| Gift Guide: Retro Games For Wii Part 1 Dec 25th 2011, 11:02 This holiday if you’re looking to spread old-school gaming holiday with a modern Next-Gen console that caters to the retro gamer on your list, look no further than the Nintendo Wii. Having been in business long before the beginning of video games, Nintendo always looks towards the future while keeping close ties to their retro roots. Their motion controller-based Wii has loads of classic video game goodies for the gift-giving season. For more gift ideas for the Nintendo Wii check out Part 2 of our Nintendo Wii Retro Video Games Holiday Gift Guide 2011 Part 2. For More on the Wii, please visit About.com's Guide to Wii Games 
Image © Nintendo Yes, you may know the Nintendo Wii as the hit motion controlled gaming system and major holiday gift item, but did you know that the Wii has the largest collection of classic console games among all the Next-Gen systems? Retro hits and console rarities from the ‘80s and ‘90s are all available for download via the Wii Virtual Console, a digital delivery service where you can purchase and download games directly to the system through via an internet Wi-Fi connection. This may be the most pricy item on the list, it’s is also a major space saver. While all those retro systems and game cartridges can fill an entire room, the Virtual Console games are contained on the Wii’s internal hard drive, and if that fills up you can also store them on a removable SD Cards. 
Image © Nintendo To play the classic console games available on the Wii Virtual Console you can use a controller from the Nintendo Game Cube, or this wireless controller that plugs into the systems in-pack Wiimote controller. The Classic Controller is sold separately than the Wii Console and is designed with the traditional configuration that Nintendo’s retro systems are known for. 
Image © Nintendo Don’t go thinking that those Virtual Console games are free. To download from the massive library of classic console titles you need to purchase each game using Wii points. The best, and safest, way of adding Wii points to your account is through the Wii Points Card. It’s just like a gift card that adds points to players Wii account. 
Image © SNK While the title refers to them as “Arcade Classicsâ€, all 16 of the titles in this collection were all available on the Neo-Geo classic home console system. That’s because SNK used the same guts and technology in the Neo-Geo as they did in their arcade cabinets. Originally these games sold for $200 a pop, so getting these titles for just over a buck each is a terrific bargain. Games include the Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters '94, King of the Monsters, Metal Slug, Samurai Showdown and 9 more! All the games in this collection work with both the Wiimote as well as the Nintendo Classic Controller. For more NeoGeo SNK Playmore collections take a look at Metal Slug Anthology and King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga in Part 2 of our Nintendo Wii Retro Video Games Holiday Gift Guide 2011. Bundling two of the most popular titles in the retro arcade rail-shooting series, HOTD 2 & 3 Return is the most fast paced, unrelenting zombie shooting franchise in gaming. Return features direct ports of the two most popular entries in the coin-op arcade series. To get the closest to the arcade feel, try using the Wii Zapper controller. If you missed playing a pair of floating eyes surrounded by darkness you’re in luck as this sequel to the original Atari 2600 classic Haunted House, plays tribute to it’s predecessor by including upgraded versions of the classics game mechanics. Even though we thought the hero of the original game (who was nameless in the original, but has now been given the name Samuel Silverspring) mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago (around 1981 when the original released). Now the grandchildren of the missing Silverspring descend to the spooky Graves Mansion and find the pieces of the lost Urn of Spirit Bay. Due to rights issues EA can’t release their historic Nintendo 64 first-person shooter that redefined the genre for console gaming, but that doesn’t mean that Activision can’t remake it. Based on the feature film starring Pierce Brosnan, GoldenEye 007 is the second best James Bond video game, with the original taking the #1 slot. It’s also the only James Bond game where you can shoot a bad-guy in the back when he’s not looking. In 1983 animation legend Don Bluth and Rick Dyer teamed up to create one of the most unique arcade games of all time, Dragon’s Lair, a full 2D cell-animated video game, with gameplay based on reaction and timing. The game was a hit and spawned a sequel, Dragon’s Lair II, and a second Bluth/Dyer collaboration, Space Ace. Trilogy bundles ports of the arcade versions of Dragon’s Lair, Dragon’s Lair II, and Space Ace. While these titles have been previously released as DVD games, the controls and transitions are far smoother on the Wii. Unfortunately it doesn’t include Space Ace II, but it’s still a good bargain. The rerelease of the remake of the original Resident Evil caused a big stir in the blog comments when we announced it. This Wii port of the Nintendo GameCube remake of the original PlayStation One classic. is identical to the GC version only it now has the option to play using either the classic controller or the Wii motion controls.  | |
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