VC Monday Madness: Operation Wolf and Columns III

by David Hinkle { Feb 4th 2008 at 9:45AM }

Yet another Monday arrives, which means that some new Virtual Console games should arrive with it. And, we see the release of a pair of titles to Nintendo's download service. Any of our readers have fond memories of these games? Any of you give these a play before?

If not, you'll be able to try them yourself after 12pm PST:

Operation Wolf (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Columns III: Revenge of Columns (Sega Genesis, 1 - 5 players, 800 Wii Points)

As always, be sure to stop back later for our video wrap-up of today's Virtual Console releases.

[Via press release]

Tags: nes, sega, sega-genesis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Roto13 @ Feb 4th 2008 10:04AM

I've never tried Columns 3. How is it compared to Columns 1?

Garu @ Feb 4th 2008 10:09AM

Wasn't this week the 200th VC title? Maybe I have that wrong. I was expecting something BIG today!

I liked Operation Wolf on the NES when it came out for the light gun. I don't know if I would download it here though. Still... for $5 it's not a big investment. I wish they made it work like the new gun games with the Wii remote.

3cubed minus 3squared plus1 @ Feb 4th 2008 10:09AM

The VC needs more turn based RPGs.
The only good one so far is Breath of Fire II.

vidGuy @ Feb 4th 2008 10:20AM

Agreed. Even though I'm enjoying BoFII, it's not really quencing my thirst for some of those great SNES RPGs.

Hardy @ Feb 4th 2008 3:18PM

My guess is Square-Enix is being reluctant to release their stuff on the VC since they milk it so much for the handhelds. A shame really.

Shadow31 @ Feb 4th 2008 10:10AM

Gah. Where is my Ssuper Smash Bros? Where's Mario RPG? Kirby Super Star? I have such a long list of wanted release games. Stop with the NES games, at the very least. We need more SNES and N64 games.

Shadow31 @ Feb 4th 2008 10:11AM

Ignore my extra 's' in Super Smash Bros.

iMarc @ Feb 4th 2008 10:29AM

I used to love Operation Wolf, but it absolutely had to have the light gun.

Using the D-pad to aim and fire was nearly impossible.

mian @ Feb 4th 2008 4:55PM

All I used was the dpad back in the day. Still, while I'd pick this thing up in heartbeat if they took a day or two to add IR support, I'm not sure I will as-is.

Jumbo @ Feb 4th 2008 10:34AM

I play Columns on the DS a fair bit... but i dont think i'd download it.

And No, we dont really need SNES games.

We need a flood of NES games.

A flood.

Nate @ Feb 4th 2008 10:35AM

I'm pretty disappointed with the VC releases this year. I want the original Yoshi's Island, Smash Bros, Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Secret of Evermore, Blast Corps, Perfect Dark (probably will never happen)

DiehlLane @ Feb 4th 2008 10:57AM

Operation Wolf was by far my favorite NES light gun game. Without a light gun, the game was pretty much pointless. I wouldn't bother getting it now since the classic controller isn't a light gun.

Luckily, I still own the original.

Edguy @ Feb 4th 2008 11:00AM

Operation Wolf? I used to play that on my old Amiga system!

Brendon @ Feb 4th 2008 12:28PM

I'm still waiting to have a Bad Fur Day...

Matt @ Feb 4th 2008 12:35PM

Conker!!!

Miranda @ Feb 4th 2008 1:04PM

Are they serious with this crap? (I say that as someone who has never played either of today's two releases -- I'm not really calling them crap, just comparatively.)

Where's my Mario RPG? Where's my Zombies Ate My Neighbors? In the "never gonna happen" column, where's my Shadowrun (both the SNES and the Sega versions, please)?

Grr. Stupid Nintendo.

nintendo1889 @ Feb 4th 2008 1:40PM

I agree with many of you, no wait, all of you. Why keep on adding NES/N64 games? Add some freakin' SNES RPGs! You know..Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI (they should use the GBA translation), Secret of Mana and Mario RPG. Can't we just go on Nintendo's website forums and make a poll on which big RPG should be released on the VC next?

Alex @ Feb 4th 2008 2:33PM

Eh, the PC Engine version of Operation Wolf was much improved over the NES version. But I'm thinking we'll likely never see that game released here.

Are they ever going to release arcade original versions of any of these games? Ports were acceptable in the past because that was the best the hardware could do back then. But this is 10-20 years later. Take SSF2 Turbo, for example. I'd throw down a couple of extra bucks over the price of the SNES version for the arcade version of that game. But I'm not willing to pay even $8 for the SNES port. (Especially when I still have the superior 3DO version.)