Wii Warm Up: More consoles

by JC Fletcher { Mar 22nd 2007 at 9:00AM }

We love the Virtual Console. In the (completely mythical) drought periods between flagship Wii titles, the Virtual Console gives us a steady diet of excellent, cheap games. More than that, it serves as a history lesson for all the new gamers flooding into the hobby, and those too young to remember the 8-bit era. Also it gives you all a second chance to buy some Turbografx-16 games.

Obviously, we want more. We love the available consoles, but they aren't enough. We salivated over the Saturn rumors, and we'd like to see that. In fact, we have a great deal of affection for all Sega consoles. We'd like to see some Master System games show up on the VC soon.

What consoles would you like to see added to the lineup? Any answer is the right answer, as long as it's not the ActionMax!

Tags: nintendo, nintendo wii, nintendowii, saturn, sega, tg16, vc, virtualconsole, wii, wwu

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Matt Quinton @ Mar 22nd 2007 9:35AM

Definatly the NeoGeo. The only games I got to play where the ones in the arcades... It would be lovely to play some of the things I missed out on by not owning the PS3 of it's day (surely you guys remember it's price point!)

zldaphreek @ Mar 22nd 2007 9:43AM

i think atari would be fun if you could use the wii-mote like the classic joystick! im not sure what would take the place of that adorable red button, but im sure someone could figure it out.

Chris @ Mar 22nd 2007 9:45AM

Yeah, I'd love me some Neo-Geo fighters. I'm talking Mark of the Wolves, Rage of the Dragons, and some Matrimelee. If we are going arcade route, I'd love to see some Capcom CPS1 and CPS2 games...

Protome @ Mar 22nd 2007 9:53AM

We need Master System.
I would buy Golden Axe Warrior stuh-raight away.

Offtopic: Any news on the DBZ:BT2 release date? I've heard it's been pushed back a week...

Neal Eaton @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:00AM

I would love to see Atari 5200 and 7800 games included in the Virtual Console luv...and maybe ColecoVision. There were some really fun games for each of those systems.

Oh yeah - where's KABOOM! (Atari 2600). It's simple and crazy, but loads of fun.

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:16AM

Pong, Colecovision, Intellevision, Commodore, Atari (all of them), MSX, Sega Master System, Turbografx CD, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Phillips CD-i, Jaguar, Neo-Geo, Neo-Geo CD, Apple Pippin, 3DO, GP32X, N-Gage, GB, GBC, Game Gear, Atari Lynx, Wonderswan Color, Neo-Geo Pocket, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast. Oh and all the arcade versions that are superior to the home console versions.

Beaudry @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:34AM

They should be able to bust out dozens VC games every week. These are straight ports from games made 10-20 years ago. The reason that they only release a handful each week is that Nintendo knows that all of us are suckers. We'll say "Wow, Tecmo Bowl!" and drop $5 for a download. Really, we would prefer to download the much superior Tecmo Super Bowl, but we don't know when (or if) that game is going to be released to us.

"In the (completely mythical) drought periods between flagship Wii titles, the Virtual Console gives us a steady diet of excellent, cheap games."

Far from mythical... The Wii currently has 1 game worth $50 , and that game is painfully bad in the graphics department.

UpIrons @ Mar 22nd 2007 1:03PM

I would like to see just about any classic console on there but the Sega Master System game Zillion is definitely one I would like to see quickly.

Also, Sega CD games!!!

Booxatron @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:59AM

Hang-On and Choplifter for Master System!

will @ Mar 22nd 2007 12:04PM

I would personally love to see some Dreamcast games show up, but I doubt that will happen since the Dreamcast engine was so unconventional.

In the meantime, how about some more N64 games?

inkboy @ Mar 22nd 2007 12:30PM

Action Max! I Loved that "system" I think my parents may still have it in storage. but I would love to see some Neo Geo games especially last blade games and all the kng of fighters series.

James @ Mar 22nd 2007 12:35PM

I'm pretty surprised that nobody has mentioned GB/GBC/GBA yet. For that matter, they could probably work something out with the DS if they really wanted to. At the very least, there have been a number of A++ GBA titles that would do great on the Wii, and I'm sure writing an emulator would be a walk in the park for the Big N. Advance Wars FTW!

James @ Mar 22nd 2007 12:45PM

Don't like to double-post, but I wanted to follow up to some comments that were made while I was typing my previous one.

I used to *love* World Heroes (1&2... was there a 3?) in the arcade, and NG King of Monsters was much better than the SNES version. Samurai Shodown, of course, and a few other non-fighters... but KoF I could take or leave. Unfortunately, the ROMs would probably be ~50-100 megs each, which doesn't leave a lot of space on the Wii flash drive.

As for N64... yeah, that's what excites me the most of the current offerings, since it's the only Nintendo console I never owned. I don't think there were a *lot* of games I missed (I played OOT, Goldeneye, Mario64, and Paper Mario on a friend's console), but there had to be at least a few. I'm hoping they'll up the release rate for 64 games as time goes by.