Virtual Console -- Adding to the Virtual Pile.

It's another Virtual Monday. I've come to heavily anticipate Monday ever since it became virtual. Not quite to the level of a little kid on Christmas morning rushing down the stairs to see what's there, but almost. Monday is the day Nintendo releases new Virtual Console games on the Wii Shop Channel. It's now become ritual to fire up the Wii on Mondays to check the new goods in hopes of seeing some shining gem or believed long lost opportunity has been put up on the channel. The Wii has essentially been out four months. In that time I've purchased eleven Virtual Console games. I've played through one of those titles. I finally got around to playing through Bonk's Adventure the other day. It's still as cool and fun as I've remembered it. And I'm currently playing through Kirby's Adventure. So far the Virtual Console games I've been buying fall under four categories. The most common being games I used to own but sold like Alien Crush, Bonk's Adventure, Dungeon Explorer, Military Madness, R-Type, Splatterhouse, and Vigilante. Probably the most stupid thing I've ever done was in selling my 8-bit systems and games as well as those of the Turbo Graffix. The second category would be games I rented back in the day and completed which made me sort of put off purchasing them because I had already played them, great or not, so I could buy something else entirely new. I planned to pick them up eventually but somehow never got around to it. So I assumed them lost. Games like Beyond Oasis and Kid Icarus fall under that category. And the rarest category thus far is games I never owned or played before. Kirby's Adventure is one such game. I somehow managed to never purchase it nor got around to renting it. The final category is games I actually already own in their original real world forms such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I have the working cartridge in mint condition with all the packaging and the like, but I just can't be bothered to dig out the SNES. There is a little bit of torturous pleasure in checking in on Mondays to see if one of the titles from your wish-list has made it, but other than that the Virtual Console is turning out to be a major boon. It's been better than I'd hoped for to this point. Now if I could only find the time to play through everything...