Nintendo's Virtual Console Hits The Streets

This week, Nintendo's Virtual Console gets all rough and tough and... a bit Francis Ford Coppola.

Street Gangs, originally released on the NES back in 1991, is the first offering. It follows high school students Alex and Ryan as they head across River City on a mission to rescue Ryan's girlfriend, Cyndi, from a gang hideout. It's strikingly reminiscent of Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish or, if you want a more contemporary reference, The OC. Instead of wisecracks about games and comics in-jokes, however, you'll get beat-'em-up action with a dash of role playing. You can have it for 500 Wii Points.

There's more girlfriend kidnapping going on in Adventure Island (NES, 1992), in which Master Higgins has to reclaim his lady love from the Witch Doctor. To get your girl, you'll need to side scroll your way through perilous jungles and dingy caves. You can get it for 500 Wii Points.

(Side thought: SPOnG wonders when the industry will be ready for a game that stars a chap called Quentin Oscar Crisp-Wilde who is out to rescue his boyfriend from an evil stylist?)

Yesterday, Nintendo announced that Commodore 64 games will be joining the Virtual Console line up later this year.

These two titles bring the Virtual Console total up to 191.