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Title: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: Shaymin on January 06, 2016, 05:19:18 AM

And yes, you're still using a baby's toy.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/41736/north-america-getting-zapper-day-on-virtual-console

Tomorrow's eShop update will feature three NES Zapper games for North America.

Konami's Adventures of Bayou Billy will be joined on the service by Nintendo's Hogan's Alley and Wild Gunman. All three titles make use of the NES Zapper mode for the Wii Remote, first used with Duck Hunt.

As with all NES titles, the games have an MSRP of $4.99.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: WindyMan on January 06, 2016, 02:36:18 PM

Bayou Billy YEEEEEEAH!

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: kokumaker on January 06, 2016, 05:32:03 PM

Bayou Billy arrives, but can't be bothered to bring Contra along with it. Insane.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: Mythtendo on January 06, 2016, 06:00:28 PM

Quote from: kokumaker on January 06, 2016, 05:32:03 PM

Bayou Billy arrives, but can't be bothered to bring Contra along with it. Insane.

Which I don't understand. They have given us the sequel (Super C) and the SNES one (Contra III: The Alien Wars), but not the original game.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: Penguin_Of_Thyme on January 06, 2016, 06:35:44 PM

There has to be some kind of rights issue preventing Contra's re-release. Or maybe the guy in charge of Contra releases is on vacation.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: NWR_insanolord on January 06, 2016, 10:09:53 PM

I'm pretty sure it never even came out on Wii, so that'd be a pretty long vacation.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on January 06, 2016, 10:48:09 PM

I am guessing it is probably a rights issue considering it was originally an arcade and those other ones were made for their respective console. That or you know Konami just has better things to do than waste resources on a game they aren't likely to get  much money back on.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: azeke on January 07, 2016, 12:09:24 AM

Pretty sure arcade Contra WAS released in one of "Konami classics collections" last gen.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: Mop it up on January 07, 2016, 05:32:22 PM

I actually still have the cartridges for all three of these NES games. Never really been into them though... in fact I can't even remember where I got them.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: ejamer on January 07, 2016, 05:56:29 PM

One of the reasons that Contra 4 (DS) was such an awesome game was the great set of unlockables included - you can pretty easily get the NES versions of both Contra and Super C available for play that way.

Title: Re: North America Getting Zapper Day On Virtual Console
Post by: broodwars on January 07, 2016, 08:29:32 PM

And the inexplicable wait for Metroid Zero Mission and Xenoblade Wii continues.