NeoGeo games to hit Wii Virtual Console

Any new on this?

Hopefully they have Super Baseball 2020, has anyone heard any recent news on this topic?

It would be cool if they made a Neo Geo joystick for Wii to boot. Playing Samurai Shodown with the classic controller just doesn't seem right.

NEO GEO! Now that is awesome, I am so happy to hear that!!! King Of Fighters, Neo Turf Masters, Shock Troopers, Metal Slug, Super Dodgeball (hey! I like it!), Samurai Showdown... I could go on.... ok I will - Agressors of Dark Combat, Aero Fighters 2 (3 as well), Fatal Fury... The great thing about this is that you CANNOT buy these games in a bargain bin at gamestation for £2.50. Some cartridges will set you up from £50 - to the £1000's! I personally paid over

NEO GEO should start doing a collection series for Wii also ... i currently have the collection series for King of Fighters, Fatal Fury Battle Archives 1, Last Blade collection, Art of Fighting collection .... waiting for more to come!

Awesome.

A saturn VC with Radiant silvergun :-)

BlueFlameBat - ROTFL!!!! That's funny. Back in the day when memory was outragously expensive and 64MB cost over $100, then yea, Neo Geo games were considered big. Today, they can cram those babies into GBA carts... remember Metal Slug Advance? The Neo Geo VC is FREEKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!

I'd still rather there be disc options. NEO GEO games are just too big.

The best games for the Virtual Console are the ones that were initially launched on a console. The console translations of arcade games don't look nearly as good as the original arcade games. Still, it's very good to see Nintendo aggressively expanding their catalog of retro titles. It gives me a chance to play some games that I may have missed the first time around.

i hope they bring the NeoGeo downloads to America. I want to play Garou.

heck yeah this is exciting for the Wii!!! now i hope that the VC brings Dreamcast games and also Saturn games....

Wait... What if its the crappy SNES/ Gen ports! :lol: That would tragically hilarious.

Good too see SNK Playmore interested... now give me the NES version of Crystalis! :)

"MSX games on the VC makes me think what else they might do. FM Towns, PCFX, Saturn, Playdia?" I would LOVE to see some Saturn classics! How about the PSX too? :p Just kidding, I'm sure Sony would want to see their games working on the PS3 before they let Nintendo offer them on VC. :D I wouldn't mind seeing some Atari classics, and maybe some Sega CD games (Sonic CD, PLEASE!).

I'm wondering how big those downloads would be for NeoGeo. I remember seeing those ROMs up in the 60MB to 70MB. That would take up a ton of "blocks"

cell phone games how cool. Wow the Wii is getting everything

ANDY YOUR WRONG metroid 3 is not a gc title , nor is medal of honor mario galaxy ssbb or any of the titles you mentioned the wii has alot of good games out on the vc and more coming

Ring King and Dr. Chaos are two awesome games the nobody played. Neo Geo is the best system to download games for but not own the hardware, so another way to play those games is great. MSX games on the VC makes me think what else they might do. FM Towns, PCFX, Saturn, Playdia?

Hope we see Samuari Showdown

Dammitalltohell, this is the first compelling reason I've seen to use VC downloadable content. Now I have to get a Wii!

Sweet!

cool. the more the better.

Sweet. I'm also glad that SNK is taking the Wii in consideration... :)

Wwonka--what about Zelda? Granted that was a Gamecube game to start with, but it's definitely not a novelty game. Incidentally, there are quite a few games set to release this year that aren't 'novelty games'--Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Smash Bros Brawl, Manhunt 2, No More Heroes, Medal of Honor Vanguard, etc. My biggest fear is that the Wii becomes a place where developers decide to dump left-over last-generation products that didn't sell well enough or never made it to the shelves in time.

I have to say that I kind of agree with wwonka666... The Wii is far behind the other consoles in terms of non-novelty or "ye olde" games. Beyond that, all of these VC games don't exploit the Wiimote, which is essentially the whole point of the Wii to begin with. Oh well...

Neo Geo games? What in the world is that. Never heard of it have you?

One more thing, how come everyone is so crazy for the Wii right now? I have to admit though I am a little more confident in the graphic capabilities of the Wii since playing the new Sonic and the Secret Rings game.

How many people think that all we are gonna get on the Wii is a bunch of novelty games? So far, I have Elebits, Wii Play, Warioware, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Excitetruck, Super Monkey Ball, Sonic and the Secret Rings and of course Wii Sports and they all rely on short bursts of fun rather than truly and deeply engaging game play and most of them have some sort of mini-game gimmick or the entire game is a mini-game gimmick. Please just give us good retro games and I will not be disappointed in my purchase of the Wii.

funsohng metal slug~~~~~~~~~~~ ?????? I'm a little confused here? You can play all the Metal Slugs now if you just get the anthology. funsohng, are you alright???

I would love to see Samurai Showdown games on VC because this is one of most fun fighting games of all time.

u think the metal gear games will come to the virtual console... maybe near the release date of brawl? **()((((DROOL))))()**

no the 3DO is a forgotten system not the neo geo....

This can sit alongside Turbographix 16 as another old system nobody gives a damn about to drag out the amount of time between good NES, SNES, Genesis and N64 releases.

I like how everyone is getting all excited about this, especially since it hasn't been confirmed that Neo-Geo games will appear on the Wii's VC outside of Japan.

Nice.

Speaking as someone who owns a Neo Geo Gold system, d-pad controllers are not the ideal method of playing a Neo Geo game. Expect these games to be priced at the upper tier 1000+ points; more then likely Samurai Showdown, World Hero II, Fatal Fury, and the like would be 1500 point. If its lower count yourselves lucky.

Hate to break this to you Joe, but it won't be in High Definition. I mean, having you played the Street Fighter, and any other ports? None of them are in high def.

I can't wait to play Neo Geo games in high-definition on Xbox Live Arcade!

I just realized - Data East games: Wind Jammers, Heavy Barrel, Bad Dudes, Fighter's History/FH Dynamite, etc! Very, very sweet ^_^ Everyone who has a Wii - be sure to contact SNK and tell'em you've got some cash you'd like to give'em :)

awesome! the neo-geo was cool.

that is going to be cool

El coolio! How much are the games?!

"wii needs online" I might point out the incredible ambiguity of that statement by mentioning that the Wii already has it's own version of the Opera browser for surfing the internet.

SNK made some of the most timeless games ever. I'm glad Playmore is keeping up the library and making it available to a new generation of gamers. An online King of Fighters, Garou Mark of the Wolves, Samurai Shodown, or Last Blade would be enough to get me to dust off my Wii.

wii needs online

Samurai Showdown 1,2, and 3 PLEASE!!!!!! I can't wait!!!!

Right on... those of us that have played almost all games on all systems, are lovin it. Pull some more goodies from the depths, how about Nobunagas Ambition, or Bandit Kings? Are these also Wii bound? The Wii rocks.

"Why this sucks??because there's no online like on XBL. Why bother if you don't have online gameplay to enjoy some of Neo-geo great fighting games." I don't know, why would you have possibly paid 10-100 times more the first time around when the Neo Geo was first out? This is Virtual Console, not "reinventing classics." This is how the game was originally produced. I hear a lot of people whining about no updates to graphics or features of VC games. I really think anyone making complaints like that doesn't get the whole concept of the VC. To take a retro game and "update" it would be to make it no longer retro.

YES.. YES.. Y ... E ... S