Nintendo must be feeling bad about screwing their loyal European and Australian fan base for so long. What gives me that idea, you ask? They’ve just announced that a heap of previously Japan-only titles will be released on the Wii Virtual Console in PAL territories throughout September - with no such announcement made so far for the US.

They’re calling it “Hanabi Festival” - named after the Japanese holiday season famous for firework displays.

Today started Week 1, or Mario week, and saw the release of the real, too-hard-for-the-white-man Super Mario Bros. 2 and Mario’s Super Picross.

September 21 kicks off Ninja week, with Ninja Gaiden and Ninja JaJaMaru-Kun scheduled for release.

Of course, they had to save the best for last. September 28 is Sci-Fi week, with Gradius III and the most excellent Sin & Punishment finally coming to consoles outside Japan.

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This entry was posted by Tim Hanlon on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 4:13 am and is filed under Wii. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.