First Look at Revolutions Virtual Console

[Sean]

I'm sure many of you have already heard about this, but was a survey conducted a few days ago which involved Nintendo's upcoming console, codenamed Revolution. People have been speculating on what titles will be available, and even at what price these games come at. With this new survey, we have delve a little deeper into the abyss of secrets behind Nintendo, though keep in mind nothing is final just yet.

You can go ahead and read IGN's (http://revolution.ign.com/articles/680/680846p1.html) little article on the survey, but to get to the more important points there were three price points mentioned in the survey. $14.99 to rent, in monthly increments, $2.99 for NES titles and $19.99 for N64. I don't know about the rest of you but I was hoping for an iTunesish cost for NES titles, 99 cents. No word on SNES downloads though. Anyway, hopefully Nintendo will realize 99 cents is the way to go for NES games, if not cheaper, and perhaps lowering N64 prices would be good as well. :D

Also the list of games from the survey include:

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Games
Balloon Fight
Baseball
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Dr. Mario
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Hogan's Alley
Ice Climber
Ice Hockey
Kid Icarus
Kirby
Kung Fu
Mario Bros.
Mario Open Golf
Metroid
Pinball
Pro Wrestling
Punch Out
RC Pro AM
Soccer
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tennis
Tetris
Urban Champion
Volleyball
Wario's Woods
Yoshi's Cookies
Zelda
Zelda (Adventure of Link)
Super Nintendo Entertainment (SNES) Games
Battle Clash
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Earthbound
F-Zero
Illusion of Gaia
Killer Instinct
Kirby's Avalanche
Kirby Dream Course
Kirby Super Star
Kirby 3
Pilot Wings
Sim City
Star Fox
Stunt Race FX
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Play Action Football
Super Scope 6
Super Soccer
Super Tennis
Tetris Attack
Tetris 2
Uniracers
Vegas Stakes
Wario's Woods
Yoshi's Hunting
Yoshi's Island
Zelda
N64 Games
1080
Blast Corps
Bomberman 64
Cruisin' USA
Goldeneye
Mario Golf 64
Mario Party 3
Mario Tennis 64
Ogre Battle 64
Paper Mario
Pilot Wings 64
Pokemon Snap
Sin & Punishment
Star Fox 64
Super Mario 64
Wave Race
Yoshi's Story
Zelda

I'm excited to see what else Nintendo has up it's sleeves. Perhaps we'll see some SEGA games showing up on the virtual console.

[Phoenix]

Making the games too expensive to play/rent wouldn't be beneficial, but they can't make it too low, or it wouldn't be worth it. After all, a video game is worth much more than a song :D .

[Chocowulf]

About every game on those lists that I would want to own, I already own. XD

[Seraphy]

I own most of those SNES games. And the only one in N64 I don't own are Ogre Battle 64 & Sin & Punishment. XD

[myitlab]

I don't own them but I play them long long time ago.

[PhoenixPhantom]

Revolution looks like a great console actually, too bad I'm a sony biggat.

[PyrosNine]

I've always wanted to play Sin & Punishment! As for the renting stuff, I hope I have a paying job by then...

I do hope there'll be further additions to what we can play as time goes by, under the assumption other companies allow their Nes, Snes, and N64 to be "rented" on the virtual console.

Wonder if there will be some original games for download through the system as well?

[Sean]

Wonder if there will be some original games for download through the system as well?

Ah, that hadn't even crossed my mind. That would indeed be a very interesting prospect for their virtual console system. It just seems as if there are so many possibilities for this aspect of the Revolution, hopefully they'll implement it well enough. Either way, aside from Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. I haven’t really experienced any of the games on the list, so they should all seem new to me. :sweat:

[PyrosNine]

Some of them were only released in Japan, or are very rare in the US of A.

I just hope that list doesn't change when it hits our shores. They might decide that the entirely japanese games shouldn't be bothered to be translated and decided to simply not let us download them.

[Khaos]

They better have zelda on there! -_-

[Omnicrone]

man I wish they had more games for SNES, and Nintendo, like for example:

NES
Ninja Gaiden 1 - 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 - 3
Double Dragon 3
Battle Toads
Megaman
Contra (1), Super C (2)


SNES
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy's
SD Great Battle
Contra Alien Wars
Megaman Series..(7-X series)
and much more...