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.”

20 November 2006 18:33
ev

you have it backwards
the bold is what is yet to come
normal font is out now

20 November 2006 18:42
supadupagama

ev, thanks for that, I need to rub the sleep out of my eyes, it must be Monday

21 November 2006 13:31
Sengara

They say on the Nintendo site, and in a lot of other places, that all games will be out by the end of December. So be patient, they will all be there soon ^_^

21 November 2006 13:38
PiratedTVPro

So they’ll release 2-3 games a week, every Monday, with all 30 games promised in the Launch Window out by the time they said they would. How is that article worthy?

21 November 2006 14:11
Nick McLaren

FYI: Bonk and Bomberman ‘93 have been released on VC as of today 11/21.

21 November 2006 14:14
Luis

What about Tecmo Bowl? I guess since it wasn’t made by Nintendo, it will not be available?

21 November 2006 14:30
supadupagama

Luis, Temco have said they’ll support the Wii’s Virtual Console “aggressively.” So I would expect to see the Tecmo Bowl NES game available next year.

21 November 2006 14:39
Ithix

Any hope of golden eye or pokemon stadium to be released with online play maybe??

21 November 2006 15:11
Deaper

Ithix I sincerely doubt we’ll see goldeneye released with or without online play. Since rare owns the rights to goldeneye and rare is owned by Microsoft now it seems entirely unlikely. This would also mean we’re not likely to see Banjo Kazooie/Tooie or Perfect Dark both really awesome games from Rare. As for pokemon stadium I suppose it’s a possibility but I doubt we’ll see any new features, it seems most of the virtual console games are simply emulated games with very minor changes that are needed to support the wii.

I’m surprised Zelda Ocarina of Time wasn’t added to the list but I suppose it’ll be out at some point.

21 November 2006 23:13
bking

I just bought bomberman, and it DOES support five players, with a gamecube controller.

Way to report.