Super Star Wars titles head to Wii Virtual Console

All three titles to arrive in the coming weeks.

Nintendo has announced that the classic SNES Super Star Wars trilogy is heading to the Wii Virtual Console over the next month.

The lightsaber bonanza begins today with the release of Super Star Wars priced 800 Wii Points. This will be followed by Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

The arrival of the Super Star Wars titles will be accompanied by additional Star Wars-themed content on other Wii channels throughout the week. The Check Mii Out Channel will invite people to submit their best Mii character renditions of classic Star Wars characters. On the Everybody Votes Channel, users can cast their votes to help settle old debates, such as the proper order to watch the six Star Wars films, and who fired first – Han Solo or Greedo?

“Our expanded partnership with LucasArts brings the Star Wars and Nintendo universes together,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “These three Super Star Wars games represent fantastic additions to the growing Virtual Console library, and the exclusive Star Wars content on the other Wii Menu channels is sure to have people from different generations having fun and interacting with one another.”

Additional classic LucasArts games for Virtual Console will be announced in the future.