What better way to introduce the first of the cheapest Virtual Console games for the Nintendo Wii than to pair it up with one of the most expensive? The Sega Master System represents this week, with Tenacious D references flying as Wonder Boy (500 points – they START at 400) makes his debut on the Wii VC. The features Tom-Tom the Wonder Boy on a quest to rescue his girlfriend Tanya from a monster, sadly not killing yaks at 200 yards with mind bullets like Young Nastyman. Joining Wonder Boy on his VC journey is the Nintendo 64 title Cruis’n USA (1000 points), which in my opinion isn’t fit to grace the same console, much less the same Virtual Console update as the classic Sega platformer. Either way, welcome Sega Master System! Long may you reign as the cheapest of the VC!
Sega is preparing two classic Master System titles for the console’s debut on the North American Wii Virtual Console, and they’re coming in cheap! Two of the very best games available for the short-lived system, Wonder Boy and Fantasy Zone, will be showing up “soon” for the low, low price of 400 points a piece. That’s 100 points below the price of NES games, and the cheapest titles available on the channel so far. Finally North American Sega fans who jumped on the bandwagon too late will know why the name Opa-opa keeps popping up in games like Phantasy Star Online, Shenmue, and Sonic Riders. Huzzah!
First SEGA Master System Games Coming To Wii Virtual Console (US), 400 Wii Points [Gaming Bits]
Trying to wrap one’s head around the various incarnations of Westone’s Wonder Boy series can be a bit confusing. Okay, it’s downright mind numbing. Over the course of six games released across various platforms, it has arrived in various regions under the titles Adventure Island (which then spawned its own series of games), The Dynastic Hero, Monster Lair and Dragon’s Curse. Fortunately, we have Wired’s Chris Kohler to break it all down for us, Virtual Console style. He does his best to clear up the Wonder Boy confusion running wild with Wii Shop Channel surfers in a post at Game|Life.
Thanks to him, I think I finally get it. Wait. Nevermind, I lost it again. Still confused.
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