Nintendo Preventing Release of Bionic Commando on Virtual Console

Aug. 12 9:25 PM by Lynxara

This is more than a little ridiculous. 1up threw up an interview with Bionic Commando's franchise manager, Ben Judd, that is full of interesting things about the two new games in the franchise. There were also questions asked about where the original Bionic Commando was, and would it be on Virtual Console. The answers are... infuriating, I think.

1UP: What about the original Bionic Commando for Virtual Console?

BJ: We couldn't get it approved for the Virtual Console.

1UP: Is that because of the whole Nazi thing?

BJ: I can't say why. I can just say that we tried to get it to work. We're huge fans of the game. When you think about it, it totally makes sense as a strategy to have the original game out there in some format that people can play and see what was so great about it. But we were told no.

Comments

Total speculation here, but maybe Nintendo doesn't want to give indirect advertisement to the remake, or the sequel both of which are not going to be on the Wii?

 

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