Yoshi's Story, Baseball, Helicopters on Wii VC

Nintendo's dino-riffic Nintendo 64 platformer Yoshi's Story hatches onto Wii's online Virtual Console store in North America today, along with the copter-focused Super Thunder Blade and self-explanatory World Class Baseball. The followup to Nintendo's beloved Super Nintendo egg-tosser Yoshi's Island, which is sadly not yet available via VC, the shorter and less well-received Yoshi's Story carries a price of 1,000 Wii Points ($10). Sega's Genesis helicopter shooter Super Thunder Blade buzzes in at the cost of 800 Wii Points ($8). Hudson Soft's World Class Baseball, which Nintendo claims is the TurboGrafx-16's "definitive baseball game," slides home for 600 Wii Points ($6). Unfortunately, there has been no word from Nintendo of America as to when previously Japan-only releases, such as Nintendo's SNES puzzler Mario Picross or Treasure's N64 shooter Sin & Punishment, will arrive in North America. Late last week, Nintendo of Europe revealed it would be featuring such games through its VC across the next month.