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The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past Joins Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console Lineup Today

Written by Alexis M. (Rivithed)

Monday, 22 January 2007

Today, Nintendo released a new Virtual Console title, "The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past" (SNES) via the Wii Shop. The classic Zelda adventure from the Super NES days is available for 800 Points.

"Return to an age of magic and heroes" in this classic top/down Zelda adventure! Playable with the Gamecube or Classic controller.

WII-KLY UPDATE: CLASSIC ZELDA GAME ANNOUNCED FOR WII SHOP CHANNEL

Jan. 22, 2007

Today Nintendo adds one of the most popular games in its library of classics to the Wii™ video game system's Wii Shop Channel. The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past™ goes live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super NES®, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Return to an age of magic and heroes. When an evil magician named Agahnim begins kidnapping young maidens in Hyrule in a quest to break the imprisoning seal on Ganon, a young boy named Link is called upon to stop him. Link must venture into twisting mazes, dungeons, palaces and shadowy forests as he searches for the maidens and Princess Zelda. Traversing both Light and Dark Worlds, he must navigate eight dark dungeons, fighting evil enemies and huge bosses. Help our hero prevent Ganon and Agahnim from shattering Hyrule forever.

Comments

About freaking time!
Written by Guest on 2007-01-22 00:00:00

Finally they release a good game. I mean, the old Mario and Zelda were kinda cool. And Gunstar Heros and Bomberman lasted a while, but now we have a real single player adventure. Finally a VC game that I can play for a few hours at a time.

Third go-around?
Written by Guest on 2007-01-23 00:00:00

I played this on the original SNES (and completed) and have been going through a second time on my Gameboy Micro. Can I endure a 3rd go-around with so many other good games out? I wish I could! But if I knew there was some other incentive to play (bonus

Perfect timing
Written by Guest on 2007-01-23 00:00:00

This is the very game I was wanting on the VC, and I just got my Wii on Sunday. Talk about perfect timing!

FINALLY!
Written by Guest on 2007-01-23 00:00:00

Finally more decent Super NES games are coming out on the Virtual Console. If only Nintendo will keep up with the Nintendo 64 releases...