@xesbeth or maybe The Adventures of Bayou Billy: ReBirth!

I think that one would translate really well, actually.

Will there be no end to these Thorium Wars? Something must be done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY9m2sHQwLs
It had better include this awesome song!

Great review. This game is lots of fun.

A small correction: The staggered rectangle arrangement on Koei's maps offers the same level of connectivity as a hex grid, but it is a much easier way to draw it. Each rectangle has six other rectangles connected to it, just like a hex would have six connected hexes.

@StarDust I was thinking the same thing.

This game is a lot of fun. For 500 points, I was really impressed with the depth of strategy involved.

I wrote Nintendo yesterday to ask about this myself, and I basically got the same response. I've never e-mailed them before and I was really surprised to get a personal response from one of their employees.

From Nintendo's site:
"Unlike standard Wii games which have release dates that are known well in advance, there is rarely advance notice given of when Virtual Console games will appear. For a variety of business and technical reasons games may be postponed, so we usually don't reveal much past the current Monday's releases."

I guess maybe something happened, but whatever. Sonic is still worth a download, and it's definitely lighter on the wallet than what we were expecting.

What the crap? Sonic the Hedgehog on SMS isn't terrible, but this is still a big bummer.