Wii U Virtual Console sales announced to celebrate Famicom’s 30th anniversary

As part of the Wii U’s Virtual Console announcement tonight, Iwata revealed that Nintendo will be running a campaign featuring special ‘trial’ prices for Virtual Console games, with a select few games being available to download for 30 cents each for a short time. The Virtual Console service itself won’t be up until the next system update, but these trials will be available immediately.

The schedule in the Direct is as follows –

• January – Balloon Fight
• February – F-Zero
• March – Punch Out!!
• April – Kirby’s Adventure
• May – Super Metroid
• June – Yoshi
• July – Donkey Kong

The first game, Balloon Fight, is available right now on Australian Wii Us, so download away!