It's good for 30 days, yeah. No word on whether they will overlap or if F-Zero will go on sale Feb 22. We'll see in a week.

Each new game starts at the end of the 30 days, no overlap.

Source: Nintendo.com

(Well, I guess there's like two days of overlap, but whatever :-p)

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Originally Posted by kamiyan89 as i understand from the nintendo direct video, they are trials, once 30 days passes, and if i understood iwata, you have to purchase the game for ''regiuraa purice'' or discounted price if you had it before the trial, i might be mistaken as iwata's english pronuntiation is not that good and I'm not an english native speaker so is kinda difficult for me. anyway I'm sure he addressed that point in the video if someone wants to be sure.

No. He said after thirty days the will return to regular price.
For not being a native speaker you sound like an insensitive dick.

Originally Posted by moothemagiccow I think anything short of a sicsonic (lifetime nintendo fan with a Sega username, really?) parade would not be enough.

Ny name is a reference to a Basketball team I watched for 25 years, not Sonic the Hedgehog. I was and always will be a Nintendo fan over Sega, though I loved the Genesis & Dreamcast.

Originally Posted by KrisMKX Why not just look it up in the first place? Why did someone have to answer you TWICE??

I looked it up before i asked, and couldn't find anything, so I thought maybe I missed it so I asked. i kind of said that IN the post you quoted, so learn to read there buddy.

Originally Posted by MrBonk Oh , and how would you do it? Send people free shit by mail?

Give them a reward like they give to Club Nintendo Gold/Platinum members? Is it that hard to think of something decent for people who bought their systems for 30 years?

Just because your parents buy you a WiiU doesn't mean you're the only that supports Nintendo.

Originally Posted by sicsonic Ny name is a reference to a Basketball team I watched for 25 years, not Sonic the Hedgehog. I was and always will be a Nintendo fan over Sega, though I loved the Genesis & Dreamcast.

Have you done anything for less than 25 years?

Originally Posted by Renaissance 2K Refreshing to see somebody to gets what Nintendo is doing, instead of the usual, "WHAT?! HOW DARE THEY CHARGE US FOR ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND DEVELOPMENT TIME ON A GAME I'VE ALREADY PLAYED?!! YOU CAN PRY MY THIRTY CENTS FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS, NINTENDO!!! Now, where's that new $15 Call of Duty map pack, half of whose maps are remakes?"

I get what they're "trying to do."
Just funny they're charging .30 for games they gave away to early 3DS adopters.
Games which have no upgrades to them at all.

These "classics" have been rehashed since the days of the E-Reader.. that says a lot.

Originally Posted by moothemagiccow Have you done anything for less than 25 years?

My city's NBA team (watched with Grandparents) and Nintendo (video games, played with parents) are the very few things that have been part of my life for my whole life.

I already own some of these games on Wii, if I go through all that transferring jazz I can get them for cheaper?

Originally Posted by Smashbro29 I already own some of these games on Wii, if I go through all that transferring jazz I can get them for cheaper?

It costs $1 per NES and $1.50 per SNES to 'upgrade' your VC games from Wii to have the new WiiU features. You are better off to buy them on the WiiU for 30c, way cheaper.

Originally Posted by emwearz It costs $1 per NES and $1.50 per SNES to 'upgrade' your VC games from Wii to have the new WiiU features. You are better off to buy them on the WiiU for 30c, way cheaper.

Right on man, I think I'll do just that.

Games with (normal prices):
January: Balloon Fight ($5)
February: F-Zero ($8)
March: Punch-Out Featuring Mr. Dream ($5)
April: Kirby’s Adventure ($5)
May: Super Metroid ($8)
June: Yoshi ($5)
July: Donkey Kong ($5)
=
WiiU $349.99 + $2.1 - $41 = $311.09
A WiiU price cut of $38.90

Just downloaded it, I was surprised to find I could play it on the Gamepad, from what I had read I was expecting to have to play it in the Wii channel, nope, Wii U icon and plays on the gamepad as well as having the new saving features, etc.

Originally Posted by J7. Games with (normal prices): January: Balloon Fight ($5) February: F-Zero ($8) March: Punch-Out Featuring Mr. Dream ($5) April: Kirby’s Adventure ($5) May: Super Metroid ($8) June: Yoshi ($5) July: Donkey Kong ($5) = WiiU $349.99 + $2.1 - $41 = $311.09 A WiiU price cut of $38.90

Didn't think of it like that. I was already planning on buying them all anyway, but this makes me happy I made my decision.

I'd like to see them continue something similar to this after this has run its course. I don't expect them to be 30 cents, but a deal on some of the VC games would be sweet.

Originally Posted by J7. Games with (normal prices): January: Balloon Fight ($5) February: F-Zero ($8) March: Punch-Out Featuring Mr. Dream ($5) April: Kirby’s Adventure ($5) May: Super Metroid ($8) June: Yoshi ($5) July: Donkey Kong ($5) = WiiU $349.99 + $2.1 - $41 = $311.09 A WiiU price cut of $38.90

How the hell did I miss that it was SUPER Metroid!? All I saw was Metroid earlier, I was going to buy it anyway but ... Super Metroid ... one of my biggest gaming regrets selling my original copy, well that and selling my original Panasonic 3do, FZ-1.

I still get a kick out of the normal pricing. I'd never buy any of those at those prices, well except maybe Super Metroid, just maybe.

I don't know - Kirby's Adventure is well worth $5 if you like Kirby games.

Originally Posted by badramen But, buying these copies will net you the ability to launch them from within the WiiU menu, along with the additional benefits that provides (Miiverse support, configurable controls, etc.) It would be silly to not buy them all, because as much as I will NEVER play Yoshi's Cookie, $.30 is a ridiculous price for classics, let alone, I don't even think Steam has had this good of a deal on any game! :O

I can't believe a CAG is telling me I should rebuy a game I already own for any price, especially on a system I (supposedly) already have it on. Especially when these "upgrades" should have taken 1 man maybe half a day had Nintendo coded these games properly in the first place.

What are we coming to? If I want to blindly buy whatever Nintendo puts out, I'll go visit GoNintendo.

Originally Posted by Desousa93 No. He said after thirty days the will return to regular price. For not being a native speaker you sound like an insensitive dick.

Oh come on, people are still giving this guy a hard time? It was a joke, and I thought it was hilarious.

Wii U owners need to just buy these regardless, I'm buying all of these just because/to support more sales down the pipe.

I really hope Nintendo gets back on the Virtual Console horse, they neglected that sucker for so long, so many great classic games WAITING to be bought by people.

Final rant: Can we please go back to Mike Tyson's Punch-out already? This is 2013 Nintendo. C'mon.

Originally Posted by rcerboss I can't believe a CAG is telling me I should rebuy a game I already own for any price, especially on a system I (supposedly) already have it on. Especially when these "upgrades" should have taken 1 man maybe half a day had Nintendo coded these games properly in the first place.

What a load. I like how so many people on the internet who have never had a system devkit in their life just assume they know the amount of work it takes to optimize something for said system. You get to play it on the GamePad, there's a corresponding Miiverse community for each of these games, and there's save states. If this doesn't sound like it's worth $0.30 for a game you've never played before or want to play again, or $1-$1.50 for a game you already own on Wii VC, then don't buy it. It's as simple as that. When you bought your game on Wii VC originally 3 years ago or whatever, you had no idea you would be getting this sort of thing. If Nintendo just released a new console without a tablet-like controller, you might say "I should be able to transfer my old Wii VC games onto this new system." Guess what? You can already do that. You don't have to pay extra, but if you want those extra aforementioned things, you're going to have to pay, horror of horrors, a dollar or so extra. If it's not worth the dollar to you, don't buy it.