Hudson announce latest batch of Virtual Console titles

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Hudson Entertainment have issued a press release containing information on their plans to release classic games originally created for the TurboGrafx-16TM system for the Wii's virtual Console.

Hudson go on to say that by the end of 2006 they will have released five games in North America and Europe, and seven games in Japan.

Over the next year, Hudson will provide more than 40 classic TurboGrafx-16 titles in North America and Europe, and more than 60 in Japan.

As with all VC downloads the titles will be available through the Wii Shop Channel using Wii Points, and pricing will start at 600 Wii Points per title.

Hudson have a different release schedule for each region, and you can read the details of that below:

North America:
Price per download (Turbo Chip Titles): start at 600 Wii Points = 6 dollars
Number of Titles: 5
Hudson Entertainment will provide more than 40 games over the next year including third-party games originally released for the TurboGrafx-16.

Initial titles include: "Bonk’s Adventure," "Super Star Soldier," "Victory Run," "Bomberman 93," "Dungeon Explorer"

Japan:
Price per download (HuCard Titles): start at 600 Wii points = 600 Yen
Number of Titles: 7
Hudson Soft will provide more than 60 games over the next year including third-party games originally released for the PC Engine.

Initial titles include: "Adventure Island," "Bonk’s Adventure," "Super Star Soldier," "Victory Run," "Bomberman 94," "Dungeon Explorer," "Necromancer"

Europe:
Price per download (Turbo Chip Titles): start at 600 Wii points = 6.00 Euro
Number of Titles: 5
Hudson Entertainment will provide more than 40 games over the next year including third-party games originally released for the TurboGrafx-16.

Initial titles include: "Bonk’s Adventure," "Super Star Soldier," "Victory Run," "Bomberman 93," "Dungeon Explorer"

For those who aren't familiar with the TurboGrafx-16 system, here is a short paragraph that goes into more detail on the system and its capabilities.

The TurboGrafx-16 is known as the PC Engine in Japan. The PC Engine was sold by NEC-HE – a collaboration between NEC and Hudson Soft. Developed for home use, it is based on the HE-SYSTEM code standard and was released in Japan on October 30, 1987. The TurboGrafx carried an LSI “C62 system” which Hudson originally developed. It boasted high speeds and performance for that time - especially for CPU processing speed - and showcased incredible graphics (512 colors) and a powerful sound chip (6ch stereo, output 2ch sounds). It was a dramatic evolution of the video game console – leaping ahead of 8-Bit competition at that time. Hudson also provided the plastic ROM “Hu-CARD (Turbo Chip)” which allowed for huge storage sizes on a small-sized ROM. Hudson released the PC Engine CD-ROM2 video gaming system on December 4, 1988, which used CD-ROM as a gaming media platform for the first time, worldwide. The TurboGrafx-16 was sold as the localized version of PC Engine in North America in 1989.

Hudson also released some packshot artwork for these VC titles, you can see the boxart in the gallery here:
http://www.wiichat.com/gallery/browseimages.php?c=42

 

[Crynos]

Good stuff, cant wait to get my hands on bomberman