VC Monday Madness: StarTropics and King of Fighters '94

by David Hinkle { Jan 7th 2008 at 11:15AM }

Today is a big day for the Virtual Console here at Wii Fanboy as Star Tropics makes itself available for download later on today. It's a title that one of our own has been looking forward to for quite some time. And, the title backing it up isn't so bad, as it's the first entry in the long-running King of Fighters series, King of Fighters '94.

This week's titles are:.

Star Tropics (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
The King of Fighters '94 (NeoGeo, 1 - 2 players, 900 Wii Points)

Be sure to stop back later for our video wrap-up of the day's offerings.

Tags: neogeo, nes, snk

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ed Crosay @ Jan 7th 2008 1:01PM

Star Tropics!!!! I've been waiting for this game for so long. My cartridge doesn't hold saves anymore.

Jeedee @ Jan 7th 2008 1:22PM

Startropics is one of the best game ever! Buy now :)

saylorsgang @ Jan 7th 2008 1:59PM

Startropics and King of Fighters....yay!!! Is their a way to download VC games that were released in Europe or Australia, can you trick you Wii into thinking it lives in another country? Please let me know jms-1976@hotmail.com

Garu @ Jan 7th 2008 2:05PM

I'm not downloadig any Neo Geo games... I can't get the last one I downloaded to run correctly.

Undyne @ Jan 7th 2008 2:16PM

What about the whole letter thing? How does VC deal with that?

Almadi @ Jan 7th 2008 2:55PM

I'm sorry, have to deliver the weekly -

"Nintendo of America hate us because they didn't release Samurai Showdown on the Virtual Console this week too"

- comment.

AlgusUnderdunk @ Jan 7th 2008 3:37PM

Already have the VC of StarTropics. The letter itself is in the games virtual manual you can access by hitting the home button while playing. In the 'game story' section, the word letter is highlighted in blue like an internet link. Click it, and you can read the original letter packed with the game, as well as see a little icon animation of the letter being dunked in water, and the code appearing.

Undyne @ Jan 7th 2008 4:10PM

I can dig that. Thanks for the info!

Asmeroth @ Jan 8th 2008 8:22AM

Were you able to use lanterns or rods in the ghost level? Mine seems bugged.

James @ Jan 7th 2008 4:47PM

Holy crap, this is probably going to be my first VC purchase! Back in college, I played the hell out of all the old Nintendo consoles (up through N64, I think) on emulators, and pretty much caught up on almost all the quality titles I missed when I owned the physical systems.

StarTropics and Blaster Master are the only two I can think of (off the top of my head) that I should have played but neglected. There have been plenty of VC gems in the past year, but they've (almost) all been something I played the life out of on PC, PocketPC, or PSP emulators. I'm probably going to buy this when I get home today.

Good work, Nintendo!

VC Monday Madness: StarTropics and King of Fighters '94