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When they bring Yie Ar Kung Fu to Virtual Console, I'll be dancing around my office like a fool. It was one of my favorite arcade games as a kid.

*sigh*]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
For all you young'ins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx_FastLoad
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*goes streaking*]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 22nd 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
* Paradroid
* Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar
* Usagi Yojimbo
* Elite
* Bruce Lee
* Defender of the Crown
* Last Ninja
* Airborne Ranger
* Archon
* M.U.L.E.
* Bards Tale
* 'Gold Box' SSI D&D games - Pool of Radiance | Curse of the Azure Bonds
* Archon
* Mail Order Monsters!]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/fs2-c64.htm]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
I also want Skate or Die, just for the intro screen with the awesome high pitched music. Jumpman was also a classic, I popped that 5.25" floppy in many a time.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
Wouldn't mind Thalamus games, Hwkeye, Retrograde and Creatures as well!]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
That really tickled me for some reason..]]>Feb 21st 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/role_playing_games/games_u_z/ultima_iv_quest_of_the_avatar_vga.html

I'd love to see mail order monsters again tho =)]]>Feb 21st 2008 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
I'd also love to see:

Law of the West
Raid on Bungling Bay
all of the SCUMM games from LucasArts
Starflight
Impossible Mission ("Another visitor... Stay a while... Stay FOREVER!!!")
Way of the Exploding Fist
Jumpman & Jumpman Jr.
Star Control I & II
Archon I & II ( In know you mentioned it, but it bears repeating)
Karateka (Bow to the princess, dammit!)

-- Am I the only person who ever played "Law of the West" ??? It was a western first-person adventure game. You were the new sheriff in town, and various townsfolk would walk up to you and start a conversation. Depending on the way you answered them, the game would go in different directions. For example, the town doctor was a drunk, and you could call him on it (which would likely mean he'd ignore you if you were shot) or offer him a drink (which would mean he was too drunk to help you if you were shot) or chastise him a little but part on good terms (which meant he'd save your life if you got shot).

It was a hilarious, cheesy game.

If this sort of stuff becomes reality on the Wii, then I may have to buy one after all.]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/The levels look like he's in China, but the green sumo dood? Could never figure that one out.]]>Feb 23rd 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
Law of the West FTW!]]>Feb 22nd 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Maybe $2 or $3, or a package deal.... but 500 points?

Methinks a little on the overzealous, greed side.

Nostalgia be damned :P]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
Some people spend more than $5 on a beverage at Starbucks.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
That applies to NEW GAMES. Allowing you to buy a few 1s and 0s (VERY few 1s and 0s in the case of a C64 game) over an ethernet cable isn't costing a hell of a lot of money. They could charge fifty cents for a C64 game and still profit. There's no box, no manual, no cartridge, and they sure as hell weren't making a dime off of these games recently BEFORE the Virtual Console idea.

It's greed. Not inflation.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
IT'S FIVE DOLLARS! Dear god, and the thing is you turn around and buy a $60+ current gen title and not bat an eye. Pretty DAMN cheap entertainment if you ask me. ]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
you arent taking depreciation into account. there are better flash games available on the web for free. ]]>Feb 21st 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
$5.00 for these games is fair, though, and here's why:

Did ANY of you actually PAY for your C=64 games? Be honest. The Commodore 64 was THE most-pirated system ever. Hell, I wouldn't know what an uncracked version of half those games looked like upon typing> LOAD "*",8,1

Most of us played them for free in the 80s, when we were young and blissfully unaware of how bad piracy was. The trade in C=64 games in schools across the country was legendary. I wouldn't be surprised if half the C=64 games only sold a few copies, and yet we ALL played them because the same cracked versions were traveling by hand from person to person. There was even commercially-available game copying copy software at the time.

So I feel that giving $5.00 now for games that I know were pirated like mad in the old days is probably fair. It's probably MORE than fair.]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/"Perfect crime"... You're stealing games and you're calling Nintendo criminals? Oh the irony.]]>Feb 21st 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/I can't wait until they make PONG for my $300-rare-hard-to-come-by system to play games such as PONG
plus! it'll be a *NEW EXPERIENCE* with my Wii mote!
]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
PS- Its $250 fanboi.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
I was so addicted.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Ok, I'll play...

1. Bruce Lee
2. Blue Max
3. Impossible Mission
4. California Games
5. Ballblazer
6. Archon
7. Beachhead

]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/
HOWEVER, I have to admit that one of my all-time fave games is "Championship Lode Runner" for the C64. Unlike the games that used Commodore's kind-of-crappy sprite animation, CLR was written in machine code and was VERY responsive.

I thought the levels were amazingly clever, too. Yes, I'd like to see the original, C64 Lode Runner, too...]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmvuH2QpXvc]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/c64-games-coming-to-wiis-virtual-console/Feb 21st 2008 1:31PM