Yoshi's Story, Baseball, Helicopters on Wii VC

September 17, 2007 7:56 AM

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.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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September 17, 2007 8:17 AM

Yoshi's Story was one of those games that looked great and played well, but it's length and difficulty (too easy) brought it down. It just need more levels/worlds. Shame since i really liked the game too
- Chris Faylor
  
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  September 17, 2007 8:22 AM
  
  I was really excited at first. Then I realized I'd confused Yoshi's Story with Yoshi's Island :(
- Tawler
  
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  September 17, 2007 9:14 AM
  
  This is the game where they gave Yoshi that awful voice he has today. It's a landmark of evil to me.