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Originally Posted by snowy
We just buy the old games ourselves for our Wii with their Virtual Console service. While their selection is limited in some ways, it has a lot of good games too, and for multiple consoles (including non-Nintendo consoles). We have Super Mario Bros. 3, Punchout!, River City Ransom, Lifeforce, and Altered Beast, among others. I'm told that many of these games were popular back in the day. Personally, I don't find it to be a big "walk down Memory Lane" thing, mostly because I didn't have a Nintendo or a Sega as a kid, but almost all of my friends do.
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I meant to address this in the OP, but the site is indeed very akin and identifiable to the Wii's Virtual Console. It houses many classic games, some rarer ones that you'd perhaps never, ever find in your local hobby shops, and just beams the fun and enjoyability of what was once fond pasttimes of our youth.
The benefit of the site in comparison to the Virtual Console as I see it is because of the provincial nature of Nintendo of America, Inc., the company only releases games that were ported to North America as downloadables, so we know nothing of the early history of some of Nintendo's finest games, at least playability-wise; while the site vNES, on the other hand, regularly uploads and features Japanese-exclusive titles that play just as good as before, or even better, due to fansubs/translation addendums.
I love being able to take 15 minutes of downtime in the afternoon, and have the versatility provided to me to either play
Super Adventure Island (a game in which I have
never, ever gotten past level 3 on..) or
Mother, (otherwise known as Earthbound's prequel/sequel). It's a beautiful thing.