Four Interplay classics coming to Virtual Console
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 2:41am by Press Release
Interplay Entertainment Corp. announced today that four of its franchise titles for the classic Sega Genesis videogame system will soon appear on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console.
Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman, and Clayfighter, all popular Interplay titles on the Sega Genesis in the 1990s, will be available later this year on the Wii Virtual Console.
Nintendo’s Virtual Console makes some of the greatest video games in history available for Wii. Users can download and play many favorite NES, SNES, N64, NEOGEO, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx 16 titles.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 am
yay, i am ahead of the game, this is great news
all great titles, though i wonder why sega versions? they couldnt have been the best versions, assuming one was better then the other, which is usually the case.
anyway, great news either way.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 am
Yes, Clayfighter finally! I can only hope they follow up w/ Clayfighter 2 Tournament Edition.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
yeah i was thinking the same thing, why sega’s versions of ewj and clayfighter? the SNES’s versions were supieror in every way…wierd.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
It would be nice if they let you purchase the game and then have access to both the Genesis and SNES versions. I only had an SNES and while I’m interested in playing the Genesis versions, I have a feeling I’m going to want the originals on the platform I first played them on.
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Or just accept and play the games on the better systems. Mwhahahahahahaha
(Yes, I was a Genesis fanboy.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Weird, but it’s nice to see EWJ finally return (because he never got decent sequels after 2).
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
don’t get me wrong i liked the genesis too (i had one before the SNES) so i’m really not bias in that sense, but when you put two of the same games from both systems next to eachother you can see clearly the SNES had better sound, gameplay (unless you bought a better control A, B, & C were lacking), and was visually superior. look at SFII on both of them and you’ll see from Ryu’s stage that Sega cut corners (or the machine couldn’t handle it). either way they never felt the same the only edge Sega had was the gore. comparing mortal kombat on both systems again the SNES played and looked better, but Sega had the blood and we got the sweat and tears. but if memory serves me there was a blood code to turn the sweat into blood so nevermind