Wii U Virtual Console Is Getting Tropical with StarTropics

<p>Nintendo has announced that two role-playing games will be hitting the Wii U&&num;8217&semi;s eShop today for &dollar;5 a piece&period; <em>StarTropics<&sol;em> and <em>Zoda&&num;8217&semi;s Revenge&colon; StarTropics II<&sol;em> have been released on the Virtual Console for all to enjoy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s press release&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><em>StarTropics<&sol;em><&sol;span> – In this much-loved NES game&comma; step into the shoes of Mike Jones&comma; a teenage star pitcher from Seattle who has come to the tropics to visit his famous archeologist uncle&comma; Dr&period; Jones&period; After being told that his uncle has been abducted&comma; Mike begins a perilous quest in order to rescue him and figure out the mysterious plot behind his disappearance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><em>Zoda’s Revenge&colon; StarTropics II<&sol;em><&sol;span> – Adventurer Mike Jones is back and embarking on a journey through time and space&period; Mike’s mission is to save seven mystic Tetrads&comma; while facing the avengers of his foiled foe&comma; the evil Zoda&period; Decipher codes&comma; solve mysteries and battle dragons with heroes of days gone by&period; Mike won’t stop until Zoda is history&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">This is extremely good news for all those gamers that grew up in the 90&&num;8217&semi;s that didn&&num;8217&semi;t have the funds to get all the great RPG&&num;8217&semi;s&period; Should these be successful hopefully Nintendo will get on the bandwagon of releasing more of these classic RPG&&num;8217&semi;s from the NES and SNES era&period; Personally I&&num;8217&semi;d like to get my Wii U to boot up<em> Secret of Mana<&sol;em>&comma; a game that I missed and now is too expensive to purchase&period; I will be getting my hands on <em>StarTropics<&sol;em> and the sequel since my 90&&num;8217&semi;s self was obsessed with Mario platformers instead of RPG&&num;8217&semi;s&semi; now I won&&num;8217&semi;t be missing out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;com&sol;games&sol;detail&sol;startropics-wii-u">Nintendo<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;