30 August 2006
Ferry

Tecmo brings classics to Nintendo Wii Virtual Console

Tecmo, the maker of the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series announced as part of a financial report issued on August 28th, that the company will support the Wii’s Virtual Console “aggressively.” Specifics were not revealed to IGN.

Other areas mentioned in the financial report, are a worldwide simultaneous launch for Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 on Xbox 360 and a promise to tackle new titles, with the Wii’s Super Swing Golf Pangya given as an example. The company didn’t make mention of Xbox Live Arcade or Sony’s PS3 download service.

It looks like our crew member astrotriforce was right on the money in reviewing the entire NES Ninja Gaiden Trilogy in advance (see our “Easy Review Links” in the left menu), because it’s very likely you’ll be download them and other classics like Tecmo Bowl later this year.

Other NES, SNES & Genesis possibilities include: Mighty Bomb Jack, Solomon’s Key 1 & 2, Rygar, Tecmo Baseball, Tecmo World Wrestling, Star Force, Secret of the Stars, Tecmo Super Bowl 1 & 2 & 3, Tecmo Super Hockey, Tecmo Super Baseball.

30 August 2006 11:37
Y.V.Reetesh

Its a NES game right? s technically its was going be there no matter what… as Nintendo is planning to get ALL nes games in virtual console…. or is it not???

30 August 2006 11:48
supadupagama

I think so, but they won’t release every game at once. It’s likely they are going to spread out the nes, snes, etc. games over the months of the year.

4 November 2006 17:00
joel

If nintendo Wii makes the first baseball stars and the tecmo football classics avaliable, I will purchase the system.

16 November 2006 19:00
Rich

They have no idea how many people will buy the system if Tecmo Super Bowl is released.
Will 2 online gamers be able to play against one another in the NES games?

17 November 2006 03:36
supadupagama

Rich, unless they do a remake, they’ll only put the old offline version up for download.

17 November 2006 10:44
Brian

I don’t play very many video games, but if they release Tecmo Super Bowl, I will 100% by the system.

27 November 2006 09:58
gamerguy

OMG, I’ve died and gone to heaven. Favorite game of all time Tecmo Super Bowl! Please sell it for Wii and make it playable across the internet!!!!

29 November 2006 18:53
fury66

i know of at least 5 people who will buy the wii for tecmo super bowl.

good to see theres other tecmo freaks out there.

3 December 2006 15:49
Andrew

I will deinatly buy the Wii over the PS3 if Tecmo Superbowl becomes available for the systemin the near future.

4 December 2006 01:06
Jaybird

As much as I’d like to see it, there’s no way they can release Tecmo Super Bowl in its NES form.

They’d have to re-license all the players - and that’s not happening with the EA/Madden monopoly.

The could use generic players and it would suit me fine.