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Konami to relive the MSX days on Virtual Console

Posted Oct 30, 2009 at 9:07AM EST by Glenn M.

Listed in: Wii Tags: Gradius, Konami, Kung Fu, MSX, Solid Snake, Wii Points
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Virtual Console - Image 1Konami has been around for a very long time. Long before 3D and complex gameplay, the publisher busied itself as a prominent MSX developer. Before the Solid, Metal Gear made its home on the format, right alongside classics such as Contra and Parodius. For another round of retro, Konami's adding 13 MSX games into Virtual Console.

Specifically, they are:
  • Metal Gear
  • Yie-Ar Kung Fu: Counterattack of the Emperor
  • Space Mambo
  • Penguin Adventure
  • Road Fighter
  • Parodius
  • Contra
  • Gradius 2
  • Salamander
  • Quarth
  • Knightmare
  • Gofer no Yabou: Episode 2
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Konami isn't throwing them all in there at once. They will be spread across the coming months, although a release schedule was not specified. When they do turn up, they'll be priced at 800 Wii Points (US$ 8).



More on Virtual Console:


Via Siliconera



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# awesomeEarthBoundX5 2009-10-30 11:54
This is awesome!! Price kinda sucks though...

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# .Spawnx777x 2009-10-30 11:55
$8? Thats way to much

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# aw manmarkdonut 2009-10-30 12:08
$8 and they aren't even releasing the goonies?



They should release their old arcade hit jail break, that game was amazing at the arcade when I was a kid. Pretty hard but still awesome nonetheless. I think it was out for msx too!

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# "Metal Gear!?...."chargin_teh_lazorz 2009-10-30 13:51
".....it can't be"

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# omgfearlubu 2009-10-30 19:10
kojima should release Metal Gear 1 and 2 to PSN and XBL



i mean, they were released on the MSX, thats a MS system right?





That is unless he releases MGS2 and 3 with 1080p res like the GOW pack T_T

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# Nintendo can shove it!GUNBEHINDTHESUN 2009-11-01 20:31
They think $8 for games that are hardly that in today's sense of the word is really worth it?!!!! I feel sorry for all the people that's going to get ripped off unknowingly and Nintendo doesn't even care. Sounds like THQ and their Nancy Drew games for the DS, that ripped my daughter off. Come on Nintendo, your rich ass doesn't need to rip people off!

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# Hisureok 2009-11-02 02:39
You must be new to Nintendo

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