Sega Announces Four New Virtual Console Titles

SEGA fans rejoice! SEGA of America has just announced a slew of Virtual Console titles to be released on the Wii in the upcoming weeks.

“The Wii Shop Channel is a great avenue for gamers who want instant access to classic SEGA Genesis titles,” said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America. “Legendary titles such as Sword of Vermilion, Vectorman, Sonic Spinball and Beyond Oasis are a perfect fit for this platform.”

While this may seem like the most bizarre selection of games, cult classics like these will surely warm the heart of many SEGA-holics around the world and introduce the Nintendo fanbase like myself to some of the best SEGA games of the past. Since I don’t know much about these titles, here’s what the rest of the staff had to say about them:

Vectorman is awesome! And I salivated over the Beyond Oasis screens back in the day. Of course, at the time I was too much of a fanboy to ever play a Sega game. But now I know better. -Nick

Sonic Spinball is the greatest Sonic game ever made. Even better than Sonic CD. -Jody

Son of a [bum]! The guys in my post were JUST talking about this. This is great! -Mitch

Excitement at its best. SEGA, keep doing “what Nintendon’t” and I’m sure we’ll have a fantastic library of Virtual Console games in no time.