Two more titles arrive on European VC

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Feb 23, 2007 6:58 am PT

This week sees the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Kid Icarus on the Wii's Virtual Console.

Nintendo has announced two more games for its European Virtual Console. The first of these two titles is the classic adventure game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, originally released in 1998 on the Nintendo 64.

Ocarina of Time was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma and is the fifth game in the Legend of Zelda series. The epic quest is thought by many to be one of the greatest adventures ever made, and it is one of the four games to which GameSpot awarded a perfect 10 score. It will cost 1,000 Wii points.

Also released this week is Kid Icarus, originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. Gamers play a young angel called Pit struggling to defeat the hordes of darkness and free the Goddess of Light. Kid Icarus is available for download for 500 Wii points.

54 Comments

  • andywray

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 3:12 pm PT

    VC Games are good and all, but I can get all the N64 ones on eBay. All I'm after is the SNES ones and Turbografx really. R-Type ftw! What the Wii really needs is more proper games, I crave SSB:Brawl!

  • Chirico_Cuvie

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 9:22 am PT

    Nice to see the EU get the jump on something for a change. They've been getting the short end of the games stick forever. Too many languages floating around makes localisation a royal pain.

    For the record Kid Icarus isn't a great game. Now you can play it for yourselves to see its mediocrity. Metroid FTW. There's an old NES game called The Battle of Olympus that is basically what Kid Icarus should have been. Check it out.

  • Strategy-knight

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 2:00 am PT

    Hey I'm in Europe and yet I still hope you Americans and everyone else, get this game on VC soon.

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Feb 25, 2007 3:45 pm PT

    Kid Icarus! Wha????

  • TheBates

    Posted Feb 25, 2007 9:02 am PT

    Oh, you poor neglected Americans. How awful for you that you won't be getting a few ancient Virtual Console games at the same time as us over-privileged Europeans. It's not enough that you pay roughly half of what we pay for games and that they arrive on your shelves months and months before they land on ours. It's a conspiracy.

  • Scammeleon

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 5:54 pm PT

    anarchicgoth:
    "idk i own Ocarina and Kid Icarus looks like a Metroid Clone"

    It was really, they were both released at the same time, run on practically the same engine (i think) and Kid Icarus was even known as the sister game to Metroid.

  • Pete5506

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 2:39 pm PT

    go zelda

  • Sharvie

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 11:24 am PT

    Good stuff with Zelda

  • anarchicgoth

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 10:14 am PT

    idk i own Ocarina and Kid Icarus looks like a Metroid Clone

  • _TheJoker_

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 3:02 am PT

    Good for the ones who haven't played them yet, but I have OOT for my N64 AND for my GC, I won't pay for it again.

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 11:59 pm PT

    2 proper classic games. Good stuff.

  • emorule

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 3:38 pm PT

    Tony Hawks 3 is well worth a ten!

  • danvitale

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 3:28 pm PT

    I was hopeing for Zelda ALTTP but I'll take this!!

  • sacatash

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 3:06 pm PT

    Wow! the only Zelda game that I havent played before and it will now be out in europe. so when do we expect to have this?

  • apboyer

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 3:00 pm PT

    This would be insanely awesome...if I didn't already get a gamecube copy (complete with Master Quest) when I pre-ordered Wind Waker.

  • deepdreamer256

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 2:48 pm PT

    smidsy85: Chrono Cross, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3, Soul Calibur.

  • DiscoJoy

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 1:19 pm PT

    Australia got it this week as well. Downloaded it last night and began playing. It had been a while since I'd played the game, and forgot how similar the early bits were to Twilight Princess. Still lots of fun, and a bargain at only 1000 Wii points.

  • crackman64

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 1:09 pm PT

    I swear, i'm gonna be so pissed if it doesn't come out in the U.S right upcoming monday. I will be SO mad if we have to wait ONE MORE FRICKIN' WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ff7cloudking

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 12:52 pm PT

    smidsy85: I know that one of the other games gs gave a 10 to was Chrono Cross

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