‘EarthBound’ Is Wii U Bound, Coming This Year!

Aside from the eShop release date of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages finally being revealed, today’s Nintendo Direct presentation was ripe with plenty of other awesome news for Nintendo fans.

Arguably the biggest, most exciting, and most surprising aspect of the presentation was the revelation that EarthBound is finally coming to the Virtual Console. The game originally released on the Super Nintendo in 1995 to very poor sales, and has since become a valuable collectable that few have had the opportunity to actually experience. Critically, the game was a great success, and the cult classic status that EarthBound has garnered over the years means that I hear about the game on a weekly basis, but have never had the chance to actually play it.

A release date has not been set, but EarthBound will hit the Wii U Virtual Console later in 2013.

After all these years of begging for it, I guess Nintendo finally heard us. What do you think of the news?