VC Tuesday: Singles week

by JC Fletcher { Jul 10th 2007 at 2:00PM }

No new multiplayer games on Japan's Virtual Console this week. It's a perfect week to sit in your apartment alone all day playing role-playing games. Now, if only that apartment didn't have to be located in Japan for us to take advantage.

Normally, when an RPG shows up on the Virtual Console, it's big news. This week, Japan gets three, one of which is very big news indeed as the confluence of a good N64 game, an RPG, and a Mario game.

Makai Hakkenden SHADA (PC Engine, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
Shining Force (Mega Drive, 1 player, 700 Wii Points)
Militia (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Mario Story (Nintendo 64, 1 player, 1000 Wii Points)

Tags: force, mario, mario story, MarioStory, militia, nintendo, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, paper, paper mario, PaperMario, rpg, shada, shining, shining force, ShiningForce, vctuesday, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Btehrani @ Jul 10th 2007 2:12PM

Mario Story is actually called Paper Mario In The USA and it's one of my favorite games ever.

Matt @ Jul 10th 2007 3:22PM

omfg... shining force!

Steve @ Jul 10th 2007 3:46PM

OK, so now that all the publicity, anticipation, and hype for Super Paper Mario has died down Nintendo decides to release the original Paper Mario. This game should have been released in early March! Nintendo really needs to get a clue on how to maximize VC sales by capitalizing on existing publicity.

Mr Khan @ Jul 10th 2007 4:33PM

@ Steve

This sort of thing could work in reverse, though

Now that all potentially interested parties have purchased and played through Super Paper Mario (at least in our region), that will generate hype for the VC title, and they probably make more profit off of the VC titles