excellent news. This opens the door to so many excellent games.

I hope this is the warm up for the BIG starwars lightsaber M+ game coming this Xmas that will be announced at TGS during an Iwata speech.

Even if it'll probably suck considering Lucas Arts' recent games.

Force Unleashed was pure awesomeness. Not the Wii version though.

I hope they spent some time to tweak the old games since I remember them being brutally hard. Some easier difficulty levels would be nice. Or just an infinte lives cheat.

Rogue Squadron needs to happen on VC. We already know that the Expansion Pak won't be a problem, thanks to Majora's Mask.

Shadows of the Empire needs to happen first!

I am excited for the N64 Star Wars games that should come out of this venture.

Rogue Sqaudron doesn't require the Expansion Pak. I'd think it would be more likely to be released without the Expansion Pak enhancements if they required more effort to include.

Note that they have only said that the SNES games are coming to the VC. No word on the N64 titles coming during this special event.

Regardless, this is a pretty cool thing to do. If Nintendo did this sort of thing to push their upcoming titles.

This might also be the "test" for some classic point-n-click adventures like The Dig, Full Throttle & Indiana Jones (which was already included in the Wii game).

VC does already have Monkey Island & isn't Sam & Max on there too? I couldn't imagine Lucas Arts wanting to sit on the side line and not collect free money if those games are selling decently well.

ugh, more "tests."

WiiWare. No Monkey Island or Sa7 Max games on the VC (and not gonna happen unless Nintendo adds a PC section).

Thanks for the correction as I tend to refer to the entire service as VC, & Lucas Arts wanting to bring the entire p-n-c library over is more than enough reason to create a PCVC

If by "pure awesomeness" you mean "pure mediocrity and atrocious rape of the Star Wars canon," then yeah.

That's left to interpretation, which is why we're hoping/speculating that Star Wars N64 games might hit in the future.

Man, I remember the Star Wars games on SNES being on the tough side. I couldn't beat the level which has Luke on his skyhopper thingy... :'(

I wonder what brought on this sudden wave of cashing in on nostalgia?

Look what I found in my room!

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1761/img30773020971.jpg

Quite possibly they're trying to distract us from the fact that their only announced project after the forthcoming Clone Wars games is The Old Republic. They just don't have anything else in the pipeline that's going to give them money soon.

The best part about this announcement is it now says it's very possible for Nintendo to make deals with other publishers in the future to bring other license based games to the Virtual Console.

Hopefully this means Nintendo will eventually make a deal with Disney.  There were so many amazing Disney games released for the NES, SNES and Genesis that's it'd be a shame, no it's be downright CRIMINAL if none of them ever show up.

Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse. There are a lot of them.

Do we know if it requires much effort? I've only heard speculation on it. I would prefer those games to be enhanced though as most of the N64 Star Wars games used it. I never got Battle for Naboo and would love to see that one appear. Though I may just give up and get the original cart somewhere.

I remember Super Star Wars being nard, but a good and challenging kind of hard. Loved it.

That made me chuckle becuase of the movie Monster Squad. Those who've seen it will know why.

My first gameboy game!

Meh, ignoring Tetris my first GB game was R-Type.

Ah, I remember those Super Star Wars games. Even better, I remember when they were re-released as Player's Choice games and were given walkthroughs in Nintendo Power. I only played Return of the Jedi, and I remember it being very hard. Didn't it have a Mode-7 speederbike sequence? And didn't it f*cking rock?

I picked up the Player's Choice version of Super Star Wars.

All three had mode-7 sequences I believe (Tatooine w/ speeders, Hoth w/ snowspeeder, Endor w/ speeder bikes).

I also have the old GB Star Wars game as well. That was an interesting one. I love how in most of the original Star Wars games they added a plot point where R2-D2 was kidnapped by Jawas and you had to enter a Sandcrawler to get him back. I was always appalled at how they deviated from the true story.