Wow it was a very good day for Nintendos virtual console this week. First, and all most out of the blue, Konami releases Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth (1000points) for the WiiWare without any formal announcement, the often praised/requested PilotWings (800points) from the SNES is available and for the DSi you can download an updated [...]

Through Nintendo’s virtual console, Excitebike: World Rally will be available today as a WiiWare downloadable title. This game was announced a few weeks back with minor gameplay shown, but as we saw this game will play and look (with updated graphics) just like the original. As all my fans out there know, I am [...]

Nintendo has announced that a remake of Excitebike will be heading to the Wii, possibly by November. In this update, that will be available through WiiWare download, players will be able to play the original Excitebike with updated graphics and gameplay as a single player game or jump online and race people throughout the [...]

Lots of news coming from the Nintendo front today.

First, Konami has confirmed a October 27th release, in Japan, for Castlevania: Rebirth. No “official” date for America yet, but if it’s like how Konami released Contra: Rebirth then we should get Castlevania the same day or a day or two later. Another interesting note is [...]

Finally Nintendo has gotten back to releasing quality games for their Virtual Console service. Now we still aren’t back to the glory days of seeing three great titles come out each week, but at least this week we get the original Final Fantasy game for the NES. This is by far one of [...]

Today begins a fantastic partnership between Lucasarts and Nintendo as we are seeing the release of Super Star Wars, for the SNES, on the Virtual Console today (only 800pts). This will be the first of many Lucasarts games and related content to be released on the Wii with Super Empire Strikes back and Super [...]

One of the bigger complaints from people is having to use the Wii Classic Controller to play their old Virtual Console games, especially the N64 as the button layout sometimes doesn’t feel natural. Well with Komodos retro adapter, you will be able to use your N64, SNES and NES controllers through your Wii for [...]

With the release of Super Punch-Out for the SNES on the Virtual Console this week, our friends at Gametrailers.com have created a nice little retrospective video on a handful of characters throughout the series history. Interesting facts I wasn’t aware of include: Super Punch-Out originally being an arcade game and that Piston Hurricane was [...]

At todays Game Developer Conference, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata went on to announce a few key items related to the Wii and DS. Now the GDC is not know for big news on upcoming titles or anything like that so most of the conference was about Nintendo sales of the Wii and future forecasts. [...]

Courtesy of our friends at gonintendo.com comes the brand new trailer for Punch Out for the Wii. In the new trailer we get to see some new gameplay footage, a new character in The Disco Kid (who seems to be replacing Piston Honda in the first set of fighters) and Mac running in his [...]