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VC Monday: A Link to the Past

It's finally time for me to break into the piggy bank and add some more points to my Wii shopping channel account, as today sees the release of THE game for the SNES on Nintendo's Virtual Console. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is now available for download for 800 points. This game is the only Zelda game I need. A pure experience, unmuddied by the need for 3D graphics while still 100 times more substantial than the classic yet dated original.

Return to an age of magic and heroes. When an evil magician named Agahnim begins kidnapping young maidens in Hyrule in a quest to break the imprisoning seal on Ganon, a young boy named Link is called upon to stop him.

Doesn't get much better than that.

That's it for this week, with Nintendo bucking the trend of multi-game releases, either in honor of this gaming classic, or for the sake of the other games that would have been lost in it's dust. Press release follows. Michael Fahey

WII-KLY UPDATE: CLASSIC ZELDA GAME ANNOUNCED FOR WII SHOP CHANNEL

Jan. 22, 2007

Today Nintendo adds one of the most popular games in its library of classics to the Wii video game system's Wii Shop Channel. The Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past goes live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super NES , 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Return to an age of magic and heroes. When an evil magician named Agahnim begins kidnapping young maidens in Hyrule in a quest to break the imprisoning seal on Ganon, a young boy named Link is called upon to stop him. Link must venture into twisting mazes, dungeons, palaces and shadowy forests as he searches for the maidens and Princess Zelda. Traversing both Light and Dark Worlds, he must navigate eight dark dungeons, fighting evil enemies and huge bosses. Help our hero prevent Ganon and Agahnim from shattering Hyrule forever.

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