[www.meristation.com]

So if there's a nunchuk-only controller option on some of these C64 games...that would be pretty cool.

eugaet

maroille

Dang it all, and Elite. The title that launched the idea open ended game world, and is the father of the space-sim games of today (wasn't that part of Freelancer's "bill" that it was supposed to be a "successor" to Elite?).... (granted, I don't know if I could force myself to play Elite again, holy cow what a time-sink-hole that would be.... )

That's it... I'm sure there are about a hundred other games out there that I'd LOVE to see on there...

Again, please, please, please bring this to the US.

Mok

Or Labyrinth.

Marlor

Wizball, Winter/California/Summer/World Games, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Paradroid, Last Ninja

schmix

Amazing-Steve

[www.vintagecomputing.com]

eugaet

IK and Uridium are both great titles. Here's hoping for wizball, last ninja series, paralax, epic, gribblies day out, even some of the old D&D gold box games. omg.

actually, just bust them all out, i'll buy them. nyom nyom nyom. Admittedly, I used to get my games back in the day for like $10 off the covers of Zzap and Commodore Format, which used to have 2-4 full games on them... so $5 a game does seem a little greedy these days...

Also... wont some of these games be hard to play without a keyboard?

Polite Society

aka Bitter

Barts

xbulletholes

eugaet

Sarkath

Vidunder

tincow

kryo

KM91

You're not paying for the cost it takes Nintendo to download the game to your Wii! The filesize makes no difference. You're being charged based on the gameplay value of the games themselves and how much you'd have to pay to buy the actual physical copies. I would have to imagine some rare C64 games go for a hell of a lot more than 5 bucks these days.

I certainly hope the people who whine about having to pay 5 bucks for a Virtual Console game go into game stores and demand to know why they're paying 50 dollars for a videogame when the plastic the DVD is made out of only costs 10 cents. It makes about as much sense.

Nate_Birch

cybereality

Gentleben-Nintendo Club Star Whore

Especially if they bring out stuff like hard hat mac.

Doshu

If so, then you missed out on some of the later C64 games because you moved on to the consoles a lot earlier than we did here in Europe. The C64 and other home computers were really cultivated in Europe and that's where the best games for those machines were made. Check out some YouTube videos on games like Turrican, IK+ and The Last Ninja (1-3) to see some of what the C64 became capable of.

It also has one of the most celebrated sound chips in computing history and one that rivaled any of the 8-bit consoles with their blippy-bloppy soundtracks. The SID chip spawned some of the best computer and video game music of all time. Do a MySpace search for SID music.

Bearing all this in mind, I don't think 500 points is unreasonable for good C64 games.

inphanta

Winterbringer

PositivelyGreg

MURDERFACE

anmkevin

kingofallcosmos

Gambia

These games will sell...as long as they're bringing over the quality titles.

eugaet

dozerking

iron789

Some games are just too dated to be enjoyable.

marty7044

$11.66 USD.. $5 is not a bad price if you ask me

Deano85

mind in rewind

I'll be all over some Bar

barian.

Billkwando

RetroBob

It's just way too damned high- I really don't see them selling very many of these games at that price.

KilgoreTrout__XL

Szin

iskew

FelicioLostHorizonPT

But then again, why would you want to play those games to begin with...? It's high time scientists analysed the neurological effects of nostalgia - I am pretty sure it erodes away major brain functions such as Rational Assessment of Videogames.

If these games sell, I bet a bunch of guys at Nintendo HQ are going to piss their pants laughing.

Antiterra

I never finished that game because I ran out of diapers.

Other games I spent a lot of time playing on the C64:
Airborne Ranger
Bad Blood
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
Champions of Krynn
Echelon
Elite
The Indiana Jones games
Karateka
The Last Ninja games
Maniac Mansion
Montezuma's Revenge
Neuromancer
Pool of Radiance
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Skate or Die
The Spy vs. Spy games
Star Control
Stellar 7
The Ultimas
Wasteland
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
...and every game ever made by Infocom that was released on the C64. Including the ones I really shouldn't have been playing at that age (Leather Goddesses of Phobos, anyone?...no ESRB back then).

Wow. Good times.

Keep in mind this is not anywhere near a complete list. I think I just figured out where my childhood went to.

eugaet

If you can play that one on a decent emulator with friends, do it. For my honour, you will not regret it.

Tei

DashTheHand

firesign

xbulletholes

SpiralJacobs

mquest

FatherTed

Ashurahori

Besides, what was the name of that game where you controlled a drunk guy coming back home after long sessions of spirits? I remember playing it on an emulator years ago. That was fun.

Anyway, I still think it's a bit overpriced... They should make packs of three games and then we'd start talking seriously.

Ah, and it would be good if the emulator would include the possibility of connecting an USB keyboard and play the games using it... OPQA, anybody?

MaximoSupino

waitinthecar

DaDRIZZLE

mexfreak86

Oh my.... Mind is spinning...

Mok

Wow. I'd pay $5 for a compilation of several C64 games, but for ONE? No way! Besides, the only way to play them properly is on an actual C64, I've tried out the emulation thing, and it's not the same. And are we supposed to play these with the Wii Remote? That's a far cry from the large brown keys of the C64 keyboard.

Ahh, back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy...

theblogcomics

What I'd like to see:
Ghostbusters
Rock'n Wrestle
FEUD
Maybe the C64 version of Gauntlet, just because

Gospel X

Or Mail Order Monsters, woot! Awe man, I'm salivating thinking about such things.

Granted, nearly every game probably isn't "worth" the 500 points these days, but surely in my mind, those two definitely are!

Mok

Cornerb0y

Also, to all the people saying that $5 is entirely reasonable for these, you have to be kidding. Saying every game on a platform is worth the same price is lunacy, and it's the reason why my Wii has so few VC titles on it. I buy all the AAA ones because they are a good deal, and none of the others because they are ridiculously overpriced.

Obviously they think they are making more money overall by having this pricing structure, but whoever is running their numbers is stupid. Saying Super Mario Bros. should cost the same price as Urban Champion because they're both NES games is like saying a Mercedes and a Hyundai should cost the same because they both drive on the same roads.

Nintendo is absolutely leaving money on the table with this pricing structure. By charging reasonable prices for the titles, I would very likely have bought every single title (and used my Wii a whole lot more). I think a lot of hardcore gamers feel the same way.

crackp1pe

Shiryu

GOD

tufetuf

StupidDufus

Roto13

gibfather

maniacmayhem

I'd buy it just for the nostalgia factor.

jayntampa

Cruithne

Tommy

JRock

Eyerox

marklip

AndrewG009

LedRush

Some people are real tight wads.

chiefpoopingpants

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

Deano85

KingDavid73

@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.

AppleTamer

shufflemoomin

ghnvt

brent_w

Gamewatcher at Busy Gamer News

tufetuf

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.

LeBaron

Sweet C64 goodness.

Now then - somebody make a paddle controller attachment!

brent_w

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.

Yetanotheruninspiredscreename

el_gordo

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

PissedPS3Fan

SenorKaffee

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'

PissedPS3Fan

I can't stop repeating it.

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

kwan

Aprotosis

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

Irenicus-the one and only

NoBullet

mysteryboy2k

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

zanzibarlegend

MrCompletely

I wouldn't download these if they were free.

Moonshadow101

Morberis

Seriously now...

Caravaggio

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).

chucklebuck

NeverSage

tnx3

+ Watch video

Irenicus-the one and only

NoFunShogun

TechRat

Robotube

bigsamboni

suburbancowboy

TitillatedOcelot

coktoe

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.

cduran

rKarhu

GPman

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

AEREC

Livid

otakucode

TitillatedOcelot

otakucode

Nobuyuki

namesRhard