Another week in August on the eShop features another nice assortment of Virtual Console games. Mega Man 6 and Life Force, both originally on NES, are out on the Wii U Virtual Console while Xtreme Sports, a little-known WayForward Game Boy Color game, hits 3DS Virtual Console. The other big release is a free version of Disney Infinity, though you'll still need to the base and figures to do anything with it. There are a number of sales going on for the next few weeks as well, including deals on the excellent pair of Nano Assault games from Shin'en on Wii U and 3DS. Next week will feature a Virtual Console release of Donkey Kong Jr. Math (yay?), the launch of the 3DS retail game Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and the debut of 2D side-scrolling 3DS game Azure Striker Gunvolt.

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Yea, I know what you're saying. Disney Infinity already came out a year ago. This is different, though. This is last year's first Disney Infinity game, but completely free. Of course, you can't do much with Disney Infinity without the base and figures, but now you don't need to shell out the money for a full starter pack. Instead, you can start looking on eBay or something and track down a base and then start hounding your local Target or Toys"R"Us and get all of last year's Disney Infinity figures. I always liked the Sorcerer Mickey figure.Based off a mobile game, Midtown Crazy Race is a single-player racing game on Wii U. On phones, this game is free and has multiplayer. It doesn't have that on Wii U. It's meant to be a tribute to arcade racing games from the late 1990s, but the word on the street (or rather, the word from when it launched in Europe last month) is that it's just kind of bad.Mega Man 6 originally hit the NES in 1994, making it one of the last games on Nintendo's first console. This late 8-bit game, which was actually published by Nintendo in North America, is very iterative, even featuring some similar weapons from past Mega Man games. If you're hankering for more Mega Man, it's another fun entry. Some of the few new additions include using Rush as a full Mega Man suit augmentation. And hey, if you bought it on Wii Virtual Console, you can upgrade it for $1.Life Force, known as Salamander in other regions, is a 1988 spinoff of Gradius that has super rad music. It's a shoot-'em-up that switches between horizontal and vertical scrolling levels and supports two-player co-op. If you bought it on Wii Virtual Console, you can upgrade it for $1.This BlazBlue spinoff is a simple brawler with one-button combat. The cast from the fighting game stars as cutesy, chibi versions of themselves. It's split up between a Story mode and a Challenge mode that are both heavy on beating the pulp out of enemies.Demon King Box is a mixture of real-time strategy and RPG gameplay where you recruit heroes and demons to fight a bunch of enemies. It seems like it's sort of an RTS take on some of the Shin Megami Tensei mechanics, as you build up a team of demons (all with personality) to make use of their abilities in strategy gameplay.Check it out: it's Shantae developer WayForward's first ever Game Boy Color game, originally released in 2000. Xtreme Sports is billed as a sports RPG where you take two different characters and put their skills to the test in a variety of sports, including skateboarding and luge, set on an island where they can interact with other characters.Nano Assault Neo on Wii U and Nano Assault EX on 3DS are both only $7.49 from now until September 11.This other Wii U eShop launch title is just $3.99 instead of $7.99 until September 11.EnjoyUp Games' Wii U eShop game is $1.49 from now until September 10.European Conqueror 3D and Quell Reflect on 3DS are both $2.79. European Conqueror's deal lasts until September 4 while Quell Reflect's is good until September 11.Aqua Moto Racing 3D is $5.99 until September 18.Reef Entertainment's 3DS game is $1.69 until August 27.AeternoBlade is $9.99 instead of $14.99 from now until September 7.

Neal Ronaghan is a freelance writer who wishes he could use his Amiibo in Disney Infinity, his Skylanders in Smash Bros., and Jack Skellington in Skylanders. Read all that and more on his site, Nintendo World Report , and his Twitter