Thank You, Wii Virtual Console!
The Wii Virtual Console is everything I'd ever hoped for in a virtual console. Large library of old school video games. Games from multiple consoles, not just various flavors of past Nintendo machines (crap, they have the Commodore 64 Summer Games available now). My favorite part may be the "save anywhere" feature, though. Back in the day, games didn't have fancy "save" features (well, only the expensive games like The Legend of Zelda). And passcodes were nice, but, meh, too many damn characters to write down and type in. Now, with the glory that is the virtual console, you can save anywhere in the game in any game. No longer do you have to stay up all night trying and failing to beat Dracula in the first NES Castlevania. Now, if you can actually get to Dracula, you can save it right on that level and stay up all night failing to beat him. BUT, when you wake up dreary-eyed the next morning, you'll be able to continue not beating him at the point where you threw your wiimote across the room the previous night!
Ok, I'll stop being modest. I finally beat Dracula. It took me a couple days / weeks / months, but that's exactly the point. And it counts, yes, it does. I'm adding a Castlevania notch to my belt. I also beat Ninja Gaiden for the NES, a game that haunted me in my dreams for years and years (and, really, it was one of the hardest, and, in my opinions, most unfair games of all time).
So, goodbye ninja nightmares. Dracula has been slain. Maybe I'll go for the gold in C64 Summer Games. Anything's possible in this brave, new, world.