For those of you who play the Wii’s Virtual Console, you’ll be familiar with the Turbo Grafx-16 (or outside the US as the PC Engine). It’s one of the more obscure gaming consoles from the early days of the 16-bit wars. Actually, alot of gamers right now don’t remember it at all and those who do totally hated it just because it “sucks”.  Well, truth of the matter is, it didn’t really suck in the sense that it had bad games. It sucked in its marketing and its public awareness. Like I stated before, not too many gamers know what the TG-16 was or even remember it too well. There were many other factors that caused it uneventful demise (Nintendo to blame), but that’s a different story on its own. I remeber the TG-16 for its plethora of shmups (shootem-ups), and I shmups are one of my favorite genres of the past.

What a lot of people don’t know is that during a particular era in the early 90’s right before the coming of the revolutionary Play Station, there’s was a sudden fad in bringing video games onto CD, of which the TG-16 CD was the first of. Lots of great games came out for it also and yet again, no one knows about them.

Well good news for us, Nintendo Wii owners! Now we get to see the games that didn’t make it to our store shelves on the Virtual Console. Hudsonis prepping to release a few popular ones in the upcoming weeks. Hopefully they’ll even decide to release the grand daddy of all fighting games, Fighting Street (the precursor to the legendary Street Fighter 2).

The Turbo Grafx 16 CD games will run you 800 Wii Points ($8) as opposed to the 600 Wii Points for the regular TG-16 games.