I love classic video games. Hell, I grew up playing some of the first mainstream home game consoles there were. Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, SNES, TurboGrafx-16, and the list goes on. In my opinion, some of the best games ever created are from the lineup of classic games from my yester-years. Now, I can revive my favourite games of the past in one of many options available to classic game lovers. Of course there are several emulators out there and even a few pay-per-title sites but my favourite of the bunch is from Nintendo - the Wii. Retro-gaming comes alive on the Nintendo Wii in the “Wii Virtual Console Channel” that brings back all of those great hits of the past. Hudson Soft, makers of past greats such as the “Bomberman” series have recently announced that they will be offering up several classic titles on Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console channel. On the list are Bonk’s Adventure, Super Star Soldier, Victory Run, Bomberman ‘93 and Dungeon Explorer. All of the titles mentioned were originally released on the TurboGrafx-16 console. Other confirmed games include the Impossible Mission games from the Commodore 64, Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sega Genesis and, of course, several titles from various Nintendo consoles.
Enjoy a few links to some of the classic games of old:
Classic 80s Games!
Whoah…
Arcade Classics!…popups, but the games work!!!
Gotta admit, when I first heard about this feature, I was unimpressed. At the time, Nintendo hadn\’t revealed its revolutionary new style of gameplay with the motion sensing controller and I thought they were just trying to bank on their past success. Now that we know so much more about the Wii, my opinion has done a 180. Wii is the most innovative new console of the V3 console wars. Adding backwards compatibility right back to their first console is just more icing on the cake. Go Nintendo!
Left by Guinevere on November 1st, 2006