Donkey Kong Country and Streets of Rage headline Wii Virtual Console Monday

Yessssssssssssss!

Pretty hot lineup, none of them actually interest me, but they were rather popular in their day so that should please many people =)

First Super Mario World, then Kirby's Adventure, now Donkey Kong Country? nice. Although I'm still working on Link to the Past. but still... nice.

I really, really hate the Wii Points system. 700 points left over, but to get Streets of Rage I'd need to add 1,000 more points, and though I suppose I'd spend those leftover points at a later date, it still irritates me to no end that I can't simply buy the exact amount of points I need or (even better) just buy the games without the ridiculous points.

I'm just nitpicking here, but wasn't Donkey Kong Country 32-bit?

I remember when it was released, and Nintendo was making all kinds of comments about how it doesn't require an add-on like "certain competitors" (as if there was more than one).

Nope, it appeared on a regular 16-bit cart on a 16-bit system...

Donkey Kong Country is badass

Media 32-megabit SNES cartridge

Taken from Wikipedia, so yeah, DKC was 32 bit?

But its no Golden Eye.

nice to see us here in the uk do get some stuff early weve had dk country since december but then it was developed here

I think the 32-bit comment comes from the fact that the pre-rendered art that was made into sprites was supposed to look better than the graphics offered by their 32-bit competitors.

Dopple Boppler: YES! This irks me to no end.

@#7: Megabit in this case referring to the amount of space taken up by the cartridge ROM.

'32 bit' makes reference to the system's CPU.

New Adventure Island!!!!!

I'll probably pick up Streets of Rage and DonkeyKong and while I'm at it Kirby.

I think the term used was "32-megs"

AWESOME games this week and if you own a 360 WE might get Alien Homid HD!! Kick A$$!! Though I would like to see Ninja Spirt and Bloody Wolf for the NEC release!!

And with the Streets Of Rage drop, I am not officially missing my Wii... hurry up, Nintendo Repair Center!

Damn! This is the best line-up yet. I was all about Streets of Rage in my younger years. I guess I can understand Nintendo's stance on purity (even though it's more likely laziness), but some online co-op would be pretty nice.

Looks like I'm gonna be spendin' some Wii Points today. Points make it seem like I'm not actually spending money!

Legend of Kage... is that pronounced like "Ka-gey", like the dude from Virtua Fighter?

I'm waiting on the Nintendo's 64 favorite 'Killer Instincts',.......

@ 9 & 11 - One of the main reasons for the minimum purchase is the credit card companies. Every time you use a credit card to purchase any item, it costs the seller about $.10 plus an additional percentage of the sale price (generally between 1-2%). So when Nintendo sells you $10 of Wii points (1,000), the company actually pockets about $9.70. If they sold you $1 of Wii points (100), then they would get $.88. 10 100 points sales equals $8.80 versus the 1 1,000 point sale of $9.70. Those cents quickly add up when you start rolling it up to the millions of transactions. Just ask the credit card companies who collected $30B in 2005 in just these fees alone. So if you want to blame someone, you can start with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.

For more information on this 'interchange fee', you can check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee

Dopple Boppler, I totally agree. And I blame Microsoft for starting it.

It would be far simplier to just buy what you what directly for the exact price, rather than having to buy points to buy something, and then not have enough points to buy everything you want. Then you buy more points, that simply sit there, until you buy something again.

Could you just imagine if everything worked that way?

Welcome to Best Buy! Are you here to redeem your points? If you need more points, they're available at checkout.

Basically these services are taking your money up front. I'd much rather our politicians concentrate on changing THAT practice rather than attack the ratings system.

I remember Nintendo's claims of ACM Technology(TM) used in DK Country. Their Advanced Computer Modeling basically boiled down to using prerendered 2D sprites of 3D models.

Not as lame as Blast Processing, but close.

if anything, they should offer smaller incentives to spend your "change".

They did a side by side of DKC and that Knuckles 32x game as part of their marketing campaign, and the graphcis on DKC did in fact look better. Basically the claim was that the SNES with no addon was still better than even the Genesis with the 32x. Untrue from a performance standpoint, but (regretfully) as an owner of a 32x, the game lineup was utter horse crap.

@ Ruskull

Maybe that's how they'll sell old Nintendo Power

Multiple issues for $1.00

You do realize the points system is an incentive to buy more than you need to, its "oh, i only want Super Mario Bros, but its a minimum of 1000 points, hey, may as well buy Ice Climber as well"

I want Donkey Kong Country and Streets of Rage but I don't think I'll get them just yet. It's still nice to see Nintendo stepping it up with their recent VC releases. What I'm really waiting for is Punch-Out!

Still, I'm tempted to get DKC.

Streets of Rage and DKC. Guess even Nintendo realizes that there might be some type of drought.

Don't get me wrong: I love Nintendo. But this is the second week of EXCELLENT games. DKC and SoR following Kid Icarus, Kirby, and Ice Climber? Seriously. Excellent.

Well, time to buy Country...a game I played but never had! Great game...now Nintendo...Super Metroid next week?

I agree, can I get Super Punch out? Can I get that?

Konami...where's AXELAY? Keep Gradius, Keep Lifeforce, I want AXELAY and I want Legend of the Mystical Ninja. NOW! chop chop.

Can I get me some Zelda II?

Anyone else unable to purchase DKC? I can see the other three games on the Wii Shop channel, but DKC is missing...

Cant wait for Castlevania 2: Simons Quest!

People can complain all they want about Wii Points, but I promise, those of you that don't have a 360, that the Wii Points system is 10 times better than MS. MS points have such a jacked conversion system, that you will ALWAYS give away money.
At least Nintendo made the conversion straight forward: 1 point=$0.01
You will always find a way to spend your points, and won't have "residual points" left over. Nintendo did it right, MS got this one wrong.

@30

That might be a while. Not that many people liked Zelda II. I can't see how anyone in their right mind would want to allocate gaming time to this title with what else is available. ;)

This "paying to borrow code to old games stuff" stuff kinda boggles my mind, though. We can argue all day about the pricing. But besides that there is the fact that playing an old game is taking away from your time to play new games.

I can't get through all my 360 games the way it is (mainly because I get sucked into online shooters, spending too much time on one game, too fun to put down). I couldn't imagine wanting to put down a new 360 game (most of which I get on Gamefly) to play an old anything, even if I missed it.

It is odd the difference in culture with 360 owners and Wii owners around re-releases of games. Certainly, the Wii has higher quality and quantity of old games, even considering the lack of additional features, especially online. But Wii owners seem more excited about VC games than Wii games right now, at times. 360 and PS3 gamers seem to just shrug meh at old stuff. I wonder why that is. I don't mean any negativity one way or the other, just am seriously curious. There is no way I'd rather play DKC or Link to the Past, even though they are both in my top ten ALL TIME for games, than even Saint's Row or Trauma Center or Motorstorm, relatively meh current gen titles.

@33 Earl

You are an idiot if you were serious. Nintendo's conversion system matches US currency value making it more convenient for American customers to determine prices. That is all you should have said. Everything else makes you look like a moron. You won't give away money or always spend more with the MS system. That is a dumb thing to say.

With each system, you spend different amounts of money for different products. I mean, I understand you are a mindless Nintendo fanboy, but don't make up arguments that don't hold any water and try to pass them off as fact.

legend of kage for nes is one of my favs! it seems like everyone missed that game though. it was so much fun, everyone should check it out.

Why doesn't the Euro VC get mentioned here?

I loved DKC on the SNES and can't wait for 2 and 3 to show up on the VC.
I'll buy the New Adventure island this week but I still have to finish Mario 64 and Super Mario World.

Finally I have been waiting for Streets of Rage and Donkey Kong Country to be launched on the VC forever.

Where the hell is DKC? Does anyone know what time we will get it?

They need to work out a deal to release GoldenEye on the 10th anniversary this year and get a n64 controller for the Wii.

Where's DKC at?

Jay (#37), Joystiq is an American site, so American content is most important here. Sometimes news for Europe, Australia, Japan, etc. is mentioned, but not always.

Wii Fanboy, however, always posts VC releases for North America, Europe/Australia, and Japan.

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/

Streets of Rage with no online multiplayer? I'll pass. Here's hoping they bring this to XBLA.

Virtual Console Mondays > Inconsistent XBLA Wednesdays...

Killer Instinct was a Rare developed title though if memory serves.

Since RARE is second party to Microsoft old Bill would have to decide the amount of flesh Nintendo would have to part for RARE IPs to appear on the vc.

What's with all you "No online? I'll pass" people?

Don't you have any... uh, ya know, FRIENDS? That you know IN PERSON?

Not that I'm against online multiplayer, either (I think it's great), but offline play is still good.

I'm a little late to the thread, but...

@ #9

Dopple Boppler also hates how hot dogs come in packs of eight, but hot dog buns come in packs of six.