Nintendo Universe writes:
December 8th 2006 saw the launch of Nintendo's Virtual Console download service for the Nintendo Wii. Every week Nintendo promised to bring us gamers classic games from our past to our shiny new console.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
VC is the best feature about the Wii. Tons of classics from a bunch of consoles.
well its been kinda dead for a while, i guess we will just have to wait for the eventual re-launch on the Wii U. Still, the virtual console has provided some amazing (though overpriced as usual with nintendo) games from many consoles... One of the best aspects of the wii
if it dies its cause of nintendo's stupid decisions. I love nintendo games but I hate how the company operates.
where is super mario world?! :-(
More like where the hell is Earthbound...