Nintendo has announced release dates and prices for next month's round of Virtual Console games, including the launch of the Game Boy Advance on the Wii U.

Nintendo of America said:

April 3:
Advance Wars (Wii U, $7.99): Command air, ground and naval forces in strategic turn-based battles to drive back the vibrant armies of several scheming generals. Order troops carefully, then watch as tanks obliterate enemies and jets go head-to-head in midair dogfights. Can you fend off an army of elite strategists? It’s your move.
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Wii U, $7.99): Leap and level up as Mario and Luigi simultaneously in their first role-playing adventure as a team of Bros. When an evil witch replaces Princess Peach’s voice with explosives, the Bros. must venture beyond the Mushroom Kingdom to save her. Control each bro separately or together, then team up to unleash Bros. Attacks on Fawful’s fan-favorite face.
Metroid Fusion (Wii U, $7.99): Your mission: Eradicate the X parasites and the mutants they infect. Power up with the Fusion Suit to annihilate your enemies in this action-packed side-scroller set on an isolated research station. Along the way, you’ll find game-changing items like the Space Jump as you lose yourself in the blissful solitude of this eerily engrossing adventure.

April 10:
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (Wii U, $6.99): When the going gets tough, Kirby gets cloning. Call in colorful clone reinforcements to aid Kirby in blasting, bashing and smashing his foes. With a new menace at his side, Dark Meta Knight is corrupting the sprawling, mazelike Mirror Kingdom. Join the famous pink puffball on an adventure to save the land in this classic platformer.
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (Wii U, $6.99): Get ready for video games done Wario-style. In the game that started the WarioWare, Inc. empire, Wario has a plan to get rich quick. Skate, jump, scare and shoot your way through more than 200 frantic, rapid-fire microgames of every type, from retro classics to sports games to sci-fi shooters that anyone can pick up and play.

April 17
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, $4.99): Jump, swim and fly through one of the greatest and most beloved Super Mario Bros. games of all time. In this timeless NES classic, you’ll battle through over 70 baddie-infested courses and face off against the infamous Koopalings. Bowser and the Koopalings are causing chaos yet again, but this time, they’re going beyond the Mushroom Kingdom and into seven neighboring worlds. Lucky for the brothers, they have more power-ups than ever before. Fly above the action with the Super Leaf, swim faster as Frog Mario or turn into stone and drop onto enemies as Tanooki Mario. You can even choose your path on the map to reach the end of the World. There, you’ll have to pass massive Airships filled with cannons and fire traps to reach a showdown with one of the Koopalings.
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Wii U, $6.99): Get your adrenaline pumping and race plasma-powered machines till your knuckles turn white. Boost down some of the most dangerous tracks in the universe and strive for victory at all costs, even if it means ramming your opponents off the road. Revel in your accomplishments and climb the Grand Prix standings to unlock tracks and vehicles.
Golden Sun (Wii U, $7.99): Marvel at your own awesome power while protecting the world as it crumbles around you. Wield mighty weapons and use your mind to bend reality with magical Psynergy in the premiere installment of this epic RPG series. To aid you on your quest, seek out the omnipotent creatures known as Djinn – but beware: You must defeat them to harness their power.

April 24
Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (Wii U, $7.99): Yoshi is back, baby, and he’s ready to romp through a crayon-colored world where enemies are everywhere. Prepare to flutter jump and toss eggs to protect young Mario from the evil Magikoopa, Kamek. To save the day, Yoshi and his pals will have to morph into vehicles and even EAT their enemies to turn them into eggs. Umm … yum?

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Mop it up said:

Just win the battle through any means necessary!

Bombers. Bombers and Md Tanks.

And rockets. Lots of rockets.

Posted by

Shadowlink

on: 03/27/14, 00:46

Mop it up said:

Super Mario Advance 3: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a blurry mess on the 3DS screen.

Lies and slander. Game looks great on the 3DS screen!

Posted by

GameDadGrant

on: 03/27/14, 00:48

@Shadowlink I dunno, I found rockets pretty limiting. I used Max because his non-range units are ridiculously powerful.

Posted by

Mop it up

on: 03/27/14, 00:59

CO POWERRRRRRRR

Posted by

nate38

on: 03/27/14, 01:05

@Mop it up

Well of course they were limiting if you used Max

Nah, I know what you mean, artillery units require a bit of pre-planning to use effectively (unless you're Grit). But man, when you have them set up juuuust right.....they can wreck up the enemy's shit like nothing else.


I'm actually interested to see how my 29-year old brain handles the nuances of the strategy metagame as opposed to my impatient 16-year old self. Missypissy is talking about Day 99 craziness further back, I don't think things ever got that bad, at leas not during single player. Vs play was a mess though.

@nate38

Hehehe, some of those CO powers were nutty.

My go-to CO was Eagle. A flying ace who commands the skies who has the ability to move twice in a single turn? Awesome.

Interestingly enough, my army from my 40K tabletop games uses a similar strategy. All aerial assault and speed.

Posted by

Shadowlink

on: 03/27/14, 01:08

Edited:

03/27/14, 01:11

@Shadowlink I actually found Grit to be one of the easier opponents, especially if I used Max. The problem with Grit is that ranged units need cover, and Grit's regular units are weak. So combine that with Max's strength, and Max just wrecks Grit. Just rush in, destroy the cover units with one blow, then the ranged units need to reposition before they can fire, then boom, take em all out on the next turn.

@nate38 I wish I had the power of money!

Posted by

Mop it up

on: 03/27/14, 01:11

Edited:

03/27/14, 01:12

It sure seems odd that these seem to be bypassing the 3DS. Guess I'm glad I was an ambassador!

Posted by

Deerock69

on: 03/27/14, 01:13

@Mop it up

Well yeah, CPU Grit is hopeless .

Actually you know who stinks? Andy. What a worthless CO. Amirite Zero?

Posted by

Shadowlink

on: 03/27/14, 01:22

I remember playing this as an intro to the eventuality that was Fire Emblem heading over. I tended to pick whichever CO's music I liked the most, which was usually Andy or Sami, and just adjusting my strategy accordingly.

Posted by

Dark Weres

on: 03/27/14, 02:45

Shadowlink said:

Oh man yeah, Advance Wars Club!

Fuck you Fire Emblem, THIS is Nintendo's best strategy game.

TRUTH.

Although I think there is a lot Advance Wars could borrow from Fire Emblem, especially the new one. Not permadeath or anything like that, just little things. I like how a single button press shows you exactly what characters are in danger from attack the next turn, and how you can layer specific enemies attack ranges on top of that. Stuff like that.

Of course, that might be a bit less accurate in Advance Wars since certain CO powers change movement and such.

@Mop it up In that case I'd just use all the rockets without repositioning and they would obliterate everything in range.

I honestly don't think it is even possible to beat a human who is at about the same skill level and using Grit without using Grit yourself.

Shadowlink said:

Actually you know who stinks? Andy. What a worthless CO. Amirite Zero?

NOT TRUE.

Posted by

Zero

on: 03/27/14, 02:52

Edited:

03/27/14, 03:11

@Zero

Totally true.

"Look at meeeee, I can heal some junk"

If he was that good he wouldn't be damaged in the first place.

*contemptuous hand wave*

Posted by

Shadowlink

on: 03/27/14, 03:45

Well I hope the scaling is better on Wii U than on 3DS. I agree with Mop itup, a lot of these games have been too blurry.

Posted by

PogueSquadron

on: 03/27/14, 16:06

The best thing to come out of this is Zero finally changing his Halloween icon. Though at this point it might have made more sense to just keep it, he already made it halfway.

Posted by

Secret_Tunnel

on: 03/27/14, 16:12

My Advance Wars carts are virtually the only thing keeping holding on to my GBA Micro.

Damn that franchise is golden.

Posted by

New Forms

on: 03/27/14, 16:14

@Mr_Mustache

Oh man! GBA games on the Wii U is made just for you isn't it? Hopefully the Fire Emblem games will come soon!

For me I wasn't all that interested at first. I already own all these games and several perfectly working GBAs. But then I watched the announcement video on youtube and it changed my mind a bit. Seeing F-Zero being played on the TV reminded me I can finally play that game with a real controller. And also I remembered I buy pretty much anything Metroid, no matter how many times I own it.

Posted by

gojira

on: 03/27/14, 16:22

@sirmastersephiroth

Not sure where you read that...or why they would do that. I've read Off-TV play is confirmed, which would be a given considering how the Virtual Console functions. As far as I know, they will work the same as NES and Super Nintendo games.

I think you're confusing the GBA VC with the DS games on Wii U (which were demoed on the GamePad only).

Posted by

ludist210

on: 03/27/14, 16:45

Yeah, GBA games can be played on TV. I know this trailer comes from Nintendo of Australia, and Australians are a devious and cruel people by nature, but they wouldn't lie about playing GBA games on TV.

Posted by

nate38

on: 03/27/14, 16:56

Edited:

03/27/14, 17:02

After watching that trailer, I'm starting to get a sense of why Nintendo decided to put GBA games on the Wii U. Being able to play those games on the gamepad is pretty cool and I'm thinking Nintendo is trying to give the Wii U all the support it can right now. It definitely needs it.

Posted by

WrathOfSamus777

on: 03/27/14, 18:41

@Zero It usually isn't difficult to stay out of range, and Max's units are strong enough to take a hit and still be able to destroy rockets and artillery in one strike. Plus, rockets are pretty expensive, so Max can just power through with sheer numbers of cheaper units.

@gojira The answer is Game Boy Player.

Posted by

Mop it up

on: 03/27/14, 19:40

nate38 said:

I know this trailer comes from Nintendo of Australia, and Australians are a devious and cruel people by nature, but they wouldn't lie about playing GBA games on TV.

Wouldn't we?

And it's called survival man! You try living on a death world. It changes you.

Posted by

Shadowlink

on: 03/27/14, 21:13