Tecmo Bowl snaps on Wii VC

you know after all these years Tecmo Bowl is still 1,000,000 times better than Madden!

WTF Tecmo Bowl without the player names??? Bring back Bo Jackson and the go-long Mark Bavaro!

Uhh... Tecmo Bowl... the 110-yard Hail Mary pass returns! W00t!

Ready, down! Hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut. Just imagine if it had online play. ; )

Cool.

@theclaw135 I'll agree with that, and would like to point out the Neo Geo Pocket Color as a candidate too. I would also like a subscription model option like Gametap has, but that's probably just wishful thinking.

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I dont understand how anyone could think that $5 is too much to ask to re-live the classics with the convenience of the VC. IMO this is an extremely fair price. Heck, you can’t hardly rent a game for that much anymore. I think VC is a great deal.

I have a Wii, I have 13 VC games, and I also hate the prices. Back in the day, Nintendo made a ton of money selling blank carts to the publishers. That crap doesn't fly anymore. Everyone wants their fair share of the pie now. Nintendo isn't making what it used to on these old games, despite what you read on the internet.

The VC needs some NFL Blitz since it has this now.

Ohh snap!

Guys, hold out for Tecmo Super Bowl.

i used to be so addicted to this game.even though the graphics are dated,its a great game

Tecmo Bowl is a genuine gaming classic. I can't tell you how much I played this game as a kid. If I cared for the Nintendo Wii, I would certainly buy it.

No games that I want this week. But Ocarina of Time and Streets of Rage are still keeping me busy.

Tecmo Bowl kicked my butt when I was 5.

I don't think the prices $5-10 are cheap exactly but I certainly don't think they're unfair or in any way a ripoff. Many of these are classic games that cost $40-60 back in their day and you're getting them for a fraction of the price. The money you pay for these games isn't just for the game but also the service. It cost money to run the virtual console. Also many of these games aren't first party so Nintendo probably takes a small cut but so the publisher of the game as well of course. With all that and whatever it takes to get the game formatted, emuslated or whatever and then on the VC, I don't think $5-10 is a big deal. Figure that many VC games sell maybe a few thousand with the bigger titles selling maybe a few hundred thousand, it's not that much money for any one game. So even if a game in an N64 title that costs $10 and sells 100,000, that still only comes out to a million dollars, then minus any programming work and such, you'll see that they're not exactly raking in hundreds of millions. Last, I don't see $5 as a lot of money for anyone. I'm not going to assume rude things or make comments like "get a job" but honestly...$5 is a lot of money to anyone??? How many VC games do you need to have? With spending $50, the price of one new Wii game, someone could get a variety of classic games. If they bought a fairly equal mix of games from all the systems represented, they could get 6 or 7 truly classic great games. I don't think that's unreasonable at all. Considering that people go to fast food restaurants and spend that much or more on junk food they don't need or go to a grocery store and buy a couple pops and some candy bars, it comes out to nearly that much. Or those who buy stuff that could be considered expensive by some people. Do you buy shoes that cost $100, jeans that cost $50? Etc. You get the idea. What you consider okay to spend on other items but expensive for games, people will feel the opposite so stop whining because they want to make a profit. Last I checked, it was a business and the goal was to make money. Maybe I'll send them a nasty letter and we can get everything for free.

gastbythepig, don't forget tecmo super bowl...the all time great. hopefully that comes out soon.

The first and only good football game. At least it's out again.

As long as we pay the $5.00 they are gonna charge it. Now if only we could get every Nintendo Wii owner, (or at least 80%) to stop buying VC games and then Nintendo would be forced to lower the prices if they wanted us to buy them. But we live in a country where you are not even united with your next door neighbor, so good luck.

We need GB and GBC games. Not even one has ever been legally remade, ported, emulated, included in a compliation, or had any other form of rerelease for a non-Game-Boy platform anywhere on Earth.

I'll be waiting for next week for a new purchase, I may get Sonic though, just doubtfully.

i have to say these games are a bit expensive, they should be priced from at least $2.50-$7.00. isnt there a tecmo super bowl, not just tecmo bowl. anyway still a good game, classic. Also for those who says that u should get jobs, some of us have jobs, and we need to pay bills, so we dont have much money to spend on these. heck, i barely could afford to get a ps3. i had to save money for over a year to get it. my point is that, those who says to get jobs, need to understand that many people have to pay bills, and have very little money to spend because of this.

Tecmo Bowl is great, but I never cared for Sonic Spinball

I will have to look at this one

I still think these games are too expensive, even at $5.

Lower the prices these games have no packaging and they already made the profit from this hash. Get out of here with the 5 bucks on this game and others like it. Sorry, but just because I can afford it, doesn't make it a fair price this game is older than half these guys on the board.

I want Tecmo Super Bowl.

Not doing it for me this week, personally. This is why it's nice having several consoles... Ninja Turtles had to come to one of them eventually... ...Still holding out for Super Metroid.

If you can't afford a $5 game then you can't afford to be playing videogames and need to get a job.

How about one dollar?

$5 is not worth it. Youngins are pumping out free flash games that are 10 times better than this and Yes, I owned it on NES. Especially when I can find NFL 2K3 for around the same price for my much loved Dreamcast ....

Old school. In full effect. WORD UP. Lmao

exedeath The internets is filled with babies, but i think Gamespot has most of em.

Boooo. I don't like these games, lol.

" While it's great to see it offered it's hardly the same w/ no player names, and " Blame EA and the NFL. Football games using past teams cannot have player names unless they pay for a large chunk of change. Stupid ass out of work gorillas want millions just for their name on a game.

I don't even see how these games are overpriced. 5-10 bucks per game is awesome, and they will probably keep you entertained longer than some of the crap that is released anymore. Heck even 10 bucks is pocket change anymore. If you cannot afford 5, or 10 dollars for a game then you need to take a good look at your life.

I wouldn't pay that much for nostalgia or something that I can find in the Gamestop bargain bin.

What about Tecmo Super Bowl. We use dto play that game for days at a time.

Omg. I. Love. Tecmo. Bowl.

about being over priced... Well, even today when I buy a lot of NES games they cost anywhere from $5-10 for the actual cartridge. So $5 for a NES is more than reasonable. Especially when talking about Double Dragon, Kid Icarus, and some other titles. However, Tecmo Bowl being stripped of player names? While it's great to see it offered it's hardly the same w/ no player names, and having them stripped should have warranted an entire dollar off. :D Anyway you can't claim these games are too much because a lot of them will cost you at least $5 to buy for the NES. Personally I'll stick to the NES when it comes to these games, though...

I like Sonic Spinball, but it's not worth $8. Get Sonic Mega Collection instead, or if you have a Genesis, the cart is usually pretty cheap.

As some have already said, while Tecmo Bowl is a pretty good game in its own right, Tecmo Super Bowl is the one I would have liked to see more. Not that it matters to me all that much, considering I can play both of them any time I want. Oh well.

What a waste of 5 bucks. This game wasn't terrible in its day, but it isn't worth more that 99 cents today. LOWER THE PRICES, NINTENDO!

I'm buying Tecmo Bowl immediately! I still play it on GameBoy. Once I can download Tecmo SUPER Bowl I won't have to buy a new game ever again!

I don't like football... but... whatever...

Tecmo Super Bowl? Ive heard it owns, maybe ill go check it out

Omisson of player names is lame but I loved that game as a kid. I used to think that the little cut scenes for action plays were sweet and had really good graphics (for the 80's, come on!). Come to think of it, the player name thing is neither Nintendo's nor Tecmo's fault, at all. It is all EA's fault for dang Madden. As long Madden has exclusive NFL license little things like this are going to be really annoying. I think if a game held license when it was produced, then any future distribution of it should have the right to let the game be the same as it was made i.e. player names. Its not like any of those players are even still around anyway so why should the NFL or EA care. Whatever, I'm still going do download this game anyhow.

Not a great week for the VC. :(

anybody that has played tecmo super bowl knows the best teams are the Raiders and 49ers, raiders had bo jackson AND marcus allen, with tim brown (hall of fame soon) and willie gault, one of the fastest men in the world at the time, while the niners had Joe Montana and Steve young at QB, roger craig, a damn good running back, and then the beasts of all at recievers Jerry rice and John Taylor, the best recieving tandem ever, far above Harrison and Wayne if you got the ball in the hands of Rice, Taylor, Jackson, or allen in Tecmo super bowl, you'd win almost every game