It's Monday, and in America that means it's time for Nintendo to serve up some Virtual Console games you haven't necessarily been waiting for. Again.
This week brings R-Type III: The Third Lightning (SNES, 800 points), Xevious (NES, 500 points), and Moto Roader (TurboGrafx16, 600 points). That's right, two more side-scrolling shooters and another TurboGrafx game you've probably never heard of. Now don't get me wrong -- the side-scrolling shooter genre has been languishing for years, and it's always a treat to have the opportunity to play a classic.
But let's not blow your entire wad at once, Nintendo. Show some variety; and by that I mean release Mario Kart 64 already, God damn it.
Hit the jump for the full press release, written by someone who gets paid a lot more money to sound excited about this kind of stuff than I do.
WII-KLY UPDATE: THREE NEW CLASSIC GAMES ANNOUNCED FOR WII SHOP CHANNEL
Jan. 15, 2007
Today Nintendo adds three new classic games to the popular Wii™ video game system's Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
Xevious™ (NES®, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): Players control their Solvalou ship and destroy the XEVIOUS forces. Fire the zapper missiles against air-based enemies and drop the blaster bombs down upon ground-based targets. Destroy Andor Genesis to earn bonus points. Unique enemies, interesting background music, a variety of vertically scrolling background environments and many hidden game play features differentiated Xevious from the other shooting games released at the time. Are you devious enough to beat Xevious?
R-Type III™: The Third Lightning (Super NES®, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): It was believed on Earth that the deadly BYDO Empire had been destroyed - but now they've returned, as nasty as ever. Their ships and armies are more powerful than before, and Earth will surely be conquered unless the new R-90 ship can destroy them. Powered with engines that launch it into different dimensions, and armed with the Round, Shadow and Cyclone Forces, the R-90 has what it takes to wipe out the BYDO threat. The BYDO mother ship must be found and destroyed to entirely erase the species from our galaxy.
Moto Roader™ (TurboGrafx16, 1-5 players, 600 Wii Points): Moto Roader is a futuristic racing game that allows up to five players to compete against each other. Players use the cash earned when they win a race to power up their machine. Not only can they change the "TIRE" and "BODY" of their vehicles, but they also can add "SPECIAL" parts. Jump over tall obstacles with a "HOPPER" and blast past rivals at incredible speeds with "NITRO." What multiplayer game would be complete without attack items? Use a forward-launching "GRENADE" or a backward-dropping "BOMBER" to blow up and knock away rivals. Outmaneuver rivals in all eight heats to become the champion. Any combination of Wii Remote™ and Nintendo GameCube™ controllers can be used in multiplayer games.
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9:11 AM on 01.15.2007
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Give us some love.
Oh well. At least I'm getting WarioWare tomorrow.
What's up for next week? None?
Too bad "all" these games mentioned above was crap/already own them games too.
Give us the titles noone has instead damn it! Like CT or Earthbound.
No wait! We're in Europe, we can't even get those titles! Yaay!
I really hope they're only waiting to release most of the big ones so that people won't ignore the others, and that they will eventually (the same reason why books don't come out on paperback until after a while.)
This shit is so hot.. a chick in a bikini playing a Wii. Come drool lil bots. Come drool.
Maybe this makes me a Nintendo fanboy but every monday morning I've been a little excited about what might show up. Unfortunately every Monday morning save for the early arrival of Golden Axe, I've been dissappointed.
Do you think Nintendo has taken into account the fact that people with the Wii will tell people what a dissappointment the VC is and perhaps prevent future sales? I would love to show off to people Mario Kart 64 or any of the great Nintendo games but instead my Wii hasn't been turned on in over a week.
Or Bionic Commando. Please contact Capcom and jump their asses till this happens. Thank you.
but it's not looking too bring for Goldeneye... maybe on the 360 but not the wii
Exactly. Now where the eff is Super Mario World?
Anyway, these vc games are ridiculous. Mario Kart, super mario world? Man, I don't know about you guys, but I have played these games enough to never want to even look at them again. So now I'm going to pay 8 to 10 bucks for shit you can get for free? Shit, that's like paying 10 bucks to see Goodfellas again. Awesome movie, but I've seen it three million times. Same with these games. Now, if they offered something new....FUCKING ONLINE......maybe I'd go for it.
Fuck you Nintendo, fuck you. I know that for every person like me that thinks you take advantage of your consumers, you will have five hundred that think otherwise. So who gives a shit what I think.