New Wii U Virtual Console Titles Confirmed By Nintendo UK

Awesome hopefully US has the same lineup

Will cross everything in hope of US 60hz versions for all ROMs. Hyped for Super GnG!

As an aside, that Zelda art is really cool looking. If they made a game wherein the art direction was inspired by the old Link to the Past style concept art, I would be in heaven.

Edit: I guess I wasn't being clear. I'm referring more to a game takes this artwork and brings it to life. Not a revisit of a game that was based on this art. It would be a straight-2D game, more in line with the Adventure of Link than Link to the Past. @Kirk agrees with me.

I love playing 25 year old games on a brand new $350 system!!

Its hilarious that they add restore points to every game like Balloon Fight and then pretend that having a high score means anything anymore.

Will be cool to complete Zelda link to the past before the new one comes out. Also street fighter will get some replay time

I already bought World Warrior, Turbo and Super Street Fighter ll on the Wii VC. Please just bypass drip feeding them and give us Super Street Fighter ll from the start, I know I'll crumble and re-purchase them all again for the £1.49 upgrade if you don't.

I already own all of these in their original cart form, but I can't deny the allure of playing them all on the Wii U Gamepad...

@Bismarck thats a joke right?

@Geonjaha You'll be amazed how many are still obsessed on getting the highest scores. Especially since people can take snapshots and upload them to miiverse on the Wii U. iOS Game Center is another place where people obsess over high scores.

They should release A link to the past on the 3ds eshop. I would buy it in a heart beat, because I really want to play it before I get the sequel.

Not interested in any of these I'm afraid. It's going to be a long while until they re-release any games I actually want (Super Mario World is the only one I've re-purchased), especially with only 2 releases a week. And even longer before a NEW VC game comes out.

Off topic but I wish they'd make a Zelda game that actually looked exactly like that art at the top of the article. Now that would look awesome.

I wonder... possibly, could Balloon Fight delay be them prepping a 60hz update? ... Fat chance I suspect but there has to be a reason it isn't already back on sale

Wasn't Mega Man already announced for this week?

We need NEW OLD games Nintendo! NEW OLD ones! Stop giving us the same games we got on Wii!

Pretty cool trailer

Super Mario Bros. with save points !! FINALLY !!!!! :D:D

@lazyinsu I think he meant that the credibility of high scores have lost all meaning with the introduction of Save States.

ALTTP will be a first for me! Looking forward to it.

Xevious (NES) would probably be a little dissapointing after playing the excellent 3DClassics version.
I already have VC copies of Mega Man (3DS), Balloon Fight (Wii U & 3DS) and Super Mario Bros (3DS (and several non-VC versions too))
Not interested in Street Fighter II.
So that leaves A Link to the Past (will get, even though i have the original SNES cart) and Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (never tried this before depite being a big fan of the Megadrive version)

I already own all these... on my Wii... Would love to see something new, Nintendo. Keep em coming faster than this.

@-KwB- Totally. I no longer have the patience for NES games and Saves States will mean that I can finally beat Mario's original Super adventure.

This means I can start upgrading my games from Wii VC to Wii U VC.

God Nintendo, please stop with the NES games! They may be great but not worth it. They are now android/iOS games, I would pay €2 max for them now. €5 for SNES games, they should not be €8/9 (£5? I dont understand that conversion rate at all)

Bring on the best SNES games now, put between 5 and 10 games up on the WiiU VC every week, have them there for us to buy them now, please dont drip them out one a week. Get the N64 games up fast, get the GBA (why?) up now, get the Gamecube games up now!!!!

Why are they so slow? there are only 100 VC games up on the Wii VC in Europe, over 8 years? What a joke! Compare Nintys VC to Sonys back cat, may not be as many games but they get them up faster.

Can anyone tell me why they are so slow?
Get the bloody games out there, I wanna spend my money!

/frustration

Nintendo needs to have a way to transfer a single game to a Wii U because I have. Just a couple VC titles to transfer(link to the past and super mario world....the rest won't be playable fo quite some time on Wii U(N64 and due to me having no classic controller not on Wii mode either)

@FineLerv YES Indeed I'll finally be able to beat the original Mario and hopefully the Lost Levels too !!

@Bismarck The next 3DS Zelda title is attempting that.

Street Fighter II! Might get ALttP as well, never got far on the Wii. And Super Metroid of course.

SF2 and super metroid for me

I will upgrade Super Mario Bros and buy Lttp and Super GnG. I'll wait for SSF2 and I think Megaman will have to be discounted for me to buy it. Restore points and gamepad play definitely make these worthwhile. I never completed half the games back in the day so it will be nice to use quick saves.

I don't think the price is too high but the £ to € conversion is horrible on the eurozone and some of the games should never be bought full price. It's annoying that they are drip feeding us but they'd never convince us to buy half of the NES games otherwise.

In the background at 1:36 into the video, you can also see Pac-Man, Solomon's Key, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting (As shown by playable Sagat and the brown tree on Blanka's stage), Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (as shown by Cammy being played). Maybe an addendum to the news post?

@AbeVigoda think of it as starters while waiting for the banquet to arrive!

Why are they releasing the base version of Street Fighter II instead of one of the superior later versions (preferably Turbo)? Seems a bit pointless to be to be honest...

The fact they finally sorted out 60Hz after all this time is good, but as I'm not likely to buy a Wii U in the near future, its a shame they can’t update the games on the old Wii VC to 60Hz too...

They should have Lttp on 3DS eshop if not with the new Zelda.

I'm a long time Nintendo fan, but all I can say once again to these games is a very big MEH!

No way am I going to buy all these games again just so I can play them on the gamepad.

Just give us some N64 games that we never had on the Wii like for example DK64, and come on Nintendo, these NES/SNES games are/were good but they are so old now, get GameCube games on the VC NOW!

Zelda - Yes.

No to the others, unless they offer the 60hz version of Balloon Fight instead, and offer it as a free upgrade to all of us who've already paid 30p for the crappy 50hz version.

yeah i think we need different VC i would like to see yoshi's island on there something different then what they had on wii

I seriously want them all!!!!

so good ones coming. Now N64 and GC please, please with sugar on top

so good ones coming. Now N64 and GC please, please with sugar on top

I would really like to see the 2D Metroids for GBA.

I seriously just got to Ganon's Tower on a Wii VC play through of Zelda : ALTTP because I thought we were going to have to wait like 3 years for it to come out on the Wii U VC and it looks like there could be a chance of it coming to the US now...this sucks...this is why save data should transfer.

@readyletsgo They're slow because they have to spread out the releases so that it'll keep virtual console alive. If they released everything at once, it would be like the Wii vc: Complete madness.

@Joshers744 It's not like you still can't play it on Wii mode.

@AbeVigoda "I love playing 25 year old games on a brand new $350 system!!"
But now you can finally play them in your bed, just like we can already do with our 3ds!!! The future is here!!!

Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts with a restore point will be fantastic!

@HeatBombastic Nah, I dont think so, they have 100's of thousands of games, I understand they have to get rights from publishers for 3rd party games and that takes time (8 years now), but one or two a week is a joke.

A mix of between 5 and 10 games from NES/SNES/N64/GCN should be the min.
Of course if they released them all in one go, people would only buy a few and never look again.
But I guarantee you, they will release a couple each week, then turn to each month, then every other month then before you know it by 2015/16 Ninty will forget about the WiiU VC, again.

Just my opinion but i feel they can do a HELL of a lot better on the VC front.

Like many of us, I really hope for the day 3ds can play all my favorite snes games. I'm not interested in a wii u, cuz I want my games wherever I go, and $350 for the system alone is far too expensive.

How many years it will take to have the same 405 games that are already available in the Wii? I hope they relauch all games that Wii already quit of the service like R-Type.

@readyletsgo You know if it was Sony responding to your complaint that their old games cost too much, they would tell you to get a second job.

"Five Ninety Nine is too expensive? Get a second job then... muahahah plebes!"

Restart points make Super Ghouls n Ghosts worth suing again. What an infuriating game that was back in the day. It's also pretty hard to get hold of a decent copy on Super Famicom too.

@element187
Meh, just release the games that are already on the Wii VC oton the WiiU VC now Ninty, then add more each week.

Too bad they aren't done in 3D and HD forms. Now that would be impressive.

A link to the past and Super Street fighter II for me, thanks.

And I think that a weekly release schedule, swapping from system every week (NES / SNES / N64 / GC / Others) and releasing one or two games should engage more than tossing a bunch of titles every now and then.

Boring list...

I want games I haven't seen before on the Wii already...

This sounds a bit sad, but I'm excited for the chance to finally play A Link to the Past in 60hz, legally that is. :J
(And on the GamePad!! Aah, I love it.)
I'm really pleased with having Super Mario World in 60hz on Euro VC. It's such a noticeable difference that it's hard to overstate!

Can't wait for 60hz N64 games!
The old console was already sluggish at times, and having it at 50hz PAL made it even more so. I've said it before, but I feel cheated.

@Bismarck check the new 3ds title thats exactly what there going for, i honestly thought you were joking haha.

@Geonjaha That's the sad thing about it. Those save points are nice and all to help out some people who weren't able to finish some games but I agree in them making the high scores meaningless. I even posted about that on the Balloon Fight Miiverse section when it came out. Not as much fun, competitive wise, when anyone can save & restore a billion times to get a really great score.

@Moshugan I kind of wonder how far Nintendo will go with 60Hz though. For the moment with these old games (I think) they are just using the US version as a short cut.

However, once you get to games which may have been presented in a number of European languages, it may require more work to convert the PAL rom into a 60Hz format, we be interesting to see if they will actually do this.

@HeatBombastic When the VC started we had between 3-5 VC releases for like two years straight. They could do that again with NEW systems [Gamecube, Dreamcast, Saturn, Amiga and such] as well as the old and have enough releases for the entire generation.

Nintendo has to start pushing, though.

I'll probably be getting Super Mario Bros. Zelda: LttP and Mega Man.

Super Mario Bros and Zelda: LttP!

@arrmixer Knowing Nintendo of Americas' track record, it will probably be the following: Mega Man, Donkey Kong (arcade), Zelda 2, and other games we don't care about

@Ristar42 ''...it may require more work to convert the PAL rom into a 60Hz format...''
Ack! They'll never attempt that!
They could offer the option to buy the NTSC version, even if it did only have english.

Super Ghouls n Ghosts!

love each one of em, but i need desperately an option to switch twin 4:3 to full 16:9... hate those black bars...

Holy poopoo, the Wii U has save states(Restore Points). . . . AWESOME!!

@dragon_rider
Lol that's true but I actually have a soft spot for donkey long

If it's not N64 I couldn't care less....

I voted not interested, already have most of these games in easily accessible form, the only ones I'd play again are Mario (have on the 3ds) and Zelda (have the GBA version.)

Mega Man, Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II? Well fancy that.

Solid but expected titles. Come on NOE give us some rare jems not many people have played before!

(insert constant whining and moaning about the VC's lack of obscure games that no-one knows about and its pricing that is 3-4 times cheaper than the original cart and ignoring the fact that Nintendo needs to reprogram these games to work with the Wii U VC)

Where is Yoshi's Island, We need NEW VC Games not updates...

How Annoying Its The Original SNES Street Fighter II. It should be Super Street Fighter II. I don't Believe Super Street Fighter II Turbo Came to SNES

I downloaded Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix for PS3

Day one for Zelda A Link To The Past and Super Ghouls'n'Ghost !

Awesome games!
But i refuse to use restore points!! haha