Ninja Spirit, Blazing Lazers confirmed for Wii VC

None of these games are currently available anywhere else, so I might have to pick up one or two.

360's arcade needs more games like this!

Shockman is a lot like Mega Man guys. Check it out.

enoslives7 "6 bucks a piece ?!?!? What a rip-off !!!!" Uh, sure. Hit some more of that Dimetap, will ya?

I reccomend Bomberman and Dragon's Curse (Wonderboy 3) as definites and suggest Bonk's Revenge and Splatterhouse as ones to be considered. I would like to see Legendary Axe, Cadash, and Keith Courage in Alpha Zone come to the VC too though. Cadash being one of my favorites.

Well, they did say "16-bit-era console," not "16-bit console." So they're just saying it's from that time, but they're not saying it's actually a 16-bit console. I gotta check out some more TG-16 games, by the way.

"In May, the publisher expects to see another quartet of offerings from the 16-bit-era console appear on Nintendo's downloadable game service." Ummm.... I do believe the TG-16 was a 2x8bit system. The 16 was a manipulation that was more of a marketing trick than technically true. I do love it though, it made colors move fast. /walks away as if nothing happened.

keep em commin!!!

Come on NIntendo. You can do it. Say it with me... ...Crystalis... ;)

At this rate Nintendo really does need to bring out a subscription service.

All of these games bring back memories of living at home with a part time job used to pay for my car and to buy videogames! To me though Blazing Lasers will always be GunHed!!!!!!

BLAZING LASERS!!!!!!! This is, hands down, one of my all time favorite space scrolling-blaster-ma things! An awesome game that I am psyched is coming back. Thanks Nintendo!!!

6 bucks a piece ?!?!? What a rip-off !!!!

JoeSmith34 "These games weren't even good enough to help the Turbo-Grafx 16 sell well at all compared to the Genesis or the SNES." The public MISSED these games because they were more concerned with how many real "bits" each system had under the hood. The PC Engine was built as a competitor to the 8-bit famicom, and NEC kicked major butt in Japan. When they tried to release it here, they were going up against Sega's "true" 16-bit Genesis and Sega's brilliant marketing campaign absolutely destroyed the horrendous PR handling and advertising of the TurbografX-16. Sega had more parallax scrolling, and in general better music. Especially the games that were scored by Yuzo Koshiro, which at the time were pretty revolutionary for gaming. The games on the TurbografX however, were some of the best games released in those years. Ninja Spirit being an excellent example, as it was possibly the best sidescrolling 2d ninja action game made.

The "goodness" of a game doesn't sell systems. The perception of a game being the "best new thing" does. All of these games are as well made and entertaining as anything you can compare them to. What the ever fickle public did or did not do eighteen years ago is irrelevant.

These games weren't even good enough to help the Turbo-Grafx 16 sell well at all compared to the Genesis or the SNES.

On hell yeah! Wow, Blazing Lasers and Ninja Spirit? Bring on Legendary Axe 1 and 2, and we'll have TG-16/pc engine heaven!

20 VC games a month? Can anybody afford this...I sure can't. But I most DL Ninja Spirit. BLAST YOU evil Wii Point's!!!!!!!!

Oh man. I love virtual console. I loved these games on turbografx, especially blazing lazers. But damn, that game was hard when i was 8.

these games are nice but when are they gonna add games like mario bros. 2 and 3 or yoshi's island or hell even the tmnt games

there are better ninja games. tmnt 3 the Manhatan project is one of the best

Nintendo needs to rework their TG16 emulator...it's **** It's made worse by the fact that system has a collection of great games. Please fix!

I agree with gilbrod....Hudson seems to be ignoring one of their best franchise games for the TG16 by not releasing Legendary Axe, although Blazing Lazers is a cool title. Hopefully we'll get to see Keith Courage, Devil's Crush, and Dead Moon sometime soon too.

I don't think I have ever heard of these games.

cool

Seem interesting, but I never played any of those games :?

When are they bringing Legendary Axe, or Keith Courgae, or China Warrior, or Bloody Wolf? Those games were king. But I am pysced about Blazing Lazers and Ninja Spirit.

Blazing Lazers > all.

more shooters, we just can't have enough can we, either that or people just like very specific ones

Finally! Blazing Lasers is one of the best scrolling shooters ever! Don't even compare it to Super Star Soldier!!!

There are just way better shmups these days than those. Some of them are free to boot.

Ninja Spirit was awesome.

didnt play any of those games

Lasafrog You're right, it's a vertical shooter heh.

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Man, Blazing Lasers is incredible. It still holds up very well today, taken in context, it's an amazing game.

Ninja Spirit was awesome! oh so good to have you back!

fierro316 comthitnuong "Blazing lasers doesn't look too good" It's one of the best side scrollinbg shooters ever made, give it a try :p. Yes it is one of the best shooters ever made, but it's a vertical shooter. It was one of the top two titles at launch day (along with Legendary Axe) and it was well received critically. Definitely a must buy, and one you'll find has more of a soul than any other vertical shooter I've ever played, including the Star Soldier series (although this is arguably a relative of that series).

Sweet. Another 2 from Game Informer's top 10 Turbografx games. Now we need Ys, Neutopia, Legendary Axe, and...I forget. Splatterhouse was on there, though, so who knows how good it was...

Woohoo, Blazing Lazers. Can we get M.U.S.H.A. next?

Excellent! More games I missed for not owning a TG-16. I'm up for that. Anything made by Irem or Hudson and I'm there.

comthitnuong It's one of the best side scrollinbg shooters ever made, give it a try :p.

Blazing lasers doesn't look too good

Oh god no! Not Nija Spirit! There was a part of that game, where you are falling down this pit and ninjas are attacking you, that was IMPOSSIBLE for me when I played it. I remember even resorting to trying it blidfolded, to see if I could maybe use the force to aid me. I might have to get that just to torcher myself.

Ninja spirit is an awesome game. wasted on the young'ns.

Ordyne!!! Nice. Now all we need are some of the Twin Bee games, and a Fantasy Zone or two and we'll be set for Cute'em-ups.

Ninja Spirit is a pretty good game.