Wii Virtual Console Games List

The Nintendo Wii is a truly great video game console to own and play on, and it has been very well accepted all around the world. This list will tell you about the games that you can play on the Virtual Console (VC) that are available only in North America. There are other regions like Japan, South Korea and PAL (the Phase Altering Line of the video game industry, which deals with regions in Asia, Africa, Australia, South America and Western Europe), but this article will only deal with the North American titles.

Like all the other competing video game consoles in the market today, the Nintendo Wii also has online services that offer gamers more features and products to choose from. One of these features is the Wii Shop Channel, and one of the best products on offer there is the Virtual Console. VC is a software that acts as an emulator on the Nintendo Wii game console, and allows gamers to play video games that were released for earlier versions of Nintendo consoles. So in effect this is a method of backward compatibility of games that is offered by Nintendo themselves.

The best Wii Virtual Console games are the ones that used to run on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo 64 and some other consoles from Sega and TurboGrafx. To buy any of these NES titles and others on the VC you will need a certain number of Wii points, which is a method of payment through credit card that Nintendo makes use of.

List of Wii Virtual Console Games

People who loved the video games of the past are the ones who benefit from the Virtual Console the most, as they now have an opportunity to play these games again. Moreover, all the games mentioned in this list for North America are found in their original form, with no changes in the graphics and the gameplay. Hence they are a throwback to a forgotten era. With that being said, here are the Wii games to look out for.

NES Games for 500 Wii Points

A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Bloblonia	Adventure Island	Adventures of Lolo	Adventures of Lolo 2
Balloon Fight	Baseball	Bases Loaded	Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
Blades of Steel	Blaster Master	Bubble Bobble	Castlevania
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest	City Connection	Clu Clu Land	Crash n' the Boys: Street Challenge
Dig Dug	Donkey Kong	Donkey Kong 3	Donkey Kong Jr.
Donkey Kong Jr. Math	Double Dragon	Double Dribble	Elevator Action
Excitebike	Final Fantasy	Galaga	Ghosts n' Goblins
Gradius	Ice Climber	Ice Hockey	Kirby's Adventure
Life Force	Lode Runner	Lunar Pool	Mach Rider
Mario Bros.	Mega Man	Mega Man 2	Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4	Metroid	Mighty Bomb Jack	Milon's Secret Castle
NES Open Tournament Golf	NES Play Action Football	Ninja Gaiden	Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom	Operation Wolf	Pac-Man	Pinball
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom	Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream	Renegade	River City Ransom
Shadow of the Ninja	Sky Kid	Soccer	Solomon's Key
Spelunker	Star Soldier	StarTropics	Super C
Super Dodge Ball	Super Mario Bros.	Super Mario Bros. 2	Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels	Tecmo Bowl	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Tennis
The Legend of Kage	The Legend of Zelda	Ufouria: The Saga	Urban Champion
Wario's Woods	Xevious	Yoshi	Yoshi's Cookie

There are a few games in this Nintendo list that also cost 600 Wii points. It has been noted that there are around 89 titles for the NES games, 61 titles for the top SNES games (at 800 Wii points each, excluding a few), 20 titles for the best Nintendo 64 games (at 1000 Wii points each, excluding a few), 16 titles for the Sega Master System (at 500 Wii points each, excluding a few), 72 titles for the Sega Genesis (at 800 Wii points each, excluding a few), 63 titles for the TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafx-CD (at 600 Wii points each, excluding a few), 29 titles for the Neo Geo (at 900 Wii points each, excluding a few), 9 titles for the Commodore 64 (at 500 Wii points each, excluding a few) and 15 titles for the Virtual Console Arcade (at 600 Wii points each, excluding a few).

As you can see, there are plenty of choices available for people who love to play classic video games along with their modern Wii games. Some of these games will never go out of vogue, and there will always be plenty of takers around the world. This is not a complete list, as there are many more great games that can be included here as well.