Yay! score: 3 for Europe =P

Absolutely no way I'd pay 500 points for a C64 game. Nintendo kinda priced themselves into a box with their absolutely rigid pricing setup. I doubt they'll start to sell games lower than 500 points, but there's no way I'd pay $5 for a C64 or 2600 or Master System game.

The price per byte on those games is astonishing! Not saying they're not worth it or anything (though I never had a Commodore 64... had a Vic-20 though, its retarded predecessor), just saying those games are wicked small filesize-wise.

How much is 500 wii points? Forgive my ignorance of the ways of Wii Points - Dollars.

@TitillatedOcelot: 1 point = 1 penny

That is a lot. But I still would like to play a little Impossible Mission.

@TitillatedOcelot:

int he US it's $5, in the UK it's 3.50 i think.

Where is my remake of Racing Destruction Set?!?!

That's a pretty hefty pricetag. Guess you can't put a price on nostalgy.

OM freaking G!!!

I had no plan on EVER getting a Wii, but if they bring enough of those C64 games to the Wii (here in the US) I may have to break down and get one. OR, I could just dust off my C64 and download some of those games.

That's great news.The C64 was the second gaming platform I ever owned,so I have a definate affinity for it.But yeah,like some of the other posters are saying,they'll probably cost too much.

@otakucode: Wha? 5 bucks for a C64 game? Not effing likely.

For 500 points you should get 50 games.

i could see 250 points, but 500?

C64 is a great system and I have a lot of fantastic memories playing with that machine, but 500 points...ouch. That's a little hard to swallow, especially when you have some amazing looking WiiWare games in the pipeline priced in the same range.

500 points is way too high. We're talking sub-NES level games here. 200-300 tops, but any more is ridiculous.

Great idea, but 500 Wii points? Get real. I'm just willing to pay 500 for NES games, but if they expect me to spend that much on pre-NES console games (or Game Boy games, if they ever release them), they're nuts.

International karate YEAH! And Europe, awww good times to be european for a change :P I'm soo happy :) *sniff

+ Watch video

I have to pass on this one... it was before my time.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA 500 POINTS!!! Wait... for real?

@Livid:

One more vote for Impossible Mission! I'd spend $5 on that. I actually already spent more than that for the DS port (which I find to be pretty good actually - not the new version they included, but the straight up C-64 port).

As soon as I saw this article I hit cntrl f to seearch for "below the root". Nothing.

Seriously now...

Thats just wayyy to high, almost all these game have going for them is nostalgia value because come on you've got to admit everything about them is extremely dated.

...Seriously?

I wouldn't download these if they were free.

IMPOSSIBLE MISSION!
Ghostbusters
Spy vs Spy
Little Computer People
Epyx Summer Games!

C64 is a classic system and all but 500 points is just plain absurd. 100 points is more appropiate. fuck nostalgia. if i want nostalgia ill break out my C64 sitting in my closet. plus, i havent even gotten all the great classic NES games on VC yet, im not planing on wasting points on a system i don't care much for anymore.

@suburbancowboy: that and a formal apology for even stating that they would charge that much for one game.

This still doesn't make up for everything europe has to endure, such as the absence of a certain 4 player music game. Put Dizzy and Jet Set Willy on this though, and keep it PAL only, and I'd call it even.

Can Wii handle it?

@mysteryboy2k: Nothing can make up for it, we shall hold a grudge until ends of time, I know I will :)

Also the price is a bit high I admit. But thats Nintendo VC for ya.

One of the best games of all time was originally released on the Commodore 64: Wasteland, the predecessor to the Fallout series. Of course, that originally came with a 40 page booklet of quotes since that came from the day of gaming where you complete one task and the game would tell you "Turn to page 34, section C" to get your next clue. There was a lot of fun in going through that booklet and reading all the red herrings in it.

No seriously. $5. A game that runs in 64K of RAM costs $5?

I can't stop repeating it.

That is LUDICROUS. They should come in packs of 3 for $5.

I totally pay 5 bucks for each of these:

Impossible Mission ("Stay awhile, stay FOREVER! Muahahaha!")
Jumpman Jr. (probably my all time fav C64 game as a kid)
GI Joe

BUT only if they put in a "loading" screen before each game comes up with the characters 'load "*",8,1'

Monty on the run! Giana Sisters!

@Aprotosis:
IIRC, that was one way that many C64 programs tried to discourage piracy, that is to say, asking you to input a specific word or phrase from the manual.

Coincidentally, the c64 was also my exposure to the world of software piracy...

I sure am glad that there aren't any C64 emulators out there any more. Especially those easily-found tiny zip files that include every C64 game ever released.

FYI people they are upgrading the games with virtual keyboard, mapping inputs to each controller and some other tweaks.

It costs a fair amount of money for a company to do emulation and then you have legal, licensing, royalty fees.

You complainers wonder why it takes ages for an xbox live game to come out it's because it takes a lot of time and money to do so.
Also Nintendo has to make the money the license owners get be attractive. Wonder why gametap pulls games or why things are so slow to come to other services? Money is the issue.

Also people if you want impossible mission the wii game in edition to an updated remake has the original commodore 64 game on it. So does the DS version and both Wii and DS versions of the game are 19.99.

I want this in the US dammit!

Sweet C64 goodness.

Now then - somebody make a paddle controller attachment!

seriously. more of you ppl should get a job or just try to live in scandinavia for a while. $5 is nothing. i just paid twice for a psone copy of ik+. i would gladly pay 500 points for IK as well.

i think the most ppl who would even consider buying a c64 game is 1) european 2) old enough to have an income 3) dedicated and nostalgic enough to cough up five bucks.

What about original content? Does anyone else think that buying old games is getting old?

I'd pay $5 for M.U.L.E. and possibly one or two of the Jumpman games.

@tufetuf: I take it you missed the
"Almost everything you want to know about Wiiware"
post?

Is international Karate the game from the Van Damme movie Bloodsport?

Ridiculous pricing. They know C64 games and emulators are 10 a penny on the net and you could download each of these games pretty much instantly and save 5 bucks each time, right? Tell me they know that...

The nostalgia is there, but I used my Commodore 64 for text adventures. Some of the simplier games on that system are just too simple to charge 5 bucks for. It's best if they do it in a cost-effienct pack, like basic Gameboy Game & Watch collections.

@MrCompletely: I spent countless hours on Little Computer People and Spy vs Spy. Hopefully they port Law of the West, which is the best adventure/shooter Western game by default.

@PissedPS3Fan: I got my Commodore 64 handed down with me, along with boxes of games and Fast Hack'em. My brother and I had no idea what it was or what it did, but still spent a day trying to play the game we thought was on there.

Raid on Bungling Bay anyone? Man, I loved that game.... also Gauntlet...

What was the racing game where you could drop oil slicks and stuff? That should be there.

Also remember a bottom to top army fighting scroller.

Finally, was international karate the one where balls would come at you from either side and you had to use your dustbin lid to stop the balls from hitting you? If so, that was an awesome game

$5 is nothing. It's the price of a lousy McDonald's meal. Mobile games cost that much.

Some people are real tight wads.

I agree with everyone else here....I love the idea of bringing more games to the VC, but I can't see paying more than 300 points for pre-NES games...if that.

If only nostalgia didn't cost an arm and a. . .oh wait.

I don't own a Wii, however M.U.L.E. would be a awesome!

$5 for Uridium is great.

I'll pay $5 for an NES VC game if it's one that I absolutely loved and know that I'll actually play it... there's no way I'm paying $5 for a C64 game, Nintendo. Sorry.

Way too expensive. Should be three-packs for 500 points.

I used to have a C64 gaming console, man, I wish I'd hung on to that.

Wow ... I played a ton of Uridium. I didn't realize it was so popular. That was before the Internet was in every home, so you often played games in isloation ... reaching out to a select few on a BBS or two.

I'd buy it just for the nostalgia factor.

PROJECT FIRESTART!
PROJECT FIRESTART!
PROJECT FIRESTART!
PROJECT FIRESTART!
PROJECT FIRESTART!
If there is any justice, this game will come out first!

Forbidden Forest anyone? That was one of my favorite games on the C-64.

It's hard enough to sell me on NES games for 500 points. I'm not paying that much for a C64 game. Well, except maybe Space Taxi.

I for one will not purchase a C64 game unless it's 200 pts or less.

@brent_w: Evidently I did, thanks for pointing that out. :)

Yo can't beleive i was talking about uridium on an earlier post!?!?!? Might have to dust off my Wii!

Please, please, please ,please, PLEASE give us Commodore Amiga!