Nintendo has released its release list for the Virtual Console in Japan for the month of June, and there are some show-stoppers on that list. It is looking to be another great month for the Japanese VC.

Famicom:

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Compared to Japan's five game update, what North America gets is far less impressive and not nearly as awesome. Rather, we get what Europe got last week, and a baseball game to kick start the already-going 2008 MLB season.

The first game on the list is Yoshi's Cookie, for the NES. As to why the NES version and not the superior SNES version, it is beyond me.


The second game is a baseball game: Bases Loaded for the NES. As the game did not have the MLB license, the game stars a fic...

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After a week of releases that led to the introduction of the Commodore 64 last week, Europe's Virtual Console regresses back to a single game this week.

That game? Yoshi's Cookie for the NES. It is a puzzler, where the goal is to mix and match cookies by rotating rows and columns.


Single game recap:

NES: Yoshi's Cookie, 1-2 Players, 500 Points

Keep track of the latest VC releases with the 2008 edition of What's New on VC? in the Wii Virtual Console forum.

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