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Japan has a rocking virtual console list next month with the first three Neo Geo games: Fatal Fury, World Heroes and Magician Lord for 900 Wii Points each. How can you resist Magician Lord for around $9? Also scheduled for release is a barrage of shmups from Konami: Salamander, Detana!! TwinBee and Gradius III. But you may want to save some of your money because Sega has Landstalker lined up and Nintendo is going to release Sin and Punishment for 1,000 Wii Points. This list is absolutely awesome and I hope North America can keep up with it next month.
Famicom (500 Wii Points each)
Battle City
Mach Rider
Moero!! Pro Yakyuu (Bases Loaded)
Tower of Druaga
Super Famicom (800 Wii Points each)
Super Metroid
Gradius III
Nintendo 64 (1,000 Wii Points each)
Sin and Punishment
Mega Drive (600 Wii Points each)
Golden Axe III
Chelnov
Super Thunder Blade
Landstalker* (700 Wii Points)
PC Engine (600 Wii Points each)
Legend of Hero Tonma
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Salamander
Gaiflame
Detana!! TwinBee
Neo Geo (900 Wii Points each)
Fatal Fury
World Heroes
Magician Lord
Coming out on 09.04
Battle City
Mach Rider
Legend of Hero Tonma
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5 Responses to “Virtual Console Visions September: Neo-Geo arrives with shmups”
August 31st, 2007 at 9:11 am
Yeah, it would be very nice to finally play sin & punishment properly.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:02 am
I’m looking forward to more NEO GEO fighters, like KOF, Samurai Shodown, etc.
September 1st, 2007 at 7:10 am
Magician Lord is a great addition to start off SNK’s line-up of titles they have planned for the Virtual Console. It’s a perfect indication that along with releases of their staple 2D fighting franchises such as Fatal Fury we’ll see more of the Neo-Geo’s obscure hits like Neo Turf Masters, one of the few golf games I still actually enjoy to this day.
Honestly, if SNK continues releasing their back catalog of 2D fighters on the PS2 in North America, I probably won’t even end up buying most of their fighting titles. I’d rather get these compilations which includes many games at a good price and have a hard copy on hand than buying them separately on the Virtual Console for 900 points, so I welcome any opportunity to delve completely in the Neo-Geo library.
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:59 am
^I totally agree. Why would you pay more for the titles individually when you can pick up the compilations at such a great price. I saw Metal Slug Anthology for $AUD30 a few months back, which is excellent value.
They should release KofXII when it comes out for the downloadable services of all 3 consoles. ^_^
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August 31st, 2007 at 9:02 am
sin & punishment was pretty import friendly if i remember correctly. it would be nice if they would release it for other markets. hell, even best buy sells imports these days. why not a digital distributor?