North American Virtual Console

By .edDotEd. Monday, February 19, 2007 7:22:14 PM

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This post ( http://my.opera.com/nplus/blog/navc ) will be updated weekly.

Click Read More for the full list, with additional info and latest additions.

In the future, you can use the North American Virtual Console link in the Start Menu to the right of the blog.

The same is true for the European Virtual Console.

Click on any of the games that are underlined and in blue to go to our Retro Review of that game!

NES 500 Wii Points each
  • A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia
  • Adventure Island
  • Adventures of Lolo™
  • Adventures of Lolo 2
  • Balloon Fight®
  • Baseball
  • Bases Loaded
  • Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (600 Wii Points)
  • Blades of Steel
  • Blaster Master
  • Bubble Bobble
  • Castlevania
  • Castlevania® II Simon's Quest
  • Castlevania® III: Dracula's Curse
  • City Connection™
  • Clu Clu Land
  • Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
  • Dig Dug™ (600 Wii Points)
  • Donkey Kong
  • Donkey Kong 3
  • Donkey Kong Jr
  • Donkey Kong Jr. Math
  • Double Dragon™
  • Double Dribble
  • Elevator Action
  • Excitebike
  • Faxanadu
  • Final Fantasy
  • Galaga
  • Ghosts 'n Goblins
  • Gradius
  • Ice Climber
  • Ice Hockey
  • Kid Icarus
  • King's Knight™
  • Kirby's Adventure
  • The Legend of Kage
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Life Force
  • Lode Runner®
  • Lunar Pool
  • Mach Rider®
  • Mario Bros
  • Mega Man
  • Mega Man 2
  • Mega Man 3
  • Mega Man 4
  • Mega Man 5
  • Metroid®
  • Mighty Bomb Jack™
  • Milon's Secret Castle®
  • NES Open Tournament Golf
  • NES Play Action Football
  • Ninja Gaiden™
  • Ninja Gaiden II™: The Dark Sword of Chaos
  • Ninja Gaiden™ III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
  • Ninja JaJaMaru-kun (600 Wii Points)
  • Operation Wolf™
  • Pac-Man®
  • Pinball
  • Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
  • Punch Out!!
  • Renegade™
  • River City Ransom
  • S.C.A.T.
  • Shadow of the Ninja
  • Sky Kid
  • Soccer
  • Solomon's Key
  • Spelunker™
  • Star Soldier
  • Star Tropics™
  • Super C
  • Super Dodge Ball
  • Super Mario Bros.
  • Super Mario Bros. 2
  • Super Mario Bros. 3
  • Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (600 Wii Points)
  • Tecmo Bowl
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (600 Wii Points)
  • Tennis
  • Ufouria: The Saga (600 Wii Points)
  • Urban Champion
  • Volleyball
  • Wario's Woods
  • Wrecking Crew
  • Xevious
  • Yoshi®
  • Yoshi's Cookie
  • Zanac
  • Zelda II™ - The Adventure of Link®
  • Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
Super NES 800 Wii Points each
  • ActRaiser™
  • Aero the Acro-Bat
  • Aero the Acro-Bat 2
  • Axelay®
  • Brawl Brothers
  • Breath of Fire II
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Contra III: The Alien Wars
  • Cybernator
  • Darius Twin
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • Donkey Kong Country 2™: Diddy's Kong Quest™
  • Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
  • DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure (900 Wii Points)
  • F-Zero
  • Final Fantasy II
  • Final Fantasy III
  • Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
  • Final Fight
  • Final Fight 2
  • Final Fight 3
  • Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf
  • Ghoul Patrol
  • Gradius™ III
  • Harvest Moon®
  • Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
  • Kirby Super Star
  • Kirby's Avalanche™
  • Kirby's Dream Course™
  • Kirby's Dream Land 3
  • The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
  • The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past
  • Mega Man X
  • Metal Marines®
  • Natsume Championship Wrestling
  • Nobunga's Ambition
  • Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
  • Pac-Attack
  • Pilotwings
  • R-Type III: The Third Lightning
  • Rival Turf!
  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire
  • Secret of Mana
  • SimCity
  • Space Invaders: The Original Game
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2
  • Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
  • Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
  • Super Adventure Island
  • Super Adventure Island II
  • Super Bonk
  • Super Castlevania IV
  • Super E.D.F.: Earth Defense Force
  • Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
  • Super Mario Kart
  • Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
  • Super Mario World
  • Super Metroid
  • Super Punch-Out!!
  • Super R-Type
  • Super Star Wars
  • Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
  • Super Street Fighter™ II: The New Challengers
  • Super Turrican
  • Super Turrican 2
  • The Combatribes
  • The Ignition Factor
  • Uncharted Waters: New Horizons
  • Vegas Stakes
  • Wild Guns
  • Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Nintendo 64 1000 Wii Points each SEGA Master System 500 Wii Points each
  • Alex Kidd in Miracle World
  • Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars
  • Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
  • Enduro Racer
  • Fantasy Zone
  • Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa
  • Phantasy Star
  • R-Type (No longer available)
  • Secret Command (600 Wii Points)
  • Sonic Chaos™
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2
  • Space Harrier
  • Wonder Boy
  • Wonder Boy™ in Monster Land™
  • Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
Sega Genesis/MegaDrive 800 Wii Points each
  • Alex Kidd and the Enchanted Castle
  • Alien Soldier™ (900 Wii Points)
  • Alien Storm
  • Altered Beast
  • Beyond Oasis
  • Bio-Hazard Battle
  • Bonanza Bros
  • Boogerman™: A Pick and Flick Adventure
  • ClayFighter
  • Columns
  • Columns III™: Revenge of Columns
  • Comix Zone
  • Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
  • Dynamite Headdy
  • Earthworm Jim
  • Earthworm Jim 2
  • Ecco Jr.
  • Ecco The Dolphin
  • Ecco: The Tides of Time
  • Eternal Champions
  • Forgotten Worlds
  • Gain Ground
  • Galaxy Force II
  • Ghouls 'N Ghosts
  • Gley Lancer (900 Wii Points)
  • Golden Axe
  • Golden Axe™ II
  • Golden Axe III
  • Gunstar Heroes
  • Kid Chameleon™
  • Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole™
  • Light Crusader
  • M.U.S.H.A.
  • Mega Turrican
  • Mercs
  • Phantasy Star™ II
  • Phantasy Star™ III Generations of Doom
  • Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
  • Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
  • Powerball
  • Pulseman (900 Wii Points)
  • Puyo Puyo 2 (900 Wii Points)
  • The Revenge of Shinobi
  • Ristar
  • Rolling Thunder™ 2
  • Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
  • Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
  • Shining Force™
  • Shining Force II: Ancient Stealing
  • Shining in the Darkness™
  • Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
  • Sonic & Knuckles
  • Sonic 3D Blast
  • Sonic Spinball
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Sonic the Hedgehog™ 2
  • Sonic the Hedgehog™ 3
  • Space Harrier II
  • Splatterhouse 2
  • Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition
  • Streets of Rage™
  • Streets of Rage™ 2
  • Streets of Rage™ 3
  • Super Fantasy Zone (900 Wii Points)
  • Super Thunder Blade™
  • Sword of Vermillion
  • Toe Jam & Earl
  • ToeJam & Earl™ in Panic on Funkotron
  • Vectorman
  • Virtua Fighter 2
  • Wonder Boy™ in Monster World
  • Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (900 Wii Points)
TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafix-CD 600 Wii Points each
  • Air Zonk
  • Alien Crush
  • Battle Lode Runner™
  • Blazing Lazers
  • Bloody Wolf
  • Bomberman '93
  • Bomberman '94 (700 Wii Points)
  • Bonk's Adventure
  • Bonk's Revenge
  • Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure
  • Bravoman
  • Break In (700 Wii Points)
  • Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (900 Wii Points)
  • Chase H.Q.
  • Chew Man Fu
  • China Warrior
  • Cho Aniki (900 Wii Points)
  • Cratermaze™
  • Dead Moon
  • Detana!! TwinBee (700 Wii Points)
  • Devil's Crush
  • Digital Champ Battle Boxing (700 Wii Points)
  • Double Dungeons
  • Dragon Spirit
  • Dragon's Curse
  • Drop Off
  • Dungeon Explorer
  • The Dynastic Hero (800 Wii Points)
  • Fighting Street (800 Wii Points)
  • Final Soldier (700 Wii Points)
  • Galaga™ '90
  • Gate of Thunder (800 Wii Points)
  • Gradius II Gofer No Yabou (900 Wii Points)
  • J.J. & Jeff
  • Legend of Hero Tonma
  • Lords of Thunder (800 Wii Points)
  • Military Madness
  • Monster Lair (800 Wii Points)
  • Moto Roader
  • Neutopia
  • Neutopia II
  • New Adventure Island
  • Ninja Spirit
  • Ordyne™
  • Power Golf
  • Psychosis
  • R-Type (800 Wii Points)
  • Riot Zone (800 Wii Points)
  • Samurai Ghost™
  • Shockman
  • Silent Debuggers
  • SimEarth: The Living Planet (800 Wii Points)
  • Soldier Blade
  • Splatterhouse
  • Star Parodier (900 Wii Points)
  • Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (700 Wii Points)
  • Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly-Paradise (800 Wii Points)
  • Super Star Soldier
  • Victory Run
  • Vigilante
  • World Class Baseball
  • World Sports Competition
  • Ys Book I & II (800 Wii Points)
NEOGEO 900 Wii Points each
  • Art of Fighting
  • Art of Fighting 2
  • Baseball Stars 2
  • Blue's Journey
  • Burning Fight
  • Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
  • Fatal Fury 2
  • Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
  • Fatal Fury Special
  • Fighter's History Dynamite
  • Ironclad (1000 Wii Points)
  • The King of Fighters '94
  • The king of Fighters '95
  • King of the Monsters
  • Magical Drop II
  • Magical Drop III
  • Magician Lord
  • Metal Slug
  • Metal Slug 2
  • Neo Turf Masters
  • Ninja Combat
  • Ninja Commando
  • Samurai Shodown
  • Samurai Shodown II
  • Samurai Shodown III
  • Spin Master
  • Street Slam
  • Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
  • World Heroes
Commodore 64 500 Wii Points each
  • Boulder Dash
  • California Games
  • Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine
  • International Karate
  • Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance
  • Pitstop II
  • Summer Games II
  • The Last Ninja
  • Tower Toppler
Virtual Console Arcade 500 Wii Points each
  • 1942
  • Altered Beast (1000 Wii Points)
  • Black Tiger
  • Exed Exes
  • Gaplus (600 Wii Points)
  • Ghosts'n Goblins
  • Golden Axe (900 Wii Points)
  • Mappy
  • Ninja Gaiden
  • Rygar
  • Shinobi (800 Wii Points)
  • Solomon's Key
  • SonSon
  • Space Harrier (800 Wii Points)
  • Star Force
  • Tecmo Bowl
  • The Tower of Druaga
  • Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando
  • Zaxxon (800 Wii Points)

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Comments

PeterXoder Monday, February 19, 2007 9:46:34 PM

Just a little nitpick: you have Contra III in both the "here" and "coming soon" lists. I know it's here, 'cause I got it.

.edDotEd Monday, February 19, 2007 10:06:25 PM

thanks for that.

fix.ed

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO Monday, February 19, 2007 11:22:04 PM

Case sensitive (http://my.opera.com/Nplus/blog/NAVC results in 404 Not Found)? Was not aware of that.

.edDotEd Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:00:48 AM

thanks.

fix.ed

colineightball19 Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:51:35 AM

im glad you guys got streets of rage, i hope it'll be added to our vc list here friday

Joel Lutherlutherjw Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:40:58 AM

This week's updates:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Chew Man Fu (TG16)
Bio-Hazard Battle (Genesis)

Unregistered user Sunday, March 4, 2007 1:09:26 AM

Keith writes: I am disapoinded with my wii.

.edDotEd Sunday, March 4, 2007 1:33:48 AM

i'm suprised anyone can look at that list, and say that....

Lewiethejesusegg Monday, March 5, 2007 8:03:44 PM

This may sound dumb, but what do you mean by saying R-Type is two games in one?

.edDotEd Monday, March 5, 2007 8:35:43 PM

in Japan R-Type 1 and 2 were sold seperately 2 was a sequel to 1, in Europe and the US, they were both on one cartridge just sold as R-Type and people just thought it was an incredibly long game.

Lewiethejesusegg Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:35:41 PM

Thanks for the info. I never knew that about R-Type.

Unregistered user Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:57:14 AM

Anonymous writes: :heart: :confused:

Eddie LopezEddie_Lopez Wednesday, April 4, 2007 3:40:47 PM

Those TG-16 games are bringing me back. I miss military madness the most for some reason- then again, all my PC games since then have been mostly turn-based strategy games.

That R-Type on TG-16 was dope.

.edDotEd Wednesday, April 4, 2007 5:34:19 PM

i too love turn based military strategy... Eddie, have you ever played Advance Wars for GBA or DS? my personal favorites, and truthfully, i think i've played everything in the genre.

AntonCaptainSeagull Monday, April 16, 2007 8:34:54 PM

super ghouls and ghosts is this weeks Retro Review, I have a feeling about these things

TommyTommyspud Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:39:27 AM

Sonic 3, come on!

ElleWandering Mind Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:41:43 PM

Where are the rest of the GOOD games? DKC2, Sonic 2, Final Fantasy 3, Sonic and Knuckles, Splatterhouse 2 and 3
Yaaaargh!

.edDotEd Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:07:38 PM

if they released all of your favorite games, or all of the "good" games right away, there would be little draw to check it after people got what they wanted... Nintendo is a business. They need to ensure their position in the market is strong and continues to build anticipation with a steady flow of revenue rather than having a bunch of stuff released and then have people lose interest in the later offerings. you would have people saying "remember when they used to release 'good' games on the virtual console when it first came out? now it sucks."

pick your poison, the only difference is the way Nintendo is doing it ensures future profitability and means they'll be around to keep us happy longer... the better option in my opinion.

Dustin WilsonKhadgar Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:31:17 PM

Yeah I'd like Final Fantasy III myself, but many of the enplussers know that already bigsmile. The FF4 (2 in US) remake for the DS looks tasty, and their announcement about DS remakes of FF5 and 6 (yes) make me realize I'm not going to have much money in the near future.

Anthonynick174 Friday, June 8, 2007 3:48:29 AM

what ed said is true

ElleWandering Mind Monday, June 18, 2007 9:10:21 PM

You have good point Ed. I never thought of it in such a light.

However, since I made that last post they have released DKC2 and Sonic 2...in that order! Is there a spy lurking for Nintendo somewhere about? <.< >.>

Unregistered user Monday, August 6, 2007 5:13:26 PM

James Perih writes: COME ON, SUPER METROID!!! That's what I'm waiting for....

Shadowganondorf Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:38:19 PM

Are you guys planning on reviewing all the games?

.edDotEd Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:11:38 AM

there is no way we could keep up, but if some N+ Members wanted to do reviews, we could definately post them, like to you for credit, and link to them from here.

Christopherdarth_1978 Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:35:06 AM

Do you know if we're gonna get neogeo games like europe's vc.

And as for imports, will they bring like the first star ocean and front mission 1 &2, not to mention Secret of Mana 2, japan's SD #3.

.edDotEd Saturday, October 6, 2007 5:17:46 PM

we're probably getting neo geo, and i'm not sure about the front mission games because square likes to rerelease their properties as new games, but i wouldnt count it out.

*paitiently awaiting front mission ds*

Christopherdarth_1978 Saturday, October 6, 2007 5:56:58 PM

Cool. Can't wait for them. And I'm waiting for front mission ds too. But would love to have original on VC. Also want Secret Of Mana too.

Christopherdarth_1978 Monday, October 8, 2007 4:13:24 PM

Hey. We just got NEOGEO!!! Fatal Fury, World Heroes, & Art Of Fighting. How cool is that.

.edDotEd Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:09:05 AM

i seriously crapped wii points.

AntonCaptainSeagull Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:55:42 AM

ed, did you forget to update this? SMB3 is still listed as comming and not avail

.edDotEd Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:23:06 PM

fix.ed

AntonCaptainSeagull Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:26:05 PM

tasty

AntonCaptainSeagull Wednesday, December 5, 2007 6:41:33 PM

it was. it really was.

Christopherdarth_1978 Monday, December 17, 2007 9:32:39 AM

you have wild gunman on the upcoming list twice.

Tony G. Martinez MoraNewTonyIc Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:56:14 PM

these are the games i expect on vc:Majora's Mask,LOZ 64...Perfect Dark 64,Harvest Moon 64
,Killer Instinct SNES and 64,Bionic Commando NES,
the world is not enough 64,
and any final fantasy titles for the SNES

Tony G. Martinez MoraNewTonyIc Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:15:17 AM

also Shadow Man and Nightmare Creatures for the 64.....i got scared playing these games at night,alone.

Çδî)Ψ Σ β@Ï£έ¥tyrantnyx Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:05:19 AM

They should have Splat from the sega saturn on vc, it was my first game and one of my favorites.

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