July 4, 2013 - Happy Independence Day (in the United States) from Nintendo! Enjoy a lot of retro goodness this week, featuring Pilotwings on Wii U, three new Game Gear games on 3DS, and a couple of new eShop games. There's also a few sales starting this week on both eShops (check the link at the end of the post for more details), so be sure to stop by your favorite digital storefront for all the details at noon EST today!

Wii U eShop

Virtual Console

Pilotwings (Super Nintendo) - Nintendo, $7.99

3DS eShop

eShop Games

Deer Hunting King - Arc System Works, $4.99

Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey - Cypronia, $4.99

Virtual Console

G-LOC Air Battle (Game Gear) - SEGA, $3.99

Sonic Drift 2 (Game Gear) - SEGA, $3.99

Vampire Master of Darkness (Game Gear) - SEGA, $4.99

Demos

Crazy Construction - G-Style

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came hoping for ff6... left buying nothing.

Posted by

Scrawnton

on: 07/04/13, 16:24

Meh... one Wii U VC game a week don't cut it, Nintendo.

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 07/04/13, 18:51

Seriously, was Chronicles of Mystara canceled? One more anti-Nintendo rage from my partner to sigh through.

Posted by

VickiL

on: 07/04/13, 18:56

Aw sweet! Crazy Construction!

Posted by

GameDadGrant

on: 07/04/13, 21:26

Mannn. I thought Pilotwings was gonna be 30 cents. PASS AGAIN AND FOREVER.

Posted by

Mr_Mustache

on: 07/05/13, 02:58

@Mr_Mustache

I'm waiting for the Pilotwings 64 to drop. Did that ever come to the VC? That's the one I remember loving. Wish I could play that.

Posted by

DrFinkelstein

on: 07/05/13, 03:02

Did anyone see Nintendo completely botch the launch of Mario Bros on the VC on Facebook? They showed a picture of SUPER Mario Bros. I wonder if that will bite them somehow (people saying they bought the wrong game by mistake).

Posted by

PogueSquadron

on: 07/05/13, 07:59

@PogueSquadron
I called this happening weeks ago, even without Nintendo's foibles.

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 07/05/13, 19:11

@DrFinkelstein

It didn't, and I want to try it. I'm on the fourth stage in Pilotwings (which I couldn't do before because I never did figure out the controls for skydiving until yesterday) and enjoying it, but I can't help but wonder if I'd enjoy 64 even more.

Posted by

ludist210

on: 07/05/13, 19:17

The only Pilotwings game I've played is the one on 3DS. How do the SNES and N64 games compare to that one?

In other news, the Game Gear Virtual Console release of Vampire: Master of Darkness is apparently really, really good. Anyone play that before?

Posted by

GameDadGrant

on: 07/06/13, 03:13

@GameDadGrant
Besides the 3DS version I've only played the N64 version, which IMHO is a million times better, with at least a billion times more content.

Posted by

deathly_hallows

on: 07/06/13, 03:51

Hmm, should I upgrade Pilotwings after never, ever playing it??

Why not!

@deathly_hallows
Wait, you think the N64 version has more content than the 3DS version? That's not how I remember it (although they reused Wuhu for Resort).

Posted by

Anand

on: 07/06/13, 05:04

Edited:

07/06/13, 05:05