Super R-Type and Op Wolf on VC

By Tom Bramwell Published 14 March, 2008

Can't we have some cartoon platformers?

Have you done enough shooting this week? If not, you might be interested in this week's Virtual Console releases on Wii - Super R-Type and Operation Wolf.

The former is the SNES take on the ageing Irem shooter (and how we miss the days when every game began with "Super"), and Wikipedia reckons it's a bit hardcore and "the only non-canon release in the series".

It also says that Super R-Type's slowdown problem "is its most memorable feature", which doesn't sound like a recommendation to us. Not that we generally accept buying advice from a godless online encyclopaedia.

Were we inclined or otherwise, however, we'd have to throw down 800 Wii Points (GBP 6 / EUR 8 approx) as it's a SNES game, and that's the price you pay.

The price you pay for NES games, of which Operation Wolf is one, is 500 Wii Points or GBP 3.50 / EUR 5 approximately.

As is often the case, those crazy terrorists have taken hostages, and it's your job to save them by firing at the screen. It's not clear how this will actually work on the Wii from Nintendo's description, but we hope it involves running down an escalator and shooting someone seven times in the head for no reason.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • JonFE #1 4 years ago

    "Were we inclined or otherwise, however, we'd have to throw down 800 Wii Points (GBP 6 / EUR 8 approx) as it's a SNES game, and that's the price you pay.

    The price you pay for NES games, of which Operation Wolf is one, is 500 Wii Points or (let's try and do this in the head) GBP 5.10 / EUR 7 approximately.    "

    You know there's an error there. 500 Wii points are exactly 5€, just like 800 Wii points are 8€.

    EDIT: Corrected; carry on as usual...
    Edited by 1 at 14/03/08 @ 09:25

  • ostrasized #2 4 years ago

    wtf? Who wants a NES game of Operation Wolf?

    Arcade port with the wiimote as a lightgun? Sure, I'll buy that for a tenner. But a NES game? They can fsck off ;-)

  • Carlo #3 4 years ago

    Operation Wolf Wii \o/

    /prepares to undust wii

  • Carlo #4 4 years ago

    Wait a sec... I can't use the wiimote as a lightgun?

    WTF?

    Nintendo FAIL!

  • motslaps #5 4 years ago

    what?!?! no wiimote support for Op Wolf? that's crap...! :(

  • motslaps #6 4 years ago

    they should have at least put up the TurboGrafx/PC-Engine version of Op Wolf ... the NES version is shite!
    Edited by 1 at 14/03/08 @ 09:56

  • Totoriko #7 4 years ago

    The Wii isn't powerful enough to emulate the arcade version, obviously

  • Tobias24 #8 4 years ago

    Sorry, but where is my Super Mario Kart?

  • scouserfuller9 #9 4 years ago

    @Tobias24 Super Mario Kart will probably be released in 3 or 4 weeks time for 2 reasons. One being the fact that Mario Kart for the Wii is released in 4 weeks and the virtual console often releases past titles similar to a new Wii game near it's release. The second reason is we currently have 195 virtual console games in the catalogue and to celebrate reaching another century of games Nintendo will release one of it's biggest titles which will probably be Super Mario Kart as it'll take about another 3 or 4 weeks before they reach the 200 mark. I can't say what I'm saying is true but it's something that wouldn't surprise me.