Not seen in UK: Jap & US classics coming to PAL Wii!

I love fireworks!  Apparently, so do the Japanese.  They've even named a festival after them - it's Hanabi festival time on the Wii Virtual Console in Europe and the UK!  What does this mean, you might ask?

It means in short, three themed weeks on VC with releases that have never before been seen in the UK and Europe on PAL format.  The first week features that intrepid plumber Mario in two titles not seen in the UK before, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Famicom - 600 Wii points) and Mario's Super Picross (SNES - 900 Wii points).  They're celebrating the 1985 launch of the first Super Mario Bros. game in Japan, and they're doing it crazy style!

Be warned; Lost Levels is exclusive and will only remain on sale until September 30th 2007.  All other Hanabi festival VC releases will remain available permanently, though.  After this week, we'll see two more festival weeks of Jap and US releases, which we'll detail in a later post.

In addition to all the Ninty excitement, this week features a Turbografx/PC Engine title, Neutopia II (Turbografx - 600 Wii points). If you liked the first one (also on the VC) then it's pretty much a sequel; more of the same.