This week, we're given a trio of delicious Virtual Console titles to snack on. The Virtual Console has certainly been in the news lately, however the expected arrival of StarFox 64 and Actraiser just didn't happen. Instead, we're left with some titles that gamers may not be too excited about. We, however, could not help but be excited as we have many a fond memory of playing Tecmo Bowl with relatives on Thanksgiving when we were younger. At the risk of boring you to death, we'll shut up about our past and just present the games:
- Tecmo Bowl - NES - 1-2 players - 500 Wii Points
- Sonic Spinball - Sega Genesis - 1-4 players - 800 Wii Points
- Double Dungeons - TurboGrafx16 - 1-2 players - 600 Wii Points
[Via press release]













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3-12-2007 @ 10:31AM
vidGuy said...
Many will say Sonic Spinball is junk, but I actually have the Genesis set up for that game and a few others. Of course, this means I won't be buying Spinball on the VC.
I'm looking forward to Star Fox 64, which will probably be the next download for me.
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3-12-2007 @ 10:52AM
Geo said...
Ready, Down. HUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUT!!
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3-12-2007 @ 10:52AM
hvnlysoldr said...
I bought a lot of the Sonic games on Genesis and not much else for it, renting games in another matter. I liked Sonic's speed in Spinball but the pit deaths especially on the last level ruined it. And there's 11 chaos emeralds! That doesn't make any sense. Sonic doesn't have an option to become Super. The badniks kept popping up too randomly. The running and jumping sections felt bad after pinball. In the end it was a pinball game that had Sonic theme to it and unlike Metroid Prime: Pinball it wasn't enough.
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3-12-2007 @ 10:57AM
SuicideOption said...
I was thinking we might get Excite Bike, but Tecmo Bowl is enough to get me by. Maybe a little Super Tecmo Bowl in a few months would be nice.
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3-12-2007 @ 11:06AM
Rodisian said...
Tecmo Bowl might be just the thing to end my 'Virtual Console no-purchase-athon'. Up to this point I couldn't justify spending the money to purchase any of the games; mainly because all of my single-player time has been deliciously gobbled up by Zelda.
Tecmo Bowl, however, not only conjures up a nostalgia of a simpler time (read: easily throwing 90-yard TD passes like it's my job), it's also a great game to simply pick up and play.
This is the best VC Monday yet, imho!
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3-12-2007 @ 11:33AM
Thomas said...
Blazing Lasers! I just want Blazing Lasers.
Sigh.
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3-12-2007 @ 11:44AM
eurotransient said...
Very tempted by Tecmo Bowl... but Super Tecmo Bowl is where it's REALLY at. Puhleeeease?
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3-12-2007 @ 12:16PM
theLoneYoshi said...
StarFox, StarFox, StarFox... Huh... No StarFox? Hmm...
See you in a week...
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3-12-2007 @ 12:18PM
bloo said...
so disappointing. Where's mario 2 and 3?
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3-12-2007 @ 12:46PM
James said...
While I will agree that The last levels of Sonic Spinball are almost impossible, it is still one of the better games for the Genesis. I do not see why you would say a game is not good because it has 11 chaos emeralds, what sense does that make? Tecmo Bowl is ok but you are better off waiting for either Tecmo Super Bowl or Super Tecmo Bowl depending on what system they chose to use. I so hope they come out with what is in my opinion the best pinball game for Genesis and made by the old EA, Motley Crue Ball.
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3-12-2007 @ 2:52PM
Badaro said...
Disappointed because I want Starfox 64. :p
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3-12-2007 @ 4:07PM
JGBUFFS said...
Tecmo Bowl....Awesome!!!!!! What a great Classic Game...Just wish it was Multiplayer...oh well...
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3-12-2007 @ 4:55PM
schweinnoisu said...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet:
For the price of a couple/few of the Genesis Sonic titles through the Virtual Console (priced at $8 each), you can pick up Sonic Mega Collection for GameCube (anywhere between $15-$25 now), which includes seven Genesis Sonic (I believe that's all of the major ones) games as well as five unlockables (seven for the Japanese version).
If they released every game (not including the unlockables) that's on the Mega Collection, with the Virtual Console pricing standards for Genesis games, it would come to $56.
For that, you could buy the GameCube Mega Collection and two used (or new) GC controllers, provided you don't already have one or two, and possibly save a few dollars in the process.
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3-12-2007 @ 5:26PM
Mr Khan said...
@ schweinnouisu
That's exactly why i won't get spinball, or any other Sonic genesis game (or Ristar or vectorman for that matter)
Those Sega GC collections were the best (Sonic Gems collection)
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3-12-2007 @ 5:37PM
schweinnoisu said...
oh, also, more details on the Sonic Mega Collection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mega_Collection
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3-12-2007 @ 11:11PM
Jay said...
Excitebike, Pro Wrestling, please!
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3-13-2007 @ 8:13AM
Dan Blanchard said...
My fiancée is a big fan of Sonic, so I got Spinball for her yesterday. Has anyone else downloaded it and noticed that the game runs very very slowly? It seems kind of crazy that the Genesis version runs at nearly twice the speed as the Wii one. The game could be fun, but the speed factor makes it feel like I'm moving in slow motion.
And yes, I know about the mega collection, but everywhere I've tried to buy it has been sold out.
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