtual Console, the Super NES port pu... Nintendo downloads: Family fun! Ninjas! Sudoku! Rocking! 6 Hardcore gamers everywhere rejoice! PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points) is available on WiiWare today! It's a board game, set in a pop-up picture book! Will be great f... Ninja Gaiden and Rygar arcade games rated by ESRB for VC 8 If you were worried about the low quantity of Virtual Console releases as of late, there are still good things a-comin'. Over on the ESRB website, Siliconera spotted ratings information for the a... Nintendo DLC: NyxQuest, Rock N' Roll Climber, Star Wars 5 Over The Top Games' platformer NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits (1,000 Wii Points, 1-2 players) is finally available for download on North American WiiWare today. Formerly known as Icarian: Kindred Spir... Spider-Man is pretty in pink for Revenge of Shinobi VC 16 The Revenge of Shinobi was one of my favorite Sega Mega Drive games, mostly because it was one of about six titles I had at the time, so it didn't have much competition. Regardless, it was a pret... Virtual Console releases: OMG SEX GAME 19 There are a total of four games coming out from Nintendo this week, but let's be honest -- the other ones are kind of shoved out of the spotlight by the fact that one of them is called Sexy Poker... Nintendo downloads: Ant Nation, Bit Boy!!, Pulseman, more 13 I have never had an ant colony growing, because my thought process was always "Really, a box of ants in some sand WTF?" Besides, I was always afraid they'd bust out and lay eggs in my m... Nintendo DLC: Water Warfare, fishing, Opa-Opa's tears, more 4 Today, the perfect game for the summer, Water Warfare (1-8 players, 800 Wii Points), hits WiiWare. Hudson’s first-person water-gun shooter (yes, let’s call it an "FPWS") fea... Nintendo DLC: Boot-camp, mini-golf, puzzlers, more 6 Nintendo makes your WiiWare download decision difficult this week by dropping not one or two, but three WiiWare titles. Xseed’s Drill Sergeant Mindstrong (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points), YUKE... Nintendo DLC: Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Swords & Soldiers, more 12 Looks like Nintendo DS and Wii owners have a pretty good week for downoadable games, starting with Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (Nintendo, 1 player, 800 DSi Points). Announced last w... Nintendo DLC: Mighty Flip Champs is flippin' sexy 9 If puzzles are your game, and you're looking for some new DSi software, then Mighty Flip Champs! (1 Player, 800 DSi Points) might be up your alley. The game is a maze runner, but in order to solv... Nintendo DLC: Majora's Mask is 300th Virtual Console title 23 As the title of this story suggests, the Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) hits the Virtual Console today. It marks the 300 title to hit Ni... The reason EarthBound is not coming to the Virtual Console 51 When news dropped three months ago that EarthBound -- the incredibly good Super Nintendo RPG -- would not be coming to the Virtual Console, fans of the cult classic flipped out (me included!). Ru... GoldenEye developer would love to see a VC release 37 While the rumors about GoldenEye 007 on Xbox Live Arcade have gone rather quiet lately, one man would really love to see the classic N64 shooter hit Nintendo's Virtual Console, despite accepting ... Clay + Fighting + Virtual Console = Jizz 39 Back in the 90's there was a brief explosion of games that used claymation. It was awesome. Anyone who lived through that era can tell you that playing a claymation videogame is sweet. In fact if... Nintendo DLC update: Mixed Messages, Pitfall, more 8 Man, these weekly Nintendo downloadable updates are a beast now that it's thrown DSiWare into the mix! This weeks finds two DSiWare titles, one WiiWare title, and one Virtual Console game hitting... Nintendo DLC update: Six DSiWare games, Equilibrio, and more 15 Yesterday, the Nintendo DSi hit shelves, and the console's DSiWare store launched. Along with it came six games: Nintendo DSi Browser (Nintendo, 1 player, 0 Nintendo DSi Points); Bird & Bean... Monday brings Super Punch Out! to the Virtual Console 24 If you're as worked up about Punch-Out! for the Wii as I am, it may be tough for you to wait it out until we finally get our hands on the game. Nintendo must have considered that Punch-Out! fans ... GDC 09: Wii Virtual Console Arcade revealed, launched 30 Yep, news is still flowing out of Nintendo's GDC 09 keynote. Nintendo is once again expanding the Wii Virtual Console, this time adding support for arcade titles. Yay! As you might have expected,... Wii Shop releases: Detana! TwinBee, Bomberman 94' and more 17 Ah, WiiWare. After a thrilling week with the introduction of BIT. TRIP. BEAT., we're back to more of the usual Wii fare with Pop’Em Drop’Em SAMEGAME. At least Hudson made this one and... Wii Shop Update: BIT.TRIP BEAT, Summer Games II 9 It seems like it's all about rhythm this week in the Wii Shop.BIT.TRIP BEAT (Aksys Games, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 600 Wii Points) is a rhythm-matching game on WiiWare which has ... Wii Shop Update: Ogre Battle, Family & Friends Party 17 This weeks Wii Shop update features two games that, quite simply, couldn't be more opposite. So you have choices here ...First, Family & Friends Party (Gammick Entertainment, 1-8 players, Rat... EarthBound Virtual Console release encumbered by legal problems 47 Whenever someone mentions EarthBound to me, I flash back to that time I sat on my bedroom floor drawing pictures of Ness on envelopes. My goal was to send the marked envelopes to Nintendo Power a... Wii Shop Update: Evasive Space, Life Force 10 If you're the kind of gamer that likes shooting crap, whoo boy! Is this the week for you, or what? First up, Evasive Space (Yukes Company of America, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points) hits WiiW... Wii Shop Update: Wolf of the Battlefield: MERCS and LIT 5 Nick Chester is traveling today, so I present this week's offerings on WiiWare and Virtual Console in his absence.First off, we get Wolf of the Battlefield: MERCS (Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii... Wii Shop Update: Snowboard Riot, LONPOS, and Sonic Chaos 6 Nintendo continues its one-two combo this week with its Wii Shop releases. That is to say there's one Virtual Console release, and two original WiiWare titles on the service today. POW! Sega's So... Wii Shop Update: Niki Rock 'n' Ball, Wonder Boy in Monster Land 11 What's this? Only two Wii Shop releases today? But they're really good ones, right? Well, I'm not going to make that call. Bplus' "jump and roll" title, Niki - Rock 'n' Ball (1-2 p... Wii Shop Update: High Voltage Hot Rod Show, Family Glide Hockey, MUSHA 7 Time to dust off your metallic uniframe super hybrid armor -- the Sega Genesis shooter MUSHA (1 player, 800 Wii Points) hits the Virtual Console today. Originally released in 1990 (the year the f... Wii Shop releases:Jungle Speed, Planet Pachinko and Castlevania III 9  Don't ask em why, but when I read "Can you survive the Pachinkeet Temples of Planet Pachinko?" in the press release, I couldn't stop laughing. Maybe it's because I know when I ann... ESRB leakytime: Super Punch Out !! 20 The ESRB, as Atlus once pointed out, has pretty much eliminated the need for a press release, since it reveals games long before a publisher can. Naturally, it is a good source of information and... Wii Shop releases: Maboshi's Arcade, Cue Sports, Zoda's Revenge 9 Nintendo is ringing in the new year with -- you guessed it -- two WiiWare games and one Virtual Console title hitting the Wii Shop today. Always keeping us on our toes!Maboshi's Arcade (Nintendo,... Super Smash Bros. Falcon Punches its way on to the Virtual Console in Japan 33  Next month, Wii owners in Japan will be able to download Super Smash Bros 64 through the Virtual Console. Unlike most other Nintendo 64 titles on the Virtual Console that sell for 1,000 Wii... Wii Shop releases: Tiki Towers, Fun! Fun! Minigolf, Phantasy Star IV 11 If you were expecting a Christmas surprise from Nintendo this week, sorry to disappoint. This week's WiiWare and Virtual Console line-up looks relatively tame and unsurprising, although that's no... Wii Shop releases: Bruiser and Scratch, Hockey Allstar Shootout, Sonic 2 7 It's hard not to want to give Bruiser and Scratch (Steel Penny Games, Inc., 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) a second glance.The original single-player puzzle/adventure title follows the adventures of... Wii Shop releases: Strong Bad, Target Toss, Space Invaders, Forgotten Worlds 9 As promised, Strong Bad Episode 4: Dangeresque 3 (Telltale Games, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) is delivered to the Wii Shop channel today. The fourth in the five-part adventure series has Strong B... Wii Shop releases: Brain Challenge, Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam, Mega Man 3 14 Oh noes, guys! Dr. Wily's eight Robot Masters have run off with the power crystals; who will stop them? You of course, in Mega Man 3 (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)1! While the game may not have ... Wii Shop releases: Alien Crush Returns, Home Sweet Home, Space Harrier 17 When Alien Crush Returns (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points) was first announced, Chad gushed over it with a headline containing the words "boner alert." We can only imagine what's going on i... Wii Shop releases: Strong Bad Ep. 3, ROTOHEX, Earthworm Jim 20 The weekend's over folks; put the two days of debauchery and videogames behind you. It's Monday, so that means it's time to get down to business ... it's time to play some WiiWare and Virtual Con... Wii Shop releases for the week of 10/20: Tetris, mazes, boxing, Gradius 13 It's Monday people, and that means games will be added to the Wii Shop Chanel at 9 a.m. PDT. But are you ready?Are you well-rested for the Tetris Party (1-6 players, 1,200 Wii Points)? This WiiWa... Wii Shop releases for the week of October 13th: Secret of Mana-gasm 61 If you've ever listened to a little podcast called RetroforceGo!, you know that the release of a good Virtual Console title will cause Chad Concelmo to yell a phrase that's musical to all our ear... Wii Shop releases for the week of 9/6: Bowling, MadStone, Mario Golf 64, more 15 After last week's announcements from Nintendo, from where I'm standing, every Wii-related game release pales in comparison to Punch Out!!. Seriously ... a new Punch Out!! games guys; it's all I'v... Wii Shop releases for week of 9/29: Bomberman, Art Style, Turrican 2 6 This week Bomberman Blast (Hudson Entertainment, 1-8 players, 1,000 Wii Points) finally makes its way to North America; the WiiWare title was released in Europe two weeks ago! So many Europeans t... Wii Shop releases for week of 9/15: Strong Badia, Potpourrii, Mega Man 2 12 Are you ready for a Monday of pure awesomeness that's potentially more awesomer than last Monday? Teltale Games' Strong Bad Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free (1 player, 1000 Wii Points) finds... Capcom says Disney classic titles not likely to come to VC 44 Look, you have NO IDEA how I feel about Capcom/Disney games. NO IDEA. There is nothing better I can say to explain to you how much I love them (or their origins) then this: Chad Concelmo and I fr... Wii Shop releases for week of 9/8: Groovin' Blocks, Final Soldier, Cho Aniki 17 No, your eyes do not deceive you -- the legendary and kooky Cho Aniki (TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM, 900 Wii Points) is coming to the Virtual Console today. Nintendo says that "this shooter made for ... Virtual Console Releases for the week of 9/1 24  Well, all I can say is, it's about f*cking time. You voted it into a landslide victory last month, utterly dominating its rival by nearly a 90% margin. Today, Nintendo has delivered wh... Wii Shop releases for week of 8/25: Helix, Ys Books, Samurai Shodown 2 12 Another Monday, another week of Wii Shop channel releases. We already told you that Helix (Ghostfire Games, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points) was dropping today. But did you know ... Super Mario RPG hits European Virtual Console, Americans cry 38 I’ve always marveled at the amount of terrible decisions that Nintendo has made in terms of content on the Virtual Console. It’s not like the games that they pick are bad, it’s ... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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