With the Wii only a few short weeks away Nintendo have announced that 31 Virtual Console games will be available to download to the console in December. The games are available from the Wii's Shop channel - assuming you get your Wii online, of course - and include "classic" Nintendo and Sega games. Yet another chance to fleece loyal fans? Possibly, but if you don't yet own Super Mario 64 then this is a good time to finally get on board. As Keith discusses there is some interesting Sega stuff.
Games are bought with Wii points - Live owners will be familiar with this concept - with NES games costing 500 Wii Points (approximately €5), Super NES 800 Wii Points (approximately €8) and N64 games 1000 Wii Points, (approximately €10). The Mega Drive stuff will be available for 800 Wii points while PC Engine games will be available for 600 Wii points. Pretty cheap then, but after getting burnt with Gauntlet on Live I'll be more cautious with my nostalgia purchases this time. Perhaps more importantly there is no news whether the games have been updated or offer anything new. The gamerpoints system on Live at least offers an incentive to replay old titles.
The full list of titles available this December is...
Virtual Console games available in December 2006
NES
Baseball, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Ice Hockey, Mario Bros., Pinball, Soccer, Solomon's Key (Tecmo), Tennis, The Legend of Zelda, Urban Champion, Wario's Woods
SNES
Donkey Kong Country, F-Zero, SimCity
N64
Super Mario 64
SEGA MEGA DRIVE
Sonic the Hedgehog, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Columns, Gunstar Heroes, Ecco the Dolphin, Space Harrier II, Toe Jam & Earl, Ristar, Dr. Robotonik's Mean Bean Machine
Turbografx (PC Engine)
Bonk's Adventure, Super Star Soldier, Victory Run, Bomberman'93, Dungeon Explorer
