Star Wars game classics coming to Virtual Console this month

Star Wars fans will want to give the Wii Shop Channel for the next month because Nintendo will be releasing multiple LucasArts classics on the Virtual Console. Starting today gamers can pick up the decidedly arcade action game classic Super Star Wars. In the coming weeks, both Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi will be added to the Virtual Console lineup. All three Super Star Wars games were originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and will be available at 800 Wii Points each.

The arrival of the first three games will be accompanied by additional Star Wars-themed content on other Wii channels throughout the week. The Check Mii Out Channel will invite people to submit their best Mii character renditions of classic Star Wars characters. On the Everybody Votes Channel, users can cast their votes to help settle old debates, such as the proper order to watch the six Star Wars films, and who fired first – Han Solo or Greedo?

Additional classic LucasArts games for Virtual Console will be announced in the future.

The Rundown: Dec. 29, 2008

All is calm, all is bright. I hope you’re enjoying your vacation time, assuming you are one of those lucky folks that gets it during this time of year. For the rest of us, onward and upward as we slither into 2009…

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Mario Golf and MadStones Added to Wii Shop Channel

One more week, one more round of downloadable games available on the Wii Shop Channel. This time around, Wii owners can tee off with their favorite plumber and his friends, go ten frames at the after-hours bowling alley, reunite the heroes of the Shining Force, or leave no stone unturned with this week’s Shop Channel releases.

Every Monday, Nintendo adds more new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel library. In case you missed them when they went live on Monday, here’s the official list of new games and descriptions, straight from Nintendo.

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Mega Man on Wii Shop Channel Today

Capcom has released Mega Man on the Wii Shop Channel today, to celebrate the September release of Mega Man 9 in September. Capcom also promised that Mega Man 2 will soon be released on the Virtual Console as well. I look forward to that. For me Mega Man brings back a lot of great memories and serves as a reminder why the NES was so great and personally a very expensive system. See, games like Mega Man were responsible for me killing at least four NES systems.

Games like Mega Man and Super Mario Bros. did not have a save function and did not have any kind of password system, so in order to play through them you had to leave the system on. This of course kills the system eventually. So while renting and playing through Mega Man 9,000 times I killed many Nintendo systems.

The beauty of having the game on the Virtual Console is that you can basically leave the “system on” by exiting to the Wii Menu, then return to it later in the state you left it. For me this process seems normal enough considering that I rented a lot of games that didn’t have any way to save. My point is that Nintendo needs to say thank you to Capcom and companies like it because they inevitably made the NES system a top seller by developing games like Mega Man.

Anyway, enough nostalgia - you can find Mega Man on the Wii Shop Channel for 500 points. There are some other releases this week but nothing worth talking about to be honest with you.

Mega Man 9 Bosses

Capcom revealed three of the bosses you’ll have to take on its decidedly retro Mega Man 9. Today they reveal three bosses and three weapons the blue bomber will attain by defeating them. More after the jump.

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