It’s Monday morning, so it’s time for the week’s additions to the Wii Virtual Console. First up is Operation Wolf, an NES conversion of the classic Arcade shooter. Players take control of a member of the elite tactical squad Operation Wolf, setting out to retaliate against a band of terrorists and rescue the hostages. Sadly, this port was nowhere near […]

Oh, gone are the days of expecting three new games on the Wii Virtual Console service. But hey, we’re not complaining. Yet, at least. This week brings retro gamers 1080 Snowboarding for the Nintendo 64. At 1000 Wii Points, the game includes six different modes of play, including Match Race, Trick Attack, and 2-Player Versus. Players can initially choose from […]

As previously rumored, the seventh console to hit the Wii Virtual Console is indeed Sega’s Master System. Released back in 1986, the console was designed as a direct competitor to Nintendo’s NES and was home to classics such as Shinobi and the original Phantasy Star. The first titles to roll out under the Master System VC label will be Fantasy […]

The second installment in HAL’s Adventures of Lolo trilogy arrives on the Wii Virtual Console today. In the game, players take control of hero Lolo, who must make his through 50 different puzzle rooms and fight against the evil King Egger to save princess Lala. Joining the puzzle-hit Lolo is Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, an updated version […]

Everyone’s favorite yellow dot eater hits the Wii Virtual Console this week in Pac-Attack (800 Wii Points) for the Super NES. In the game, players must line up blocks horizontally on a Tetris-like board while Pac-Man runs around devouring ghosts. Also on the VC this week is Riot Zone (800 Wii Points), a TurboGrafx16 side-scrolling beat ’em up that follows […]

This week’s Wii Virtual Console update kicks off with the release of NES classic StarTropics. The game takes the old-school Zelda formula and mixes it with platforming elements. The story begins with Mike Jones, a teenage star pitcher from Seattle who sets off to locate his famous archeologist uncle, Dr. Jones. At 500 Wii Points, this one’s a steal. Next […]

Amidst the dawning of a new year comes Nintendo’s weekly Wii Virtual Console update with three new retro classics up for grabs. This week’s lineup includes the likes of NES puzzle-action hit Bubble Bobble (500 Wii Points), Genesis action RPG Light Crusader (800 Wii Points), and SNK’s Top Hunter (900 Wii Points) for the Neo Geo, a side scrolling arcade […]

Just in time for the holidays, Nintendo today updated the Wii Virtual Console with a fresh new bounty of gaming classics. First up is Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble (800 Wii Points) for SNES, the final installment in Rare’s Donkey Kong Country trilogy. Next up is Genesis coin-op actioner Rolling Thunder 2 (800 Wii Points). Last but […]

Assuming Nintendo’s web team isn’t playing a cruel joke on us, it looks like not one, but two more consoles are coming to the Wii’s Virtual Console service in the near (or distant) future. That’s according to Nintendo’s redesigned Japanese VC page, which updated today with a spiffy new layout. We’ve heard rumors of Sega’s Master System coming to the […]

Kicking off this week’s Virtual Console update is Cybernator (800 Wii Points), a run and gun shooter which originally was released on the SNES. Next up is Sega Genesis shooter Alien Storm (800 Wii Points). Last we have Monster Lair (800 Wii Points) for the TurboGrafx16 CD, a cutesy platformer shooter hybrid that follows the fantastic adventure of young Adam […]

Remember awhile back when Nintendo said it was working on a gifting feature for the Wii? You’ll be delighted to know that the gift giving feature officially goes live today, according to the press release supplied with this week’s Wii Shop Channel update: Later in the day on Monday, Nintendo will make your holiday shopping just a little bit easier. […]

This week’s Wii Shop Channel update marks the debut of the first Pokemon game on the Virtual Console: N64 title Pokemon Snap. As revealed earlier, the VC release features additional functionality that allows players to save and share their Pokemon photos with friends via the Wii Message Board. You can snap em’ all for 1000 Wii Points. Rounding out today’s […]

Nintendo has officially announced that N64 hit Pokemon Snap will hit the Wii Virtual Console alongside next week’s update on Monday, December 10. This isn’t any ordinary VC release though. What’s so special about it you ask? Nintendo has added new functionality into the game that allows players to save and share their Pokemon photos with friends via the Wii […]

Kicking off the weekly round of Wii Virtual Console updates is ZANAC (500 Wii Points),  an original NES shoot-’em-up game that was released in November 1986. Featuring an impressive AI system (for its time) along with a wide array of special power-ups, ZANAC should prove to be a worthy purchase for any fan of the shooting genre. Joining ZANAC is […]

While it’s a given that Nintendo is making oodles of cash off its DLC-based Virtual Console service, how much exactly are they making? It’s a number that hasn’t been revealed, until now that is. According to IGN, during a recent press conference held in Tokyo, Nintendo exec Shinji Hatano was quoted as saying that the Wii Virtual Console service has […]

Nintendo continues its weekly round of retro updates with three new classic games on the Wii Virtual Console service. This week kicks off with the release of NES title Double Dribble (500 Wii Points), a 5-on-5 full-court home basketball game. Next up is gambling simulator Vegas Stakes (800 Wii Points) for the Super NES. Last we have Genesis title Ecco […]

Shinobu Shimizu of D4 Enterprise, the team responsible for bringing over classic Neo Geo titles to the Wii Virtual Console, said in a recent interview that his team will be adding easier difficulty settings to titles like Magician Lord on the VC: Yes that’s right. These will all be ports, or emulations rather, of the original arcade games. We will […]

This week’s Wii Virtual Console lineup kicks off with the release of traditional SNES shoot ’em up Axelay (800 Wii Points). While the game itself looks pretty, Axelay has failed to stand the test of time. Unlike most modern shooters, which contain power-ups throughout stages, Axelay forces you to choose your weaponry before the start of any stage. That’s not […]

A couple days ago, Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime was quoted at a recent conference as saying that exactly two hundred VC titles would be available at the end of 2007. At the current rate Nintendo is releasing VC titles, we figured this to be impossible. Unless of course, Nintendo was planning on increasing the amount of titles released per-week on the […]

Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets conference, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime announced that 200 classic titles will be available for purchase on the Wii’s Virtual Console service at the end of 2007. This brings up an interesting statistic. Since there are currently 166 titles currently on the VC service, it means Nintendo will have release an average of […]