Earthbound coming to Wii U Virtual Console today

Hopefully this does well enough for Nintendo to green-light Mother 3 on VC too. I love Earthbound and all, but Mother 3 going mainstream would definitely show nay-sayers what Nintendo can do when they don't pull punches.

I cried when I finished this game a few summers back

fak yea, dl'ing this right now

Do your Wii VC games apply to the Wii U VC? I never seen any info on that. Are you forced to repurchase the VC games you already paid for on the Wii?

$10 spent on this and a Wii U better than the money spent on MS who makes a tablet/laptop nobody wanted and lost huge $ on recently plus them coming out with a console with Kinect nobody wants to be forced to use and spy mechanisms built into the crappy thing and on and on. ****off Microsoft !

Earthbound 2 coming to Wii U in the future ? Go Nintendo !

hahhahahha MS fan boys mad cuz now they know the Wii U just may pick up sales from this and maybe more consoles come off the shelves for Nintendo ....

U mad ?

XbonedMS ... hope their new console destroys them

Why the **** would you pay $10 for an 18 yr old game? Just get the rom for free and play it on a SNES emulator. Its absolutely disgusting to see how Nintendo will profit entirely from this, and the original dev will get nothing.

This is an unbelievable exploitative price for a nearly 20 year old game. 10 bucks? should be 1.99 at MAX.

Nintendo is exactly as anticonsumer and greedy like the other guys they are just better at hiding it

the actual game is running on ebay for around $350

So here's how I see it: Nintendo messes up big by not having any noteworthy games after years, so they start trying to rectify the problem by announcing several promising new titles. Unfortunately, making new games take TIME, so in the meanwhile they announce a port of a game many fans have been begging for YEARS to keep current Wii U owners happy and maybe draw in some new customers.
I don't have a Wii U yet and I was really forward to finally playing this and having a reason to get the console (I'd already decided I was going to get Wii U eventually, I'll have to wait awhile because I just got a PS3 and I have a backlog of games I've already bought) and now people are bitching that $10 is too much and just download it illegally for free?! Again, HUGE demand. They could've put this on a cartridge or disk and charged $30+ if they wanted. But it's not really about the price now, is it?

Have these wii u people not heard of a emulator

I remember this game was damn difficult. Can't seem to recall whether I finished the game or not, lol.

I've never played this game but being a fan of RPGs and a wii u owner (also a 360 and ps3 owner) I can't wait to try this game, I think 10$ is not alot of money and the people complaining either just want to rag on wii u, or have parents who won't buy it for them, too many people using Roms etc trying to justify it saying they own a 100$ + game "in storage" so they can download a rom I just don't believe you and u downloading the rom is probably a reason more great classic games aren't coming quicker to the virtual console. I also think people who just think its an "old" game must be very young as to think the main purpose of a good game is purely for its graphical content. Ps3 owners who think this try downloading a game from the store called braid . And see how it's not just about a game being 3 dimensional. End of the day Roms are illegal support your console and if you don't intend to buy a wii u leave the wii u thread.

yeahhh

WTF did I just watch! lol

This is one of the more ridiculous threads i have read on here, and thats really saying something. People beg for an official release of this game.... They get it, and now are complaining about the manner in which it is being delivered to them. seriously guys, wow.

$10 is a great price. Just because it's old doesn't mean its worth any less. Look at music and movies: Beatles, The Who, Queen, any classic...the music isn't cheaper because it's older. Its because it's what people are willing to pay.

I'd gladly pay $10 to play something I don't have to worry about a cartridge getting dirty, battery dying, an inferior hookup to a TV, etc.

At least thats how I see it

For people bitching about the $10 price, I own 2 in box Earthbounds would you like to buy one for $500?

Putting this out might lower the price over time on the actual snes game since now people can play it without the actual game. Its pretty over priced on snes right now

Although its a very good unique game so maybe it deserves it?

I hope this comes out for the Wii Virtual Console

Went home on my lunch break and bought it today! Can't wait to play it again after all these years. I must admit I didn't give the game a fair chance and only rented it a couple times back in the day. Since then, partially due to the crazy popularity of the Smash games with EarthBound characters, the game has reached cult-level status. I'm not interested in paying a premium just to own the cartridge so $10 for a properly-emulated game that I can play on my TV or off-screen on the GamePad, along with a digital version of the Nintendo Power Player's Guide (which was like $30 by itself) is actually a pretty good deal IMO.

Guess I'll never play this game since it's for Wii U. ;(