Supergrafx game leads Japanese Virtual Console lineup for October

by JC Fletcher { Sep 26th 2008 at 12:38PM }

Surprise! A new system is being added to the Japanese Virtual Console lineup -- the NEC SuperGrafx! Except Nintendo and Hudson aren't treating it like a new system, and are instead treating SuperGrafx games as 800-point PC Engine games, with no other indication of the system of origin. The lack of fanfare may be related to the fact that the whole released SuperGrafx library is seven games. In October, what may be the best-known SuperGrafx game, a quite good version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts, will be available for download.

Also good news: another Kunio sports game, known in the US as Nintendo World Cup; Castlevania II, a year after the US got it; and Enduro Racer (yay!). The full list is posted after the break!

Famicom

Kanshakudama Nage Kantarou no Toukaidou Gojuusan Tsugi
Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin (Castlevania II: Simon's Quest)
Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball-bu Soccer-hen (Nintendo World Cup)

Super Famicom

Super Donkey Kong 3 (Donkey Kong Country 3)

Master System

Enduro Racer

PC Engine

Dai Makaimura (Ghouls 'n Ghosts)
Super Darius
New Zealand Story

Tags: japan, new-zealand-story, nintendo-world-cup, releases, soccer, supergrafx

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nigeria @ Sep 26th 2008 12:55PM

So maybe there's still hope for the 32x and/or Mega CD.

Randy @ Sep 26th 2008 1:23PM

Ghouls and ghosts. Yes!!! I loved this game in the Arcade. I'm not a fan of the (semi orignal) SNES version.

I wonder if there's any video of the Supergrafx version I remember hearing that game touted as Arcade perfect port.

I'm off to youtube....

davedrastic @ Sep 26th 2008 9:14PM

Does anyone know if they'll have the Amiga / Atari ST on the Virtual Console? I hope so. Oh god how I hope so.

Also, I just wanted to make the comment that I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't just release all the games at once instead of this drip-feed nonsense. I guess they know best and assume its the best way to eek money out of us. But for me, I haven't bought a VC/WtiiWare game and am relatively unlikely to until they get to the goodstuff, and NES/SNES/Megadrive doesn't cut it for me. Some of the N64 games are tempting but I'm not paying as much as they ask - i'll probably get bored after a few miutes, and I probably have better games on my mobile

Gewurztraminer says: Shinkuu Gadouken! @ Sep 27th 2008 7:49AM

Next up, Virtual Boy!

Retro @ Sep 29th 2008 5:00AM

Its about time my favorite system gets the respect that it deserves.... far superior than what nintendo offered as an 8 bit system sporting 16 bit abilities.

The SuperGrafx surpasses what most was out back in the day and if they had a good grip on the market that they had in Japan, they could have gone far.

Though, Nintendo had far superior marketing.....