Some of my fondest game memories come from playing the following on various Nintendo consoles:
Rock N’ Roll Racing
Pilotwings
Goldeneye 007
Lemmings
Tetris Attack
Blackthorne
In my opinion, those Nintendo knuckleheads need to get working on this yesterday.
I also wish there was a way they could release the old Sierra adventure games (King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest) on this thing.
Let’s get nostalgic on games. What do y’all want to see released?
Man, everything needs to be released on the Virtual Console. But I really wish Nintendo would start with these…
Base Wars (NES)
Metalstorm (NES)
StarTropics (NES)
Secret of Mana (SNES)
Eartbound (SNES) and Earthbound Zero (NES - released only in Japan)
Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis)
And of course GoldenEye, but it will be a long time if that ever happens.
Why is that? Is Rare being a giant, whiny, bitch?
You can get a freeware remade versions of King’s Quest I through IV (I never played it originally but it’s apparently the same game, just slightly better graphics and runs without a dos box etc on current computers).
It’s because of the hugely complicated license rights dealing with GoldenEye.
The game was developed by Rare, who is now owned by Microsoft. But it was originally published by Nintendo. Also, the James Bond license is now owned by Activision.
So you’d have to work out some deal that made Nintendo, Microsoft and Activision happy. Supposedly all three sides are “working on it,” but I’m not holding my breath.
It’s not impossible though, after all Konami (the original publisher) and Ubisoft (the current license holder) got together to put the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game on XBLA along with the first two NES Turtles games on the VC. But none of the console makers were involved in that deal.
I wonder if they’ll run on a Mac? I’ll have to look into this. Thanks!
You have very good taste.
Since Earthbound was already mentioned, I’ll add:
Uniracers
Breath of Fire I
Harvest Moon 64 (and/or the SNES version)
River City Ransom
You’re welcome. 
Too bad, that still is one of the best FPSs I’ve ever played.
Personally I’m still waiting for another Rare title, Blast Corps.
Oh man! I thought I was the only one who remembered that game. What a blast.
Punch-Out.
Punch-Out!! is on the VC. I keep debating with myself whether I should spend the couple of bucks to buy a game I’ve beaten upwards of 20 times.
Super Punch-Out!! is rumored to be added before the end of the year.
And another one I can’t believe I forgot in my first list: Super Smash Bros. for the N64.
SMB 3 ?
Or is this a woosh?
Tenbux says it’s released in the month leading up to SSBB, just as the earlier Metroids were for Prime 3.
Now that the NeoGeo is a supported system, I’d like to see the King of Fighters games get released. Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury are so very not worth $9, but the KoF series could be.
And I third Rock 'N Roll Racing.
I don’t doubt that’ll happen, but I hold out hope it will be added to the VC during the first week of December as an “I’m sorry” for the delay of Smash Bros Brawl.
I don’t understand why nobody mentioned this one either…
Super Mario Bros. 3, dammit!
–FCOD
Secret of Mana is one of the very few games I’d buy a second copy of using the Virtual Console. I don’t have the third player adapter for the SNES and it’s really hard to gather three people around a computer to play it.
I’d love to see some of the non-Donkey Kong Rare titles as well- especially Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie- but since Rare is owned by one of Nintendo’s competitors, it will probably be impossible. (It would be nice to see DS ports, maybe- since Microsoft doesn’t make a handheld system, Rare is able to develop games for Nintendo’s handhelds. They made some GBA games distributed by THQ, and I believe they have a DS port of Viva Pinata in the works.)
^ God Banjo-Kazooie was a great game. Banjo-Tooie, however, not so much.
Atari Lynx games.