20 November 2006
Ferry

Nintendo put 12 out of 30 promised 2006 Wii Virtual Console games online at launch, rest coming on Mondays

Three weeks ago Nintendo announced that the below listed classics would be available on the Wii’s Virtual Console download service in 2006. Games up on the service right now are listed, with the upcoming games bolded to show which will be arriving every Monday spread out over 2006. For unexplained reasons the TurboGrafx 16 games were missing completely.

NES Games:
* Baseball
* Donkey Kong
* Donkey Kong Jr.
* Ice Hockey
* Mario Bros.
* Pinball
* Soccer
* Solomon’s Key
* Tennis
* The Legend of Zelda
* Urban Champion
* Wario’s Woods

SNES Games:
* F-Zero
* SimCity

N64 Games:
* Super Mario 64

Genesis Games:
* Altered Beast
* Columns
* Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
* Ecco the Dolphin
* Golden Axe
* Gunstar Heroes
* Ristar
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Space Harrier II
* Toe Jam & Earl

TurboGrafx 16 Games:
* Bomberman ‘93
* Bonk’s Adventure
* Dungeon Explorer
* Super Star Soldier
* Victory Run

Official Nintendo Virtual Console page.
Official Sega Virtual Console page.
Official Hudson Virtual Console page.
Screenshot via Gamespot

November 21 update: As Nick mentioned in a comment, Hudson just added two games to the Virtual Console Turbografx 16 section. Here’s the press release: “Hudson Entertainment is announcing that its TurboGrafx games are now live on Wii Virtual Console. The two launch titles are Bomberman ‘93 and Bonk’s Adventure. Other titles that were previously announced will be rolled out over the next few weeks, which include Super Star Soldier, Victory Run, and Dungeon Explorer.”

As orginally reported a week ago (thanks for the correction Rob & Bking), the Wii system will support TurboGrafx games that originally had 5 players multiplayer modes. These games include Bomberman ‘93 and Dungeon Explorer.”

22 November 2006 00:18
Rob

That’s right, Bomberman does support 5 players. Says it on the information page for the game even before you buy it. Bought it and it works.

22 November 2006 05:48
supadupagama

Thanks for confirming Rob. As for the error Bking, that error is from Hudson’s press release, all we did was quote that, but I’m deleting it now. Great news!

22 November 2006 07:57
Scott

Okay, but don’t forget that the “release window” is leading into Jan. So when they said that the games would be avaliable during the window, this is probably what they meant.

22 November 2006 09:28
Reeteshinator

They are giving what they promised.. So its Good to see that

22 November 2006 10:18
Mike Hawk

Noobs.

30 November 2006 11:46
jason

wheres SF II??? will we be able to play it online… like the 360??

9 December 2006 19:41
jinchu

I would really like to see super metroid or a link to the past. Maybe rouge squadron 64 too

16 December 2006 17:18
Silk

I would really like to see a whole lot more Zelda, games, especially the N64 ones. It would also be great if they sold Wii points cards with more or less points than 2,000. Hopefully, everything will turn out good for everyone.

23 March 2007 07:44
Coolio

Pokemon Stadium needs to be added to the Wii’s list of downloadable virtual console games, and so does Pokemon Stadium 2. When will this happen?