This is also known as Monster World III, making it the sequel to The Dragon's Trap (which you may have played on Switch or PS4 recently). It's one of the all-time greats, and you need to own it. In order to play the original Dracula X, which features some of the greatest Castlevania action ever committed to binary code, you either need to get it here or unlock it on PSP's Dracula X Chronicles. You can buy Dracula X on other VC services, but that's the Super NES semi-sequel to this classic.
release, so while it's not a timeless work of art, it's interesting and scarce. Wii VC gave DoReMi Fantasy its only official U.S. The sequel to Milon's Secret Castle, this platformer is far less obtuse than its NES predecessor. You can still find inexpensive copies of the DS remake to play on 3DS, but if you want to play on a television, this is going to be your only reasonably priced option.Įdit: You can also buy Chrono Trigger on iOS and as a PSN PlayStation classic, but those versions are terrible. Save up about $120, load up your Wii shop balance (and soon - you won't be able to buy Wii points after March 2018), and squirrel away these vanishing classics for the future.Īs usual, we hope you'll let us know what we've overlooked in the comments section.Ī brilliant hybrid of god sim and Castlevania-esque platformer, there's never been another game quite like ActRaiser… not even its sequel, which dropped the sim parts.Īn all-time classic RPG, this was conspicuous in its absence on Super NES Classic Edition. Meanwhile, you can snag them on Wii for reasonable prices ranging from $5-12 apiece - a steal for games that otherwise would cost $200-300. In nearly every case, there's no easy way to play these games on current consoles. So, I've put together a list of 17 essential classics you need to grab on Wii Virtual Console while you still can.
Even better, if you still keep an analog TV set on hand or use an upscaler such as an XRGB Framemeister, the original Wii outputs most of its games in native 240p resolution.
You can move Wii VC software over to Wii U to play if you want to use these games with native HD output. Wii Virtual Console continues to offer a lot of great games you can't easily or cheaply play any other way.
We went from bullish at first, when Nintendo jammed dozens of great games into the pipeline in rapid order to resentful, as the flow of games trickled to a handful of frequently middling titles after a few months to hopeful, as rarities and imports appear to wistful, as the 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console never came close to matching the scope and variety of their Wii predecessor. Perhaps surprisingly, they've given fans a heads-up of about more than a year as noted on Twitter by Kyle McLain, the Wii Shop Channel will ride into the sunset on January 31, 2019.įor Retronauts regulars, of course, this means an end to the long life of Wii Virtual Console, with which the podcast has always had a rocky relationship. Nintendo has finally shed light on its end-of-life plans for the Wii's eShop. Mission control for retronauts former EIC of 1UP.com and taking dapper (and frogs) back from the Nazis.