3DS Virtual Console Gets Big Push in North America

Whoo Wario Land and Kirby Pinball!

Amazing.
Is it just my computer or all these new articles' pictures not showing up properly?
Thanks so much for staying up late/getting up early (which ever you did) to report us this news, James! Love ya!

I'm going to need a bigger point card....

At least we get Wario land, but still I'd rather we get DL2 or tilt n tumble instead of Pinball

Hopefully there are more NES Virtual Console games added other than the ones the Ambassadors have already received.

Time to finally get a points card

Nintendo having a sale for one of their downloadable games? That's new.

And two 3DS VC games a week during July? Nice.

@Retro_on_theGo: They aren't showing up for me either.

Finally! Wario Land! Its been too long!

I am in for an expensive July.

How many ambassador games need to be released, 7? I won't let myself get too excited, but I would love to be proved wrong.

@Retro_on_theGo
Same for me. Works on an iPad, but not on my laptop. I don't even see user's avatars.

@ Wildvine53
You are correct. Those games would be Ice Climber, Wrecking Crew, Balloon Fight, Zelda (mentioned above), Zelda II, NES Open, and Yoshi for North America. I'd love to see SMB3 soon!

This is much anticipated news. Hopefully, we get Virtual Boy as well.

AW COME ON! Why is Wario Land all the way at the end of July!? >:[ Well at least we get Of my and monsters sooner.

! I may also get that SML just to support sales and stuff.

Now, about Harvest Moon...

The trailer says Sonic Blast and Sonic Labyrinth are on the way too.

Yes yes yes

I think this is rather disappointing. The only one I am looking forward to is Kirby Pinball Land. They have so many games they could put out. Aladdin for the gba, or Lion King would be great! Pokemon Pinball, Mario Pinball would be really awesome!

I think this would be more impressive if it weren't for the fact the best of these games have been out in Europe for months...

@Retro_on_theGo We're having server errors that mean images for news posts aren't working. Massive apologies!

@Tasuki This is all the information we have currently.

Now, nopony will have to hear me complain about no Wario Land or Kid Icarus OMM anymore. I'll have to find something else to complain about the absence of. Zelda Oracle games, along with Final Fantasy Legend & Final Fantasy Adventure are prime candidates.

Awesome! With America to catch up with Europe, we'll hopefully be seeing some new VC games coming out soon. :3

some people will still cry, watch

@Pixiey

Yea except titles like Aladdin are licensed games and the licenses have expired, it's not really worth the effort it takes to get the license renewed.

There's very few cases where licensed games appeared on Nintendo's VC service, the LucasArts Star Wars and Indiana Jones' titles being some of the few exceptions

Marz - LucasArts did not originally have anything to do with the publishing or the developing of those games originally. They only licensed Star Wars and Indiana Jones out to third party companies. Disney could publish games originally licensed to Capcom and Sega if they wanted to. It would be harder and more expensive for Capcom and Sega to get back the Disney license to publish the games themselves.

Kid Icarus and Wario Land for me!!

It sucks that we have to wait till July 26th for Wario Land. There's no excuse for us getting the game long after everyone else.

About time we're getting Wario Land. Only if the Wii VC gets this kind of push...

Finally. Jeez.

Wario Land and Kid Icarus M&M. Finally!!!!! Good stuff coming.

Finally The Legend of Zelda and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3.

Glad to hear about Wario Land for the 3DS VC. Hoping Nintendo decides to release Kirby's Dream Land 2 before they go with the anniversary collection. Any speculation on what the two unnamed releases are?

@spider-manatee Sonic Blast and Sonic labyrinth. They aren't dated, but one of those will come with Zelda on july 5th. (I love both)

What's stopping them from releasing all of the Ambassador titles at once? How do they benefit by drip-feeding releases?

YES!!! Now to see if nintendo can keep this streak going!

And
@Tomatoboxer
Think of it in terms of the holiday release schedule. Do you get every single one of the games you want during that short 3-ish month period? Now, cram all that into a single day, do you still think you'll be able to get every single one of those games? I'd doubt you could, and Nintendo has answered this question before. Would you rather be complaining about having a drought of games, or getting a new one every week or two to give you time to actually play the game you just bought?

Awesome! I'll be getting Kirby, Icarus and Wario Land for sure. And I hope they update Zelda too, unlike Donkey Kong Jr.!

Time to buy a E-shop card. (didn't have a card since like a year)

This news is "GRAPE"

I hope soon Virtual Boy VC games. There aren´t too much but it fits perfectly for the 3DS.

My body couldn't be more ready!

Awesome but why one month, why not do this for the entire year?

Releasing games at a steady pace > holding back for one robust month

glad for those who want these games but where is my pokemon games? when are we getting those games? kid icarus and kirby pinball is all I want out of those.

Cool! I'm glad I just got a points card for my birthday I was saving them for when the Pokemon apps came out, but now I have other stuff to think about.

Looking forward to updating Zelda. KI:oMaM & WL:SML3 are going to be insta-buys. Hope Sword of Hope II is decent, I could use a GB RPG.

finally! ! of course there is still stuff to complain about! why did it take so long? why do they insist on diff schedules for regions?? what is this.. 1985?

speaking of... its 2012, if they want us to buy console games on a portable, then we should expect to have cloud saves or some sort of data transfer! why would anyone want to have two separate zelda games going on!

I'll pick up KI, Wario and LoZ. Thanks for posting the specific dates.

YES! More VC! More Game Gear! Monkeys that throw bombs!

Finally! And a sale in the eShop? Already have the game, but nice to see a precedent being set. Let's see if we can't get some Steam-quality sales (50-75% off)

I got my sites set on Kid Icarus, Legend of Zelda, Sonic Blast, and Wario Land. As for what i'm hoping for is a Donkey Kong Land game.

IT'S ABOUT FREAKIN' TIME! Now I can definitely hold the wait until the end of next month for Wario Land and Kid Icarus. Good thing I still have funds in my virtual wallet!

2 games a week is good. But it should be 5 (like in the early Wii years) of course!!

@Henmii
why 5? lets shoot for 500 games a week!
and we will beat every single one in 7 days and get ready for another 500 the next week. i demand nintendo do this or im not going to be their best friend anymore!

Well It's great that I have a bigger SD card now. Cool news, now more will come to my interests.

I might download all of these games (Except the Sonic ones) just for the hype of it.

I will get Tumblepop, Wario Land, Legend of Zelda, and Kid Icarus

"lets shoot for 500 games a week!"

Ho, ho, let's be reasonable! Lol!

Shouldn't sword of hope one be released before sword of hope 2

@James
if you check their site, each week Nintendo is going to have a downloadable title on sale. This is a quote from their site "We’re kicking off a new program in the Nintendo eShop that will make select digital Nintendo 3DS games available at a discount. Each week you’ll see a different deal so keep checking back. "

@RR529 If you like the mother games's battle system, you will love this.

Wonder where the first game went...

Great! I can't wait for... uhm.. half of these Since I'm an Ambassador I already have half of those. But, Kid Icarus 2 is well worth the wait. I remember how much the game rocked back in the day (the gameboy KI sequel) it's really truly amazing, guys. A game not to be missed!

@mumof2kids82 Apparently sales only apply to America at the moment... Europe always gets screwed over. e.e