Post by: Jonnyboy117 on December 21, 2006, 06:03:17 AM
North Pole News: Special Christmas Treat on the Way for Wii
This year Santa is getting some competition from another jolly guy with a big belly and a red cap. We're talking about video game icon Mario™, of course. As a special holiday surprise for Wii™ owners from Nintendo, the original Super Mario Bros. ™ game for the Nintendo Entertainment System® will appear in the Wii Shop Channel and be downloadable for 500 Wii Points. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the game. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets.
The classic game will make Christmas morning extra special, just as it did more than two decades ago. Super Mario Bros. reigns as perhaps the best-known and most-played game on any video game system in history. More than 40.2 million copies of the game found their way into homes worldwide. In addition to Super Mario Bros., other top-notch offerings available on Dec. 25 include:
- Street Fighter® II: The World Warrior (Super NES®, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): This game revolutionized the fighting-game genre with characters that had unique fighting skills, speed, special moves and unique endings.
- Super Castlevania® IV (Super NES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Simon Belmont uses his trusty whip to fight the powers of evil on his way to Dracula's Castle.
- Toe Jam & Earl™ (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): Two fun-loving aliens crash on Earth and must find 10 pieces of their spaceship so they can get back home to Planet Funkotron.
- R-TYPE® (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): This is a completely faithful port - right down to the character details - of the famous shooting-game masterpiece.
Games available on Jan. 1 include:
- Baseball (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): Play nine innings of fierce sandlot competition with classic NES graphics.
- Urban Champion™ (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): Don't let the big, bad bully of the neighborhood push you around! Players fight for the right to walk the street.
Post by: Requiem on December 21, 2006, 06:08:45 AM
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on December 21, 2006, 06:09:57 AM
Super Castlevania is MINE. I haven't played it since it first came out. I'm curious about both Toe Jam and R-Type, but I'll wait to get recommendations.
SFII is kinda tempting since I had it on SNES and loved it then, but I don't think I would have enough opponents willing to play it. It's not that great as a single-player game.
New Year's Day offerings -- blah, back to the norm for Nintendo. I hope Sega and Hudson come up with something better for that day.
Post by: Ian Sane on December 21, 2006, 06:16:38 AM
Still this will be a Monday where GOOD games on Nintendo systems will be coming out. Plus the first titles from Capcom and Konami. I don't really care about the other third parties. When it comes to 8 and 16-bit Nintendo consoles those two third parties are everything.
Too bad next Monday is back to the usual "lousy NES games no one wants".
None of the games released on Christmas suck though. All are worth buying unless you own them already. Though you may want to hold out for Street Fighter II Turbo.
Post by: ShyGuy on December 21, 2006, 06:19:37 AM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on December 21, 2006, 06:26:54 AM
Kinda disappointing, but hey, at least we are FINALLY getting the good Nintendo games
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 21, 2006, 06:29:31 AM
And a real present would have been if these games were available for a reduced rate, or even FREE on Christmas day as a thank you to the early adopters. I don't even think Nintendo would take a hit, all of these games will be heavily downloaded as long as the Virtual Console exists.
Regardless, it's nice to see a thoroughly solid lineup. I could easily see myself downloading all of these games.
Post by: JonLeung on December 21, 2006, 06:33:00 AM
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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Does SFII World Warrior allow you to play as Vega? Or is that only Turbo?
SF II (:The World Warrior) had the Grand Masters, but you couldn't play them. (Well, you could with an external cheat device, but their graphics had screwed up palettes.)
SF II Turbo let you properly play as Vega, as well as the other Grand Masters, Balrog, Sagat, and M. Bison.
Super SF II let you play as all the characters, as well as four new ones, Cammy, Dee Jay, T. Hawk, and Fei-Long.
I'm not even going to get into all of the SF II games, but those are the Super NES ones. There was also a port of Street Fighter Alpha 2 later on, but that's part of the Alpha series and not the II series.
I was waiting for Super Mario Bros.! I haven't downloaded anything yet despite having 2000 Wii Points since day one because my brother wanted the first game to be an important one, and I agree with him. I really want a Super NES game too (I mean, geez, I have two unopened Classic Controllers), but I'm guessing that Super Mario World may be a while yet. I'm tempted to get SF II now (it's 2-player simultaneous so I could open both of my Classic Controllers!) but it would be a waste of money if SF II Turbo and/or Super SF II come at some point.
Would be nice if Nintendo could get some MAME-like emulators and get the arcade versions of the arcade games. :P
Post by: Entroper on December 21, 2006, 06:33:34 AM
You know what they need, is the Game Genie.
I'm pretty sure SF2 doesn't include the boss characters as playable. SF2 Turbo does, and Super Street Fighter 2 obviously.
Post by: ShreddersDojo on December 21, 2006, 06:46:54 AM
Never played one before..
Post by: darknight06 on December 21, 2006, 06:48:44 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on December 21, 2006, 07:07:40 AM
It's a different type of game. Back then, with the exception of Castlevania II, all Castlevania games were side-scrolling action games. It's hard to describe exactly what they're like since they kind of set the template that a lot of side-scrolling action games followed so in a way they might seem generic. There's no thinking involved. They're just pure reflex games and they're usually pretty hard. Lots of platforming, dodging enemies, and killing things with your whip.
One way to desribe it might be the modern Castlevanias but harder and split into straightforward levels with no exploration.
I say with VC games try before you buy but that's not exactly legal.
Post by: KDR_11k on December 21, 2006, 07:12:34 AM
Coming out on the 31st in Europe AFAIK. Well, Super Probotector, not the first.
I like how Reggie was all "we've got a surprise for Christmas" and the surprise is the option to BUY a game that should have been available a month ago anyway.
What, you expected a surprise to involve FREE stuff?
My SF Anniversary Edition manual says Vega, Balrog, M.Bison and Sagat were introduced in Champion Edition, not Turbo.
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on December 21, 2006, 07:28:36 AM
But like many of you, I played with M. Bison in the original SFII for SNES thanks to my old Game Genie. I also made up my own codes for that game, starting with a GREAT code that let you use special moves in the air. From there, I came up with a teleportation code and another that let you keep doing a special move by repeatedly tapping the final button for its input sequence. So to get really fast Hadoken, you would press: Down, Down-Right, Right, B B B B B B etc.
Post by: Acefondu on December 21, 2006, 07:37:22 AM
Post by: JonLeung on December 21, 2006, 08:04:13 AM
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
My SF Anniversary Edition manual says Vega, Balrog, M.Bison and Sagat were introduced in Champion Edition, not Turbo.
As Jonnyboy117 said, if we're only talking about Super NES games, then the first one with the "Grand Masters" is Turbo. If you want to talk about all of the Street Fighter IIs, there's also Super Street Fighter II Turbo, which is like Super Street Fighter II but also has super moves and Akuma and some other minor stuff, too. There's also Street Fighter II: Grand Master Challenge (Japanese arcade, I think) and the GBA game Street Fighter II Turbo Revival. The whole Street Fighter franchise is potentially confusing, what with various versions of the many games (How about some Super Street Puzzle/Gem Fighter Alpha EX Turbo Revival 4X' MAX Upper (And A Little Higher) Plus Alpha (and Omega) Vs. SNK Champion Edition: Clash of SVC Chaotic World Warriors & New Challengers Hyper Fighting Vs. Marvel Super Heroes Minimix Cardfighters Clash DS in the Grand Master Challenge Zero: Third Strike & Impact Fighting All-Stars?), and II is easily the biggest offender. But, hey, people still play it.
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 21, 2006, 08:15:02 AM
Super Castlevania IV and Super Mario Bros. are mine.
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 21, 2006, 08:16:48 AM
I will probably get SMB, it will be the first NES game I get on the VC.
Post by: Smash_Brother on December 21, 2006, 08:40:24 AM
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Originally posted by: pap64
Is this even the Christmas surprise that Reggie mentioned?
Kinda disappointing
Kinda? Try crushingly disappointing.
I think we were all hoping for a Reggie Mii...
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 21, 2006, 08:51:58 AM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on December 21, 2006, 09:10:48 AM
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Originally posted by: Smash_BrotherQuote
Originally posted by: pap64
Is this even the Christmas surprise that Reggie mentioned?
Kinda disappointing
Kinda? Try crushingly disappointing.
I think we were all hoping for a Reggie Mii...
Well, I think I did told you I wasn't expecting something out there, hence why I said "kinda".
And "we" is too much people...
Post by: Nemo on December 21, 2006, 09:40:33 AM
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Post by: TJ Spyke on December 21, 2006, 10:32:59 AM
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Originally posted by: Nemo
I figured the Christmas Season suprise was getting the Opera Browser for free.
If so, then we've known about the surprise for months, they announced quite awhile ago that the browser would be free until June.
Post by: Spak-Spang on December 21, 2006, 10:49:37 AM
I want from this list:
Street Fighter 2,
Super Mario Bros,
R-Type,
Toe Jam and Earl,
Super Castlevania, (which I like better than the RPG Castlevania stuff)
Personally I understand wanting the Best Street Fighter 2. But I also think it is important to have the original as it is a classic that helped launch the fighting game craze.
I think after this the next Street Fighter they release should be Super Street Fighter 2 (the final Street Fighter 2)
Post by: Ian Sane on December 21, 2006, 10:58:53 AM
So they skip what most fans consider the best version? What are you some kind of... business man?
Street Fighter II Turbo more or less contains the original Street Fighter II. It has both Turbo (or Hyper, I don't remember) mode which has all the new changes and Champion Edition which is pretty much Street Fighter II only you can play as the bosses and both players can pick the same character. At least that's how I remember it.
Anyway, hold out for Turbo unless you're some big game historian who has to own what is pretty much an obsolete title.
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 21, 2006, 11:34:41 AM
I will get SMB for sure, maybe SC IV. I might get TJ&E later on, not sure about R-Type (maybe after I get bored with SSS).
Now where is Super Mario World or River City Ransom?
Post by: MANTI5 on December 21, 2006, 11:41:19 AM
Post by: Luigi Dude on December 21, 2006, 12:00:43 PM
Of course I get the feeling that version wont come out for a few years, since there starting with the first one right now. It'll probobly be a year from now they'll go to Turbo, then another year Super, and then after another year Super Turbo. So we're going to be waiting for awhile.
Post by: IceCold on December 21, 2006, 12:20:18 PM
QuoteMe too! Well, I don't have a Wii yet, but that will definitely be my first download.. When Galaxy comes out, assuming SMB 2, 3 and SMW are out, I'm totally going to go through all of the Mario platformers in order.. and on one console.
I was waiting for Super Mario Bros.! I haven't downloaded anything yet despite having 2000 Wii Points since day one because my brother wanted the first game to be an important one, and I agree with him
Post by: segagamer12 on December 21, 2006, 12:42:12 PM
Basically you have 2 aliens who crash land on earth, and have to explore different levels trying to find all your space ship parts and put it back together, the ship looks like a ghetto blaster with wings its hilarious.
The game is purley Hip-Hop/Funk themed (more funk references than anything but clearly Hip-Hop influenced as well)
You run aorund and dodge the earthlings, which are greatly exagerated which makes sense as you play the game from an aliens perspective the humans need to look alien.
The level design is friggin awesome. Its difficult to get used to at first, but once you figure things out its fun as hell.
You have to locate the elevator on each level to take you to the next area. You go up in elevetors but you can also fall down if you fall off the edges of the screans or fall down holes.
This provides extra challenege as if you fall too far you have to replay levels to get back to where you belong. The elvels are hard to describe so i reccomend checking some site sfor screan shots. You also collect presents which give you powerups and other cool stuff.
TJ and E is one of the BEST series Sega ever made and it is sad they effed it up so much on Xbox because that doesn no justice to the original.
Also it is coop all the way and split screen if your on seperate areas or single screen if you are together.
my opinion maybe dont matter much but ask anyone who has played it and they will say its one friggin awesome game. I personally think 2 is better but thats cuz I got it with My genny and played it first so theres nastalgia mixed in with it being a different type of game.
The grafix kinda suck though but its hilarious art style makes up for it.
I say that IF you can afford to get this game along with the others you really want DO IT.
Seriously this is one of the BEST games on the Genesis (not grfx but fun wise)
So anywyas I HIGHLEY recomend this game. Plese someone else who has played it defend the game. Its the shiznit fo sheezy
Post by: Kairon on December 21, 2006, 12:46:43 PM
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Post by: Djunknown on December 21, 2006, 12:53:46 PM
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Of course I get the feeling that version wont come out for a few years, since there starting with the first one right now. It'll probobly be a year from now they'll go to Turbo, then another year Super, and then after another year Super Turbo. So we're going to be waiting for awhile.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo I believe only had one home port on the....3D0! I highly Nintendo is going to get 3D0 games on the VC anytime soon.
The Genesis version of Super Street Fighter II had a 'hidden' turbo option (just go to the title screen press right on the arcade mode and have at thee), but no Akuma. Now if MS wanted to 1up Nintendo (accidental play-on phrase intended), they'd release good arcade ports (Though they managed to botch up SFII Turbo...)
The VC is starting to come into its own slowly but surely. So we shouldn't any complaints about post-launch drought.
Post by: nitsu niflheim on December 21, 2006, 01:00:23 PM
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I like how Reggie was all "we've got a surprise for Christmas" and the surprise is the option to BUY a game that should have been available a month ago anyway.
Still this will be a Monday where GOOD games on Nintendo systems will be coming out. Plus the first titles from Capcom and Konami. I don't really care about the other third parties. When it comes to 8 and 16-bit Nintendo consoles those two third parties are everything.
Too bad next Monday is back to the usual "lousy NES games no one wants".
None of the games released on Christmas suck though. All are worth buying unless you own them already. Though you may want to hold out for Street Fighter II Turbo.
You are a very bitter person. Nothing makes you happy.
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Post by: Majora on December 21, 2006, 03:42:01 PM
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Originally posted by: nitsu niflheimQuote
Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I like how Reggie was all "we've got a surprise for Christmas" and the surprise is the option to BUY a game that should have been available a month ago anyway.
Still this will be a Monday where GOOD games on Nintendo systems will be coming out. Plus the first titles from Capcom and Konami. I don't really care about the other third parties. When it comes to 8 and 16-bit Nintendo consoles those two third parties are everything.
Too bad next Monday is back to the usual "lousy NES games no one wants".
None of the games released on Christmas suck though. All are worth buying unless you own them already. Though you may want to hold out for Street Fighter II Turbo.
You are a very bitter person. Nothing makes you happy.
Lol, yeah I noticed that nothing makes him happy. However, I may just be a stupid n00b, but I reckon his posts are great!!Always funny and very true, dispite usually being negative lol.
Super Mario Bros.! YAY!!
Post by: Ceric on December 21, 2006, 05:13:14 PM
It's made of PHAIL. I have yet to be impressed by how NoA has been handling things.
Post by: bigdingus04 on December 21, 2006, 05:23:21 PM
I barely remember that...I'm gonna go look for it now
Post by: Arbok on December 21, 2006, 05:29:08 PM
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Originally posted by: Ceric
If this is Reggie's "Christmas Surprise."
It's made of PHAIL. I have yet to be impressed by how NoA has been handling things.
Well he said it was something to do with leaving Connect24 on... but I wouldn't get my hopes up anyway
Post by: tonythekitty on December 21, 2006, 06:03:05 PM
BUT CASTLEVANIA IV!!!!! YEA!!! my heart is soaring. I cant wait to twirl my whip aimlessly for hours. Super mario should have been out on day 1, but thank goodness its here. Too bad they didnt break up the upgraded ones from super mario all stars and sell each one of those. R-type for TG-16 is another must have!!!! TG-16 games have really been excellent so far. *knock on wood* they will release splatterhouse , galaga 90, and maybe klax.
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Post by: Svevan on December 21, 2006, 08:58:01 PM
As for the VC lineup, I'm glad Nintendo pulled its head outta its rear end for one day, too bad they're going back to their old ways the following Monday. I will probably buy 3, if not 4 of these games.
Post by: KDR_11k on December 22, 2006, 12:27:39 AM
EDIT: Okay, it sounded like a good game on Wiki so I downloaded it. Kinda boring to play, slow and the music is the typical Megadrive music that tries to lull you into sleep. I'm in level 6 of the fixed world game now and still bored. The manual doesn't give any description of what's good or bad among the people and presents you encounter or what your "coolness" rank does. Those VC manuals really need to get more verbose, some of these old games are pretty unintuitive.
Post by: Galford on December 22, 2006, 01:22:44 AM
About Champion Edition SF2...
On the SNES it came as part of Hyper Fighting, you could play the CE version or Turbo version of SF2.
Both Genesis and SNES received a port of Super SF2. For years the only way to play Super Turbo was on the 3D0.
On one of the Street Fighter Collection disks for the PSX Capcom put on a version of Super Turbo.
Super Turbo comes as part Capcom Classics Collection 2 for the PS2.
I'm glad to see Nintendo is using the TG16 version of R-Type, which is one of the best home versions around.
PS- Did you know on the original TG16 release of R-Type that is was released as two seperate Hu cards?
Plus yay for SC4. Good job Nintendo....
Post by: Ceric on December 22, 2006, 04:21:45 AM
So in summary all NoA did for us was hold back games. Thanks a lot NoA, you Scrooge.
Post by: KDR_11k on December 22, 2006, 07:01:50 AM
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Post by: NWR_pap64 on December 22, 2006, 08:08:12 AM
Sorry for saying this, but part of your disappointment is caused by your own hopes. Hopefully you should learn from this and not expecting ANYTHING when a company announces something major coming.
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Post by: KDR_11k on December 22, 2006, 11:32:34 PM
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Post by: Rize on December 23, 2006, 01:28:20 PM
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Originally posted by: Luigi Dude
Yeah, Super Street Fighter II Turbo is the only one worth buying. Since it combines everything from all the other version of II.
Of course I get the feeling that version wont come out for a few years, since there starting with the first one right now. It'll probobly be a year from now they'll go to Turbo, then another year Super, and then after another year Super Turbo. So we're going to be waiting for awhile.
Why didn't they release the best version first and skip the other ones? That's just wrong. Although they area bit cluttered with all those extra characters. I think the original game was more well balanced.
I wonder how the TG-16 emulator works. The TG-16 used CD's for some games. If they really use the CD (say for music or video) then it would be too big to download. Unless they can somehow compress the music/video to mp3/mpeg etc. and have the emulator cope with that.
And are they willing to newly translate games that were once Japan only? In other words I really want Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
Post by: IceCold on December 23, 2006, 03:49:05 PM
Post by: Artimus on December 23, 2006, 04:29:13 PM
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Originally posted by: IceCold
On another note, will Nintendo ever reveal their Virtual Console sales? I'd expect Super Mario Bros to sell through the roof, of course, but I'd be interested in seeing sales for, say, Bonk..
I suspect we'll be getting a "millionth game!" sold thing when it happens.
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 23, 2006, 04:32:18 PM
Post by: darknight06 on December 24, 2006, 10:38:46 AM
I'm willing to bet SF2WW on the VC is a test to see if there's any demand for it from the userbase.
Besides, beyond SSF2 SNES they would have to emulate the arcade game for SSF2T since other than the rushed GBA port, no Nintendo console ever got the game. At that point Capcom might as well release Hyper Street Fighter 2 for the Wii.
Post by: Luigi Dude on December 24, 2006, 11:10:07 AM
Of course that does bring up the point, will the Virtual Console emulate arcades in the future.
Post by: darknight06 on December 24, 2006, 01:58:08 PM
