Tecmo Bowl released for Wii VC!

[Black_Smoke]

Straight Classic

Tecmo Bowl snaps on Wii VC
Old-school gridiron game leads Sonic Spinball and Double Dungeons onto Nintendo's downloadable game service.

While the new wave of downloadable game services has already brought dozens of classic action and arcade titles back into the spotlight, the sports genre has been generally ignored in the trend. That might change as Nintendo today announced that a fondly remembered football game is headlining a slate of three new Virtual Console releases today.

Tecmo's humbly named Tecmo Bowl didn't carry an NFL license, but that didn't stop it from creating a game with thinly veiled stand-ins for the league's biggest teams. The NES game originally had an NFL Players Association license that let gamers storm the field with legends like Walter Payton, Bo Jackson, and Lawrence Taylor. However, all the players' names have been stripped from the Virtual Console edition and replaced with their jersey numbers.

Tecmo Bowl features a dozen teams, each with a lean offensive playbook of four plays and a defensive scheme that consists of choosing which play the offense planned to run. The game is playable alone or with a friend and sells for 500 Wii points ($5).

Joining Tecmo Bowl on the Virtual Console is Sega's mascot twist on another, less contact-intensive form of recreation, Sonic Spinball. Players take control of Sonic as he is launched into a series of pinball levels. But unlike an ordinary pinball game, Sonic Spinball features sprawling playfields laden with enemies, chaos emeralds to collect, and boss battles. Originally released on the Sega Genesis, Sonic Spinball is available for 800 Wii points ($8) and features support for up to four players.

The last Virtual Console release of the week is the TurboGrafx-16 first-person role-playing game Double Dungeons. Sporting two-player simultaneous play, Double Dungeons includes 22 scenarios for players to tackle and is available for 600 Wii points ($6).

-Gamespot

[jeromechickenbone]

Oh shit, I'ma have to hook that up.  Every play was like russian roulette cuz it's 1 in 4 and they pick your play and you're getting sacked.  Hopefully they release Tecmo Super Bowl.  Easily my favorite football game of all time.

[E. J. Rizo]

so no names in the VC version... i thought nintendo said they werent touching any of their games for the VC that they were to be ORIGINAL? thats wack if they did that... thank god i have 2 copies of the original NES title

[Trauma-san]

so no names in the VC version... i thought nintendo said they werent touching any of their games for the VC that they were to be ORIGINAL? thats wack if they did that... thank god i have 2 copies of the original NES title

If you weren't so fucking stupid you'd realize the licensing issues involved and that it would be impossible to release a direct port.  Of course your mind doesn't contemplate things on any level deeper than 'ooh ooh, little pixels say bo jackson... ooh, ooh".   Fucking monkeys. 

[E. J. Rizo]

so no names in the VC version... i thought nintendo said they werent touching any of their games for the VC that they were to be ORIGINAL? thats wack if they did that... thank god i have 2 copies of the original NES title

If you weren't so fucking stupid you'd realize the licensing issues involved and that it would be impossible to release a direct port.  Of course your mind doesn't contemplate things on any level deeper than 'ooh ooh, little pixels say bo jackson... ooh, ooh".   Fucking monkeys. 

yo you need to chill the fuck out... this is the second time you come at me sideways... last time in the vista/mac os x thread... but whatever i wont take it there... what is upsetting tho is that they say they arent going to touch these titles when they come to the VC so we get upset because we cant take some of our games and play them 2 players over the internet or something to that extent... making it a newer experience but when something is going to hurt them if they dont change it ... they go about doing it.... to me that is just wack... they use an excuse that they want to recreate the original experience but yet when it doesnt convinience them then they go about touching and changing things... dont get so worked up over this nintendo/sony/microsoft thing man.. its all good to have an opinion but my favorite companys and brands dont always do everything right so i just dont agree with it some times... like this for example... and i do have a Wii and i have purchased a few titles off the VC...

1. Super Mario 64
2. Super Mario Bros.
3. Streets of Rage
4. Super Ghouls and Ghost

i would buy street fighter in an instant if i were able to take it online and play 2 players! over the net...  and the same applies for some of the other games on the VC

[jeromechickenbone]

so no names in the VC version... i thought nintendo said they werent touching any of their games for the VC that they were to be ORIGINAL? thats wack if they did that... thank god i have 2 copies of the original NES title

If you weren't so fucking stupid you'd realize the licensing issues involved and that it would be impossible to release a direct port.  Of course your mind doesn't contemplate things on any level deeper than 'ooh ooh, little pixels say bo jackson... ooh, ooh".   Fucking monkeys. 

you're a dildo.

[Javier]

so no names in the VC version... i thought nintendo said they werent touching any of their games for the VC that they were to be ORIGINAL? thats wack if they did that... thank god i have 2 copies of the original NES title

If you weren't so fucking stupid you'd realize the licensing issues involved and that it would be impossible to release a direct port.  Of course your mind doesn't contemplate things on any level deeper than 'ooh ooh, little pixels say bo jackson... ooh, ooh".   Fucking monkeys. 

you're a dildo.

That's exactly what the faggot needs actually

[Bedford Iz Active]

Streets of Rage speaks to me the most. Period.