Zelda: Ocarina of Time coming to VC Monday February 23, 2007
Well, it’s official, OoT is coming stateside via the Virtual Console Monday, February 26th.
The press release from Nintendo can be found below:
NINTENDO NEWS: NINTENDO TO RE-RELEASE ZELDA MASTERPIECE FOR WII, Feb. 23, 2007
Every form of entertainment has its artistic pinnacles. On Monday, Nintendo will make The Legend of Zelda®: Ocarina of Time available for download in the Wii Shop Channel of the hot new Wii™ video game system. Originally released in November 1998 for the Nintendo 64® console, the game is widely considered by critics and industry observers to be one of the greatest video games of all time.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time inspired millions of players around the world with its in-depth game play, rich 3-D visuals and memorable adventures. It set the standard by which all other games have been judged. And now it’s available once again, both for veteran gamers to relive their gaming glory days and for younger players to discover it for the first time.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will be available for 1,000 Wii Points™ when it goes live at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Feb. 26. 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 Wii Shop Channel now boasts more than 55 downloadable classic games, in addition to the dozens of new disc-based games available for Wii.
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OMG it was about time.. talk about a title i REALLY want to get
I’ve never played a 3d Zelda game, so this may be my chance to jump into the frenzy.
dunno bout u guys but this is already here in Aus, in fact it was here friday.
Why not promote Europe who got zelda:OOT first huh? oh no…maybe “the states” have to be the best all the time…blah blah blah!
Yeah. We do.
Also as usual, I already have a hard copy. So no buy for me. I’d much like to see F-Zero X while on the subject of N64 VC Titles.
I have 3 copies of this game already. The original N64 version, and two different gamecube Zelda s discs that came with it bundled with other Zelda games. Wow, they sure do like producing this over and over. Next thing you know we’ll be seeing it on the DS, not that it probably wouldn’t be a good thing.
How come everytime I come here now I get a login thing to blackboard.uc.edu ???
Yeah, I’m also getting this login request thing, it’s pretty annoying …
Me too, it’s kind of annoying because I go to another tab and then comes back to the WiiNintendo one with the dialog box ¬¬
Zelda? Oh, well, I still have the N64 and one of the GC releases
The login screen comes up because of the second picture in the “Wii in 30% of US households by 2011 – Analysts Predict”. It should be removed.
The dialog prompt is fixed.
@furis
We have 2 UK bloggers on WiiNintendo and one Aussie. It’s up to the individual bloggers what they post or what news tips they get.
I try to cover the Wii internationally because I know we have a fair amount of readers from all over the world.
Thanks for your concern though, send in a tip so we can catch it first next time.
How does this port compare to the editions published for the GCN?