UK Virtual Console Friday Round-up

via IGN

If, like us, you're planning on spending as little time as possible outside in the freezing cold over the festive period, then you'll probably be wondering what on earth you can do to keep yourself occupied in between the questionable feast of mystery meat pies and television specials.

Well friends, wonder no more. Might we point you in the general direction of the Wii Virtual Console, which enjoys yet more additions to its rapidly burgeoning library of videogames classics today. If it's the retro of the, uh, retroiest you're after, then Nintendo's latest NES offerings number Donkey Kong Jr., Soccer and Tennis. If it's a grab bag of 16-bitness you want though, today sees the arrival of Space Harrier II and Toe Jam & Earl on Mega Drive, alongside Military Madness, courtesy of the TurboGrafx. Click the links for some IGN review goodness.

Looking ahead to next week though when i) we won't be here so you'll have to fend for yourselves and ii) we'll be so sick of seasonal jollity we'll want to hole ourselves up in a dark room until it all goes away, there's a bumper roster of bonafide classics on the way come Friday. While NES offerings aren't much to shout about - hello Baseball and Ice Hockey - TurboGrafx fans can grapple around with R-TYPE. Most exciting of all though, next Friday's SNES offerings include SimCity, Super Probotector and the utterly sublime Super Castlevania IV.

So, while IGN UK stands alone in a barren field of neglect, stock up on those Wii Points and spent some quality time with the distant past. We'll be suitably rejuvenated and ready to get stuck into 2007 after that - who knows what delights Nintendo has in store for the New Year?


Virtual Console European Releases, December 22

NES - 500 Wii Points

Donkey Kong Jr.
Soccer
Tennis

TURBOGRAFX - 600 Points

Military Madness

MEGA DRIVE - 800 Wii Points

Space Harrier II
Toe Jam & Earl


Virtual Console European Releases, December 29

NES - 500 Wii Points

Baseball
Ice Hockey

TURBOGRAFX - 600 Points

R-TYPE

SNES - 800 Wii Points

SimCity
Super Probotector
Super Castlevania IV