If you have a Wii and live in Japan, you’ll be overwhelmed with riches starting next week. Nintendo is releasing nineteen (!) games on Virtual Console in the East during the month of September, including the long-awaited debut of three Neo Geo titles.
Highlights across the board include Moero!! Pro Yakyuu (Bases Loaded), Super Metroid, Landstalker, and of course Magician Lord, Fatal Fury, and World Heroes, which will run 900 points each — a bit expensive, but in line with the large size of the cartridges compared to SNES or Mega Drive.
Sin and Punishment, a fantastic Japan-only Nintendo 64 shooter from Treasure, is also on tap for Japan. Hopefully this will come to the US for the first time ever.
The full list of games, plus the TurboGrafx lineup for the US, is below.
*Denotes that the game is releasing Tuesday, September 4
Famicom (500 points)
Battle City (Bandai Namco)*
Mach Rider (Nintendo)*
Moero! Pro Yakyuu (Jaleco)
Tower of Druaga (Bandai Namco)
Super Famicom (800 points)
Super Metroid (Nintendo)
Gradius III (Konami)
Nintendo 64 (1000 points)
Sin and Punishment (Nintendo)
Mega Drive (600 points)
Golden Axe III (Sega)*
Chelnov (Atomic Runner) (Paon)
Super Thunder Blade (Sega)
Landstalker (Sega, 700 points)
PC Engine (600 points)
Legend of Hero Tonma (Irem)*
Over Ride (G-Mode)*
Salamander (Life Force) (Konami)
Uh, Guyframe or Gaiflame or something. Not even the Internet knows (Hudson)
Detana! Twinbee (Konami)
Neo Geo (900 points)
Fatal Fury (D4 Enterprise)
World Heroes (D4 Enterprise)
Magician Lord (D4 Enterprise)
__US Turbo Grafx Releases For September __(600 points)
Neutopia II (Hudson)
World Class Baseball (Hudson)
Legend of Hero Tonma (Irem)