North American Virtual Console

North American Virtual Console

By DotEd. Monday, 19. February 2007, 19:22:14

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This post ( http://my.opera.com/nplus/blog/navc ) will be updated weekly.

Click Read More for the full list, with additional info and latest additions.

In the future, you can use the North American Virtual Console link in the Start Menu to the right of the blog.

The same is true for the European Virtual Console.

Click on any of the games that are underlined and in blue to go to our Retro Review of that game!

NES 500 Wii Points each

Adventure Island
Adventures of Lolo™
Adventures of Lolo 2
Balloon Fight®
Baseball
Bases Loaded
Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
Blades of Steel
Bubble Bobble
Castlevania
Castlevania® II Simon's Quest
City Connection™
Clu Clu Land
Dig Dug™
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Jr
Donkey Kong Jr. Math
Double Dragon™
Double Dribble
Elevator Action
Excitebike
Galaga
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Gradius
Ice Climber
Ice Hockey
Kid Icarus
King's Knight™
Kirby's Adventure
The Legend of Kage
The Legend of Zelda
Lode Runner®
Lunar Pool
Mach Rider®
Mario Bros
Mega Man
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Metroid®
Mighty Bomb Jack™
Milon's Secret Castle®
NES Open Tournament Golf
NES Play Action Football
Ninja Gaiden™
Ninja Gaiden II™: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden™ III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Ninja JaJaMaru-kun (600 Wii Points)
Operation Wolf™
Pac-Man®
Pinball
Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream
Renegade™
River City Ransom
Soccer
Solomon's Key
Spelunker™
Star Soldier
Star Tropics™
Super C
Super Dodge Ball
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (600 Wii Points)
Tecmo Bowl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (600 Wii Points)
Tennis
Urban Champion
Volleyball
Wario's Woods
Wrecking Crew
Xevious
Yoshi®
Yoshi's Cookie
Zanac
Zelda II™ - The Adventure of Link®

Super NES 800 Wii Points each

ActRaiser™
Axelay®
Breath of Fire II
Contra III: The Alien Wars
Cybernator
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2™: Diddy's Kong Quest™
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure
F-Zero
Final Fight
Gradius™ III
Harvest Moon®
Kirby's Avalanche™
Kirby's Dream Course™
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Metal Marines®
Pac-Attack
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire
R-Type III: The Third Lightning
Secret of Mana
SimCity
SPACE INVADERS: The Original Game
Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Mairo RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super R-Type
Super Street Fighter™ II: The New Challengers
Super Turrican
Super Turrican 2
Vegas Stakes

Nintendo 64 1000 Wii Points each

1080°® Snowboarding
Cruis'n USA™
F-Zero® X
Kirby 64™: The Crystal Shards
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Mario Kart 64
Mario Golf
Paper Mario®
Pokemon Puzzle League
Pokémon Snap
Sin & Punishment (1200 Wii Points)
Starfox 64
Super Mario 64
Wave Race® 64
Yoshi's Story

SEGA Master System 500 Wii Points each

Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Fantasy Zone
Sonic the Hedgehog
Space Harrier
Wonder Boy

Sega Genesis/MegaDrive 800 Wii Points each

Alex Kidd and the Enchanted Castle
Alien Soldier™ (900 Wii Points)
Alien Storm
Altered Beast
Beyond Oasis
Bio-Hazard Battle
Bonanza Bros
Boogerman™: A Pick and Flick Adventure
Columns
Columns III™: Revenge of Columns
Comix Zone
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco Jr.
Ecco The Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Eternal Champions
FORGOTTEN WORLDS
Gain Ground
Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Gley Lancer
Golden Axe
Golden Axe™ II
Golden Axe III
Gunstar Heroes
Kid Chameleon™
Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole™
Light Crusader
Mega Turrican
Phantasy Star™ II
Phantasy Star™ III Generations of Doom
Powerball
Puyo Puyo 2: Tsuu
Ristar
Rolling Thunder™ 2
Shining Force™
Shining Force II
Shining in the Darkness™
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog™ 2
Sonic the Hedgehog™ 3
Space Harrier II
Splatterhouse 2
Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition
Streets of Rage™
Streets of Rage™ 2
Streets of Rage™ 3
Super Fantasy Zone
Super Thunder Blade™
Sword of Vermillion
Toe Jam & Earl
ToeJam & Earl™ in Panic on Funkotron
Vector Man
Virtua Fighter 2
Wonder Boy™ in Monster World

TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafix-CD 600 Wii Points each

Air Zonk
Alien Crush
Battle Lode Runner™
Blazing Lazers
Bloody Wolf
Bomberman '93
Bonk's Adventure
Bonk's Revenge
Bonk III: Bonk's Big Adventure
Bravoman
Break In
Chase H.Q.
Chew Man Fu
China Warrior
Cho Aniki
Cratermaze™
Dead Moon
Devil's Crush
Digital Champ Battle Boxing
Double Dungeons
Dragon Spirit
Dragon's Curse
Drop Off
Dungeon Explorer
The Dynastic Hero (800 Wii Points)
Final Soldier
Galaga™ '90
Gate of Thunder (800 Wii Points)
Gradius II Gofer No Yabou
J.J. & Jeff
Legend of Hero Tonma
Lords of Thunder (800 Wii Points)
Military Madness
Monster Lair (800 Wii Points)
Moto Roader
Neutopia
Neutopia II
New Adventure Island
Ninja Spirit
Ordyne™
Power Golf
Psychosis
R-Type (800 Wii Points)
Riot Zone (800 Wii Points)
Samurai Ghost™
Shockman
Silent Debuggers
Soldier Blade
Splatterhouse
Star Parodier
Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly-Paradise (800 Wii Points)
Super Star Soldier
Victory Run
Vigilante
World Class Baseball
World Sports Competition
Ys Book I & II

NEOGEO 900 Wii Points each

Art of Fighting
Art of Fighting 2
Baseball Stars 2
Blue's Journey
Burning Fight
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
Fatal Fury 2
The King of Fighters '94
King of the Monsters
Magician Lord
Metal Slug
Neo Turf Masters
Ninja Combat
Ninja Commando
Samurai Shodown
Samurai Shodown 2
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
World Heroes

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Comments

Just a little nitpick: you have Contra III in both the "here" and "coming soon" lists. I know it's here, 'cause I got it.

By Xoder, # 19. February 2007, 21:46:34

thanks for that.

fix.ed

By DotEd, # 19. February 2007, 22:06:25

Case sensitive (http://my.opera.com/Nplus/blog/NAVC results in 404 Not Found)? Was not aware of that.

By EspenAO, # 19. February 2007, 23:22:04

thanks.

fix.ed

By DotEd, # 20. February 2007, 00:00:48

im glad you guys got streets of rage, i hope it'll be added to our vc list here friday

By eightball19, # 20. February 2007, 09:51:35

This week's updates:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Chew Man Fu (TG16)
Bio-Hazard Battle (Genesis)

By lutherjw, # 27. February 2007, 01:40:58

Keith writes:

I am disapoinded with my wii.

By anonymous user, # 4. March 2007, 01:09:26

i'm suprised anyone can look at that list, and say that....

By DotEd, # 4. March 2007, 01:33:48

This may sound dumb, but what do you mean by saying R-Type is two games in one?

By thejesusegg, # 5. March 2007, 20:03:44

in Japan R-Type 1 and 2 were sold seperately 2 was a sequel to 1, in Europe and the US, they were both on one cartridge just sold as R-Type and people just thought it was an incredibly long game.

By DotEd, # 5. March 2007, 20:35:43

Thanks for the info. I never knew that about R-Type.

By thejesusegg, # 7. March 2007, 17:35:41

Anonymous writes:

By anonymous user, # 31. March 2007, 03:57:14

Those TG-16 games are bringing me back. I miss military madness the most for some reason- then again, all my PC games since then have been mostly turn-based strategy games.

That R-Type on TG-16 was dope.

By Eddie_Lopez, # 4. April 2007, 15:40:47

i too love turn based military strategy... Eddie, have you ever played Advance Wars for GBA or DS? my personal favorites, and truthfully, i think i've played everything in the genre.

By DotEd, # 4. April 2007, 17:34:19

super ghouls and ghosts is this weeks Retro Review, I have a feeling about these things

By CaptainSeagull, # 16. April 2007, 20:34:54

Sonic 3, come on!

By Tommyspud, # 24. April 2007, 10:39:27

Where are the rest of the GOOD games? DKC2, Sonic 2, Final Fantasy 3, Sonic and Knuckles, Splatterhouse 2 and 3
Yaaaargh!

By Wandering Mind, # 15. May 2007, 13:41:43

if they released all of your favorite games, or all of the "good" games right away, there would be little draw to check it after people got what they wanted... Nintendo is a business. They need to ensure their position in the market is strong and continues to build anticipation with a steady flow of revenue rather than having a bunch of stuff released and then have people lose interest in the later offerings. you would have people saying "remember when they used to release 'good' games on the virtual console when it first came out? now it sucks."

pick your poison, the only difference is the way Nintendo is doing it ensures future profitability and means they'll be around to keep us happy longer... the better option in my opinion.

By DotEd, # 15. May 2007, 14:07:38

Yeah I'd like Final Fantasy III myself, but many of the enplussers know that already

. The FF4 (2 in US) remake for the DS looks tasty, and their announcement about DS remakes of FF5 and 6 (

) make me realize I'm not going to have much money in the near future.

By Khadgar, # 15. May 2007, 15:31:17

what ed said is true

By nick174, # 8. June 2007, 03:48:29

You have good point Ed. I never thought of it in such a light.

However, since I made that last post they have released DKC2 and Sonic 2...in that order! Is there a spy lurking for Nintendo somewhere about? <.< >.>

By Wandering Mind, # 18. June 2007, 21:10:21

James Perih writes:

COME ON, SUPER METROID!!! That's what I'm waiting for....

By anonymous user, # 6. August 2007, 17:13:26

Are you guys planning on reviewing all the games?

By Shadowganondorf, # 22. August 2007, 14:38:19

there is no way we could keep up, but if some N+ Members wanted to do reviews, we could definately post them, like to you for credit, and link to them from here.

By DotEd, # 23. August 2007, 06:11:38

Do you know if we're gonna get neogeo games like europe's vc.

And as for imports, will they bring like the first star ocean and front mission 1 &2, not to mention Secret of Mana 2, japan's SD #3.

By darth_1978, # 6. October 2007, 00:35:06

we're probably getting neo geo, and i'm not sure about the front mission games because square likes to rerelease their properties as new games, but i wouldnt count it out.

*paitiently awaiting front mission ds*

By DotEd, # 6. October 2007, 17:17:46

Cool. Can't wait for them. And I'm waiting for front mission ds too. But would love to have original on VC. Also want Secret Of Mana too.

By darth_1978, # 6. October 2007, 17:56:58

Hey. We just got NEOGEO!!! Fatal Fury, World Heroes, & Art Of Fighting. How cool is that.

By darth_1978, # 8. October 2007, 16:13:24

i seriously crapped wii points.

By DotEd, # 16. October 2007, 04:09:05

ed, did you forget to update this? SMB3 is still listed as comming and not avail

By CaptainSeagull, # 13. November 2007, 04:55:42

fix.ed

By DotEd, # 13. November 2007, 16:23:06

tasty

By CaptainSeagull, # 13. November 2007, 17:26:05

Any word on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II on NES? I heard about that one around the time Ninja Gaiden 1 came out. I am holding out for that because I love the Ninja Turtles! (even though TMNT 1 was terrible)

By thedude81, # 5. December 2007, 17:48:04

it was. it really was.

By CaptainSeagull, # 5. December 2007, 18:41:33

you have wild gunman on the upcoming list twice.

By darth_1978, # 17. December 2007, 09:32:39

these are the games i expect on vc:Majora's Mask,LOZ 64...Perfect Dark 64,Harvest Moon 64
,Killer Instinct SNES and 64,Bionic Commando NES,
the world is not enough 64,
and any final fantasy titles for the SNES

By NewTonyIc, # 16. August 2008, 23:56:14

also Shadow Man and Nightmare Creatures for the 64.....i got scared playing these games at night,alone.

By NewTonyIc, # 19. August 2008, 05:15:17

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