Topic: New Virtual Console Games

[WindyMan]

Double Dribble, Vegas Stakes, and Ecco Jr. are now available on Nintendo's classic game download service.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14867

 WII-KLY UPDATE: THREE NEW CLASSIC GAMES ADDED TO WII SHOP CHANNEL    

Nov. 26, 2007 - Let's hope you all survived the long holiday weekend. With all the eating, traveling and family fun, isn't it time to do something just for you? So take a few minutes and do a little shopping from the comfort of your couch, away from the chaos of the malls. This week you can get into a game of hoops, do a little faux gambling or head out to sea with your favorite dolphin friend.    

Three new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the Wii™ Shop Channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:    

DOUBLE DRIBBLE™ (NES®, 1-2 players, rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): DOUBLE DRIBBLE, the first 5-on-5, full-court home basketball game, is pure hoops action at its finest. While still a surprisingly accurate basketball game for its time, the frantic action keeps you on your toes as your players run from one end of the court to the other. Choose from a handful of teams and multiple levels of difficulty as you take on the computer alone or challenge a friend and see who has the better skills. Take the ball and sink shots from locations all over the court, or get in your opponent's face and do your best to block the shot. Better yet, drive the lane and rock the rim to see one of the game's trademark slam-dunk cut scenes. He shoots, he scores!    

Vegas Stakes™ (Super NES®, 1-4 players, rated E for Everyone – Simulated Gambling, 800 Wii Points): Feel like taking a road trip to Las Vegas? Let your inner high roller go wild as you try your luck at five different games-blackjack, slots, poker, craps and roulette. Start with only $1,000 in your pocket and play your way through five casinos, each with a different theme and varying limits. But no one wants to gamble alone, right? Not a problem, as you'll be able to choose one of four friends to tag along and offer advice when you need it. Further enhancing the experience is the fact that you'll be presented with a slew of interactions with random casino patrons. Best be careful, though-your choices in these situations could either get you closer to the millions of dollars you're after or cost you a pile of that hard-earned cash. Roll the dice, spin the wheel, hit or stand-do whatever it takes to stake your claim in Vegas and beat the house!    

Ecco Jr.™ (Sega Genesis, 1 player, rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): The aquatic adventures of Ecco come to life for a younger generation of gamers. Perfect for kids, Ecco Jr. finds our young hero heading out to sea with a variety of tasks he must perform in order to get there. Along with his friends Tara the baby orca and Kitnee the young Atlantic dolphin, Ecco Jr. will interact with sea lions, sea horses and other aquatic life as he makes his journey to the Big Blue. Introduce your kids to the classic series of Ecco the Dolphin titles by downloading Ecco Jr. today.    

For more information about Wii, please visit wii.com.

[Crimm]

Echo Jr?

Good lord...

[Ian Sane]

You know when a band gets into a groove of releasing greatest hits albums every couple of years despite having no new material in between?  When that happens it is very typical for each collection to be flawed in some way.  Usually some big hit is missing and then if it's included later another hit is missing instead.  The "spots" for these missing hits is almost always taken up by some song that was never a hit in any way, is not popular with fans, kills the audience at concerts,probably was never even released as a single or a music video and is just overall a bad song that for some reason the band feels the need to "force" into becoming a hit.

Well the same thing happens with retro releases for videogames.  Every company has that handful of horrible games no one has ever liked but is re-released for all eternity nonetheless while other games become obscure.  Ecco Jr. is one of Sega's such titles along with the Genesis version of Virtua Fighter 2, Flicky and Gain Ground.  No one ever liked it, no one ever will, and yet it's on every Greatest Hits album.

Nintendo's equivalents would be Urban Champion and DK Jr. Math.

[Chode2234]

Yawn.

[gally]

Vegas Stakes was an amazingly creative game. It's great to see it released again.

[Stogi]

DOUBLE DRIBBLE!

[Infernal Monkey]

I have Sega Mega Drive Collection for PS2 and I still can't bring myself to play Ecco Jr. I had to boot it up once to unlock some crap, but that was it.

[cubist]

Summer of 1989...Double Dribble was the game!!!

[UltimatePartyBear]

I dare not download Double Dribble and risk ruining my fond memories.  I suspect it has not aged well.

[Rhoq]

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Originally posted by: PartyBear
I dare not download Double Dribble and risk ruining my fond memories.  I suspect it has not aged well.

It was just as I remembered it.