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Wii Virtual Console update for April 14-20, 2008

This week on the Virtual Console, we have two old-school Sega games for your retro gaming pleasure. Fantasy Zone and Mega Turrican are currently up for grabs on the Wii Shop Channel. Frankly, I’m still waiting for the last remaining Nintendo classics (Hello… Majora’s Mask?), though Fantasy Zone looks pretty tasty.

All VC titles are available on the Wii Shop channel, with a fresh batch arriving every Monday at 9 AM PST. Wii points can be purchased at a rate of $1 for 100 points. The new games bring the North American count to 218.

Nintendo’s official descriptions, from the press release:

Master System, Game Gear games coming to the Wii Virtual Console

Late last week (January 25, 2008), Sega announced it had officially agreed to start putting its Master System and Game Gear games up for grab on the Wii’s Virtual Console service. IGN states that Fantasy Zone and Fist of the North Star (retooled and released in North America as Black Belt) will be the first of such games to launch onto the service next month in Japan and shortly thereafter in North America and Europe.

While the Master System wasn’t actually Sega’s first console (in Japan, it was referred to as the Sega Mark III), it was the first to see release outside of Japan and its competition with the NES throughout the mid and late ’80s was the basis for the…