Virtual Console Monday – Super Mario RPG, Clu Clu Land and My Aquarium
Monday, September 1st, 2008 at 7:58am by Derek
My local games shop has a copy of Super Mario RPG for $80.00. Starting today, you can get it on the VC for one-tenth that price.
The moment many of you have patiently been waiting for has arrived. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, the classic Super NES RPG, is available on the Virtual Console for 800 Wii Points.
Hitting the Wii Shop Channel alongside Mario this week is Clu Clu Land, another classic originally released for the NES in 1985, and My Aquarium, an elaborate virtual fish aquarium for WiiWare.
The Wii Shop Channel drought is over. The question isn’t will you be spending any Wii Points this week, but rather, how many?
Here is the full Press Release:
WiiWare
My Aquarium (Hudson Entertainment, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): With swaying aquatic plants and fish idly swimming about, My Aquarium is a relaxing Wii experience that allows you to enjoy a virtual aquarium in your spare time. Whether freshwater or saltwater, you can select from over 40 popular types of fish, including favorites like the Ocellaris clownfish, the freshwater angelfish and the Asian arowana. You can also create up to six different aquariums and personalize them by adding decorations like seaweed and driftwood. In My Aquarium, you can send aquariums to your registered Wii Friends. The aquariums can even be set with special dates, such as a friend’s birthday, that the fish will commemorate with a dance. Feed your fish and watch them steadily grow from fry to adult. Then, after meeting certain conditions, you can breed them. Another feature will allow you to interact with your fish using your Wii Remote™ controller in fun ways, like “tapping” the glass of your aquarium.
Virtual Console
Clu Clu Land (NES, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): Take a deep breath and prepare for a puzzle game set in the underwater kingdom of Clu Clu Land. The greedy Sea Urchins have stolen all of Clu Clu Land’s gold bars and buried them in a series of mazes. As Bubbles, a brave bubble fish, you’ll set out to uncover all of the gold bars in each maze. But you’ll have to be careful: Sea Urchins will relentlessly pursue Bubbles, and there are also dangerous black holes that must be avoided. Bubbles isn’t defenseless, though, as she has the ability to stun Sea Urchins with sound waves and quickly change direction using posts scattered throughout the stages. Not only that, but the locations of the gold bars in each maze form the outline of another object—once you know the object, you’re well on your way to finding the gold. With 20 stages to complete and increasingly complex conditions (like having to pass over the gold bars twice to uncover them), you might just want to bring along a friend for help.
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): Set in the Mushroom Kingdom and featuring its cast of well-known characters, this adventure RPG begins with a familiar scenario: Mario™ must rescue Princess Toadstool™ from Bowser™. However, a mysterious new enemy named Smithy soon appears, and Mario and Bowser are forced to fight as allies for the first time in their long history. In the quest to defeat their powerful new foe, they’ll journey across a wide variety of locations (a town of mining moles, a tropical forest, a thundering waterfall—just to name a few) and tackle a mix of obstacles requiring both expert timing and strategy to overcome. Along the way, they’ll gain experience and grow more powerful, while also meeting new characters whose unique abilities will be needed to take on Smithy and his gang. Striking a perfect balance of traditional RPG elements and the action-packed game play Mario is famous for, it’s easy to see why this title has earned “legendary” status.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:27 am
= 10
September 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am
This vc Monday > all
September 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
As soon as my son finishes The Ocarina of time we’ll be getting Mario RPG.
The virtual aquarium is a possibility as well simply because it’s so cheap
September 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
super mario rpg sounds a lot like paper mario TTYD, which I beat. I don’t need to play through that again. I’ll pass.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Woot. Now I just need my Majora’s Mask and possible Earthbound.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
steve, guess you wont be seeing this, but to anybody else, mario rpg is very much unlike the paper mario series. Its still rpg based, but the gamepolay mechanics are still quite different, as is the story, art style, etc…
This game was also made by square and has alot of charm of its own. nobody who likes rpgs and nintendo characters should pass this up.
In fact, despte its differences from paper mario, if you like paper pario you should not pass this up. Its stll got similar humor and basic gameplay elements.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
steve what are you doing here then?
I just dl it, I am happy.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Clu Clu Land
whats the game about?
Sounds too much like
KkK Imo…
hope im wrong
September 1st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I may have to try Super Mario RPG. I am RPG challenged and was told that this was a good place to start.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Already own Super Mario RPG on cartridge so I’ll be spending 0 Wii points this week.
I’m still waiting for Telltale to fix the Strong Bad 16:9 bug so I can download that game…
September 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Steve: The game is VERY different than Paper Mario. Paper mario did take some ques from Mario RPG, so there are a few similarities, but overall you will have a much different, and very enjoyable gameplay experience. If you are a fan of Square RPGs at all, you really should get this game. It has a great, unique battle system, fun characters, funny, cheesy jokes, and little translations that make you remember “oh yeah! The 90s!”
I’m joyed. Now release earthbound and mother so i can be OVERjoyed.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
So this is good for someone who is scared of RPGs or doesn’t have the patience to try to understnad them?
The only one I ever owned was Final Fantasy X. I didn’t really understand what I was doing, so I sold it the next day.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Nothing this week for me.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Brian: this is pretty basic and easy – and it’s peppered with some good tutorials that tell you what to do. It’s fun, funny, and great for rpg beginners.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
still going to wait for earthbound and the new bomberman, it’d be nice to play some games with others online. maybe they’ll get that one right
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Super Mario RPG and the aquarium are possibilities,but I’m saving up for De Blob and Guitar Hero.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
It’s about damn time! They should’ve released Mario RPG in Europe years ago! Stupid Nintendo and Square never released games such as Mario RPG, EarthBound, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 in Europe.
I bought Super Mario RPG from a guy that had imported it. I regret that I sold it. I bought it again quite recently but it has a security chip that prevents the game from being played in a PAL-SNES. It would be too expensive to modify it. Long story short, I’m thinking of buying it for VC (would be my first purchase online with my Wii) only to show Nintendo and Square that it was wrong of them not releasing Super Mario RPG (and the other wonderful RPG’s) here in Sweden (Europe) in the first place! I think that Super Mario RPG for SNES is the best in the series! I could play it for free with my PC if I want to. Especially since I own a copy of the actual game/cart. I was hoping that they would release an improved version of Mario RPG for Nintendo DS. Not that it needed improvment but still. New content would be nice! 
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
To whomever wrote this article, Mario RPG is not a WiiWare title. Why the urine would anyone think that this game is anything like the gamecube paper mario? Paper Mario = 2d side scroller with a humorous storyline. Mario RPG’s similarities include Mario and the fact that it is an RPG the similarities end there.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
GradiusFan: It was a typo. “WiiWare” meant “VC.” It’s been fixed.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
GradiusFan: Why the URINE?
I have to say, i’ve never heard anyone say that before.