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Spelunker on Wii U VC
Here’s the big news everyone’s going to be talking about on Twitter today: the NES version of Spelunker is being released on Wii U Virtual Console. Not Spelunker HD, as released on the PlayStation Network, but Spelunker One.
This is truly the next generation of ways to play crazy hard platformers from 1985. And unlike some other world-changing video game news announcements, we have a firm release date and price point: May 30 for $4.99. You can also yell at it. Not to change your TV inputs or anything, but just out of rage.
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Nintendo Direct’s 3DS highlights
There was a minimal amount of 3DS news in this morning’s Nintendo Direct (you could say the same about interesting Wii U announcements), but I was happy to hear a couple minor but nice items about the eShop.
First, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons will sell for only $4.99 each during its first three weeks on the storefront (starting May 30). After that, the Game Boy Color releases will go for $5.99 each.
And there’s over a dozen more Game Gear titles coming to 3DS Virtual Console:
- Columns
- Crystal Warriors
- Defenders of Oasis
- Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
- G-LOC: Air Battles
- Shining Force II: The Sword of Hajya
- Sonic Blast
- Sonic Drift 2
- Sonic Labyrinth
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Tails Adventure
- Vampire: Master of Darkness
The other 3DS announcements today:
Shantae on 3DS Virtual Console in late June
Wayforward has announced plans to re-release the original GBC Shantae on 3DS Virtual Console in “the tail end of June.” You might need a break from Animal Crossing by then…!
I never got to play this. Like everyone else, I was all about Castlevania and Super Dodge Ball on GBA when Capcom put this out on Game Boy Color. Totally looking forward to this opportunity!
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Earthbound will be on Wii U’s Virtual Console in the West this year
itshappening.gif, guys. itshappening.gif. Nintendo of America has not only acknowledged that a game called Earthbound exists — it has decided that humans in North America and Europe should be allowed to play this game on a modern console. We did it.
Also, I love this fanart from Sakusama.
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Shigesato Itoi + Satoru Iwata
I know that a number of you have crushes on these middle-aged Japanese men, so I’m sure you’re squealing over this photo of them together, thumbs barely touching, two hearts becoming one.
Mother 2 releases on Japan’s Wii U Virtual Console this week, which means we get this great photo of Nintendo’s boss and Mother’s creator introducing a conversation between the two today (hoping for a translation soon).
Wii U’s Miiverse has also kicked off a special Mother 2 community that’s filled with Western fans begging for a Virtual Console release outside of Japan, and endearing comments from Itoi like these:
“Ahh Ahh Can you hear me? This is Shigesato Itoi. Please give me something. Please give me Test Test”
“I’m about to eat a banana that’s been sitting in 50 degree celsius water for 15 minutes straight. ….Yum! Mother 2 is nice, but so is this banana.”
On a related note, awesome Japanese design site PingMag is back — here’s a great interview they had with Itoi about advertising and t-shirts from seven years ago.
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Super Mario Bros. 3 coming to 3DS Virtual Console in Japan
Sorry I didn’t point this out when I first saw it – I sent Eric a quick “holy crap” but neglected to write it up. Super Mario Bros. 3 will be released on 3DS Virtual Console in Japan on January 1.
Seems pretty safe to assume this will be released outside of Japan at some point as well, which is the best. Well, the best-best would be the GBA version with all the weirdo extra e-Reader stuff built in, I guess.
Other cool stuff coming up for Japan: Metal Max and Revenge of the Gator.
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Mega Man 1-6 coming to 3DS Virtual Console
The biggest Mega Man news today is Street Fighter X Mega Man, out free today on PC, but there’s cool stuff for 3DS too! Capcom’s going to release Mega Man 1-6 on 3DS Virtual Console starting December 27.
Mega Man 2 will be out on Feb. 7, and the rest will be distributed throughout 2013. I will buy all of them, because that’s the kind of sucker I am.
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Keeping up with the recent theme of NES games on Japanese 3DS, but not on US 3DS, Solomon’s Key comes out next week.
The single-screen arcade port was actually one of the launch games for the Wii Virtual Console in North America, which I’m going to use as an awkward lead-in for this Virtual Console retrospective I posted on Joystiq yesterday. I feel like our relationship to the Virtual Console over the last six years has mostly involved (justifiable) complaints, but I wanted to highlight just how impossibly cool the service really is.
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River City Ransom and Super Mario Bros. 2 coming to 3DS eShop in Japan. Mannnn, so jealous of people with a portable version of River City Ransom! I played the GBA version obsessively until I got so overpowered I could basically just run through the whole game in a straight line.
These arrive on Nov. 28 for ¥500 each. This week in Japan: Pac-Man…!
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Just in time for Halloween, Capcom is putting a game on 3DS that is scaaaaaary difficult (and also has monsters and graveyards and Halloweeny stuff in it.) The NES version of Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, which is no longer available on the Wii Virtual Console, will be released on 3DS in North America next Thursday.
Sure, the NES port isn’t as good, but I didn’t know any better when I was a kid. Besides, it’s nice to have an excuse for poor performance…
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More GBA titles coming to 3DS Virtual Console? That’s what Nintendo of Australia site appears to suggest, showing GBA as a supported platform on its Virtual Console page, along with a priced listing for Dr. Mario. Given the effort needed to put together the pages, this doesn’t look like a slip-up.
So far, the only 3DS owners who’ve been able to play GBA titles are us Ambassador Certificate holders. But we’ve only had access to a limited set of games, so it will be nice to get more releases of GBA classics (e.g. Advance Wars).
Oh, and more eShop news out of Australia: Liberation Maiden, the Guild01 action game designed by Goichi Suda, has been rated by the country’s classification board, suggesting that it will see a standalone digital release, instead of shipping in a retail collection.
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For the Frog the Bell Tolls, the rad Game Boy RPG by Intelligent Systems, is going to be officially re-released on 3DS Virtual Console on Japan. That totally won’t happen here, because the English version only exists as a great fan translation, but it’s worth pointing out if only to remind you guys of the great fan translation!
It’ll be out September 5, along with Kirby’s Pinball Land and Cho Wakusei Senki Meta Fight, known here as Blaster Master! Man, what a killer week. In Japan.
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