Author Topic: Christmas VC Games Revealed (Read 18485 times)

Jonnyboy117 · « **on:** December 21, 2006, 06:03:17 AM »

Finally, SNES games...and good ones, too! Plus: Super Mario Bros. (NES), Toe Jam & Earl (GEN), and more.

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.

In just five weeks the library of classic games available through the Wii Shop Channel has grown to 33 titles. Every Monday at 9 a.m. Pacific, Nintendo adds more classic games to the channel.

Requiem · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:08:45 AM »

Where's Sunset Riders? Where's Battletoads? Where's Contra?!

WindyMan · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:08:48 AM »

My Christmas will indeed be merry.

Jonnyboy117 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:09:57 AM »

I am excite. Although I already own two or three versions of SMB, I have to get it on VC because anytime my friends see me playing Ristar or Gunstar Heroes, they have to ask: "Does it play Mario?"

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.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:16:38 AM »

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.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:19:37 AM »

Does SFII World Warrior allow you to play as Vega? Or is that only Turbo?

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:26:54 AM »

Is this even the Christmas surprise that Reggie mentioned?

Kinda disappointing, but hey, at least we are FINALLY getting the good Nintendo games

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TrueNerd · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:29:31 AM »

I've never played Super Castlevania IV, how does it compare to the post-Symphony of the Night Castlevanias?

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.

JonLeung · « **Reply #8 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.

Entroper · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:33:34 AM »

This at least shows that we're going to get some nice games, although we may have to wait a while to get a lot of them.

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.

ShreddersDojo · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:46:54 AM »

As someone who saw the character first in that nintendo series with Kevin the Game Master, how are the Castlevania games? If I like Mega Man, will I like these games?
Never played one before..

darknight06 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2006, 06:48:44 AM »

Super Castlevania IV is mine, no question. This also means picking up a classic controller.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:07:40 AM »

"I've never played Super Castlevania IV, how does it compare to the post-Symphony of the Night Castlevanias?"

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.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:12:34 AM »

Where's Contra?!

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.

Jonnyboy117 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:28:36 AM »

Champion Edition was only released in the Arcades and on Genesis. The first SNES game with the playable bosses was Turbo, which is superior to CE.

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.

Acefondu · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:37:22 AM »

I can finally stop complaining about VC. Thank goodness.

JonLeung · « **Reply #16 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.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2006, 08:15:02 AM »

Super Castlevania IV is one of my favorites. I'm definitely going to download it. It has some really cool bosses and Mode 7 effects. It's like the old Castlevanias though - strictly arcade, with no RPG-style elements. It's not a Super Metroid clone.

Super Castlevania IV and Super Mario Bros. are mine.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #18 on:** December 21, 2006, 08:16:48 AM »

With R-Type being 800 points, I hope this means it has the entire game (the TG16 version was originally released in 2 parts, so the first one only had 4 levels).

I will probably get SMB, it will be the first NES game I get on the VC.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #19 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...

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #20 on:** December 21, 2006, 08:51:58 AM »

They never said we would get any games for free (I hope people didn't believe that BS rumor of us getting 3 games for free since ALL Virtual Console games are listed at 0 points until they are available). IF we get a Christmas surprise, we won't find out until CHRISTMAS.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 21, 2006, 09:10:48 AM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
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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...

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...

Nemo · « **Reply #22 on:** December 21, 2006, 09:40:33 AM »

I figured the Christmas Season suprise was getting the Opera Browser for free.

Caliban · « **Reply #23 on:** December 21, 2006, 09:56:41 AM »

Ok, this is cool, SMB get, SC4 get, I'm going to wait for SF2 Turbo, and R-Type hmmm I don't know.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #24 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.