Interplay to use revenue from Virtual Console sales to bankroll future projects. http://nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15857 Interplay recently announced that they will be bringing some of their classic titles to the Virtual Console. These titles include Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman and Clayfighter. Rather than the SNES versions of the games, the Genesis versions will be made available.
After the recent sale of the Fallout license to Bethesda, Interplay is pursuing a strategy of low debt and operational costs while they seek funding to bankroll their upcoming projects.
No release date has been revealed for the four announced titles.
Four Interplay Classics Arrive on Wii Virtual Console
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 21 -- Interplay Entertainment Corp. announced today that four of its franchise titles for the classic Sega Genesis videogame system will soon appear on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console.
Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman, and Clayfighter, all popular Interplay titles on the Sega Genesis in the 1990s, will be available later this year on the Wii Virtual Console.
Nintendo's Virtual Console makes some of the greatest video games in history available for Wii. Users can download and play many favorite NES, SNES, N64, NEOGEO, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx 16 titles.