
Virtual Console titles have been downloaded over ten million times. The service for the Wii also included games for platforms that were known only in select regions, such as the Commodore 64 (Europe and North America) and MSX (Japan), as well as Virtual Console Arcade, which allowed players to download video arcade games. No longer would you start the game with a gun that only fired a single slow shot.
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The jump from 8-bit to 16-bit hardware was a dramatic one, and this is a great example of that. Grab power ups and blast your way through waves of menacing. Contra 3: The Alien Wars is debatably the best game in the series and possibly one of the greatest run and guns of all time. Virtual Console's library of past games currently consists of titles originating from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS, as well as Sega's Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive, NEC's TurboGrafx-16, and SNK's Neo Geo AES. The Contra Anniversary Collection brings this classic Run and Gun franchise back to modern platforms and a new generation of players.
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These titles are run in their original forms through software emulation (excluding GBA titles on 3DS), and can be purchased from the Wii Shop Channel or Nintendo eShop for between 5 Wii Points (Wii), US$2.99 and US$6.99 (3DS) and US$4.99 and US$9.99 (Wii U) depending on system, rarity, and/or demand.

The Virtual Console lineup consists of titles originally released on past home and handheld consoles. Virtual Console ( バーチャルコンソール, Bācharu Konsōru ?), also abbreviated as VC, is a line of downloadable video games (mostly unaltered) for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console.
