SNES Star Wars trilogy, other Lucas games coming to Wii

LucasArts and Nintendo have announced that the Super Star Wars trilogy and many other classic LucasArts titles will be coming to the Wii Virtual Console.

SNES Star Wars trilogy, other Lucas games coming to Wii

Mode 7 never looked better. Image courtesy MobyGames

THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE: STAR WARS CONTENT BLASTS ONTO WII CONSOLE

Multiple LucasArts Super Nintendo Games Head to Virtual Console

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 10, 2009 - Fans of Star Wars(r) and classic Nintendo games will want to keep an eye on their Wii(tm) Shop Channel for the next month. Nintendo will be releasing multiple LucasArts favorites for Virtual Console(tm), starting today with Super Star Wars(r). In the coming weeks, both Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back(r) and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi(r) will be added to the Virtual Console lineup. All three Super Star Wars games were originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System(tm) and will be available at 800 Wii Points(tm) each.

The arrival of the first three games will be accompanied by additional Star Wars-themed content on other Wii channels throughout the week. The Check Mii Out Channel will invite people to submit their best Mii(tm) character renditions of classic Star Wars characters. On the Everybody Votes Channel, users can cast their votes to help settle old debates, such as the proper order to watch the six Star Wars films, and who fired first - Han Solo or Greedo?

"Our expanded partnership with LucasArts brings the Star Wars and Nintendo universes together," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "These three Super Star Wars games represent fantastic additions to the growing Virtual Console library, and the exclusive Star Wars content on the other Wii Menu channels is sure to have people from different generations having fun and interacting with one another."

"Virtual Console on Wii is a great way to make these games available to our fans again, and it's an awesome opportunity to expose our classic console titles to an entirely new audience," said Darrell Rodriguez, president of LucasArts.

Additional classic LucasArts games for Virtual Console will be announced in the future.

THE VERDICT by Dave Rudden Dave Rudden's Avatar

Super Star Wars trilogy? Maniac Mansion? Zombies Ate My Neighbors? This is awesome news. Nice to see quality games are still coming to the Virtual Console. Now where's Earthbound and Sunset Riders?!

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ZombieSlayer81

Holy Crap!!! Zombies Ate My Neighbors!!! Seriously, I can't even count how many hours I put into that game when I was a kid and yet I never beat it. Now, to have another chance at it...THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WITH THE ZOMBIE CHUNKS OF MY VICIOUS SLAUGHTER!! EAT WEED WHACKER UNDEAD VERMIN!!

SilentGhosteye

I'll definitely download Zombies Ate My Neighbors. That is one of my all time favorite games, I used to play it for hours.

denveraic

I actually own Zombies Ate My Neighbors still. My brother and I love to play.

StormKing

The12P wrote:

The Super Star Wars games are good but they are also super hard.

Especially Empire Strikes Back.... s.o.b always froze at the begining of the Degaba (probably spelled that wrong) level, which pissed me off... I never checked to see if that was a widespread problem.

DarthKratos_

dude one of the best starwars games to date is Knights of the old republic. Just because it's a classic, don't give it too much cred.

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gamerslife

Hopefully they will add Metal Warriors. Use to love the multi-player battles.

KILLPEOPLE

Cool, glad to see some oldschool games available since my snes just recently crashed

eday_2010

Zombies Ate My Neighbors was published by Konami. So do they own the rights to putting it out, or is it the developer?

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