Fear not Wii owners, your retro gaming dosage of Sonic the Hedgehog doesn't stop at Sonic 3D, oh no! You may remember our very own TSS journalist Shadzter reporting yesterday morning that a mysterious Sonic related game rating appeared on the OFLC web site. Fans of the blue speedster pondered on to what this game might have been, 'Sonic and the Seven Dwarves' perhaps? But no, rest assured after confirmation by the ESRB site that it is none other than the original 8-bit Sonic the Hedgehog wonder that's hitting the Wii's Virtual Console service in the near future.
Thanks to SEGA's recent 'deal' with Nintendo allowing Master System games to become available on the service, for the low price of around 500-600 points you can relive the hedgehog in his glory days by downloading the first game that sent Sonic off flying released in parallel to the Mega Drive/Genesis equivalent. Knowing SEGA and Nintendo, we should also be seeing other Sonic Master System games hitting the service in the future too, those being Sonic 2, Sonic Chaos and maybe even the 8-bit versions of Sonic Spinball and Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine. All of these titles are fantastic fun and VC releases will be great for those unfortunate souls who have never ventured away from the 16 bit era of Sonic before.
Check back with TSS and stay in the 'know' about the release of the title on the VC. Keep on saving those pennies- I mean, points!
Yay, some more Sonic master system/game gear games to enjoy with wonderful PAL 17.5% slowdown... (Sega doesn't give the option to play games on PAL wii systems at 50 or 60Hz, so D: ) At least the few on sa:dx game cube mode allow you to have forced PAL 60. Also lol @ 500-600 points wii points for a master system/game gear game, yet for 400 ms points on the xbox 360 you get a much better port of their megadrive/genesis games...
I don't get it. Why would we want the 8-bit master system version of Sonic the Hedgehog when the Genesis version is already on there? Or maybe I read something wrong...
The 8-bit Master System version is nothing like the Genesis one. Bridge and Jungle zone plus the final Sky and Lightning level ftw.
That said.
Why add the Game Gear version of the game when VC has compatability for Master System games. Why not just add the MS version?
The differences are negligable.
becuase sega/nintendo are crazy & they want our munny
nuff said.
& why don't they do 32X games? i want to see Knuckles Chaotix on VC
because Knuckles Chaotix is the only 32x game anybody has ever heard of
because Knuckles Chaotix is the only 32x game anybody has ever heard of
True, but thats still not a good excuse
Chaotix FTW!!!!
It's slowly getting to the point of which it would cost less to buy a PS2, Mega Collection + and Sega Genesis Collection (£125/$150) than to download all of the titles on the Wii virtual console.
The Classic Controller can not be worth this. It's crazy...
Only exceptions, of course, are SoR series (thank you US/UK Gems Collection >=[) and that one Phantasy Star (or was it Shining Force) game that never came out anywhere else.
I was so excited when the VC thing started, but thus far it's just failing to deliver anything I can't get elsewhere and for cheaper.
