VC/WiiWare Tuesday: An impossibly large update

by JC Fletcher { Aug 4th 2009 at 11:20AM }

This week is certainly the largest single update the Japanese Wii Shop has had since the launch of the Virtual Console back in December of 2006. It's also, sadly, a feat that probably won't be repeated, given the recent decline in selection. But let's not talk about declines when we've got such an incredible increase this month! Four games on Virtual Console -- and good ones, too, like Final Fantasy IV and Pac-Mania, would be remarkable enough, but they are joined by no fewer than nine on WiiWare.

The WiiWare selection includes genuinely interesting content like Bit.Trip: CORE, the one-button Tomenasanner Wii (seen above), and the three Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games; plus genuinely forgettable content like Sandy Beach, and wild cards like dolphin-training game Sea Farm, Derby Dog, which is, yes, a game about racing different varieties of dog, and a brain training game with its most notable feature being that its title translates to "Make your Square Brain Round."

The complete release listings are posted after the break.

Virtual Console:

Final Fantasy IV (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
Pepen ga Pengo (Mega Drive, 1-4 players, 600 Wii Points)
Cosmo Gang the Video (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Pac-Mania (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Sea Farm (1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Shikakui Atama wo Maruku Suru (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
Derby Dog (1-8 players, 500 Wii Points)
Tomenasanner Wii (1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Beach de Oshiro o Tsukuccha Wow! (1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Bit.Trip: CORE (1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (three games) (1 player, 1,200 Wii Points each)

Tags: bit-trip-core, cosmo-gang, derby-dog, final-fantasy-iv, japan, pac-mania, pepen-ga-pengo, pokemon-mystery-dungeon, sandy-beach, sea-farm, shikakui-atama-wo-Maruku-suru, tomenasanner-wii, vctuesday, virtual-console, wiiware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

eugaet @ Aug 4th 2009 12:48PM

Tomenasanner Wii is kinda giving me Karateka C64 flashbacks. This is a good thing.

Adv2k1 @ Aug 4th 2009 12:58PM

Fucken a !

Japan is getting spoiled.

Hardy @ Aug 4th 2009 1:01PM

I know! I hate NoA!

zonic505 @ Aug 4th 2009 1:06PM

Why is Bit.Trip Core 100 points LESS in Japan & Final Fantasy IV 100 points MORE than the usual SNES game (it's not an import)?

BPMOmega [GT,Steam] @ Aug 4th 2009 1:32PM

NCL seems to allow fluctuation with VC prices... if they think the game is gonna be BIG. The prices for most of the Zelda games on Japanese VC, for example, are higher than the standard prices. :|

Roto13 @ Aug 4th 2009 1:10PM

Pac-Mania costs more on the Virtual Console than I paid for Namco Museum for GameCube, which includes Pac-Mania. :P

nintendo1889 @ Aug 4th 2009 2:51PM

Next Monday, we're either going to get another Wonder Boy game, another C64 game or if we're lucky, an arcade game no one cares about. It's moments like this that make me glad I ever took the risk to hack my wii. Ahh, the joy of using Snes9x to play games that will never see the light of day on the VC! The fact that Nintendo discourages gamers from doing something they themselves blatantly refuse to do makes it all the better, right?